Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1887 — The Town Convention. [ARTICLE]

The Town Convention.

Wm, 11. Wood, better known as Henry Wood, the Republican candidate for Town Marshal, is a most excellent man for the place.. He is honest and conscientious as the day is long, has plenty of energy, lots of good, clear sense, and is not afraid of hard work. He is a good man, an exception idly good man, and deserves and we believe, will receive the fullsupport-of his ; party, and even more than that.. As was to’baexpected, the Y.’iuauiac Republican," liavifig : convicted of wilful and mslkd uvlying, now has recourse to so- : > of the foul epithet sand duty eii unions, which have always been the:; last resort o| journalistic blackguards. The fellow hurts-no one but himself with his disgusting blackguardism, SSt is weiivnie do engage in tke’saine to his heart's content,.so far as we arc concernm This is a Republican year and should be the forerunner of a bigger Republican year to follow. Good tickets and straight voting he the watchwords until the state is redeemed from the rule of the party which now mi: governs and disgraces it. The Republicans of Rensselaer have made a gobd start in the right direction. They have nominated an’excellent ticket Now let us elect them by a solid, undivided vote and,the effect will; be to greatly strengthen and encourage the party, not only of this; county, but of many other counties. Prof. Coulter,of V.d-d a- h tldle. v who is well known as a practical j man and scientist, lectured "inf Crawfordsville the other night on i natural gas. The geological for-; mation of this State was given and also the position of Trenton 1 lhne- - stone in various localities. No j one, not even a scientist or geologist, cau tell just where gas wilt b? struck. The only way to find out is by the use of a drill. Surface „ ■& indications amount to nothing and i a well may as well be started - onei place as another. One well may j prove a failure while another not; far ‘away may prove a gusher. The | gas,after once being struck maybe exhaustible, and Prof, Coulter! Thinks that it is; still he ft of The; opinion that there is enough under Indiana for the use of the present generation. Journal .i1‘4.4trates its experience of the inef-i Sciency of the postal service, uts. I der a r. form by the following extract from the! Rcfefiville Journal^.and comments j upon the same* * The Logansport Journal is one; of the beat dailies in the State |

but when three copies of three different dates reach this office the same day and by different routes, it is too mucivof a good' thing all at once. “Winch us why we re-i mark.”—[ ftossville Journul. That’s the way she Journal’s daily exchanges, at least the most nf them, come to bund, since men like Brother Kline were Ltrunced' from the jmspl 5 ’ service to make I htet s for “mm partisan, dvil service reform” 'clerks. The South Ih nd ihilmne -is i:i getting to us. and even the Peru papers are usually two dnvs iff making a trip «>£ sixteen miles. There isn't a hit of sense in h iving trouble witli the Treasury Surplus. Every dollar of tlm ; revenue c mid ho dq ended wisely and profitably, fifty millions a year could be well spent for three on four ye Mrs in big guns, war ships, tol'pedos and fortifications. There arefrom tarn of thousands of needy and deserving Union soldiers of the late w ar, or relatives of s ich whlf need and ought to have, pensions. Many additional millions might wisely be spent on internal improvements. A good ny millions might al o he put where they would do the most good 4n advancing the c ius<M«f a better education for the masses, eapecial= ly in establishing ami maintaining industrial educational institutions, in fact, ii seems to us that the necessity for reducing the revenue is a confession tin! the gpvetnuiexit lacks the capacity or the integrity, rather than the opportunity, to wisely- expend it. Tiro Laporte I’ublic Spirit, Gen. Packard’s paper, makes a failed ngmurell, at ElldiarL tluv -occasion of an clabornte display of a truly ustoimding geological ignorance; and even resorts -to diagrams to its-lack of know! edge in n ■ liic and strikingnumuer. The Eplrit-thihks the science of .g; y is knocked clear out of time, because the well in question ■ did not .pans through nil the later i g< ographical stratnjsueh as the Coal ■ Measures, and the Lowe r Carhojij iforous before reaching the Ikoo er j hdliiTan and the jieut.ri rock; | XvTjen the facts i;ro that overtone who km-v,-;-. an\’b:;;.,- :.i about the g logy of Inuin hit knows that no‘t4!. tn later bum the Devonian exists in Koni rn Indiana, and even that is warning or is .very tliin, over much ei that portion of the state. We commend these facts to the consideration Of- the Michigan City EnteTpvTise, %p'ap.e.v. which republishes tiro Public : k ail’s mislead'' / whh ns much np; a ; t iu the correctness' as' though they wife the utterances of an A The columns of The KeTtuliSa CAN are always open for the exposure of swindling games ,of all kinds, and we Tumid most earnestly request our country readers to inform us at once, of anything of the kind .that comes within Their -vabom We firmly believe that we have already great many of our readers from being victimized,.in various -ways, and that we could have done- much more in that line had we had early information of the presence and the practices of sharpers in the county. To illustrate, we have only lately learned that a gang of scoundrels played the old, and as we supposed, woru out* cloth package swindle in several of the out townships, last fall, and beat our eiii/.ens out of several thousands lof dollars. A prompt exposure in ; the paper of the tricks of. these ; fellows would have saved some of their victims from boing'swindled. [We say “some-” advisedly, for ob- ; ser ration has shown ns that there ; are always some gudgeons to bite at the bait of the boodlers, -no matter how often or how lucidly they ‘are exposed. For instance, The j Kel’Chlican devoted column after 1 column, two years ago, to sffowing men, and within a month from that time, several of the most intelllgent farmers of the county had been roped in by the Bohemians, to the extent of thousands of dollars, in the aggregate.

A venerable and greatly esteemed friend has taken us to task because we have not more frequently and more forcibly urged upon the people of this towjuthe advisability; of boring for gas. Now the fact is, as our well meaning censor will admit, tob have harped .upon this string in just about every issue for. m.iuths; and we' might almost wiy for a yei r. We lmw told -the lieople something of the gKiat and almost limitless ndviintagca. a dis-_ c. very ot g' .; would be to the town;, but in this icspect w*e are confident that pci' labor was unneoessary, for every intelligent person already knows wluit those advantages would be,, as well us he could be told. We have, published and .reiterated every fact wo could obtain which deemed to eucout’agf-•the-hope t hat gits-eofttd be found 1 1 ore and h ive 'again and again urged that aenupany be formed and a boring be made. But our friend thinks: we have not done enough. lie probably takes not * of the undeniable fact that no movement has been made towards the d..dr d end, anil feeding that somebody masi; be.responsible for encli ololous romiksnosa tmd wan-fc-•of'enterprise, lie concludes that the TnTb,'Tswu T opapcr iir .tlie tOWlFttef is worthy of tire name, hits not dope ire whole -du ■ y-bt stimng upthff people in this meiim. \>'ewili T> t admit til-• e uiT-itUO:; 5 of this conclusion/however. We believe that The II etch licit has dono' all that a newspaper could do in the matter. The blame must lay upon 'other shoulders than-' omv, Com-' pnnieo have been organized and Ixn’ings are in progress or contempiution in tovqm all mound, and tint too, where"'the new,-papers 1 havC had compared rely little to say in previous aovocacy or tue project . d in. fact-of ..the matter i.~. there is altogefher .too much old-fogy, skiu-d.hnt conservatism aiiTriffg “ our qr*opdq ;: - dUr moneyed men. -Toohiuch fear of ho fevijig a tlollirr mtCopt v.-hcre it chaws twelve -per cent.' interest and is secured 'oy an iron-ciad mortgage on real-estate.” £cqTluqmimpns,iiL.i-,xoxmir;e of the (i: cnn'.-h’.m ew. .* publicly •-blrtßieAVa-tlie---<M?'criet- , --re ,i ei9'ee i , > .w»<!j > ebr-rney for die failure of the ficvli. gor c..se to be brought to trial. . ti.e iiiio tv nil Oi. rhecircuit court. The true circumstaiicesof checase, : however, entirely exonerate him front-any. blame. In January it Adas impossible for the state’s wit--l --s sld got here, owing to the of the- iii . i y i'cav.v storms. At the last'term of lom t the yase was set for the last >f the term blit o;h’’ chietTvTtnesses for the state wqre found absent, v, hen the ease was called. They had been duly suhpoened and the,prosecutor can * not ho blamed, for liieir - cent mi?, acions refusal to -attend. The only recourse was to cause 'attachments to be issued for the missing witnesses, which was promptly done, and a deputy, stimlii sou after them. He failed to. find then/ however, and the prosecution very properly applied for a continuance and the court very prop. ;!y granted the application. Marion county grand jury by a strict party vote of three to three failed to find indictmeifia against the tally sheet forgers. It is' up-'' derstood that ample evidence, was, presented to convict certain perguilty of the crime alleged, but for reasons that can, .only be surmised ui> bill was found against them. So it seems that men who have violated one of the most sacred rights of the people are to go scot free. If justice has become a thing of such trifiing importance ; in the hands of our grand juries, how long will f reedom remain the j boast of our land? —Indiana Far- j mer. • . j Try our roasted coflees. They can’t be beat for the-rejoney —— Go and see the new hats and clothing p.t Ellis A Murray’s. . • ——r A fine line of canned and evap-: orated limits cheap at Laßne Bros, i A full line of fresh canned goods on sale at Antrim’s bakery aud restaurant.

THE TICKET CIIOSEN. For Trustee, Third District, EDWAIiD D. RHOADES. For Trustee, Fifth District, I ALFRED THOMPSON. For Town Clerk, , CHARLES G WARNER. ■x For Town Treasurer, CHARLES C. STARR. For Town Marshal, , WILLIAM H. WOOD. The. Republican Town Convention, in the court house, last Monday night, was participated iu by | I2G voters. Mostly straight Re- ; publicans, although the local Mugj wump and chronic kicker element, r which usually bolts every nomiua- ! tion except of kindred spirits, i u r as out in considerable numbers and took an active interest in all The" procoenTilgsr B. F. Ferguson was president of the convention, G. E. Marshall, tjocretary and C. F. Wren and John T. Green, tellers. G. D. Hopkins and EdM’ard D. Rhoades, the present incumbent, were put in nomination for candidates'- for Councilman from the Third ward. The vote, by ballot, I gave Rhoades the nomination by 08 yot.es to 45 for Hopkins. L Etnifffet ' Eannal- and Alfred j Thompson were proposed for eount -cilmrm from the Fifth ward, now : represented by T. J., McCoy. The •vote stood 88 for Thompson to 33 For Kannalr’ 0. C. Starr, tire present incumbent, was renominated for Treasurer, I>y acclamation, there being no opposing candidate. Charles C. Warner was unarniinously renominated for Clerk in the same manner. The work of nominating a candtdato for Marshal l esuiiod. iii a long and earnest but amicable content. A large number of names -ivc re -proposed and t-lie - result of the fust ballot was as follows: Wm. W. Warren,4s votes;Chas. F'•• 1 1, 58; • J."€.. Pnssons, 10; Wm.' H. Wood, 24; Chas. Harding, 8; W. W. lb-eve, 12; A. McCoy, 3; i Lyman Zea, 2. The total vote was ; 12.1 arul no one had a majority, i- Meftsrs McCoy and Zea thanked r their friendj”for til'd? cordial sup- | port And gracefully witlidrew from | tlu> contest. The second ballot ; th-en s:o;d, Warren C 2, Platt 12, Passoh 14, Wood 81, Harding 5, R eve 12. The total vote w r a» 120, and no one had a majority. Mr. Platt then announced that he was out of the fight, and the . ird b diet with the following re-. I suit : Warren 57., Passons 7, W ood, ; 12, Harding 5, Reave 15. No- ! nomination. i Mr. Passons then announced | that lie 100 was out of the field and I the fourth ballot was taken: Ware ren Cl, 10. The total vote at this ballot was 120, anti Warren lacked but 3 votes of a nomination. Reeve then withdrew his name and tEe fifth ballot decided the i i mtest with, 58 votes for Warren jio G 5 for Wood. The latter was •’r.'d thg nominee, and the cou- | vention adjourned,