Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1887 — At Indianapolis. [ARTICLE]

At Indianapolis.

t The appeal case of Lieutenant Governor Robertson, from the injunction of Judge Ayres, will be begun to-day. The arguments on both sides will probably occupy two or three days and the judges will require some days to prepare their decision, but it will probably be given by Tuesday of next week. The joint convention meetevery day ami has one or two ballots, but always with the same results, 74 tor Turpie, 71 for Harrison* and 4 for Allen. Robinson, the only democrat among the four who vote for Allen,, lias it in his power to elect Turpie at any time but, as yet, he refuses to do so. The democrats claim that if they can not secure the election of Turpie, they will prevent the election of any body* and that when the Legislature adjourns that the governor will appoint .Turpie to serve until the next meeting of the. Legislature, in two years from this time. Great numbers of bills and on all manner of Subjects are being introduced daily, but as yet none of much importance have been acted ujkui.

The bill to regulate the railroads and to protect the people from their oppressive methods has passed both houses of Congress, and been signed by the President. 1 his measure, commonly known as the Inter-State Commerce Bill, is the result of many years discussion in Congress and out of it, of the subject of the relation of railroads to the people, and although the work hoped to be accomplished by the bill is of immense magnitude and almost inconceivable difficulty, we believe that its practical result will be of great benefit to the people in geneial.

The terms of the compromise entered into iu Indianapolis last week, between the Republicans and Democrats in the Legislature provide that joint conventions shall be held every day while the compromise lasts, and that Smith, the acting President of the Senate, shall call tlio convention to order and order the roll call of thy Senate in ba) lotting, and that Speaker Sayre, of the House, shall order the roll call ot that body, and shall adjourn the conventions. It is further provided, in effect, that iio further action should be taken iu any of the contested seat casei, either house, during the eiist- ■ see of the compromise. -

The House of Congress lias passed the Blair ( Senate) pension bill with amendments. As amended this bill gives £l2 a month to the t nion soldiers of any war who served three months and are now indigent, helpless, or dependent upon their labor for a livelihood. As it passed the it gave from £2 to £24 a month to these persons. The bill also provides that parents of deceased soldiers, in cases where there are lo minor children, shall only be required to show that they are without other means of support than their own manual labor, and this being done they shall receive sl2 per month. The vote on the bill stood yeas, 178; nays, 76.

The Oxford Tribune in discussing the decision of Judge Ayres, of Indianapolis, iu the case of Green Smith and Lieufcenant Governor Robertson has-the following ~s®cte«ge - - • - -.. “The decision was rendered Monday, the day following, the recounting of tine ballots proved that ♦Judge Ayres was only a Judge by forgery at the ballot box." John was Badly off in this stakement, as it was Albert Ayres Judge •>f the Marion county criminal court who was thrown by the reconnt of out of the. office which he held through forgery; and not

Judge Ayres, of the Marion county circuit court, who was elected two years ago, and who granted the injunction against Lieut. Governor Robertson. A well known and well informed citizen'writing over the signature “Tax Payer,” states some pretty strong objections to the proposed policy of the Town Board in preparing to provide tire protection by means of cisterns and a hand water engine. He argues that the purchase of a chemical engine would be a nnlch wiser thing to do. There is certainly a good show of reason in the views of “fay Payer’’' and it is the plain duly of the members of the Town Board to make a full investigation of this matter, if they have not already done so, before committing the town to an expensive policy which may prove, in the end, not the best and wisest that might have been chosen.

The compromise measures, en-i tered ip to fit Indianapolis last i week have caused n general ex-j pression of sorrow and indignation among the Republicans of the state and a corresponding expression nf triumph and rejoicing i among the democrats. It is gen- 1 erall-y looking upon as a surrender j by the Republicans to the brute ! force and bulldozing and lawless methods of the democratic major- j ity in the Senate. It amounts to j an acknowledgement by the Re-j publicans that the two or three j democratic members of the Leg- j islature who were counted in by frauds are to remain iu undisturbed possession of their stolen seats arid that their rotes, as well as that of Bra Hainan, the occupant of McDonald’s stolen seat in the Senate, are to be allowed to help elect a democrat to succeed General Harrison., and that the will and wishes of the people of Indiana, as expressed by a Repul>lica*i majority, of 10,000 on the legislative tickets, is to be set at naught. It is not at all unlikely? however, that the seeming disadvantages of the compromise have caused the Republican members to be too severely condemned. As has been truly and wisely said in regard to this matter: “It is easy 1 for persons to advise and criticise | who are not on the ground and 1 not charged with any duty or re- 1 spousibility, and especially when j not fully informed as to the con- j dhion of affairs: and it is very difergeney for -those charged with j grave duties to know just what course is best to pursue,” The situation of affairs was such that - I there was no longer any hope for the Republicans to obtain their j just rights, mnl to defeat the lawless, and revolutionary methods 01 the Democrats, except by a resort to like methods. Revolution had to he met with revolution and the Devil had to be fought with lire. A policy wnieh has its temporary advantages, but which, in the end, for the Republican party at least, .is pretty sure to prove disastrous. Had the Republicans in the,Legislature endeavored to have beaten the Democrats at their own: game of revolutionary disregard of law amhjustice, the results would ; probably have been, after many disgraceful and disorderly pro-:

ceedings, that two -conventions would have been held and two Senators elected. The contest would have been settled iu the United States Senate, and probably in General Harrison's favor. But this advantage would have been secured at the cost probably of sacrificing every hope for any useful general legislation-this winter; and farther oi sending the Republican party before the people of the state., at the next-elec.-* tton, with the reputation of being little better than the democrats Iu regaul to respect for ladU'and order, constitutional methods. As the matter now rests, the advantagesj so far fts regardrririTSppeai To the people, are wholly with the Republicans; and we have faith to believe that the people by their votes will say the same in 1888, by an overwhelming majority.