Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1887 — THINGS TO REMEMBER. [ARTICLE]

THINGS TO REMEMBER.

Jubn Carr, of the Oxford Tribune, denies the report that he “ thought of starting a new "daityin Logansport. Wheat and beef cattle are now lower in price that at .any time since the democratic days of Bucr Lannan, but the present pric-.are not a circumstance to what will come if ever the free trade demodr: cy get full legislative control of the country.. — —Dr. Washburn vid take—ehfe?geof the treasurer's oilice to-morrow. 'Ezra L, Clark will take the position of deputy treasurer. With two men of tlioir character m.-.l qualifications in charge of the office there can be no apprel.ens: ins as to the manner in which it will lie conducted. They will make a; mighty strong team and ft- ‘'good pair to draw to” —at the next election' ■ ~ wu— i jli- ■■Trn —1~ The great boodler trial in ( hi- : .. ago resulted in the conviction of' t'.e whole gang. Seven of them were given two years each in the I enitentiary and live others were . TiaclFTned ? SI,WQ anclcostsA ' Chicago jury ought tube imported ~t '■ try the Indianapolis tally sheet forgers.. In Chicago the trial of p .’-.democrat for political crimes, ; unquestionably committed,- i- not ; Jo. ked upon as a persecution of, • the righteous. : ■ : ~ 1 Although the result of the tally-' sheet forgers’ trial, is a great disap--1 ointment to every intelligent patriot, in that it failed to convict and I auish the men whom everybody knows to be guilty, the trial will . ig?t be without great good regulfs. I The story of their crimes has been 1 clearly and plainly told and they; stand convicted before the people.! even if perjured partisan jurors .refused to bringdu the just verdict wki-.'L they were sworn to do. They are disgraced and their power is broken, and the closeness of: their escape from a righteous punishment will have some eEbet m. d-terring others fivia uv.:L ru-.k----i ag similar crimes.

The miserable, ha!f lie::: d. parsimonious attempts that have been made during the last few years to build up. an efficient Aa v. navy Lave only resulted in the buildingof a‘few ships iA:: are to<A weak to fight a man-of-war and too siow to capture a merchant vessel, and too fiimsily built to withstand the shock q£ firing the not at all .p'.overXel guns with v.k’eh they are provided. There is no excuse fol this egregious blunder. Congress has had ample opportunity to I .know,from the experience of oilier, nations, that good ships cost much money; and that in limiting

th© cost of each vessel to such a small sum, they were simply throwing away what little they were ejpendiyg. In one sense, i”iSw4v^ r lfieliioSey.Bpefit'*Gii the i abortive vessels has been well in[vested, for it will open the eyes of [Congress and the-people to the j facts that it requires years of time ; and a liberal expenditure of mon- ’ ey to construct either ships or cannons that can contend with those • of the other nations of the earth.

j Convincing Character of the Testimony Against the Tal-ly-Sheet Scoundrels. lu.lianapolis N’exv.s. It is the queerest of the developements in the conspiracy case that the partisans of the conspirators tried the offense as a myth. They never speak of the crime, of the motive to commit it, of the opportunity to commit it, of the partisan effect of it. That is all put out of the way as if it were an invention that had been exploded. ■ In all they say there is no suggestion anywhere of an offense in which the legal prosecution started. To bear them talk one would j conclude that there had never been a change in the tally-papers, that no change in the incumbents of two offices had been caused by a forgery of tallies, that no irregularity had occured at all, and the whole affair was the device of the committee of one hundred and the high license advocates, supported by the partisan ruling of the federal court, to break down the influence of the Democracy. Now, if there is anything in this change-' ful world that is absolutely fixed and immovable, it is that the tallypapers were changed. No Democrat denies it. though no Democyat of the “gang’, or its tail dare to say so. Equally undeniable is The fact that no changes were made in the tally-sheets till they avere. pni iirte tho-hands oE Democratic members of the canvassing board; Not a ma'-k was seen wh p n they were -Tianded by Republican inspectors to Democratic canvassers or their agents. Equally undeniable is the fact that after the unciianged tally-sheets passed into rhe conspirators’ hands nobody i else Lad a chance to change them. They were never out of the hands that* committed the ’ forgery, or there was no forgery. Equally in- . mutable is the far! that the L>;'moerats organized the canvassing board, and made the ..rule so stTenuously enforced by Bernhamor, that the tallies should be count'cd as they appeared in the sheets giv. n t > the board, and that mcr correction or investigation should dhhpeimmtted. The close connection of this order with the changes in the tallies -which would have been useless withoutit, mark you - i' undeniable evidence, but never gets into ;my Democratic discuseussidii of the case. Now, hero is evi lence that would hang a rnnir I uihi e any unpiejudiced jury, and ~r,ot oiie lat of if depends upon the. .te§timojjy« of Eerkii s. Not one* bit of it is. denied . Yet the con’spirators and their liquor allies hail Coy as a conquerei, and “lay their mantles in the dust’’. before P e. - ’ Beruhamer. -