Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1886 — The Nomination Gives General Satisfaction. [ARTICLE]

The Nomination Gives General Satisfaction.

ry, OtTEKßiis, Ind., July 15, ISBG. Editod Repiblican. —The action us the Senatorial convention at Goodland, iu nominating S. P. Thompbou gives general satisfaction. All along the South tier of townships in Benton county there is increasing enthusiasm iu his favor. Nearly every old settler has had legal services rendered by the gentleman, and all speak well of Ins honorable dealings, virtue and integrity, Simon Parr may have enemies, no doubt, but he has alsq many friends, and they are of the right sort Having faith in their man and determination to use every honorable means to make his calling and election as State Senator sure.

HERBERT C. WOODHASMS.

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The Logans port Journal , commenting on a recent aggravated case of wife beating in Logansporty takes the position, long held, by The llErusLicAN, that the whipping post is the only logical and adequate punishment for wife beaters. The Journal says: The next legislature that assembles in Indiana should follow in the footsteps of the little state of Delaware, and establish the vvhipping post for wife beaters. The only punishment to fit the crime 1.4 a'public whipping— R painful hurmliitiou. “Had the fisheries dispute taken its present-phase thirty years ago, the country would have been iy. fever heat for war. Now if scarcely makes n ripple beyond--the coast line, and not much there. We kin w we are sirong enough to cep ail the Kanncks into the sea whenever we please, and we are in the same disposition of mind th'at a big New Foundland dog regards disturbance by- a terrier. * * * We think the United

States Government has been patient enough, and it should bring matters tv> a crisis as soon as the Canadian programme is known.” The above specimen of idiotic drivel, worthy of the pen of a scln ol boy, is from tire Indianapolis Sentinel, but is a fair sample of what j numberless other papers through, out tlie country have said about this fishery dispute question. All tlo* talk about this country being able to sweep the into the sea, or to capture their whole country in 30 or GO days, and all that kind of stuff, is the mere mischievous gabble of fools. People vita any glimmering of sense know that a war with Canada means a war with Great Britain, on.i of the. most poweiful ami resolute military nations of modern times. B means a war with a nation which, unlike our own country, ims kept abreast of the times in the matter of ships of war, cannon and other means of defensive and offensive war. A nation pow- | erful enough, thanks to tlie stupen-1 dous and fatuous , folly of the j Americans, to capture or destroy- ; every sea-board city in the United States, to reduce every fort within reach of the guns of their war; vessels, to 'destroy the last vestige j of an American navy. Of what! avail would it be to send a few i hundred thousand soldiers over ’ the Canadian border to -make a barren conquest while ni-i tive weai-; thy cities on our lake and ocean j coasts were’ falling a prey to the. j ships and cannon of our enemies? The United States is now the most abjectly defenseless nation on this earth and it is full time: that sve eillierutdopfc seme offeoteahj an ans to remedy that condition! or quit oar foolish brag and Ulus-j ter, which only makes us ridiculous and may cover us with disas- ; ter,