Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1886 — Page 2

THE ThursdaV, October 28, 1886. I

REPUBLICAN TICKET.

COUNTY TICKET. h "■■■. * r*. ■ ._ i FOB CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT* , JAMES F. IRWIN, . of Carpenter Township. FOR AUDITOR. GEORGE M. ROBINSON, of Marion Township. FCftl tRKASt’RER, ISRAEL B. WASHBURN, of Marion Township. FOR SHERIFF, SAMUEL K. YEOMAN* of Newton Township. FOR RECORDER. niOMAS AN HUM, us Keener Township. FOR SU.RVF.ROR, JAMES C. THRAWLS, of Marion Township. .. I FOR CORONER. PHILIP BLUE, <>l Manon Township. FOB-COMMISSIONER 2nd. DISTRICT. JAMES F. WATSON, ■-K .p J of Marion Township

Spot the Traitor.

Mr. James, of the J/< ssoy/r. wag in close and almost constant c.»b- ■ suliatiou with the leaders of the Democracy last Friday and Saturday. It is known that his njain object was to induce the - democratic conference of Saturday as. ternoon to refuse to put the name of Geo. Besse,the Greenback candidate for sheriff upon their ticket. There is crooked work and a sinister motive back of all this and the straight Republicans of this county ought to know what it is before they cast their ballots next Tuesday. If there is k traitor on the,Republican ticket cover him with the IGNOMJNOUS DEFEAT THAT HE DESERVES. G§t cut a full Republican vote next Tuesday. A vote for Hoover is a vote to 'indorse the school fund reform. A vote for Dr. Patton or James Yeoman is a vote for Free Trade. Let the full Republican vote' be got out next Tuesday, and all will be well. A vote for Dr. Patton or James Yeoman is a vote in favor of ithe Liquor League. A vote for Dr. Patton or James Yeoman is a vote for a Democratic Vnited States Senator. Campaign lies will nowbetlricker than autums leaves in Vallambrosa. Pay to them no heed. A vote for Dr. Patton or James. Yeoman is a vote against investigating the more than suspicious condition of the state treasury. A vote for Dr. ( Patton or James Yeoman is a vote against Beu Harrison, the able"statesmanYTheigaL lant soldier and the soldiers’ best Friend. A vote for Strong is a vote to |>ut Nowels, the School Fund .reformer, and Strong’s chief lieutenant and adviser, (excepting Janjes) Lack into the Court tlouse. Republicans, Greenbackers and Prohibitionists who vote for Dr. Patton or James Yeoman vote in favor of the gerrymanders and of consequent self disfranchisement A trio of -Carpenter township democrats came over early last Monday morning, with blood in their eyes, because a green backer was not indorsed They are f®|g|| of Dr. Patton. BB|| The Message is being purß Relayed two days, this we® the purpose of t irculating Bgsfs 'T 1 : ; ' s’fim y aimed at Mr. Robinso®Bß| jefore the elect; ui, and obe reputed. We coB Hiat the Republic?-.., of '■BB county will have too m;iclißßß| sense to allow thcmselvt-s Influenced by slanders issncßii <3 Her such circumstances'

Patriots like set. {John are not half as anxious to aid the cause of temperance As tiiey. are “to smash the Republican’party?’ St. John has a pprsbhdl grievance, as have also certain prohibition leaders of Jasper county. No more faithfiiT, < fiicient and accommodating official than James F. Irwin can be found anywhere. He is also a most genial, pleasant and deserving man and his certain re-election to the office he now fills is in everyway deserving. James F. Watson is u man of fine understanding and a thorough* ly upright and conscientious man. No better man for commissioner ' could be found, in seven counties and we are confident that he will carry Iris full party strength, and more if anj thing, next Tuesday. The Message man, the assistant Commissiuy of the Dodd Raid, I the School Fund Reformer, and I the Democratic candidate for J county Treasurer, .would not per- , mit the indorsement of a Greenbacker!! They are more rigidly tDoia<MWtU? tbuu- they vaU'e im < ’ *4, "76, '7'-', ’SO and 82. ax-mnar * ».»wwtrmat ■bmm • The common policy of. the Democnits wh ■ > want to- trade votes is ito make*..if possible, the same [trade with a number of different Republicans some times as njany las a dozen and thus get many ' vbt s for their men, in exchange i for their one vote. Have nothing to do with any trading proposition. There is a nigger in that woodpile every time. •Unde Tommy Antrim and his capable assistants have discharged the duties of the office of Recorder, in a manner to leave not the slightest grounds for complaint. The are written up in a beautiful and legible manner and the work of the office is done promptly, and no pains are spared in accommodating those who have business in the office. Dr. Patton, who -wants the soldiers to vote for him, voted against Gen. Grant, in 1872; against Gen. Ila yes,. in 1876; aga i list'-Gen. G ariield, in 1870. He voted for Gen. Butler in 1884, but also for the rebel Gen. West, on the same ticket. He is a fine ask soldiers to vote for him. Soldiers can vote for S. P. Thompson and so doing vote for Gen. Ben. Harrison who hitsTftever “gone baek on a soldier” yet Mr. Adam Hess, of Gillam tp., attended and took part in an important Democratic conference, in Rensselaer -last Saturday. In Gillam-Mr. Hess is a red-hot prohibitionist, but in Rensselaer lie is a rock-rooted Democrat/ and down on “Old Sumptuary” the hardest kind. Mr. Hess can well afford to keep up his prohibitionist pretensions, even to the extent of voting tbat ticket, “if by so doing he can induce ten or a dozen Republican dupes to vote the same, way. It’ is an old dodge, but is still more or less successful. The members of the democratic county central committee (including Adam Hess, the prominent prohibitionist of Gillam township) held a conference last Saturday in the office of J. W. Douthit, Esq. It was a stormy old time, the chief bone of contention being the question whether the name of Geo. W. Besse, the Greenback candidate for Sheriff, should be placed upon the democratic ticket Mr. Besse - ---- -- held written pledges from thirty i members of that committee to the BBarkfcing ■aster Blican B and Bit to B of a ® the ■emoBraph Be. for l&t>*

resentAtive, James YeomAn. And why should the editor of the Sentinel, or /any_ other rock-rooted Bourbon Demo rats desire the election of Mr. Yeoman, a man whose professions are that he,belongs to a party whose principles are more diametrically opposed to those of the Democratic kparty than are those of any other party? Everybody except perhaps a few deceived ex-Republican Prohibitionists know what the only answer to this conundrum is. They know that if Mr. Yeoffian should by any possibility, happen to be elected, he would be, in all essential particulars, a thoroughly Democratic Legislator and on all party measures vote with the Democrats. The Message stated last week, * iu an indirect and cowardly way, that the Republican central committee had paid the expenses of Mr. John Reynolds while the latter was making a Sunday trip to Corpenter township in the inter- ■ est of one of the Republican can- ' didates. A’so that the same comI mitree had paid 865 for job printiTng of' tire value of perhaps ten . dollars, and for having the county ticket printed in the Republican county paper. The] statements , arc simply malicous lies, in every particular. The committee has net employed Mr. Reynolds to do any sort ’of political work, nor | have they paid or.promised to pay : any expenses for him of any kind. ' The bill paid for printing was the ' balance due on a bill for $65 worth j of job printing, representing all that had been done for the committee ever since the opening of the campaign, and including all the printing done for all the coni ventions, for the primary election I &c. Not a single item of the bill i was charged above its fair value, and not one cent of it was for publishing the ticket in the county paper, or for any other kind of work done in the paper for the good of the party. The present proprietor of Tha Republican has never, either this year nor heretofore, asked for nor received so much as a single cent for the use . of its columns in the service of i the Republican party. Fuitheri more he has never charged more than a fair living price for any work done for the party in the way of job printing.

Some Words About Sceatching and Bolting.

To such of our Republican readers as may be contemplating scratching some part of their ticki et next Tuesday we should like to j address a few last words, iu a kindly spirit, in regard to the practice I of scratching tickets in general, i We are not among those extreme partizans who condemn scratching ,in all possible cast's, but we are 1 among those who recognize that it lis a practice which should be resorted to with extreme rarity and moderation. Scratching, trading and bolting in politics is a practice which soon breaks down party discipline and sows_the seeds of ! dissensions and internecine strife, ■ which often results in the local disorganization and disruption of the party. A near and pertinent illustration of the truth of what we have just said is furnished by our neighboring county of Benton, in which the Republicans, although having a clear majority of over 200 iu the county, have for years been unable to elect half of the county officers, all owing to dissensions and bitterness growing out ‘ of the uncalled for defeat of certain Republican candidates, years ago. j The conditions which will justi:fy a party man to resort -to the ! dangerous remedy of scratching or bolting are, chiefly: Ist. The well established existence of corrupt combinations known as rings, which sometimes succeed in usurping controlof local political organizations and the consequent offices and emoluments. Rings are institutions that seldom flourish • within > the limits of the Republici an party, the masses of that partybeing too intelligent and too independent to submit to their domi-’ s nation. There is no ring in Republican politics of Jasper county, [ and no. .truthful man, in the full I possession of his faculties, pretends to bqjieve there is. The popular methods of choosing candidates = and z party Jeaders which have long 1 prevailed among the Republwangr

of the county would make the existence of rings simply impossible. A certain unprincipled, disorganizing sheet published in this place, often indeed affirms the existence of a ring within the Republican party of this county; but if called upon to give the names of the members of that and the recipients of its favors it would only mention a single man, and the absurdity of a ring compbsed of only one person is evident upon its face □2nd. Where candidates obtain their nominations through notoriously corrupt and unfair means. There is not the slightest grounds for claiming that any of the Republican candidates have been unfairly or dishonestly nominated. The editor who through motives of personal malignancy is stopping at no means, however unscrupulous or untruthful, in his efforts to defeat one of the candidates on the Republican ticket, has not ventured to assert that he was nominated unfairly. 3rd. If a candidate has already proven incompetent for the duties of the office for which he is nominated or if he has proven dishonest or unfaithful in that or any other public capacity. No such charges can truthfully be brought against any of the present Republican candidates. - 4th. The selfish se 1 ling out* and betraying by one candidate of one or more of his brother candidates of the same party. This offense, if well proven, should always subject the perpetratoi to ignominious and overwhelming defeat*

Eye-Openers for Honest Prohibitionists.

Adam Hess, of Gillam, the most prominent Democratic Prohibitionist in the county, after James Yeoman, came to the county seat last Saturday and took an active and prominent part in a secret caucus of Democratic wire workers, James Yeoman, the prohibitionist candidate for Representative, with Democratic antecedents of the most ultra bourbon type, is endorsed by the Bourbon organ of the Democracy of this county, and is firmly believed by many good men, his nearest neighbors, to be as much a Democrat at heart today as he was twenty-four years ago when he denounced the “unholy war’.’ for the Union, or twelve years ago wdien he was as active in inducing his Republican neighbors to join the Greenback party as he is now in persuading them to go,with.the Prohibitionists. The official head of the prohibition party in this county was a republican until he became convinced a few months ago that he could not get from that party a. nomination for a certain county office. He is now making the most strenous efforts to secure the election of his brother-in-law and one or two others upon tire Democratic ticket. ... ■■ It was a very noticeable fact that both Mr. Adams and Mr. Yeoman were careful, in selecting places for the “blind orator” Mr. Hoffman, to speak in, to avoid democratic neighborhoods, thus showing plainly, enough (hat the Republicans were the fellows they w r ere after. These facls are a few of the many which might be cited showing clearly to all who are willing to see, that the honest prohibitionists are simply being, used as eutspaws to pull hot chestnuts out of the, fire for democrats and sore-head republicans; AV hat man of business sense would go into a trade when he is sure to be “beat?” Nobody. Now then, brother Republican, just rei member this when you are approached witn a proposition to trade on the county ticket: The man who approaches you, proposing such a thing, has an object to accomplish and- you don’t know what it is. Under such circumstances you are sure to be beaten, for if you fall in with his proposition he accomplishes his purpose, whatever it may be; and it may be, when you discover too late what it is, the very last thing you would be willing to aid in. It may be that he meditates bad faith, and will not perform his part of the trade, while you do yours. It may be that he has made the same sort of bargain with othes, so that he will get a dozen, or a score, of votes for his man, where he only gives one. There is no telling what the trick lurking behind a proposition to trade votes may be, jiqtil the count of the election, too late, develops it; but it is positively certain that there is an object beliind if all, antl i£ you don’t want

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to be “beat” you had betfer reject all such overtures to trade or swap votes. Cast your own vote, conscientiously, and don’t “trade.” You will be surely swindled if you do. The Democratic practice is the same the whole country over. In strongly democratic counties or districts they always take, everything in sight and hoot at the idea of there being any virtue in liberality in politics. In Republican counties or districts they are always trying by all sorts of hypocritical and underhanded devices to gobble a portion of the offices. They use the Greenback and Prohibition parties for cats-paws; they nominate half a ticket; they covertly indorse pretended indepenor non-partizancandidates; in one place they will try to beguile the temperance people to do their work, in another they try to rope in the liquoi interests, and in all places they trade, dicker, buy, beg, steal and lie for votes,, any way and every way, no matter how, just so they get them. By these practices they have succeeded in holding the state senatorship of this republican district for twelve years, and in this county have kept from one to three or four men in office continually. Will not the Republieans of this county and this district, make up their minds that for once at least they wiil Aot be made dupes of and catspaws by these old but ever new tricks and dodges of their unscrupulous and untireing opponents? A correspondent in the Oxford Tribune has the following to say about tile Democrats booming Dr. Patton as a soldier. “They are trying to elect Patton on his soldier record yet they sneered and laughed when the Republicans urged the same reasons for electing Logan. “It makes a great difference whose ox is being gored,” and in this instance the Democratic party will be taught a lesson. If Dr. Patton is elected his vote will go to Gov. Gray. We don’t deny that Dr. Patton may have been a brave soldier; but when he has his soldier record flaunted to the breeze by the Democratic papers of the district and his soldierly virtues extolledby Democrats, some of whom may have marched under a flag different from that* unfurled by the U. 8. Government, it is time for Republicans “to note it.” And that is just what they intend to do.” The one question which, before all others, in Indiana needs to be settled at the coming election, is, ! shall the present scandalously unjust apportionment of districts stand or fall. If it is to be upheld, I then a majority of the people of Indiana might ts well live in Russia as here, aa far as the enjoyment of their rights is concerned. As things now are, the majority of the people of Indiana are ruled by the Democratic minority, and that minority is the Catspaw of the infamous Liquor League. TR very first thing to do is to regain, as

citizens, your lost right— the rigid of each man to vote, and to have his vote count, and count for as much as any other man’s vote counts for.. The Greenbackers an 1 Prohibitionists of this state have rio more to say iu the approaching election than if they were subjects of the Queen vof England. The gerrymander provided for all that. And unless the Republicans can muster over 25,000 majority they, too will be practically disfranchised. The duty of the people, without distinction to party, is to re-estab-lish the right to vote in the' free state of Indiana. All other questions are as much removed from consideration till this one is settled as though they could not be touched upon. ■■ Vote the Republican ticket in November and regain your stolen right. Vote the Republican ticket and reprove the infamy of the Democratic gerrymander. Vote the Republican ticket and strike a blow between the eyes of the Liquor League. Vote the Republican ticket and do more for temperance than you can possibly, do by voting any other ticket in the field. Vote the Republican ticket and give supremacy to principles which will ensure good government and prosperity to the whole people. Politically speaking, one exrebel soldier is equal to two Union soldiers. In the days of slavery, the south got representation in Congress and in the Electoral College on three-fifths of its colored population. To-day its gets such representation on a population of 6,000,000 colored people, of 38 members of (Wgress and 38 electoral votes, not one of which really represents the colored people in any sense. Our state treasury is known to have been almost bankrupt for sometime through the management of the present Democratic treasurer, from the fact that he has been calling upon county treasurers to pay in advance to meet current expenses. At present there is only about s7,ooo__ reported on hand, when there should be $486,000. “Turn the rascals out” and “let the books R. W. Marshall, the Republican candidate for Prosecutor, will make au able and untireing official and will guard the la;vs of the State in a way entirely satisfactory to_all. He has the “nerve” to perform his duties without fear or favot. Vote for him.— Kentland Gazette. : 1 - LZ_“ '—

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