Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1886 — Call for a Meeting of the Central Committee [ARTICLE]

Call for a Meeting of the Central Committee

In accordance with the action of the county mass convention, of January 30,1886, the Republican Central Committee of Jasper county is hereby called to meet in Rensselaer on Saturday Feb , 13, for the purpose of completing their organization by electing a chairman and secretary, to succeed the present chairman and secreary. W. A. Rinehart, Chm’n. G. E. Marshall, Sec’y.

The Oxford Tribune man hears the name of S. P. Thompson mentioned more frequently than that of any other connection with the state senatorship. It is stated on what seems good authority, that Tom Wood lately wrote to Mr. E C. Nowels of this place asking him if he would accept the post mastership, if it were offered him. If the letter is genuine, it is probably only a little bit of bluff on the part ot the versatile Thomas, who would probably like people to believe that he carries the post-office destinies of the Tenth district in his vest pocket.

The characteristics aud methods of Commissioner of Pensions, Black, have lately been the sub ject of considerable discussion in this paper and the Democratic Sentinel, which fact will give an increased interest to the very vigorous sketch of that gentleman, which we this week reproduce from the New York Tribune. The extract ;s long but well worth reading, as it is the work of a rej sponsible man, who has personal knowledge of what he speaks. The Confederate brigadiers had an opportunity Monday to showhow much truth there was in the assertions so generally made by the Democrats, in 1884, that the Southern'Democrats were now so thoroughly loyal that they wmlf! be as" ready to grant pensions to Union soldiers and their widows, as would the northern Republicans* ..On.that day on the biil a> iinu-ea.se soldiers widows' pensions to 812 a month, of the 66 Votes cast against the biil, 63 were by Southern democrats. Illinois lias a state law, passed about two yet.rs ago, and generally spoken of as the “habitual criminals law” which provides cumulative punishment for hardened or habitual* criminals.. It is to the effect that persons convicted of crime for the second or greater number of times, shall receive the maximuui penalty provided for the crime ot which he is convicted; as, for instance, if a person has been convicted once aud is again convicted of larceny hejs sentenced for ten years, tiie maximum penalty for that crime. The law is now being rigidly enforced, in Chicago!, and is said to produce most admirable 'results.

The following from the Woodland Herald is very applicable to our own case: “We. will do job printing at reasonable rates, but we don't propose to compete on prices with the horde of cheap john city concerns. If any man expects to send oil' for all his job printing, while be lives, and then get a half column obituary puff when he dies, Jie will uudoubtedty get left. The line must be drawn somewhere, and w.e will .draw it right here. This is a cold gmd v selfish world at best and 'B'-iuters are outemortals.”