Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — Hoist by Their Own Petard. [ARTICLE]

Hoist by Their Own Petard.

Mil hi fir. City i> .-oon to Bare a ; litfill daily, }.;fi 'idled by a ,-t eck company. Theyare looking 1 ■ an edit-';■ It will be printed . the office o£ the Enterprise. ■ — P.c ' L-a XIII has just written . letter to Archbishop Corrigan in which he espiesses his condeni.latk'B. ir ro unmertitrng derins, . iluuggro". ■■ : viid tax theories of Henry G eorge d Dr. TutGlyi n. -* Ev. rybody knows that the Stand; d Oil Conir any wants tho earth . \ vh-'t is more, s'-emsin a fair \ ny of getting, it but we have recently learned from a reliable sourse, that—db actually is maturing a scheme to securo a contnlling i .to.ffi in tin wh de Solar System. ,»w«*\n-rnaa«ww'W»T«WH The Hammond Tribune estimates the total loss at the late.fire :n Hammond at 8165,000 and says that only $65,000 of this was covered by insurance. This leaves > net loss of 8100,000 to say nothing of loss of business. The greatn; part of this property could or.’bab’y ha”-e been s'l/ed had the ‘ nn had a'p?.: tire engine. Hero -- ffi-s-- ~rt nntlier jtregneni--warn in gto Rensselaer. . Must it remain, like ■ill previous ones, unheeded? Auditor Robinson, has received - i dal n dies tooni-the Auditor of > .do, that through the. failure vs ■: ■■e Green Smith t Legislature to • ake provision tor continuing a tar •yfcc. the new State .;.x 1 .ivy of two cents on each one ■: Mildred dollars’-worth of taxable j property, for that purpose, is dis-:itiii-.-.t-d f b. place I t the tax duplicate for 1887. "rue wormy /is needed badly to J ■■■-■• urptoto th ? bulb ling, and the fail-1 "ire to -provid. ,? -r Hie tax is a mis- 1 itune to the state. < UW-WX-KIJ »w. li fM Wrfr- fy-. / | : ■ i. eitouglF] r them. Even Juritsidenr, ’the; 7 -.1 ; to ..A u-w exi ’ -.."Jag T I'.. a. < ■‘iTmt±n-gm-i?d--^b.uS;-..at til, railway trains rumble: -utrough- ito unjieut streets, the! .-mmdof.tho car;-..a—i's hammer • - heard, the population m increas-] —pf ece toi a a < i' ; 'nl ■ ■ .T T tag ta e !y sum J ■hear that they have organised a | : mompany; and are; burintf-fcr gas. i . The go. d c ffi as :! o< ■;ie pernicious Carter Harrison; -- de in Chicago are already b'com-1 ** v' Q. EDDB,r6IIt. <l’\* t **° Cltv TB- * Aiing redeerned from ~the pow-u i to£ the criminAl classes that have -i«> long held sway. -H&ndredsjmef- ’ "ftloba-keepers, of the most object-, mnable character, have lieeurefus-

ed licenses and compelled to close. The gambling dens are being wholly suppressed, while streets and isrhdle districts which have heretofore boon abandoned to the undisputed control of vice and ifnmdrality of the most flagrant char.ch r, are being freed of their vici”?.population and made orderly . , t s ;.ect:<bh'. MPWftx H i| —>S— mt , Prcsi lent Cleveland is Said to be meditating an early break for* th t; li t.mber for the purpose of imniingAttid fishing and, perchance, to fortify his system with the approved snaiie bite and malaria antidote. We see no particular harm in the President faking a little vacation of tins kind, arid, indeed, so far as the present executive is concerned, he might stay in the v,\ • the gruer part of his time without serious detriment to the public, but we should like to hear an expression-of opinion upon the subject from our numerous demo- . r./ic exchanges which used to see sueh gross neglect of duty upon the part of Kepuldican presidents, when they did the s’.m- thing. ItJ- sLlh a gie ■■■ .•?: ■ faction that we announce liiat the Federal grand jury; at Indi’inapolis. has ■ bronglit in indictments ’ against the scoundrels who altered the taliy sheets and forged the re- I turns, after the election of last I iall.- Twelve men have been in- . dieted. <me or two of wliom are i ■ ‘ 1 c Kiigt d v.i.L n<-4].leg worse than a technical and intentional violation of the election laws. The names of the indicted ure Henry Spaan, Simeon Coy, John 15. Counsehuan, W. T. A- Bernham. r Stephen Llattler, Jolin_K._Sullivan, Geo. W. Budd, John F. Reardon, Dr. C. N. Metcalf, Albert Beck, S. -E. Perkins, James R. Carnahan' AR- but - two < f theve are democrats, and leadrs and wvll known... men ,J.n their party. Gen. Carnahan was chairman of th? Republican committee -of M.irien county and bis offense was the it-cnance t f an ollicial and printed circular instructing elect ■ ion oilicere to reserve one copy of tb: return sheet. This was done openly and above board and for the purpose of heading off such scoundrels as Coy and the others, from their contemplated tampering with the returns. If Carnahan’s act was a violation of law, it at least was not an intentional crime, like the acts of the others.

TLe stoh>mert of Secretary Griii'ia ivlativo to the omission of'the usiird fnmncial stxtenmnLtoom the , be:i,id copy of the laws coinnk-tely J vindicates his action and-.puts thy Demoi ratio State officers and Governor Gray 'in a hole.” The Sen-tinel’s-recent attack on Secretary' Griffin proves a boomerang, and the Dcmc.cra.ic organ is hoist by • its own petard, instead of Mr. Griffin having violated any. provisions. of law or requirement'of hisuflice, the boot is on the other leg. The late Democratic State. Treasurer Cooper and Auditor Rice, toigether with. Governor Gray,/ are : shown to have failed in t'uepretor- < maiicaxdL theis.pffi.2iaL.d..ulyu..__ The. J Indianapolis S-. ntinal claimed, tor ; have made the surprising discovery ; I that the. Secretary of State-had vio- ! lated the law in not publish;ng,/ i along with the- acts of the Genci al i Assembly, an -abstract of the re-; i ceiptsu and disbur—cents of the i ■ State Treasury. The facts are i „ijinL mo. iw.poi'i _.oX ‘ urcr -wbrniltod to th ’ last f Gene--;;! As.-oiably, as required by” ■lavv; the Cover nor'made no men- J I'titra eb:rne-h a rep/ ;-' m his -'-.-;g-'. tho not ley it before the Leg-1 ; Mature, as tr-e iaw r, unir; d liiii' : j tpxtoyand to tbds day Aitcre - has"| 1 been nopcainpliaiiee witlr fiie - lawl : relative to the State ■Treasurers annual report. The Secretary of : xiitor.imiolon. that, thezie w. hji^j./bEeji. ; complied .with, by the late Dcmd- ! emtio c>utoial& t _Hnd, in fact h h«c | not been. The public printer is ®etey®iu printing the Doeumenf iry Journal by reason of the ab- ■ sente et t’i fco.L 1 I'reasuver's re- ! port, which has lodged somewhere ■ I among the late Democratic bffic- ; i ialsy dgjjtoietary- Griffin’s action in 1 the nifitter was in tell icoTit, ~ TfrdTbhis—duty to publish the laws, and as there was no official report of the State Trexsuivr in hisffi&ndFor within his reach, he was not bound toj, publish a fio&&eul statement He /

could hardly be expected to evolve one out of his inner consciousness. It will be in order now’for the Democratic organ ‘to 'explain why no report of the late State Treas* urer Cooper was submitted to the General Assembly, either b.v hiini self or by the Governor, as both ! wore required to do.by law. AYhoro i is tin StaH Treasurer’s report and ; I why is it not published? Is there I j more Democratic rottenness ’bo 7 ; ihind‘ J ln.lmnm.'.]i- J .nrm:!.