Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — The Taxable Polls. [ARTICLE]

The Taxable Polls.

There are many driv •» ”Wi 11$ in xhe vicinity of Michi r a - C ty, ami since the late decisions affirming •/the validity of the i atent, the own-',era-of~tfae"wells have received notice that they must pay $lO royalty on each well, or stand a law suit. The decision, of course, did not hx the amom t of royalty that could he charged, and the well owners are combining and engaging legal assistance, with a view of compelling the owners of the patent to reduce the amount of royalty to a reasonable figure,. , Two more eminent Illinois Democrats have just been sentence 1 to the state's prison for their crimes, McDonald and MeGarigal, of Chicago. McDonald is a brother of Mike McDonald, the celebrated gambling boss who run the government of Chicago during all of Carter Harrison's terms as mayor, and is himself a great leader in Hie democratic party of Chicago. McGrarigal is the man whom the democratic congressmen.cf Illinois so persistently urged for the position of . United States Marshal for Northern Illinois two years ago. They both possess, in a markxd degree, those peculiar qualities of character and intellect which lead alike to eminence in the counsels of their party and to the conoid’s cell.

Lieutenant' Governor Robinson Lncv- fulfilling his official duty as a. member of the'State Board of I inalization, of which" he is a mbt-r by right of his office. The other members of the board elect-' id him to preside over its deliberations. Gov. Gray, who issued the proclamation calling lor the. election of a Liuiteurmi Governor, filed a protest against Mr. Robert>oll acting as a member of the Hoard, basing bis objections upon . the- groumls.'that there iia -1 been ■ valid elec tj. .. g£ :. Lieut mint Democrat o.r-hßepnl)lic»w, u!..> is foolish enough to imagine that ....Gray, would have thus objected to ••n ;ge Nelson had he instead of Ilobertsoa, been elected Lieuteh- - ant Govt-rnor ——-

X:K: idea is almost universnl!v '-eld that a vertical 1 Miring || . ,earth,'sucli as a gas or af-t°sian Trt-H, is ma le in ill? direction of China, and would, if continued far enough, come out in mat country. This is a great error, for a hole sterling from this part of the world siid bored through the center of the earth, would come out somewhere near Australia, or about live or six thousand miles from China. It is time the old chestnut about ‘gas, oil, li—l or-C-iina” was given * rgtst, or at least a ..t nded, to sui: hefaeti.

Thero is no language to fitly , characterise the indignation and! scorn v\ itti which the patriotic people of the country heard, last week, of the action of President Cleveland, in ordering the captured rebel flags returned to the states to which they first belonged. Anger at the want of patriotism and scorn at tii© servile truckling to the wishes of the politically allpowerful “(Solid South.” The fact that Mr. Cleveland rescinded the shameful order a clay or two later, on the grounds that he had concluded that Congress alone had the power to change the custody of the flags, will not diminish at all the infamy of the original order, nor, we hope, detract from the effect it will l av;? in opening- 41 e f-yes of loyal people as to what lmith; the dougfrfaced democra s '>f t'.e Nrl.li will go, in cone lia'ing th * favor of their masters, th ex-rebels of ihe South. About the most . ec'be s au 1 audacious,, lie that las late'y been crammed into the op *n thr. a l s < f the gullible, democratic masses of this state, by their part sun papers; is the statement that t'.e i i iie.ed democratic b liscs; of- in thmapdis and (bnem' .1 lb 0 tVimirui are held n:i srnilur charges and that their i liens, s aid probable I pnuishjnenl me blenth al. Especially cheeky is their clamorous denial that the bosses are indicted for forging afl l air -ri ig ilia tally sheets, when that ih exactly what they are indicted for, as one count of their indictment states,, in the clearest language. As for Gen. Carnahan, his offense, if such it can be calle 1, is at the most merely a« technical and harmless violation of the law, and done, not for the purpose of defrauding the people, as Avere the acts of the democrats, but for the contrary purpose of preventing such frpuds. The difference between _ daylight and darkness or good and “evil - is not greater than that between the acts of Carnahan and those of the Sim Coy gang of scoundrels.

The assessors’ returns give the following numbers of male inhabitants, between the ages of 21 and 50 years, in the several towns and towships of the county."--Hanging Gr0ve............ 71 Gillam... 88 Walker 03 Barkley 174 Rensselaer :: 234 Marion 188 Jordan.. 104 Newton.. 8S Keener ■ 82 Kankakee....... 71 Wheatfield 78 Carpenter .. 215 Remington 134 Milroy. 40 Union. 1(19 T0ta1...... ~...1799