Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — Congressman Owen's Good Record. [ARTICLE]

Congressman Owen's Good Record.

Read the views of that eulighted ex-confederate soldier, John 4. Wise, upon the comparative merits of the Republican and Democratic parties,! as expressed in the address printed this week, in one of our inside pages. The Democratic House of Representatives was ready enough to, pension the widow of General Hancock, and equally ready to refuse to pension the widow of General Logan. But General Hancock was a Democrat and General Logan was a Republican, which is simply the why of the wherefore of it, and the “Lord's truth about the whole business.” There is no party nor faction in this country so utterly lawless and unpatriotic, so cursed with reckless and desperado leadership, so lacking in intelligence, civilization, public spirit and decency as the Democrats of Indiana. It is well that they should show themselves entirely unfit for the management i f public affairs, that the judgment against them may'be more conclusive and rigorous,— Minneapoiis Tribune. There are no greater enemies of of the cause of temperance reform than the .’wandering and irresponsible blow-hards'who go-übout the country getting themselves announced from the churches as temperance lecturers, and then pouring out an endless tirade of indiscriminate abuse and falsehood upon every political organization except the Prohibition paity. .. A political -prohibition spouter, who played the old dodge of getting his performance announced in the churches as a “temperance lecture”, harangued' in the court house Tuesday evening. His audience was fairly large to start with, but he soon thinned them out. By-the-way this practice of getting a political meetingann eed a as “temperance meeting” is a contemptible trick, and ought to *•<? sat down on, hard. The Republicans in the State Legislature, fulfilled the pledges of their party, and passed through • Uie lower house, where they had a majority, a practical and moderate fcjMaperance Rill, which covered the local option and high license pi in qiples, to which the party wire ? >mmitted by the state platform. ’£he bill was passed early enough t« the session to reach .the. Senate before the dead-lpel: between the t«ro houses occurred, and that body ample time to consider the bill and might haye made it a law,

had they bo desired; bat the democratic majority there never even ll permitted it to come to a vote. Neither did the Senate pass any temp, ranee bill, ombodying the principles declared in tlio democratic platform, although Ureen Smith deliberately attempt'tl to falsify the record, to make it appear that the Senate had passed a temperance- bill, p . ■

I.iigfiii“jxirt Journal ~ Hon. W. D. Owen arrived at home, Tuesday afternoon, and was busy Wednesday shaking hands with everybody. He looks well, anti says he passed through the recent session of Corigrcs very pleasantly. There was considerable work in his Committee ou Public Gi’diiiulm ami Buildings, including, notably, the Dearborn Park matter at Chicago, but most of it went down under (liedespotic decree of autocrats Randalland Holuntn. Mr., Owen has made an unusually excellent first-term record in the recent Congress, and will have opportunities in the next Congress to get well up in the front, which will enable him to render even more efficient service. He has caught on to the methods of success as a Representative in Congress and lias it in him to make a .reputation for himself, and a standing for his district, that will ‘ be_ creditable to him, and most gratifying to his constituents.