Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1889 — BOURBON METHODS. [ARTICLE]

BOURBON METHODS.

Hie Republican majorities in the next Congress are now definitely known. They will be two in the Senate and seven in the House. "Not a very wide margin, truly, but sufficient to guarantee the accomplishment of many most desirable results.

The Lafayette Courier says the information is “official” that Blaine will he the next Secretary of Stete anti that the Treasury portfolio will be placed in the hands of Senator Allison, of lowa. Two better men for the places would be hard to find.

Any people who have been foolish enough to cherish any hopes for any temperance legislation by the present Indiana Legislature, this winter, may as well abandon the groundV loss hope, once and for aIL The free whisky party is in too large a uiajof--ity to allow any reasonable grounds for hoping for an improvement in the temperance laws,

The article copied from the Valparaiso Yidette, exposing the outrageous and unconstitutional proceedings of the bourbon bulldozers in the State Senate, from the pen of Hon. Mark L. DeMotte, the fearless and able Senator from Porter and Lake counties, will be read with interest by The llepubucax’s readers. ._ The letter will be followed next week by one direct from the Senator.

The New York Herald is quoted as

saying that with the exception of Lady Burdett-C'outts, of England, and the late Catherine Wolfe, of New York, the Drexel sisters, of Philadelphia. have given nßsfre to charity than any woman in the world. All these women have, indeed, distributed portions of their great wealth with a munificent benevolence, but, at the same time, all their charities combined will not equal that of the late Duchess of GaUiera, of Genoa, Italy, who during her life distributed a fortune of forty million dollars for benevolent objects.

Among the many, shameful and disgraceful things to be recorded of the present democratic Legislature of Indiana, is the vast number of worthless ward heelers and shoulder strikers who are drawing large salaries for doing nothing, under the nominal titles of doorkeepers. There are now twenty-nine of these to guard die four doors of the Senate chamber and twenty-six standing around the portals of the House. This makes fiftynine in all, or ova* six men to each door, or a larger force of men, than comprises one of the smaller of the two houses of the legislature. There are more door keepers than Senators, and their pay is nearly as great, being five dollars per day, and no time lost for Sundays and holidays. Tim total cost of this useless gang, for the regular session of 60 days, will exceed & enormous sum of sixteen thousand dollars, and if the session is is prolonged the expense will be pro portionately increased. This u a fair sample of democratic “economy and reform.” i

The Old Tadics Resorted to In Organizing The State Senate. , • . .* Reitlnllosarr; Proceedings mill tinder (he Leadership of Creen Smith—Pen Picture m (he Scene from Sena- - - tor DeMotte. Indianapolis, Ind. Jan. 15, ’B9. From. Valparaiso Vidette. As you have doubtless seen through the papers, the Indiana legislature assembled as commanded by law on Jan. 10th. It was thought the mattor of Lieutenant Governor would not again cause trouble, but those who so thought were not acquainted with the average democratic lcgisla tor. Anything to beat the republicans seems to convey the idea he lias of , the purpose the people had in sending | him here. All schemes which the j Lieutenant Governor could havo in any way interferred with, were laid | aside. lie could not possibly be in ■ the way of Gray’s Senatorial aspirations; he could in no way stop the ' sale of maggoty butter or-the, slaughter of cholera hogs in the benevolent Institutions of the State. He was not iu the way of the democratic ring in retaining its hold upon the management of the bencvoleftt institutions. lii short there was no reason why the opposition to him should not cease.. They must be “consistent" they said, so they began again the same revolutionary tactics which they resorted to two years ago. Their caueus met and nominated officers. The State Librarian is a democratic woman, and she turned over the keys to a creature of the caucus and the same class of bruisers who had the Senate in charge two years ago took charge again, and when Senators presented themselves, on , Thursday morning, they found all the doors leading, to the chamber locked hut one, whida was numerously guarded without and within. Senators were crowded in through a squad of toughs, and the republicans were denied the privilege of admitting a friend, "* Any democrat regardless of who or what he was could get in without vouching or jmss from any one. That he was a democrat was enough. The twenty-two republican Senators present found the chamber well tilled with men ready to do the bidding of thg conspirators and could do nothing but protest, which the}’ did vig-

orously. - ■ Lieutenant Governor JRobcrtson demanded admission and was prevented by force from entering the chamber. Then on the pretence that there was no Lieutenant Governor to organize the Senate, Judge Mitchell, the only remaining democratic Supreme Judge, entered the desk and rapped to order. Here he was confronted with something de did not expect. Bruce Carr’s round jolly face was seen at the other end of the hall. The constitution made it his duty to organize the Senate if for any cause the Lieutenant Governor did not Appear. Mitchell knew this; he knew' he had no more right tfr organize than the president of a base ball club, so he called on Auditor Carr to do it. Carr responded that the Lieutenant Governor was at thte door demanding admission and under the circumstances he did not aropose to usurp lawful authority. Mitchell then went oh, a willing imdeuient in the hands of the democratic caucus and carried out the revolutionary measures of the democratic majority by a so-called organization of the Senate. The whole was a direct violation of the letter and spirit of the constitution and laws bj T violence and fraud. The democratic majority has been struggling ever since to get all record of the matter expunged from the jburnal of the Senate. The journal clerk recorded the transactions with some fairness. It showed the fact that Auditor Carr was present, that Judge Mitchell called upou him to 'organize the Senate, that he announced the presence of LieutenantGovernor Robertson, and for that reason refused to usurp authority which did uot belong to him. To get rid of this they appointed a committee to the journal and to-day by a party vote they struck it out. The utter recklessness of these political adventurers may be better understood when it is known that the Secretary, the same Green Smith who claimed to be Lientenant-Govemor at the last sessiob, voted every democrat as be wanted him to vote and announced all republican Senators, who had been elected, as present and not voting, when the truth was that Senator Hudson, of Marion, was not : present and had uot even been swo>n in, and Senator Harness, a republican, had not yet arrived. Judging from this it will not matter how many democratic Senators are absent, if necessary to carry a party measure, ; Greene Smith will record them as - voting. ——- - These harsh measures were wholly unnecessary; there could be no substantial benefit derived from them. I They were wanton violations of the

law. Io my judgment it bodes no good for the work of the session, which 1 had hoped would be devoted diUigently to much needed legislation, DkMotae.