Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1887 — Presidential Invitations. [ARTICLE]

Presidential Invitations.

Indianapolis Prohibitionists last week nominated a ticket and adopted the following platform: Resolved, That in the name of God the saloon mnit go. Arven. Resolved, That we are opposes! to the lisense Western: therefore, we affirm that all who It* sense orin any way favor a continuance of the traffic, and all legislation which licenses. and alpolitical parties which favor license, ami all men who vote for the parties which MfSW* or parties which will not declare for prohrenion, where ! there is a prohibition party, do make themselves ' MCMwaory to the liquor crime and equally guilty with the man who carries on the biuincßS. ' OrviCTAi statistics show that of the 3,000,000 men enlisted, there were killed in battle, 44.238; died of wounds, 42,205; died of disease. 186.216; died of unknown causes, 24,184;, total 303 .843. This includes only those whose death ■while in the army had been actually proven. To this number should be added, first, 26,000 men who are known to have died while in the hands of the •nemy as prisoners of war, and many others in the same manner whose deaths are unrecorded. ■; • Tna Chicago boodlere may consider themselves fortunate that the inequality of the law alone prevents them from receiving a sentence commensurate with their crime. They robbed the county, systematically and through conspiracy, of many thousands of dollars. The law provides for a sentence of only two years in such cases as these, w hile for much smaller crimes the penalty is much greater. Not only is this law unequal, but it seems that many are willing to minimise the offense of a prominent man, even though his prominence is unknowingly brought about by questionable methods. If a man of wealth is charged with an offense it is the exception when Judge, jury, prosecution and defense do not regard his trial more in the light of a persecution, and his conviction as a result to be deplored. After conviction the discrimination con tinues. The sheriff gives him his parlor instead of a cell, and almost "all the privileges of a free citizen are at his command. Had McGarig’.ebeen a mechanic who had stolen ih an extremity, with no mercenary motive whatever, the hundredth part of what he did, no one believes that he would have been shown such consideration, or have been allowed to escape. The policy of partiality is wrong in principle. The moment the jury announced a verdict of guilty he should have been treated as a culprit. There is no law that justifies a discrimination in his favor. Rather, his punishment should have been greater. There may be excusable crime, but deliberate, premeditated, systematic robbery is not one of them. His associations, experience and education ought, also, to count against, not for him. Therefore, we say, the penalty provided in such cases is not adequate. Courts ought to be, and are, the mainstay of the country. Where there is confidence in their fidelity to the law as written, there need be little fear of outrage upon the law by the people. Should the courts fail to maintain* this equality, dealing out justice in every ease alike to rich and poor, high and low, more discontent will be noticeable and more crime committed.

President Cleveland’s invitation from Pittsburg is to be engraved on a steel plate, which is V> be rolled until it is only three-thousandths of an inch in thickness and can he i oiled together in the form of a scroll. To roll a piece of steel so thin requires an enormous amount of work and the greatest care and skill. Should there be the.slightest defect in the rolls the plate would be wavy and spoiled. On the plate will be engraved the invitation, with the names of the presidents of the different committees attached, the coats-of-arms of the United States, of the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny, arid the new Court House. Georgia’s invitation to the President to visit her .in October, as presented by Editor Grady for the Piedmont Exposition Company, was thus elegantly gotten up: It is a unique and striking piece of work, made of four leaves of Georgia gold, about the siteof a duodecimo! book, bound with clasps of Georgia silver,, and each clasp set with a Georgia diamond. The invitation is enclosed in a box inlaid with sixty-eight samples of Georgia wood, polished and joined with exceeding skill. The box is embeded in a block of Georgia marble of every shade, from black to white. On the cover leaf of the invitation is an engraved portrait of the President and Mrs. Cleveland, the monogram of the Piedmont Exposition, and a picture of , the club-house of the Piedmont Driving Club. On the second leaf is the invitation, cut into the gold. On the third page is the invitation of the driving dub. On the fourth or last cover page is engraved fc picture of the main building of the Piedmont Exposition. *