Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1887 — But what He Was There for is not at all a Hatter of surmise. [ARTICLE]

But what He Was There for is not at all a Hatter of surmise.

A dispatch from Indianapolis yesterday afternoon announced the election of Turpie by 7(> votes to 74 for Harrison. No decision 1 as been rendered in the Lieutenant Governorship case. " If the young man of the Goodl.ind H< rah s desires to know the amount of money Dr. Patton left in Oxford before Nov. 2nd, and the places he left it, he can be, accomodated in several instances.—' {''‘•ford Tribune. The Indianapolis Journal pqb- ' -died Senator Harrison's argument before the Supreme Court, ic. the Lieutenant Governorship case. It was a grand argument Riul has been fitly pronounced one of the greatest efforts of Mr. H.irvison G life. 4 ■—II —MTW . Jrbnsideiing the political comvjAvtion of the State Senate, msdm:o fact that a majority of it> CointiUttee on Temperance anit lends of the liquor men, makes it improbable that any effective t inperHr.ee law will originate in ti at body. o The Toledo Bhule, one of the . l. Vst influential advocates of pro hlbition in this country, gives a list of towns in Ohio in which the Dow law has srd. ons. Tiiisdaw, like almost every < sh -r effective temperance 'mea.'Uve of fate year.-, was passed in faceted the combined opposition of the -third--pa-r-ty”prohibitionists and the liquor interests. ——MW mif!■ S. P. Thompson's-bill in regard t *he Beaver Lake lands, in N-w----ioii county, has been examined by ti:o Senate and House committees oi: Swamp Lands and Drainage and its passage unanimously recommended. The provisions of the 1 ill dispose of the vexed and tidied questi . • i'i to t ;e i r.I t i lleaver Lake i.. Hi; >itirely e put able and tjeusibh' m:inuer. " ■ . . a——————■—■——■ _ .; ■ ... . . i n re is great need in this state 7*■ - -msneli v- form as tint cmi •vp'At'"l by- the fee and ■ -Itt'imgh'v ■■■ cti’tttrKes '• iof I'Totrts of many of ;!• - eifuhty officers arii_ euorm u& 'lit «•! 7.44 'Tfi-S Ilia* •I * p i w -‘a*i d. hi_\LC-xi>.r. v _ 4 ,ile hill ya'jLhg. r iwi.e/1.-. fir.an /•'tJtU'if f *' thft 3 I r jji .srjnJ? . i, ,i. - ;> a ieggaiJj pittance; • ti nnmtv office?' are ti tokhtff fd — —_• .m ; - Ii aiar apolis by hundreds to pro- .. st against the passage of the bill, • - -‘ ‘ iri * 1 ' ,

It li our opinion that that little nest of corrupt Bourbon politicians in v, Remington have al>out reached the end of their rope. : They belong to that school of politicians of which Joe Mackin, of Chicago. Gene Higgins. of k Baltic nisra, and the electimi rcfui ns forgers of Indianapolis, are the shining examples. Their one guiding principle in jKilities is “Anything to win,” and if they have not yet resorted to ballot-box stuffing, perjury and forgery to secure their ends it is probablj only because they have lacked the courage or the opportunity. The The share which they undoubtedly took in the late villainous attempt td rob the people of this district of the Senator wJiom they had fairly Elected, and to his place a man who li:ul no possible right to be there, shows that there is nothing too dishonest or dishonorable for them to do if they think they can make it win. The people of this county and district, “both democrats and Republicans, are, happily, at last getting to understand the true measure of these fellows and we are confident that the day of their political power is mighty near its close.

Representative Ackmau has introduced two bills relating to the liquor traffic which deserve especial mention and commendation for the simple and practical mannerin which they meet the popnlat demand for legislation on that subject. The bills do not distuib those features of the present law which have proved satisfactory in practice, but correct the defects which experience has shown to exrst in it. Mr. Ackman’a bills raise the present state and county tax on saloons from SIOO, the present figure, to SHOO and provide that one-half of this sum shall go to the school fund and the other half into the general fund of the county. A further and especially commendable feature, is the fixing of an additional tax of S3OO upon each saloon within the corporate limits of any etty or incorporated town, this amount, dike that first mentioned, to be paid before the license shall be issued; and the city or town authorities may add an additional S2OO to this town tax, thus making a total tax of SSOO.,

It will be seen that the .tax on saloons, under the provisions of this bill can not be loss than $llOO, nq mutter where they are located, a lid If • ivirli in tmy-to \” n ■ -or ei ty- vt ,can,not be less than >OOO and may be increased toSSOO. An additional amendinen. proMr. Ackman gives- practical effect to the. local option principle, by requiring every applicant for a saloon "license to obtain the written consent of a majority of the legal Voters of the township, town or ward in which the applicant desires to sell before a license .will be granted.

Kendand Ga/cite. 1 . _ / While “‘inffaentinl" l, ,J i Denio-O’-ats were trying to un.-eri: Bei,ator Tlkdiipsou, ond D. H, l’jiTLm stood chattering .aroimd livdmnai’olis. .What he was .there f«>r e:ui only lw suahised by the people of this ilistriet. lie woiiitl ii!l Senator Thompson's seat about as full i s a mustard seed would u box car.