Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1887 — [?] [ARTICLE]

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The.dei.AC'.itic mi.jo.i’A in R.e f Senate, after a most unwarrantable and unjust course of proceedings ’ in which the republican members were arbitrarily deprivedt of all their lights, and law and justice were trampled under foot, and a set of rates adopted which would suable the jnajoritj' to deprive r member of his seat, at a moment s notice, without trial and without debate, the democratic members voted Friday to adjourn over until Tuesday. This was for tlie jnirposr of avoiding meeting with the House on Monday, as required by la v, to witness the canvass of the vote for Lieutenant-Governor and declare the result. On Monday, however, the >epiiblican senators 'met with the house and the vote v,As canvassed and Col. Robertson declared elected. He took the rdh of office and was duly installed as Lieutenant-. Gov ernor. .-.As yet, however, he is wrongfully restrained from discharging one of the chief functions of his officer presiding over the Senate, by the lawless actions of the democratic majority in that body.

The standing committees in the Srate Senate, as fixed up by the bogus President, Smith, do not of .■ourse, give republican senators iiiy prominence. Senator 1 li,impson, of this district, is a member of only three committees. On -Phraseology, on County, and Township Business and on Legislative "Apportionment.

/ The first number of the organ of the Henry Goorge party- edited by George, himself, was issued last “Saturday in New York. It is a weekly paper and of the same size v- as The Republican but nearly all solid reading matter, and hardly any advertising. George is a well meaning man, and full of many wise and noble ideas; but he is such an incorrigible and intolerant crank in many ways, especially in his mischeivous land tax schemes, that his publication will probably result in more harm than good, in the long run. Probably the most outrageous and disgraceful article that ever appeared in a prominen t paper in Indiana was an editorial in the Indianapolis Sentinel, of last Wednesday, in regard to the decision of the Supreme Court in the Lieu-tenant-Governorship case. The court, which is composed of four democrats and one republican, de* cided unanimously that in the form in which the suit was brought, they had no ‘jurisdietion. The deeision was the only one possibly without violating the plain requirements of positive laws,'and yet, because the democratic members pf the court would not violate that law, which they were sworn to observe, the Sentinel abused them in a strain of profane and malignant scurrility that could have emanated from nothing but a mind thoroughly brutalized and corrupt. Tlie article was headed “The Supreme Court qf Indiana” and the very first sentence was “Damn their cowardly souls.” This sentence was the key-note of the whole article. The members of the Supreme Court were said to be afraid of their own shadows, were called “chattering idiots’’ “nincompoops" and similar abusive and disgrdceThe character and purposes qf the villainous gang of conspirators who are now trying to depri ;c Col. Robertson of the office which belongs to him, and to prevent the lawfully elected members ot the State Legislature from taking their seats, are clearly revealed in ravings of their mouth-piece and organ, the .