Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1888 — There Are Now No Flies on Indiana. [ARTICLE]

There Are Now No Flies on Indiana.

Adjutant General Koontz, Hip —fedt’.v whr> thinly he is going to j break up the Gran 1 Army of the Republic by forming a new solei iers’ organization, coin posed ex -' elasively or Democrats, is the in an who madesuch a wretclieiT Hiraro : in bis attempted inanagdrifeiiUof the Lafayette Encampment, not very long ago. Any movement j under his management is fore-' doomed to failure, from the very J nature ofllring#; --. ..!.. * The firing into the alleged mob, at Br iningham, Alabama, by the sheriff and his posse, was a most f lamentable occurence, especially ; as it appears that the most of those ■ killed and injured were present either from mere curiosity or for j the entirely laudable purpose of | dissuading their comrades from at- : tempring’any acts of violence. The occurrence is the more deplorable j from the fact that the lives of many good men have thus been sacrificed in defense of one of the most} execrable murderers t.hlfft “ever j darkened the history of crime, in this country. , || j | ,1 |m || • „ -*~t-- . . ,1 ■, The new method of executing penaltycriminals hyeleetrieity, goes into effect in the st,:i-. 'J w Y-ek, on January'lsty and ;be iuv Dior, Edison, is perfecting the necessary apparatus ' for " purp-^e.—Ha - —repeat'. f expfrimrnts on uuimafer m i tfa ? 1 c-sult I'n,s—b; ?n. in eases, a speedy nnd evidently painless death. 1 here is little doubt Ind. tii v. 3e n ■■ meth ,d will be found amuch more humane and civilized pro© ss of putting criminals to death, than hanging, and wit I probably soon supersede/the use of the gallows, all over the country.

The position of private secretary [ to the president of the. United States is one of considerably greater importance than is generally supposed. He receives a salary oi $3,250. In the executive department under him will be one assistant at $2,250 per year, two clerks at $2,000, two clerks at sl,800 each, two clerks at $1,600 each, two clerks at $1,400 each, one clerk at $1,200, a steward at SI,BOO, an usher at $1,400, nine ushers, door-keepers and messengers kt slf2oo each, a watchman at S9OO and a fireman at $864 He will be at the head of a force of 24 men, having directly to do with the president. There is a good deal of reason and common sense in the following extract from the St Louis Globe Democrat: A “clean sweep” in the Federal cffic-s after the Herrison administration comes into power is neither probable nor desirable. It is entirely safe to say that comparatively few Democratic officeholders of the purely subordinate class will be removed simply because they are Democrats. Under no other Presidency since Jackson's hrs so many shiftless, ignorant and

incompetent creatures been given positions in the goyernment civil service as have been appointed to office during the Cleveland regime. There is an exceedingly cheerful prospect that most of the&e.rascals will be turned out promptly and summarily when the Republicans resume control of the government on Mardi I,IBBS. ——.— There is talk of a democratic scheme to divide the state of Texas into five states, as a moans of off'setting the great advantage which will accrue to the Republicans through the admission of the two Dakotas and Washington: There is not the slightest chance of the scheme being realized, however. The clause in the resolution by which Texas was admitted to the 'Union, which contained a provis- ■ ion for a future possible division, ! also provided that it could not be done, without the consent of the 1 y f j -4i people of Texas. But the people Of that state are too proud of its bigness and growing importance to think of consenting to division, and besides nil their state institutions,’'railroad systems and business -interests generally are adjusted to the idea of a single state, and it would be little less than a revolution for tliem to consent to divisioiL ■ p—— There is evidently one Democrat in the state who believes in ‘an ope!i conf-'ssion,” etc. Last week’s Press says: “We d■ *ja<.crats now understand General Harrison’s brains. We thought his giaud-father’s hat would slip down over his shoulders; but itdimi’t; it fitted exactly. We made a mietrikein saying anything about that hat. It roused the enthusiasm of 1840, and brought them to the front. We underestimated Harrison. 1 I* read nearly every speech he made since his nomination, looking anxiously for some slip that could be used to our advantage, but if he made- any I didn’t see it. No man without brains, a great big hat full, could make as many speeches as he did in so short a period of time without putting his foot in his mouth. I have a much higher opinion of his ability now than 1 had six months ago. The foregoing is the opinion of a poor, wet, bedraggled rooster, standing out in the rain on one foot, who realizes that he ■ las b pe!l licked.” ————’ i’ Montana cast more votes, to . elect a delegate in congress than did ! .■> elect ten ropres nta lives, w Liila Dakota cast iH times as many. Washington to elect a single delegate, cast more votesI Um’ti SovdlLXbari)!ina, .iirLM.ississip. of which elect se>’en reps- nt::?iv- s. or Georgia, whichelected ten. The vote of Dakota, I Montana and ’ ashington exceedted by vote of (Arkansas, .Ge- u-gia, Mississippi ! and South Carolina, which states i cast twenty-seven votes in the house of representatives for the so-called Mills bill and every othjer Democratic party measure, and thirty-five electoral votes for the democratic cannidates for president aneb vice president.—New York Tribune.

Minneapolis Journal. The election of General Harrison will give a gt-od deal more prominence to Indiana than the Hoosier State has enjoyed heretofore, and “down East” culture is beginning to inquire what kind of a place Indiana is. TheFe has been ,a good deal of "prejndice against the Stale owing to the impression that it was the backwoods part of the country. It will net be necessary, however, to worry about the intellectual status of a people who can boast snch men as Lew Wallace and Dr. Eggleston in fiction, Maurice Thompson or James Whitcomb Riley in poetry, or John Collett and Prof. John Coulter in science, or Judge Gresham and John Butler in juris nrudence. To descend to the vulgar but very significant expression “there are no flies on Indiana.”