Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1886 — For sule. [ARTICLE]

For sule.

The sectional Republican party north, and the sectional fore-eaters souhi preci pltated the country into civil war. Both are Equally guilty of the great crime against the country "—Democratic Sentinel. The commissioners of Benton county have just ordered the construction of a good gravel road clear across the county, from east to west. * The President’s narrow, ill-tem-pered and insulting letter to the Senate can hot fail to re-act injuriously upon himself; especially when the only argument that he can find to defend his course is the utterly preposterous claim thai papers relating to suspensions and removals and duly filed in the various .departments are “private letters,”

The executive management of the Democratic party of Jasper county is now a sort of family affair, so to speak, as at the organizing conventidn, at the court house, last Saturday, Henry Barkley, of Barkley fcp., was elected chairman of the county central committee, and his cousin .1 as. W. McEwen, secretary of the saim. The convention was rather slim in point of attendance

A tremendous effort is still beinj, made by our citizens to secure ill location here of a big inanufact >r- ! ing establishment now in Chicago. Affairs are now in such siiape . s will warrant us in saying that success is almost certain, but we tDink it wise to refrain from erowiiig until we are sure we are out of the woods and therefore refrain from giving further particulars until another issue. , The Supreme Court having affirmed the validity of the telephone rental taw, the Dell Telephone company is giving notice that it will withdraw from busiuess in this state, it is not likely that the company will recede from this position, as it can better aiford to lose the business of Indiana for an indehnate period, that to establish tiie precedent of accepting les*3 than their established rates.

The Hon. W. VV. Gilman, exmember of the State Legislature from this district, and a most honorable and truthful man, and at the S ame time a consistent and practical temperance man, has an article in this issue of The Republican, headed: “Proh bition in Indiana.” We especially commend the article to the attention of those temperance people who have been misled by tiie many wicked slanders that have been devised and circulated by the un scrupulous enemies of the Republican party. The Republican (JentrAl Committee of Jasper county, a body chosen by the free and unbias d action of the Republican voters <>f the county, met on regular cal), last Friday afternoon, in the office ;of the Chairman.of the committee, M. F. Chilcote. Members of the committee were present from ail but four townships in the county. No ,persons not members *of the committee were present, or took part in the deliberations of the meeting. The principal business before the meeting was arranging the method, time and place for nominating-the county for the approaching campaign., i The' method adopted is fully seiH rpr;h in the official Cpll, which appears ; in this issue of the*REPOELICAN.s

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