Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — Sonthern Rule Iliustrated. [ARTICLE]

Sonthern Rule Iliustrated.

The Loucks-Louthian libel suit, according to the Delphi JoHnwl, was settled on a different basis than was first reported, in that each, party pays his own costs.

The half-breed rebel Riel was executed Monday at Regina, and I met death with a calmness and fortitude which, as Macaulhy said of Chas, the First, half redeemed his fame. Of course opinions will differ widel y as to the justice of this execution, but as a matter of state policy, at least, it seems to have been the best thing for the Canadian government to ilo with him. *

The Illinois Supreme court has blighted the last hope of Joe Mack-1 in, the democratic secretary andi fine worker, of Chicago, and now he must go to the Joliet penitentiary. It will be remembered that Mackin was sentenced for two years on account of ’his election frauds, of last year, and that Judge Gresham reversed the sentence on the merest quibble. Mackin was then tried for perjury, committed before the grand jury, and sentenced for five years- It is a well deserved sentence and we would, that every man, be his politics what they may, who attempts by fraud to defeat the will of the people at their elections, may go the same way as Mackin has gone.

The retention of Mr. Sample as post-master aTLafayetie, was one of the few instances which seemed to indicate that the President still adhered, in a spasmodic way, to Ins civil service reform promisesThat Mr. Sample was a most popular and efficient postmaster, and unobjectionable in every wuy except that he ay as a Republican, everyone admits, and that he had taken no active part in politics, at any iime. wasalso generally knownThe President long refused to remove him, but the political fortunes of Mi*. Ward, the democratic Congressman, of Dafayette required that his friends should have the office, Mr. Voorhees in tefered in his behalf, the infamous “offensive parttzan’I’’ 1 ’’ dodge was sorted to and Mr. Sample was suspended. In his place John B. Huger, an active democratic politician has been appointed. As the Lafayette ‘ <>mef, a non partizan paper well says of this incident, it “is proof positive that the civil service appendage of the Federal government stands pre-eminent as the most collossal farce of the century.”

Des Moines Register. lowa last fall cast 375,000 votes and elected eleven Congressmen. But South Carolina, Mississippi and Georgia, altogether did not cast as many votes, yet elected twenty-four Congressmen. Here are the figures: Total Vote. Total Vote. lowa Sorith Carolina— Eleven Con- Seven CongreSsgressmeu. .375,840_ men ........ ' 91,623 ’* Mississippi — Seven Congress- . meu.j... 120,993 GeorgiaTen CougCess- , men U2.’.*9 1 Twenty-four Con1 gressinen.... .355,09Thus, the Northern State of lowa, casting more .votes than the combined States of SoutlfCaroliha, Mississippi ■ and Georgia, hasMt one half (heir number of Congressmen, nor one half their representation in the Electoral College. A boy was born in Tennessee the other day with two well developed hands behind him. He will go’on record ah the first Mugwump produced by nature. Those now existing were only, warmed over, and Eave to place thcgr, hands to accoihodate circumstapces.yAaLoinct