Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — Page 4

IHE REPUBLICAN - Thursday, September 30,1886.

REPUBLICAN TICKET.

STATE TICKET. For Lieutenant Governor, ROBERT S. ROBERTSON, of Allen countyFor Secretary of Si ate, CHARLES F. GRIFFIN, ‘ ‘ of Lake county. For Auditor, BRUCE CARR, of Orange county, For Teasurer, J. A LEMCKE, of Vanderbarg county. 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 REPRESENTATIVE, ISAAC I). DUNN, of Jasper (bounty. FOR STATE SENATOR, SIMON P. THOMPSON, of Jasper County. . '■ FOR PROSECUTOR, RALPH W. MARSHALL, of Jasper County. tOR MEMBER OF CONGRESS 10'IH DIST., WILLIAM D OWEN, of Caw county. COUNTY TICKET. FOR 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, oP Newton To w nship, ™ FOR RECORDER, THOMAS ANTRIM, of Keener Township. FOR SURVEROR, JAMES C. THRAWLS, • of Marion Township. FOR CORONER, PHILIP BLUE, ot Manon Township. FOR COMMISSIONER 2ND. DISTRICT. JAMES F WATSON, ” <T»f Marion Township.

PUBLIC SPEAKING.

Hon W. D. Owen.

At Remington, Ind., Friday, Oct., Ist, at 2:00 p. m. Saturday. Oct., 2nd, at 7:30 p. m The Message asserts that the new post-master at DeMotte was appointed on the recommendation of Mr. E2ra C. bowels. l . Well, this being a “reform” administration why shouldn’t the control the patrmi- —■ !■— —I» in~ ■ including the advertisements KAe had eight columns of ■ Ais of home yin.:. or ■ or • H• Horace ho no B.

The Republican Gerrymander of 1872 was an unjust act, and the people did a righteous thing when they rebuked it at the next election by an overwhelming Republican defeat The Democratic Gerrymander of 1885 is an incomparably more infamous and unjust measure than that of 1872 and deserves a correspondingly greater rebuke. The Republican measure was rebuked by the votes of conscientious Republicans, and we believe tlie Democratic measure of 1885 will be rebuked by the votes of conscientious Democrats.

Horace E. Janies betrayed and helped defeat John W. Powell, in 1884 when he had been entrusted by unwise or unfaithful republicans with the interests of the republicau party iu Carpenter township, and he now openly rejoices over Mr. Powell’s defeat. In the same way, in 1878, when other unwise or unfaithful republicans had made him chairman of the county committee he used his position to treacherously defeat the republican candidate for county auditor, and a true and brave soldier in the Union army, and to elect over him a peace democrat and member of Dodd’s raiders. _

It is of course to be expected that the story of Dr. Hattery’s “corkscrew and mallett” performances at Crown Point will be 'denounced as a campaign lie, but we nevertheless firmlwFbelieve that the story is substantially true in all its details. The evidence of its truth rests not alone on the account given by the Logansport Journal, but the reliable, cautious and moderate Crown Point Register made practically the same statements, though much abridged. Moreover, similar disgraceful performances upon the Doctor’s part were reported from Hammond by a correspondent of the Crown Point Register, and by other parties.

Horace’s capacity fcr invention has heretofore been supposed to be without limit, but as he repeats several former lies in his paper of last week, it would seem that his gifts in that line are not wholly without limitations. He repeats by cowardly imputation, the lie that this paper under its present editor, has made “coarse ami brutal assaults upon the wives of Democrats'’ &c. James knot’s that this statement is a malicious and utterly groundless lie, and we now call upon him to reprint the words, from the files of this paper (to which lie lias~ ample" acces§7~ which will justify his imputations,' or to stand publicly branded as a malicious and willful liar.

The counties of Marion, Allen, Clinton, Brown, Boone, Clark, Shelby and Hancock, by the gerrymander, have a voice in the selection of two senators each, with die exception of Marion, which has a voice in the selectidn~of three. This majies a total of seventeen more than onethird of the total representation of tne state. These eight counties each gave a Democratic plurality in 1884. Their total vote was 75,423, and the total vote of the state was 494,793. Thus we see that less than one-sixth of the voters of the state choose more than one-third of the state senators. This shows the wrong the Democratic legislature perpetrated upon the peoa wrong which not only effects ||Ahlicaus, but Green backers - ■fthibitionists alike. th ... . - • ■

terms, and we suppose his “dldi highly respected citizen” brother did not exhibit his “curiosity” to his youngest brother, or the latter’s accounts as Superintdndent would have been made more in accordance with the requirements of law, and the services rendered. If “Old Highly Respected” &c. has any more “curiosities” of the same sort we hope he will make them public at once.

In politics Horace E. James has never been anything but a selfish, scheming, mercenary traitor and ingrate, doing always the most harm to those who used him best. He has sold out and betrayed the republican party repeatedly. Has pretended to be a Greenbacker, been a candidate on their ticket but sold them out in the end. He has claimed to be a democrat, and labored for the candidates of that party, but betrayed them as he betrays all who put trust in him. He is as utterly devoid of all semblance of principle to-day as he Was about ten years or a little longer ago when he met a number of prominent democrats of this county and endeavored to negotiate a sale to them-of his political influence, for money. One of them asked him how it was that a man of bis past political professions could conscientiously support the democratic party, and in answer he slapped his pocket and said: “Gentlemen, my principles are in my pocket-book.”

The Sentinel puts itself to a great deal of trouble in publishing an old bill allowed to S. P-. Thompson, in 1871. as School Examiner, the office now designated Superintendent of Schools. What object could have been had in publishing tin'■ bill we can not say, but its effects can surely be of no possible injury to Mr. Thompson. The bill covers a period of three months and is for a’total sum of $131.00. Of this sum only SB7 was for Mr. Thompson’s own services, the remainder having been paid by him to other parties, for various purposes, for printing, horse hire, stationery, postage As for Mr. Thompson’s charges the bill itself shows very clearly how just, moderate and conscientious they were, and how favorably in that respect they compare with some similar bills that are about ten years later in date. He charges but for 29 days for the whole three months and it is especially noticeable that he is careful to charge only for the time actually put in. Two thirds of a day is. charged as twothirdsoFatfiiyaiid“lift'ff-a : May for half, and not counting every service, however brief,, a full day, as is an altogether too common custom on the part of those working for the public at a per diem salary.

A Self Convicted Traitor.

Those who know Horace James as he is; a man who has soid out, and proven false to, every cause and nearly every individual he ever elmmpioned, —need—not to feel surprised that he should now openjy jejoice over the defeat of J. W . Powell, in 1884. In that year, certain seif-constituted managers of the republican campaign sent James over to Carpenter township, a little more than a week before’ the election, for the purpose of working up republican matters there in general, and to look after the interests of Mr. Powell in particular. He remained there for a week, and returning home just on the eve of election he reported that he-had done especially good work for Powell and that the latter would come out of the township with a majority of 75 votes. The returns gave him only 15 majority, and those who knew James doubted'.not then nor since that he had betrayed and secretly worked against the very man whom he claimed to be especially working in favor of. His rejoicing now over Mr. Powell’s defeat, and advising the same republihanswho voted against Mr. Pow- » to vote against other Wfexs in is nor a plain B .■• manly ny is -!eof sumo- respect, however and meritricious his •• K and motives may be; but the Bng, sneaking, underhanded Hr m hated of gods and men, |md despised oi devils.

Dr Patton as a Reformer.

Nine Hundred Dolldrs Ahead nnd Nt til got the Land The Democratic Sentinel as well as the other three Democratic newspapers of this senatorial district, repudiate the action of the democratic Convention, held Auguest 11th, 1886, which unanimously passed the following preamble and resolution 34 days after Simon P. Thompson was nominated and 21 days after David H. Patton had announced his. independent candidacy. “Whereas the senatorial field being fully occupied it is the sense of the convention that a nomination is inexpedient. Therefore be it resolved, “That this convention recommend to the voters of this Senatorial District to cast their votes for the candidate whom they individually believe will best subserve the interests of the people. —r- - - M. G. Traugh, John G Perky, Michael Scanlon. Committee.” This is an author ative declaration of the Democracy of this senatorial district, and it is therefore a part of their platform that each voter, untrammelled by party bias, should endeavor to ascertain which of the candidates, if elected would better discharge the important and varied duties of a State Senator. Taking the platform as a guide,, each Democratic newspaper should treat both gentlemen fairly. Last week the. Sentinel very properly published Simon P. Thompson’s account for services as school examiner from Sept. Ist to Dec. 6th, 1871, amounting to. 893. The account is clearly itemized, and the. board of commissioners in allowing the same could have known by enquiry, whether Mr. Thompson had earned the compensation claimed. We venture to say that no occupant of that office since, has performed more faithful service, or presented account of his work. The public and official acts of any officer are a proper subject of enquiry. The Sentinel seems to think that 86,00 was too much for the board to allow for ten lectures. The time and place of each lecture was stated in the account and the board after due inquiry deemed them worth 60 cents erch, and allowed the bill. We may remark by the way, that Mr. D. B. Nowels, while holding the • office, received from one to three times the amount received by Mr. Thompson for corresponding periods of time. Mr. Thompson is willing that all his accounts, reports and publications either as school teacher, school examiner or school trustee should be published. A pioneer in the school work, he wrought many changes in the conduct of our public schools, which time and experience have shown to be wise. It could but result in good, for Democratic newspapers all over the district to rehearse the history of our schools and institutes under, the leadership of Simon P. ThompOn the other hand David H. Patton has also been a school officer, though his career in that field has been limited. In Jun#, 1873, lie was elected as one of three school trustees of the town of Remington, and served until June, 1876. While acting in this capacity in 1875 he was elected treasurer. He owned prior t 01874 some real estate in the town of Remington, including his homestead and an adjoining tract 375 by 18 71 tee t “Hesold and conveyed said real estate in 1874 to Mary A. Lindsay, his wife’s foster mother. The consideration for th# 375 by 187| feet tract was 8500 as seated iu the deed. (See deed record 25, p. 436.) Mr. Patton’s homestead still appeal’s recorded in the name of said Mary A. Lindsay. In October 1875, there was iu the hands of David H. Patton about 81100 of special school fund. On November 4th 1875, he received from Mary A. Lindsay o. voucher for 8900 and a deed was made by her to David H. Patton and his co-trustees, by name, for a part of the 8500 tract, to-wit 150 by 315 feet, with a consideration named therein of 8900, being at the rate of 81340 for the entire tract, which Mr. Patton had himself, about r year before, estimated at 8500, being an increase of 8840 in one year. (Deed record 28, p. 283.) The lot was and still is unimproved. This lot of 150 by 3J.5 feet of ground has ever since been in possession of Mr. Pidtu&fand usScTas a the school town of Remyjgton has neither legal title same. Since Nov. sth, 1875, the special school revenue has been minus 8900, the interest upon which at 8 per cent is 8792, total $1692. The lot was never worth to exceed S4OO and could not now be sold for s3uo. It is unfit in location and character of ground for a school house site-

This is a scrap of history which Democratic voters would do well to ponder. As a piece of financial management Mary A. Lindsay seems to have come out considerably ahead. One of the school trustees, Mr. Nelson, the father of our present county superintendent, opposed the transaction and resigned his office therefor. Mr. Patton and the other trustee, however, consented, and the event took its place in history as’an example of the wisdom, discretion and honesty (?) displayed by David H. Patton in his short and profitable career as a school officer. Compare the official careers of these gentlemen by all means, Mr. Sentinel. Their private characters may be equally as good and we only speak by the record.

The Democratic press throughout the country is pushing the prohibition party movement. Every set of candidates nominated, every move toward the organization of a Prohibition party, is announced in flaming headlines and proclaimed in double leads, as if a genuine Democratic victory. The purpose and intent of this encouragement by Democratic publications is found in this fact: A vigorously worked Prohibition ticket usually secures a Democratic victory, and is sure to reduce Republican majorities. In every Republican state such are~ notoriously the facts. It is equally well known that the Democratic party as a party does not and never has favored prohibition. On the contrary in many instances as in our own state, it is the ally and supporter of the whisky ring, which is avowedly opposed to all temperance legislation. One of the avowed purposes of this partisan prohibition organization is the destruction of the Republican party. In the light of these facts it is not strange that prohibition so-called, and whisky, as represented iu the Democratic party, should be allied. Organized Democracy has never done a thing in favor of practical prohibition, neither have organized partisan prohibitionists. Their influence has always been favorable to the widest license and lowest depths of saloon infamy. It is only where the moral temperance element has come to tne front, and by force of public sentiment, repressed the traffic, that any practical work has been done. The sale of intoxicants is not a universally recognized evil like larceny, and prohibition laws do not receive the general support of the community that ordinary criminal laws do. A prepondering sentiment against the traffic built-up before prohibi—tion laws can be enforced. Such sentiment is not created by nominating tickets and fighting and abusing everybody who does not support them. Neal Dow, tlie noted Prohibition Apostle, and St. John another, have recently shown their insincerity in the temperance cause so completely as to leave no doubt in the minds of all honest men. In the Maine campaign which closed so gloriously for the Republicans, Dow and St. John worked day and night to defeat the Republicans by urging votes for the third party prohibitionists. In their speeches both admitted that their only hope was to draw votes away from the Republicans, and thereby elect the Democratic ticket. Dow in his speeches declared that for twenty years the Republican party of Maine had done nothing for the cause of temperance. Yet he is on record time and again as saying that Prohibition in Maine was a complete success. Let it be borne in mind that the Republican party of Maine gave to the State all iha temperance laws it, .ever, naif, and the conclusion is inevitable, that .Dotf'has either been lying to the people of the country for the last quarter of a century or he lied in the last campaign. —St John, so Dow has said fre - quently this tall, received SSO for each speech he made during the campaign just passed. At two places, Bangor, and Augusta, he refused because the money was not raised. He hai eviI •

dently struck a big bonanza in his fight against the Republican party and/ proposes to make his pile out of it as soon as possible. Terms —cash in advance or no speech. How long will the sincere temperance people be deluded by such hypocrites. -Hammond Tribune. The people of Indiana will cast a serious reflection on their honor if they fail this year to return a Republican majority to the legislature. The gerrymander by the Democratic majority was disgraceful enough to call for a rebuke that will demonstrate the condemnation of the people of that kind of work. The purpose of that measure was to render it impossible for the majority in this state, how- . ever large, to express their will in opposition to the party. In other words, the action taken was in effect such as to prevent any Criticism of that party and its representatives in congress and in the Senate of the United States. The question is whether the voters of Indiana want to be placed in position where they may make their wishes known without having an overwhelming majority to do so. The time to speak out against this work is- this f all, in the next election. There will not be a question before the people of this State any more important to the people of Indiana than this one. It should be kept steadily before the voters.

The soldiers of Indiana should organize at once. The Republican ticket merits the hearty support of every veteran in the state. They should rebuke Cleveland and his sneering "vetoes in Indiana. Down every Democrat at the polls in November who defends him. Assert your manhood by crushing out the party which, by its -rhfamous gerrymandering of the state, practically disfranchised the majority of the legal voters in the state, including the soldiers. Down the entire crew. - The prohibitionists of Newton, jasper and Benton counties met in Goodland last Wednesday afternoon anti nominated Joseph Lockridge, of Benton county, for Senator; Jas. Yeoman, of Jasper,, for Representative; and A. D. Babcock, of this place, for Prosecuting Attorney. Several speeches were made in which the universe was wiped from stem to stern with the mangled remains of the two old political parties.— Goodland HerThat infamous Democratic gerzryjajandering of the state has awakened the honest voters to a realizing sense of the degradation to which they are subjected by being practically disfranchised; and, from one end to tlie ether of Indiana there is a united determination of the people to crush out the party guilty of such brazen rascality. The Democratic party of this state will find that they have bitten ofl more than they can chew. It takes 7,424'-Democratic ; votes, according jo the gerrymander, to elect a state senator, while it requires 15,694 Republican, Greenback and Prohibition votes to elect. By this means a democratic vote is given more than twice the power in electing senator than a Republican vote. The books of the State Treasurer need inspecting. Something is rotten in that quarter. Let the books be opened. The people have the right to make this demand. In vetoing private pension bills President Cleveland used language the most insulting. These were acts of the administration that the Democracy endorsed. J If Jeff Davis is a goo i Democrat and he says he is, the# it is time for every soldier and friend of tpbe the opposite — a good The supplement alone of The Republican, last' week, contained as much “home print ’hs the entire Message of the same week.