Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — Mr. Mills's Alleged Sheep. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Mills's Alleged Sheep.

Albany Expre-s If . Mr. Mills was' a wool grower be wculd be. the only one in the United 1 States who did not understand that free wool means mischief to the American wool grower. We have ourselves ex plained the matter on the theory that Mr. Mills was so intense a free trader that he was willing to sacrifice his own interest to\advance that cause. But it turns out tnpt he is not in the least disinterested, because he does not own a sheep or a pound of wool. Messrs. Barnet, Brothers & Aufessor, the wool dealers of this city, who instituted an inquiry as to the fact, have elicited this interestinginformation. We have been shown a telegram, sent in response to their inquiry, from a respectable wool I buyer in Texas, a well-known and responsibleman —an ex-Confederate officer: bv the way—who knows that State from • one end to the other so far as wool is concerned. This is a copy of the telegram: Bvrxkt, Texas, Oct. 8,1888. I cannot find a man in Texas who knows of a single sheep that Roger Q. Mills ever owned. F. H. Halloway. Mt. Mills comes from eastern Texas, and the large sheep raisers and owners are in the western part of the State. Correspondence in our possession indicate that although they are Democrats they are strong protectionists, and tnat Harrison and Morton will receive the largest vote ever cast for Republican candidates in that State—and alLon account of feee woolThe Int• Bl ma . Gerrymander and tbe in* sane Asylum Froaiitutlon. Indiana Advocate. ? i ex , -Wg have at least two local Stare issues that loom up above all national questions but one. We care not a fig for tariff, or banks, or the distribution of offices, but we do hold as paramount to all other questions now before the

American people the right to vote anywhere and everywhere, and have that vote counted. We may prate as we please about the prob ction of the home —this is the paramount protection. If a citizen may hot vote, he cannot protect his'home, unless he does it by brute force. Except this, we have two State issues which appeal to our humanity as well an to our patriotism, and. overshadow everything else. .First of these, because it.demands immediate relief, is the treatment of the insane. Any family is liable to be represented in the Hospital for the Insane at any moment. Shall we tolerate the abuses now practiced in that institution and indorsed by the Democratic party—not by Democrats, as such, unless by their votei they approve, but by the organization as such, in its at empt to shield the guilty parties. Next, but hardly second, is the liquor question. The saloons of Indiana have the people of Indiana by the throat; The only adequate remedy if absolute prohibition, enforced by such penalties as enforce our laws against burglary, arson,murder. But,as repeatedly constructed by our Supreme Court, prohibition is impossible in Indiana without a change of our Constitution, while, by the entire court sustaining the Baxter law of 187’3, local option is constitutional, Fortunately these questions are not complicated with national politics at all. We may vote for our favorite for President, and we may express our wishes on the tariff, and we may follow our party on Governor, and we may yet emphasize our views on the liquor traffic by voting for the legislative candidate that will give us the best legislation possible under our present Constitution, and will be most certain to turn the rascals out of the Hospital for the Insane, which, instead of being an asylum for the unfortunate, has becoms a den of thieves. There is' no party politics in this. It rises above party. It is not the province of this paper to advocate this party or that, but every good man of every party, and every good paper, will advocate this reform.