Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1889 — Outragèus Methods of Democracy [ARTICLE]

Outragèus Methods of Democracy

“General Harrison will start for Washington next Monday, and one week from that day will be inaugurated President of these United States. Selah! The ball-beaded Bourbon bulldozers are rushing the Andrews election bill through the State Legislature with no chance for .amendment and little more for argument than they allow for the half dozen other more distinctly partisan measures which now absorb their almost exclusive attention. The bill possesses some good features, but is so Cumbersome and complicated and above all so unnecessarily expensive that it is morally sure to be repealed or radically amended by the next Legislature. Every intelligent and patriotic American citizen has been sick at heart, for years, whenever he reflected over the nation’s wholly inefficient navy and <%skst To all such* what has been done during the last half dozen years toward remedying these deplorable deficiencies has been -a source of much catiou. Astor years of entreaty and argument Congress at last inaugurated, a course of action which has already given the nation several excellent naval vessels of modern construction, and the promise of mauy others still'letter in the future. In the matter of big guns, too, there is at last a probability that this country will, before many years, be put on an equality with other nations of the earth. As the matter stands at, present tne cannons possessed by this country compare with those of such nations as Germany, France and Great Britian about as favorably as would a flint-lock musket of Revolutionary times compare with a imxiern repeating rifle, of the most approved pattern. But this shameful condition of affairs is at last to be remedied. The government is about to erect a great gun factory at the Watervleit arsenal, where everything will be devoted to the making of heavy ordinance of the most powerful kind. In this connection iT is gratifying to note that the successful trial of the big cast-steel gun, at the Annapolis proving grounds, last week, is an almost conclusive indication that the ever fertile Yankee genius has discovered a way of making the largest and most powerful and most servicable of cannon at a cost vastly less and in a much shorter time, than by ihe methods which prevail ip Europe.

The following dispatch in reference to a prominent business man of Fowler, appeared in the Indianapolis Journal, last Monday: Fowu&b, Feb. 16.—Through the scoundrelly methods adopted by the democrats of this county, Mr.

O. 0. Brockway was compelled to make an assignment to-day, of his stock of merchandise. ic perjruers had him inducted in the federal court and then' reported to the wholesale men that Brockway was about to fail, thus causing them to close in on him. The most damnable schemes have been put forth here to crush Mr. Brockway.