Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1887 — A Document that all Republicans Endorse. [ARTICLE]

A Document that all Republicans Endorse.

The Legislature adjourned Mon-1 day. The deadlock remained unbroken to the end. For the disgraces and the failures of this session, the people will call the 'da-j mocracy of the state to an account,! in 1888. The appropriation by Cong] as of twenty-five millions for n navy -Ml matter which shanldLianoe «\.' ery ‘Sensible p itr'iot to rejOtC y '&&L1 the failure of the fort i lienti> us i dl: is a cause for -corresponding- re-; gret. The democratic leaders in the House are responsible for -the i failure. Every possible argument or so; hodry which the democrats can invent to excuse their theft 61 the Lieutenant Governship, is knocked square in the head by the one indisputable fact, which everyone knows to be the simple 'truth, and that is that had the Democrats succeeded in electing Judge Nelson he would have taken his office, and without objection. Lafayette will get its public tenMfog. despite of tin- piWllfgflPB 5 veto, the bill making the appi'opriation having '"Teen passed through both houses, by the necessary two-thirds Tote, over the veto. . The vetoed bills providing for buildings at ND-ayton, Ohio, Zanesville, Ohio, and ISioux City, lowa, were also passed over the vetoes, and became laws. It is supposed that Green Smith, the spurious President of the Indiana State Senate, is the same A, G. Smith who practiced law and rascality in Lowell, this county, some 19 years ago. It is said that he issued small accommodation notes, ranging in denomination from one to five dollars, and g.>t teem in circulation on the faith of Lis ability as a lawyer to redeem them,, and then skipped out.— iC&tePX- Pottit Rcfjisti'r. . Judge Gresham has decided the case,-of Sam Perkins, who was under bonds for contempt in not testifying in the case of the Democratic auction return forgers of Indianapolis. Hia•decision is that the I . S. courts had no jurisdiction, and, of coihsc, it releases Perkins. It does not end the prosecution of the forgers, 1. ».v----v/er, as the committee of one hundred will recommence the£pr->se--UtionsTu ffie state cbiirts. 1,1. The Liver and Harbor bill, a •vise and lienineent measure, Slid ■-■lie which would have put About oveivc millions States Notions surplus cash wkw it would Lave, been of permanent benefit to the peopl v and furnisiied manv needy '.hour.unis-with emphnim-nt, bus |irtfed so become a law fiTougli the bull-headed obstina-

cy of the president in refusing to sign it after the adjournment of Congress, it not having been finally passed in time for him to exninine it fully before the adjournment. •, The facts that tlie democratic .stafc ‘ senators -Avero anxious to break ilie (lead)..el; tvilit H vomjiro- ' niiv'tin the l ysis at UHOgniv.ing 1 tui'Cttsoti, and the willnlravvnl of j all opposition to i urj'.ie’s aduxis-1 sion to the l . H. tseuate, shows that ‘they are feeling very nervous over the chances for Turpie’s admission. Their solicitude is well '■founded: for a mail whose election was secured hy such means as Turpie’s was,-stands mighty little show for ever getting his seal, if the fuels regarding JTh. ..eiei±LuiL.nre properly brought before the Senate. The utt rn-eys win have 11 been defending Id - , llaniem and thetrustees ot‘ tire Insane Hospital in the pending investigation have presented a hill of 81,000 for their services'. The bill, it is said, was approved by 1 the defendants and Turned- over to Buperint<-ndent Fletcher for Daymen h buf~has not yet been paid. Here is another pleasing spectacle for the people of the State to contemplate—the presentation of a lawyer’s-fee bill of 81,000 for defending men convicted of furnishing maggoty butter and diseased hogs to the insane. Tliey democratic press oc the state, following tlie lead of the Indianapolis Sealiiiel, lias made a great howl about the hypocrisy and the inconsistency of the llepufaiican- senators, in accepting pay warrants signed by Green Smith, while tEey refused to recqguize. him in aiiy other manneiv From! die magnit’. de "of the howl, tlie, nirtural conclusion yvt.s that ail cw-j nearly all of the Eep.iblicr.n sena-! «ors had. heen the nre- j lender in that vvay; but when tlie! -Sc)riim : f~ The originator of the mat-1 tor, was asked to.give the names of | the* iiKonsisteut senators it whs ; only able to mentioir three, Semi- | tors Johu-on, 8 airs a»i 1 Dm.‘c iu. j and Mr. Duncan exonerates him-1 sdi by showing that tlie warrant 1 he accepted was for seven dollars ! for expenses on a prison commit- j tee, and that he procured Col. Robertson’s signature before he drew the money. With the other two s“nr.tors the facts are about the sr.me. It was tlie. resignation of a Democrat that caused tlie office of Lieutenant Governor to become vacant. It was a Democratic official who declared the office vacant and pointed out the necessity of electing a man to ’ fill it. - In ‘obedience fa this decisioh., the Democratic party nominated a man to till the vacancy. Fp to this point the Democrats were haying no opposition and were happy. The Republican party has brought all this trouble upon the’State. If the Republicans hadmade.no nomination, or nominated a Bran who conld not be elected, there would have been no trouble. The Democrats would have elected their 1 candidate for Lieutenant Governor, he .would have taken peaceable possession of his office, and, if Green Smith had raised liis preposterous claim of being Lieutenant Governor, his democratic eompatroits would, in his own elegant vocabulary, have consigned him to Hades, or told him. to “Hire ! a hall’’ ami efFrything would have I been lovely. But these marplot j Republicans having deliberately i and with malice aforethought, gone to work anil, contrary to all demofcratic expectations, defeated all ! these nice, little plans by electing their candidate for Lieutenant Governor, when they knew, or - Haight a iw known, that the democrats wanted the place, and had * 9 14 spoken for it first. N os course upon f tiiese same Republicans .must rest the responsibility for all the disgraceful and disastrous results [that have rcsultetl fiom the De-q-Tocrats having bet-n eompeHeS so j steal and take by fr-aud and force,

what they could not get by lawful means. ' Republicans must learn to let the Democrats alone in their little schemes if they do not expect to in' fruit! responsible fiifbri tire people (by democratic oratofs and journals), fOr any and every kind of lawutisarieKs and deviltry which tlie poor, dear Democrats are obliged to resort to, in order to get What limy want and are bound to huev

The following letter signed by eighty-seven voters was forwarded to Hon. I. D. Dunn, from Kent* I land, last week: Kentlanp, Ini* , Feb. *2d, ’B7. --Ihaao R Dunn, liidirtuffpoli**, Ind. Do t Bir:—The midersigned legal voters of vour district and residents of the town ofKentlalid and vicinity, would state- to you as their Representative, that they ! have watched with deep interest the proceedings during the present sessional tlie Legislature and i hereby desire to express to yon in some slight degree their utter dei testation of the corrupt and unlawful methods adapted by the Senate to prevent the carrying into force the expressed will of the people in the election of R. 8. Robertson as their duly elected and .qualified Ipeutenant-governor, and cannot but look upon the methods adopted to prevent the carrying into force the expressed will of the people in this state as revolutionary, brutal to the minority of the Senate, and destructive to all the guaranteed right of a free people, and to further express our condemnation .. of the methods adopted to retain by brute force Senator A. G. Smith, usurper in power, and do also hereby express our approbation of your course in the matter and request that you stand firm and unfiinehing in support of resolutions adopted by the House to recognize no action of the Senate until they peaceably surrender and maintain the right of said 11. S. Robertson to all the right to which lie is ontilled Lieutenant-governor, including -The presiding officer .of the Senates LSisl ?;yt Vi a.-als to Seii a Coyr. One of • Bill Kye’s - sons has started a newspaper and William writes to him as follows: - } suppose you will he running for Con gross the next thing; ami t Leu you will forget all about your old father and borrow money of people who have not felt near the interest in you that I have. Send the paper for one year and chafgp me with the subscription price. You iiiayalso put a piece in your paper stating as follows: FOU SALE. Owing to ill-health I will sell al my resilience in Tmvn-2fi, range 18, west, actording to government survey, one crushed raspberry colored cow, aged six years. She is a good milkster and is’not afiaid of the cars —or anything else. She is a cow of undaunted courage and gives milk frequently. : To a man who does not fear death in any forrn she .would be a. great ■ She is very much attached- to her home at present, by means of a i trace-chain, but‘she will be sold to I anyone who will agree to treat her j right. She is one-fourth short- ! horn and three-fourths hyena. ; Purchaser need not be identified. ! I will also throw in a double-bar- ! ren shotgun which goes with her. In May she generally goes away somewhere for a week or tWo and returns with a tall, red calf with long, wabbly legs. Her name is Rose, and I would prefer to sell her to a non-resident. You may keep this notice in the paper till you sell the cow. If I had four or five boys all engaged iu running newspapers that i had liberal patronage L don’t beI Sieve I’d have money enough/ to ! pay my poll-tax. Your father,

BILL NYE.