Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN* THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1886.

REPUBLICAN TICKET

STATE TICKET. For Lieutenant Governor ROBERT 8. ROBERTSON, of Allen county. For Secretary ’of State, CHARLES F. GRIFFIN, of Lake county. For Auditor, BRUCE CARR, of Orange county, ForTeasurer, . J. A LKMCKE, of Vanderbarg county. I For Attorney General, LEWIS T. MICHENER, of Shelby county. For Judge of the Supreme court, BYRON K. ELLIOTT, . of Marion county. For Clerk of the Supreme court, WILLIAM T. NOBLE, of Wayne county. For Superintendent Public Instruction, HARVEY M. LAFOLLETTE, of Boone county. DISTRICT TICKET. FOR KEPRESKSTATTVE, . ISAAC D. DUNN, of Jasper (bounty. FOR STATE SENATOR, SIMON P. THOMPSON, of Jasper County. FOR PROSEOCTOR, RALPH W. MARSHALL; of Jasper County. TOR MEMBER OF CONGRESS IOTH DIST., WILLIAM I). OWEN, of Case county. COUNTY TICKET. TOR CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, JAMES F. IRWIN, of Carpenter Township. FOR AUDITOR. GEORGE M. ROBINSON, of Marion Township. FOR TREASURER, ISRAEL.B. WASHBURN, of Marion Township. FOR SHERIFF, SAMUEL E. YEOMAN, of Newton Township, FOR RECORDER. THOMAS ANTRIM, of Keener Township. FOR SURVEROR, JAMES C. THRAWLS, of Marion Township. y FOR CORONER, —- PHILIP BLUE, of Manon Township. FOR COMMISSIONER 2ND. DISTRICT. JAMES F. WATSON, . of Marion Township.

PUBLIC SPEAKING.

Hon W- D Owes, At Remington, Ind., Friday, Oct, Ist, at 7:30 p. m. 4 At Goodland, Ind., Saturday, Oct., 2nd, at 7:30 p. m.~ — Hon. Benjamin Harrison, AtGoodlWd, Ini, Friday, Sept, 24, at 1 o’clock p. m. . General Jasper Packard was nominated by | the republicans Of the 13th district, last week, as their candidate for Congressman. He is indeed a “grand good man” and well deserves to be elected. The hostility of the administration and its supporters to the payment of pensions to loyal veterans, manifested at the recent session of congress, is but a slight foretaste of what we shall see if these men are continued in power. The workingmen in this country have one thousand millions laid up in our saving’s banks. The more numerous workingmen of Great Britain can only show about four hundred millions of savings. These figures tell a true story of protection and free trade. A protective tariff is the only agency yet discovered for keeping American wages above those paid in foreign countries; and whatever tends to weaken and destroy that . safeguard is therefore inimicable to the interests of all classes of workingmen. This view of the case is the practical one. Whatever doctrinaries may assert, the fact is that protection conserves and promotes the welfare of all those who labor for a living, or, (n other words, a majority of the whole people of this country; and policy which does that is t good

Free trade would inevitably and speedily produce one of two results in this country. Out manufacturing establishments would be compelled to close up, or the rate of wages paid to the labor operating them would be reduced to the standard of Europe. Either of these results would be dangerous to the last degree, if not certainly destructive and utterly ruinous. The occupation of the anarchist will be gone when the free trader disappears from our politics.

‘ • ■ r *'• • ■ The New York Sun, a Democratic newspaper, good authority, after telling what farmers want tells what they don’t want, and says: “There is one thing that they very positively and emphatically don’t want, and our esteemed contemporary, the Evening Post, will learn the fact with surprise—the farmers don’t want free trade. The Democratic party, however, is committed to free trade, against the interests of farmers, workingmen, and producers of every class. That awful surplus in the treasury, so much harped upon in 1884 as the.unpardonable sin of the Republicans, and which was to be immediately distributed among the people when the great “change” took place, has increased more than 870,000,000 under the Cleveland administration, and instead of distributing it among the people, the administration even refuses to pay it out on the public debt Is this honest? When a man deceives and cheats you the first time, it may be all his fault. The second time it will be all yours. If a republican leader becomes known as having engaged in some great rascality, he becomes disgraced; and is rejected and condemned by the people. Where is there a single republican now in high position who voted lor the big salary grab of 1868? Not one of them is now ip public life. But in the case of democrats who voted for the grab, and drew the cash and hung to it, nobody thinks they are any worse democrats on account of such trifling irregularities Senator Voorhees is a pertinent proof of this fact. He voted for the bill, drew the money out, kept it, And apparently no democrat thinks the worse of him for it,

The troublesome < conscience appertaining to Mr. Henry I. Adams would no longer permit him to remain in the ranks of the republican party. It is fair to presume, however, that if the republicans had nominated and elected him member of the State Legislature, in 1884, and renominated him in the present year, or if they had realized his great merits and nominated him for cdunty auditor this .year, then his conscience would have hung fire for several years yet, and possibly would never have developed the dangerously explosive qualities which have lately suddenly fired him out of the* republican party and over into the prohibitionist camp. The consciences of constitutional office-seekers are dangerous things to trifle with.

| The Phalanx, the organ of Ind- • iana prohibitionists, scouts the I idea of prohibitionists acting with i the Republican party, and says, “We go to the Republican [party, in the event that that parts declares for local option! No, never. Let it declare squarely for prohi- : bitioß,and yet we will preserve our organization and carry aloft ' the banners of the third party.” iOf course you would, as the dis- ; solution of the prohibition party would dry up the little puddle in which you now disport yourself as one of the big toads, and leave you penniless and out of a job. It pays you to be a prohibitionist m a Democratic state, and the way to keep Indiana Democratic, | and at the same time strengthen . the whisky power, is to continue ’the third party business at the old 1 stand.

Every candidate on the democratic state ticket of Missouri is an ex-confederate soldier. Every candidate on the republican ticket, m the same state was a Union soldier. Both parties love the soldiers, but not Jthesame kind of soldiers. I The honest Democrat who wants tariff reform without free trade must look to the Republican party for it. The Democratic leaders at the recent session of congress obstinately rejected tariff reform and demanded free trade, and nearly all the Democratic state platforms of the year proclaim that British doctrine. . The more we hear from Maine, file better the news becomes. The latest returns show a solid increase over the estimate based on the early figures received, and indicate that Bodwell will have a plurality of fully 14,000. The victory is an important one in every way for the Republican party. W ith the exception of the Presidential years of 1872, 1876 and 1884, Mr. Bodwell’s ('plurality of 14,000 has not been equaled in twenty years. President Cleveland is a usurper because he was elected by the Votes of states which, in a free and fair election, would have been given to the republican candidate. In the same way, only in less degree, if the republicans have a plurality in Indiana this fall, as now seems very probable, and a democratic U. S. senator is elected, through the workings of the Gerrymanders, then that senator will be a usurper, without any moral right to the office he occupies. The-people of Indiana —Here, why did you pass that gerrymander bill, disfranchising "the majority of the voters of this State? Democratic party—Because we passed a bill limiting the charges of telephones to 83 a month. The people—Well, does the telephone bill save anything to the people? Democratic party—No-o-o,prob-abty not; but it’s something. " The people—But what has the telephone bill, bad as it is, to do with the fact that you were afraid to trust the voters of Indiana ?

Democratic party —Don’t know. Let’s go for the temperance plank of the Republican platform. We want to make the on that. • The people—All right; talk about it all you want to, but meanwhile we will see to it that you are not given another chance to trick the people of this State and then nirt be even ~decently~apor ogize for the same.—Jnd. Journal.

The Message of last week struggles vainly to find words to fitly describe the noble, rugged and manly virtues of Mr. Henry I. Adams, chairman of the prohibitionists’ central committee; and yet, in the same article, it plainly intimates that it has been the “weak, foolish and wicked” course of the secretary of the republican central .committee that drove this “cautious,” “conscientious,” “prudent” and “resolute” man away from the republican party and in'to the prohibition party! How it could be possible that the “weak and foolish” course of a single individual could have the effect of changing the political' convictions of a man to whom all those exalted qualities can.be ascribed the Message does not explain. It does not explain, either, the apparently irreconcilable contradiction be-

tWeen Horace’s hypothesis in explanation of Mr. Adams* change of political -associations, and that gentleman’s own explanation of the phenomenon. Mr. Adams says he was made a political prohibitionist by the failure of the legislature of 1883 to submit the prohibition amendment to the vote of the people. Horace says it was the “weak and foolish” course of the secretary of the Jasper county republican central committee that accomplished that momentous result. Mr. Adams and the Message man had better hold a private caucus and “pool cheir issues” before the latter makes any more bad breaks of this kind.

” An editor whose utterances are not the convictions of his heart, but are whatever the changing feelings or interests of the hour may suggest, is sure to involve himself in many and grevious contradictions. A couple of months ago when the Message man was worked harder than at present to conciliate the favor of the' democrats— doing «t for revenue only—he referred to the subject of the President’s pension vetoes, in his paper of July 14th, in a manner calculated to excuse and extenuate the course of the President and to belittle the criticisms made upon him in that matter. The following being what was said in the Message, on the date mentioned: “President Cleveland is not vetoing the private pension bills to the extent that some of the Republican newspapers represent.—Of 655 private pension bills which he has examined, 90 have been vetoed and 565 approved. Nothing is to be gained by lying for partisan anvantage.” Two months later it suited the changing mood of this same editor to discourse of this same subject in a vastly different strain, and the following appeared in the Message of Sept. 15th: “How different from this is President Cleveland’s treatment of the poor, needy, maimed and enfeebled but equally meritorious soldiers who apply ior pensions * * * * whom the President brutally ridiculed in his vetoes.”

The Message of last week, in speaking of the Gerrymanders of the last State Legislature, calls it “the infamy against which Senator Hoover ineffectually protested.” This allusion to Senator Hoover’s course in regard to that measure is a piece of the rankest and most transparent hypocrisy, and is made simply for the purpose of currying the favor of a few influential democrats of the county jvho are friends of Mr. Hoover, especially such as Messrs. Geo. Majors, O. B. Mclntire and Treat Durand, of Remington. The Message editor knew when he penned that tying sentence that Senator Hoover, although at ffirst/denouncing the Gerrymander, at a word from his master, Dan Voorhees, not only ceased ail opposition to the bills, but obediently voted for them at every stage of their consideration. These words of the Message” which we have quoted are a plain and palpable attempt to induce its readers to believe that Mr. Hoover made a consistent and persistent opposition to the Gerrymanders. The attempt is nqt only grossly and hypocriti-cally-false- but itns basely—teactF erous to the republican party, in that it is an attempt to make people believe that the man whom many rep übl icans of this dis tri ct helped to make State Senator, had made an honest opposition to the greatest crime against the republican party and against free institutions ever perpetrated north of Masons and Dixon’s line, when in point of fact the only effectual action taken by that senator in regard to those infamous measures was to vote for them at every opportunity. The mas who, like the editor of the Message, thus knowingly and brazenly attempts to deceive the people in such a case as this, and who. tries to make it appear that the act of an enemy of the party, which he pretends to serve, was right when it was utterly, intentionally and inexcusably wrong, is as much an enemy to that party as was the individual whose acts he thus falsely excuses.

AGREEMENT.

Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 8,1886. It is hereby requested and directed that in all election precincts’ where the inspector is a Democrat, he shall appoint a Judge and Clerk, to be selected by the Republicans of such precinct; and where the inspector is a Republican, he shell appoint a Judge and Clerk, to be selected by the Democrats of the precinct Sighed by James N. Huston, Chm’n. Rep. State Gen. Com., Eb. Henderson, Chm’n. Dem. State Cen. Com.* Mordecai F. Chilcote, Chm’n. Rep. Co. Cen. (tom., Henry A. Barkley, Chm’n Dem. Co. Cen.

Prohibitionists in General

. ... - And Chairman Adana in Particular. ' i ( There are in the ranks of the third party prohibitionists many who, notwithstanding the impf&ctibility of their views, and the fact that the only result yet accomplished by their party has been the strengthening of the hands of the liquor Interests^ deserve yespect for the„ purity and sincerity of their motives. This class of prohibitionists are drawn almost wholly from the ranks of the republican party. Another kind of political prohibitionists are so only in name and by pretense, but at heart are members of some other party, and vote the ticket of that other party. They are really democrats and their sole purpose in professing to be prohibitionists is to influence temperance republicans to forsake that party and join the prohibitionists The prohibitionists of Jasper county need not to search very closely to find a number of such counterfiet prohibitionists among their numbers. A third, and very influential class of third party prohibitionists consists of men who have become angered and sour towards some other party, usually the republican, because they have not received as many offices and other favors as their selfishness or their egotism demanded. These men are usually practical politicians, familiar with political methods, and shrewd managers, and they are really the most influential and active members of the party. They are prone to use their influence with their gullible brethren, the earnest prohibitionists, and induce them to help elect some particular candidates of one or the other of the two great political parties. Ol this class of sore-head politician prohibitionists, the present chairman of the prohibitionist county central committee, Mr. Henry I. Adams, is a prominent example. He has twice been given the office of county treasurer by the republicans of the county, but because, on account of his personal unpopularity and unwillingness to make any sacrifices for the good of the party, they have not evinced a disposition to honor ’him with any further political favors, he has suddenly discovered that his conscience requires him to forsake the republican party and join the prohibitionists; and having done so to do all in his power to compass the defeat of that quite as good a temperance man as himself, Dr. Washbtirn, in the interest of the democratic candidate for treasurer, who probably does not claim to be a temperance man at all, as that term is usually understood. Our implied assertion, abuve made, that Mr. Adams’ conversion to the prohibition party was vefy sudden, was made with the full knowledge that the gentleman himself claimed, at the late prohibition county convention, that it was the.failure in 1883 of the legislature to vote for the submission of theprobibit-

ion amendment, that madehim.JL prohibitionist. If that was, indeed, the leayen that worked in his moral system and made him a prohibitionist, it must have lain dormant for a long time, and then performed its work with about as much suddenness as did the miraculous demonstration to Saul of Tarsus on his way to Damascus. Gertain it is that in 1884, long after the prohibition amendment was dead and in its grave, Mr. Adams was, to all seeming appearances, as ardent a republican aS ever, and even was a candidate before ,the republican convention for .the,, nomination as candidate for member of the state House of Representatives, and he also went about the county making republican speeches. More than that during the early part of the present year he openly acted as a republican, was present and voted at the county primary convention and pledged himself to support its nominees, and also attended the republican convention of his township and accepted the nomination for township trustee. A few days later, however, he changed his mind about the trustee’s: office and declined to be a candidate; and forthwith began a more or less thorough canvass of the County to learn if he might not hoar, far off but clearly, the voice of the people calling him to become the republican candidate for county auditor. The voice was not heard, to even the most limited extent, and behold, Mr. Adams is a political prohibitionist, “after the straitest of his sect”—except perhapsforalittlequietwork now and again for his brother-in-law, Wm M. Hoover, and one or two other democratic candidates. Wall paper at Kannal’s cheap store '

AN AUSPICIOUS OPENING.

Or the Republican Campaign In Ja* per Chunty. The Owen meeting last Saturday afternoon was a grand and most encouraging success. It was held in the Opera House, and that large andi tori uffi, the largest in the county, was packed far beyond it seating capacity, in main floor and gallery, ’and many persons stood in the aisles and many others, probably not less than one hundred, were turned away for want of. room. A large proportion of the audience, probably more than half, were people from the surrounding country, many of them having come many miles to be present. A conspicuous feature of the audience was the remarbably large number of elderly men among them. They were so numerous, in fact, that Mr. Owen remarked upon the fact during the course of his speech. The prominent democratic and greenback brethren were also present in large numbers, and were courteously escorted to the front seats. The Cornet Band, ushered in th.e meeting by several fine pieces of music, and the glee club was present and gave a number of songs. Capt. Chilcote, county chairman, introduced the speaker. Mr. Owen spoke for an hour and a half, and retained the undivided attention of his audience to the end. He reviewed the history of the last Congress, showed the incapacity and untrustwqrthiness of its democratic majority, and its unwillingness to ; keep any of the party’s previous pledges to the people; scored Cleveland on account of his brutal and unpatriotic pensions votoes, and above all made a luminous exposition of the fallacies of the free trade doctrine, and of the great and manifold advantages of the protection principle to the people of this country. It was a speech well calculated to renew the faith and zeal of all republicans and to shake the convictions of all fair minded opponents of that great party of human rights and human happiness.

CORKSCREW and MALLET.

Dr Hattery Opens His Congressional Canvass With a Beer Matinee at Crown Point. [From the Logansport Journal.] It can be truthfully said that the Democratic campaign in this district was opened up with a cork screw and mallet., Dr. Hattery made his appearance in Crown Point early in the morning and went straightway to a low saloon which is the recognized rendezvous for all the bums and toughs of Lake county, and here lie established his headquarters and remained late in the afternoon.. Free liquor flowed like water all day long. , It was Hattery’s “opening ’ ana everybody that drank, drank with Hattery. The bums and bar *- flies were in their element, the the proprietor of the den was in. clover, Hattery scattered his cards right and left, and to all appearances everybody was happy. When a new comer would enter the saloon the candidate would take him by the shoulder, pull him up to the bar, and with a “Take this with Hattery, the next congressman from the Tenth congressional district,” order another round. It was a disgraceful and disgusting affair from beginning to endj and the result of the “opening” could be seen on the streets of Crown Point during the entire afternoon. A /gentleman in that city yesterday stated that in weeks he has not a drunken man on the street, but yesterday they jolt- _ ed along the sidewalk and every one howled tor Hattery. The affair created the greatest political sensation Crown Point has known in years and nothing elsb was talked about up there yesterday. Dr. Hattery made the greatest blunder of his fife in opening his canvass for a seat in, the national congress. For the last two weeks he has stated that he had . a dead pure thing on an election because he knew how to circulate among the people and make friends —because he knew how to treat the voters of the district in order to win them over. If he has not missed his calculation on the people of Lake county, and the district, then many people will miss their guess. Lake county does not live in saloons. Lake county is not one great beer garden. Mr. Hattery’s boast that being able to talk German and drink beer he would at once establish him self in the* hearts of the voters in the northern part of the district will be found to be vain and the insulted intelligence and manhood of that part of the district wifi register its indignation early in November.