Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1888 — National Ticket. [ARTICLE]

National Ticket.

? ■'* For PresWtasl, of Indiana. .f s S N For Vice President, J.EVI K MORTON, of New York. \ For Govorunr AI.VIS IV HOVBY For LicMcuant Governor, - IKAJ. CRASK, for Judge* of tbeSuprcmc Court, a. I* COFFEY. ,ppjx (..'UKnKfcinr.K, "' - , ~~ WjyLfEtt OLDS. _ __ for Report or «f lbs Supreme Court. JOHN L. GRIFFITHS. For AtolKor pt State, DKI'CK CARtt. for Treasurer of State, JULIUS A LEMCKE « " For Secretary of State, -CHAH.K UKIEHN. For Attorney General, LEWIS T. MICHESKU For Superintendent of Public Instruction, lIAUVfiY M LaFOLUvTTK. sos ('onercsMnan—lflU Couirrcssional Plftriet, WILLIAM I>. OWEN foe Prosecuting Attorney, 80th JudlClalCircuit, RALPH W. MARSHALL, for Representative, Jaei»er and Newton counties, JOHN F. JOHNSON. For County Treasurer, ISRAEL It. WASHBURN. For County Slier iff, PHILIP BLUE. For County Coroner, ... KIAL p. benjamin. Fcr County Surveyor, JAMES C. THRAWLB. Por'Ctuinty Commissioner, First District, PRESTON M qi'KRUY. for County Oomnib«iop?r, Second -District, i WATuuN For County Commissioner, Third District, OLIVER P. TAItER

- Dr. B. Z. Leonard, of Logausport, the ' Greenback candidate for governor in 1884, has come out flat-footed and is working hard for Hanison and Morton. The gravitation of the Greenbackeis iuto the Republican ranks this fall, has been a regular land-slide. Every temperance Republican in this county and every reasonable political Prohibitionist, -is such from principle and not from political soreheadedness, should read carefully <the letter in our supplement, from Rev. Dr. Dorchester, of Boston, one of the most eminent Christian workers of the day and zealous leader in the cause of temperance. Those poor fat-witted Democratic dolts who originated and carried Oht the idea of that idiotic but harmless gutter-snipe, cm the occasion of Hon. W. D. Owen’s visit to Rensselaer, last week, were very carefnl to keep away from Mr. Owen’s meeting. They are possessed of a mighty small allowance of sense, bat still they knew enough to know that “Billy” would not leave a grease spot of them and their hand-bill, and waste mighty littie 'time over it, at that

We doubt if any political orator ever visited Jasper county whose, speeches were so universally admired and commended by his friends and respected by his op- • poneuts 86 are those of Hon. W-. jKOwen. He is truly a great pobut he is more than and- high minwho, if life and hipj. will, before he e terms in place* among the rs »f4be lion, ile is a coming W*. Matw the prediotiwffi ■nwaaiMfaMMMa N. A, Whitta|iet>4jhair man o\ the Democratic of Morgan county, has sent- dut a confidential letter to trusted works ers in his county, and a copy of it has fallen into the hands of Republicans quel been, published. The letter gives directions to the recipient in regard to taking a poll of his township, and among other things, says: “Make the doubtful 4 list as small as possible, and mark every one’ who who has to have money as a ‘float,’ Those who have to be bought are not ‘doubtful,’ but are ‘floats.’ Look closely after every one. Let no one escape.” Mr. Whittaker intends to get .his full share of the enormous corruption fund in the hands of the democratic state committee, it is evident _ The Democratic bosses in Jasper county have issued their edicts that every member of the rank 1 and ffle of their party should be kept away from all Republican meetings, if possible. Recent ogcurences have also shown that they aie inclining towards the gutter-snipe method in politics, but they have not, as yet, had the courage, or the cussedness, to issue such n hand-bill as did the Democrats of Lorain, Wellington county, Ohio, on the occasion of a speech there by Ex-Governor, E. F, Noyes, when the streets of the town were covered with little handbills containing the following matter: DON’T GO AND HEAR THE OLD GENERAL NOYES, By the Command of the OLD FOOL! THIEF and MURDERER, OLD BEN HARRISON. People who imagine that the shocking revelations of two years ago regarding the outrageous, the unspeakably wicked and shameful management of our state charitable and reformatory institutions, .under democratic control, had Drought about a reformation in that management, have only to read ,the undisputed and indisputable proof to the contrary furnished by ExiSuperintendent Fletcher, of the Indianapolis Insane Asylum, as given on the first page of our supplement. The revelations have, perhaps, caused some mitigation of the outrageous personal treatment to which the inmates of the asylum were subjected by the brutal democratic ward strikers who are made their attendants, but the systematic robbery and the persistent, prostitution of these institutions to “pest, houses of po<litical corruption” continues as flagrant as ever, and there can be do permanent reform of these evils until the Republicans obtain control of both houses of the state Legislature. John Lehmann, editor of the Crown Point Free Press, a German paper of wide circulatiofl, came out for’ Harrison and Protection, last week, and will do all in his power, hereafter, in furtherance of the good cause. He is a prominent and influential citizen, has always been a democrat and was a candidate of hia party for statfe senator for Lake and Porter counties, in 1886. Mr. Lehmann gives some very clear reasons for his change of political front; he says: “I am tin American citizen, an American laborer, and always have and now believe with Bis cqprok, the greatest German prince in the American ? system of Pr »

tection to American industry’ Bu‘ never until now could 1 make up my mind that xpy old parly was not patriotic and purely American on this subject. But ijow that I tpil convinced' that it is not, I must finji a party that is, and after carefully studying the question and parties, I am convinced that the Republican party and s Mr.Harrison should be supported upon this issue. lam no alave, and hence am not owned by any political party. But in this campaign, from principle, I shall support Harrison and the Republican ticket, both personally and with my paper, Some of my demoJtoitic friends have already- stoprpnd; Yaking the paper. I shall hjpfce financially, because from that ' *t'&Q£tp;>iut it is nqj; a good time to 1 thought twice befoul I am sure I’m right ahead.”