Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1887 — The Situation [ARTICLE]

The Situation

No compromise with revolutionI .** ; S . The day of .reckoning with the ihitionists and robbers will come in November, 1888. The President sent in a Ye t o Tnesdey, of the bill appropriating " ■ JO" for a public building at . .. iy. tl •. i'ln* r volution is-te and rob!•••;» the State Senate have no longci evt-if a-shadow of law tv sai'poi:, t. ' - m in their'coarse, and every proposition for a comprcmise with should be sternly refused. 1 ■— !■ I"W IIIHM '■■■>■■ «rw» Ihe Inter-State Commerce bill will go into effect in about a in -nth, after which time, if the law is enforced,jail that very large class q/ people who have heretofore been favored with free passes, will be obliged to pay their way on the railroads or take “tie-tickets. - ’ There is no man in the Senate in at has shown more courage and i esolution in opposing the revolutionists than Mark L. DeMotte, ■■’f Purser and Take. He has borne -himself like a true and fearless patriot and a wise statesman. The people will not forget him. There are many decent andhonable democrats in both - Senate •.'nd House, who in their hearts are shamed and disgusted at the high.diandgrl..oulxugvs.. ..lheir_pfiKty -IW. committed in Indianapolis* but they are overawed'lry the Green* * Smith greasers and dare not do anything.

“No compromise with traitors” ■■■as the watchword in 1861, mid it • 'i t.m n&tlThe revohiti.r.-151-in Indianapolis are as much trait ors to pur free institutions and national honor as were the rebels in 1861 aid the watchword sh did be m-w as then “No compromise.” —”»WWMy I ■ I !■ I» I Col. Robertson is by every principle of right and justice -as much I.ieumi.m.r Gov.-rn.-r r.s C<oyer ’ Pros! ;ei ; t pt .Cray tiovrlll,. anti the - Re. utdil u majority in the Bouse should ’.-ot.uecf.de cue jot i’r< in their jx>--i-.i'e:. wlmtscevor damage :’..e Sreen Smith greasers may du to the interests and honor of the

1 deutenant Governor Itohertson ’■/s on Friday insultingly refused a-imittance to the hall of that Logisi n.ve Lodj’ over rvhich it was his i.stitutional prerogative U> pre- ?. :e. bat Snu Coy, the saloon-K-.-s ; ue;._• .ci'atm laillut-box stnFer and election-re forger, walked nd out of the satne halt at his pieasiue, and there were hone to him nay.

Cleveland bas approved eight public building bills and vetoed the same number. 'All the approved bills are for buildings in southern cities; all the vetoed bills were for buildings in northern cities; with one exception, and that exception was only for appearance sake. A stern old patriot Grover is, but he knows mighty well which section es the democratic party is the dog and which the tail. President Cleveland shows the same quality of “courage of his convictions” in vetoing public building bills as in vetoing pension bills. In both cases the claim of courage is the merest humbug. Both vetoes and approvals are calculated to strengthen himself in the south, where the chief strength of liis party is, and the talk about his courage is the merest claptrap. lie is working for a renomination, and puts his vetoes where they will do the most good—to Grover Cleveland. “Tell the man who wrote that to go to hell.” “Oh, Go hire a hall.” These are specimen official utterances from the forum of the State Senate, by Greaser Green Smith, the man who is trying to steal the office of Lieutenant Governor, from the man whom the people have fairly elected. This is of a piece with the Indianapolis StiitincTs “Damn their cowardly souls.” A sweet scented crowd are the Green Smith greasers, for a fact. One incident connected with thetroubles at Indianapolis last week is a source.os considerable consolaiion to Republicans and fair minded'people of other parties. Several Indianapolis policeman ha.l Kt n sent into th» Stalo House t > help the- big gang of roughs and should w hitb rs in the Senate ove ve-tho fvw 11. publicans there, aid jlx ii:di .’. aid people hustled’ tile ’’cop.? ' ; v. ■ ' I the State House, v.. h scaui e-re. - irony; a: »•! the next day the Republican State officers hi! t and very properly removed the iliom police commissioners- of die city and elected a now board. Ii was.a righteous act. ‘ The Vcdo Sustained" was the lie dline by which most of the daily paper. - , called attention to the vote in the House last Thursday, on the attempt to pass the dependent pension bill over the President's veto. Inasmuch as the vote in favor of passing the bill was 175 for it to 125 against it, it would have-been more in keeping with the facts to have made the heading “The veto rebuked,” even though the vote in fa’or of the bill lacked 26 of the two-thirds necessary to pass it over the veto. The vote by which the bill originally, passed the house was 180 To butatthT over the veto 29 members, all. Democrats, changed their votes on the measure. ; d.y

' On Wednesday of last week the Supreme Court handed down its long looked tin - decision in the Lieutenant-governor case. The decision dissolved the injunction of Judge Ayres, of Indian;.p.Jis. restraining Cob Robertson from making any attempt to claim his constitutional privilege c.f presiding over the state senate; but disclaimed the right of the court U decide, on the main qi'.e.dion at iss'. . that js, Whether the .election of Col. Robertson wss valid. In .edict, however, the decision plainly showed that Robertson had a prima facie right to the office and pointed out the only lawful method by . which his right could be contested. Gil Thursday morning Mi.IRblL ertson went into the Senate chamber and in a peaceful and lawful manner sought to take of the place- which belonged to him. and was treated with violence and great. persona 1 indignity by one of the big brutal ruffians whom tne deniocDwtic majority in the Senate have made doorkeepers for that body. He then sought to

make a statement of his position to the Senate, but was .forcibly ejected from the room by order of Green Smith. Col. DeMotte, a republican senator who claimed his right to address the senate on the occasion of this most shameful outrage, was thrust to the floor i» a most brutal manner by another of the Senate’s shoulder-hitters, also at the order of the foul blackguard, Green Smith. As soon as the Republican members of ! the House had learned of these revolutionary outrages committed by the Democrats in the Senate," they, at once, adopted a resolution that they W’ould not reci ognize the Senate in any manner until the latter body was lawfully organized, with Col. Robertson permitted to take his place as presiding officer. In this course they are endorsed and sustained by their entire party, and there is not the least danger that they will recede from it. The day of comproj ibises with robbers and revolutionists Jias passed. There is, of course, a deadlock between the two houses, and unless the Democrats recede from their unlawful and unrighteous position, there can be no further legislation of any kind, during the session, which ends next Monday.