Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1889 — Page 4

H'HE REPUBLICAN Thcmpai, Aooogr 8,1889.

3DI BBCT^f «*ff**Y OFFICERS - - J ims F • Irw in* Sheriff PBkttF 8101. Auditor GBOBSBMROBINROX Treasurer.. f. B-Waskbvbx Recorder ...Jambs r. Antrim. Surveyor. .Jambs C. Thrawls Cocoaer. .........At. P.Bmiwamik. Superintendeat Public Schools ..J.F. Warren / Ist District.. B. M. Qr*««T. •samiacionsrs >*d District .. JF. Watson CM District O.P.Tabob. Otmmimiimtre’ Court first Mondays in March /mu. September and December CORPOBATION OFFICERS: Marshs! . Abraham Simpson CS«pk..." ..._Feb# E.Cmilootk. •Hmmui— l .......... .C. C. Stabs ■ f Ist Ward N. W. Rbbvb. | 2d Ward ... Hibam Day. Council men {ld Ward Husb WJPobthi | 4th Ward Simon PMilmps 1 sth Ward Rmmbt Kamnal JUDICIAL l \ '.. Terms of Coart—Fur# Monday tm. January; Third Monday in March; Fir# Monday in Jans; Third Monday in October. JABBER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION Jesse Gwin, Trustee . HRuaia* Grove tp. James R. Guild,Trustee ........GiUam tp. FredS. Metser, Trustee . Walker tp. J.F. niff. Trustee . Ow-kley tp. Wm.-Greeniieid, Trustee. .......Marlon tp. J. A.McFarland. Trustee .....Jordan tp. Jack-son Freeland,Trustee Newtou tp. J. F. Bruner, 1 rustee ..Keener tp. Edward Biggs. Trustee - . Kankakee tp. L. P. SmrerTTrustee WheatfleM tp. Wm. O. RoadiTer, Trustee. Carpcntertp. Hezckiah Kesler, Trustee Milroy tp. Wm. Cooper, Trustee, Union tp. W. H. Ooover Remington. Dr. 1.8. Washburn.. Rensselaer Frank J. Warren County Supt.

Rathbone, Sard A Co., of Albany, N. Y., the leadiug stove manufacturers of the country, are looking for a western location for their works, or for a large portion of it, at least Their representatives have visited several of the leading manufacturing towns in this state, such as Indianapolis and Kokomo, but from present indications this great industry is not likely to locate in Indiana. The towns of Waakegan and Joliet in Illinois, aud Toledo and some others in Ohio, appear to have the lead, in this contest It not only takes big money to get the works, but unlimited shipping facilities, of the most advantageous kind.

If the books of the so-called Ind • iana Educational Series are now forced at once into the public schools of the state we firmly believe that the actual loss to the patrons of the schools through having to throw away their books now on hand or to trade them for less than ten per cent, of their real value, will more than equal, in the aggregate, all that can be saved in making the change, daring the entire five years the contract with the Indiana Publishing Company has to run. To say nothing of the great cost to the people of the state generally, of having to pay township trustees for handling the books. And also to say nothing of the great damage the educational interests of the state will suffer in being compelled to use antiquated and inferior text books.

Before the war England clothed her women in fine silks of her own man of act are, while we bought them from Europe. She managed to do this because while she was professing to practice Free Trade i with all the world she had a protective duty in her tariff to keep out French silks. The Cobden j Treaty of 1861 sacrificed that duty 'in the interest of English cotton /goods, which France agreed to admit under a much reduced duty, if'j'ingland would take the duty off French silks apd lower that on wines. As a consequence the making of silks in Ifrj|land came to an end, and the grow literally grew in the streets of Coventry and Macclesfield, which were engaged in this business. Manchester was too strong for thorn. It is not possible now to buy a yard of English broad silk, which once commanded the highest price and were universally desired The much inferior French silks took, their place—a fact which hadi much to do with the “aesthetic” reaction against ■Ok and favor of woolen fabrics for ladies dresses. Bat while Coventry and Macclesfield have been going down under Free Trade, Paterson, Hartlord, Hoboken and Tobyhanna have been going up under Protection. There waa an exodus of English workmen and their families from those two ruined towns to America. They brought us the inherited skill of generations, and!

found home afid welcome in the land which cares for its producers as well as its consumers. In <mnsequenoe the making of dress-suks in America has moved forward with such rapidity that our importations of French silks has declined every year, and is now only a fraction of our whole consumption—between a third and a fourth, if I remember rightly. At the same time the use and consumption of silk has advanced with rapid strides, while the quality is steadily improved. And all this has been effected in the face of the inveterate prejudice of the American women against wearing anything that is not imported. , A friend of mine who deals largely in silks tells me that he advises every woman to take a certain American make if she wants a silk at a moderate price. They nearly all answer that they do not want an American silk. He tellsthem this is the only silk, except the very finest, that he will warrant; |and then they buy. And when they make one trial of it they nearly always come back for mure. It will save us hundreds of millions every year when Americans really learn that as fine goods can be made in America as anywhere in the world. Snobbishness is the last ally of Free Trade. —Robert Ellis Thompson.

In another place we publish a communication from John W. Powell, now in Washington City, in answer to an article which recently appeared in the Indianapolis Sentinel, over the signature of David W. Shields. This article is reproduce?! in connection with the communication from Mr. PowelL Why Mr. Shields, who usually passes for a man of good reputation and of a fair sense of honor, should have taken upon himself to write and publish so false and slanderous a communication, is hard to say. That he knowingly wrote what was slanderous and false seems beyond question, for he is a man of intelligence and well acquainted with those whom he assails. Take, for instance, the assertion that Edward Rhoades, the prospective postmaster at Rensselaer, is a “professional heeler.” There is not a man of ordinary intelligence in Rensselaer and Marion township, who is at all posted in matters of local politics, who does not know this assertion to be wholly and entirely false. Mr. Rhoades has taken but little part in active politics and what little he has done has not been of a nature to justify, in any degree, the application of the term heeler.” As to the specific assertion that Mr. Rhoades voted a block of nine floaters at the last election, what are the facts? Mr. Rhoades went to the polls and voted in company with seven other voters. Of these eight voters four are and always were reliable and unapproachable Republicans. The other four always vote the Republican ticket unless they are led away by improper influences. They, or at least some of them, we are sorry to say, will sometimes drink whiskey when it is offered to them, and the Democrats had been trying to take advantage of this weakness by giving them unlimited free whiskey for several weeks before the election. A few days before the election an elderly lady who is closely related to the yonng men whom the Democrats were trying to buy with whiskey, and who is $ member of Mr. Rhoades’ family, succeeded in persaading them to stay away from the free whiskey men and to go with their own father and grandfather to the polls and vote as they believed was right. This they did, and Mr. Rhoades went with them, but neither he nor any other person used any improper means to secure their votes. The democratic schemers confidently expected to be able to corrupt them and secure their votes, but they

ware defeated in the attempt, and bitterly vexed and disappointed at* their failure. \ . As to what Mr. Shields charges against Mr. Powell, the latter has

answered that pretty thoroughly. We will add, however, that we do sot believe, for an instant, that Mr. Powell ever boasted that he could whip any Democrat in the county, for he is not that kind of a man. As to the statement that he knocked down and terribly beat an old gray-haired man, that statement we know to be false. At the occasion to which Shields refers, an elderly but large and vigorous looking man began a fight with Mr. Powell by kicking at him. Powell then caught hold of the man and struck one or two blows, but did not knock him down nor “beat him terribly”—in fact hurt him but very slightly. He was the aggressor in the matter and much more to blame for the occurrence than was Mr. Powell. As to the assertion that jMr; Powell is not fitted for the duties of the position to which he has been appointed, we can say that we do not know the nature of those duties, nor does Mr. Shields either, but we do know that Mr. Powell is a man of good education and plenty of natural good sense and ability and we have no do.ubt but that he will prove abundantly able to satisfactorily discharge the duties of the position to which he has been appointed.

Consistency of a Protective Tariff.

Whether or not a tariff shall be laid on foreign products sent into this country for sale in competition with similar domestic products, will be found largely a question of doing justice by our own people, when once freed from the labyrinth of maxims and theories with which “tariff reformers” seek to surround the issue between the policies of Protection and Free Trade. The men who preach for free trade with Europe will not, and dare not, contend that their neighbors should send money to distant cities for goods, even if in bo doing a few cents may be saved on each purchase. Nor are they likely to cosent that peddlers may come into home communities, and without a license (a tariff) sell their wares, when similar articles are on the shelves of home merchants who pay taxes for the support of local and state governments.

The same policy requires for-' eigners with machinery and capital beyond our reach, and whose power may be used for our detriment, to pay something—and pay well —by way of tariff, when coming here with their products to compete against American enterprise «and American capital, which are steadily taxed without possibility of escape or desire for evasion. Protection for domestic industries is but the hardening of tha humane and natural policy observed in keeping for the members of oar family such money as they can conveniently earn, rather than paying it oat to strangers; the same we advocate in local communities —trading with home merchants, employing home mechanics, patronizing home papers; in short, protection requires the sending away of no money that may be prudently retained for the oomfort of our households and advancement of the community in which we make onr home.

A BASE ATTACK ANSWERED.

Editor Rensselaer Republican : Dear Sir. —Enclosed find clipping from Indianapolis Sentinel which you will please publish: DISGUST AT RENSSELAER. To the Editor— Sir: Considerable dissatisfaction exists here on account of the selection of Edward Rhodes to succeed our excellent and efficient democratic postmaster, N. P. Bates. The selection was made by a mass convention of republican patrons. Rhodes is a professional heeler, and at the last election yoted a block of nine floaters—hence his reward. Four of his competitors were old soldiers whose friends claim that, inasmuch as the incumbent was an old soldier, he should be succeeded by a soldier. But in republican conventions — In time of war, and not before, Ood they worship nod the soldiers adore. Bnt when the war is over, and all things an righted, God U forgotten and the soldier Is slighted.

One John W. Powell, a professional office-hunter, departed one* day this week for Washington, where he has received $n appointment in the bureau of public printing. He prides himself on his slugging propensities, and during the last campaign, openly boasted of being able to “whip any democrat in the coanty,” and on one occasion knocked down and terribly beat, an old, gray-haired man for daring to disagree with him politically. He is no more fitted for the place to which he has been chosen than John L. Sullivan is fit to be mayor of Boston. David W. Shields. Rensselaer, Ind., July 20. As far it concerns myself I am peifectly willing to let the public be the judges as to the charges made by Mr. Shields and am also perfectly satisfied to let the Public Printer be the judge as to my competency to fill the position to which I have been appointed. But as to the author of the said communication he is an unmitigated liar and with-al a coward. A liar inasmuch as he knows that the statement that I beat without provocation, an old gray-haired man, to be false, foi it is a fact well known that the party he alludes to went before John Graves, a Justice of the peace in W heatfield and plead guilty to the charge of assault and battery against myself, proving by the injured party, himself, that I acted in self defense; and those who have known me longest and best know that I never, under any circumstances, am given to sach expressions as he quotes me as making; a coward, in-as-much as he waited until I was some eight hundred miles away before he makes his charges, notwithstanding the fact that my appointment had been a matter of public comment by all the local newspapers for some weeks previous to my departure. Yours Truly, J. W. Powell.

VOORHEES AND MRS. PARSONS.

Senator Voorhees’s speech at Bloomfield, on Saturday and that of Mrs. Lucy Parsons, at Chicago, on Sunday, show that the statesmanship and oratory of this country are not all confined to one sex. It is interesting, also, to observe the similarity in the utterances of the two orators. Thus we have:

Mrs. Parsons in' Chisago. We liave a free government; they have a free government in France; yet we are slaves. There must he another revolution —arevolution against the “bastlles” of labor. The people must rise. They will rise, and they will storm and capture those bastiles, and they will hear out the heads of those devils —those capatittists—on the tops of pikestaffs. I say there wil l be a revolutation. 1 say you men are brave enough to rise and put down the tyrants. There will be slaves in the hostile of labor no longer; you will doaway with the tyrants, and put out the bosses. You must .march arm in arm, and shoulder to shoulder, against these “baatiles” of labor. You must not march in the street to he mowed down, but yon must get within the walls, and victory, sweet victory is yours.

It would be liard to say which of the speeches was the more mischievous and incendiary.—lndianapolis Journal.

THE INDIANA CATILINES.

It wonld be well for Indianians whose memories do not go back to the days of the war to read that part of the life of Lincoln, in the Augast Century , which relates to the Knights of the Golden Circle. Democratic papers seldom refer to this episode in their party’s history, and then only to befog the truth and convey the impression to the ignorant that many of the charges are campaign lies. In this history of Onooln all the statements are verified by official records, and naught is set down in malice. But brief space is given

to the organization and its doings, but the historical fact is recorded that in the office of Daniel W. Yoorhees, at Terre Haute, large numbers of the ritual of the order were discovered. Enough is told, too, to show the infamous purpose of the Knights, and that if was only lack of courage that led to the failure of their programme of murder and rapine. Speaking of Lincoln's charitable doubt thatloo,ooo men in Indiana were traitors to

Senator Voorhees at Sloomjield. A government which takes from one portion of its citizens in order to enrich another class don’t deserve to exist on-the-face of the earth, and wUI not long exist unless the people consent to becuui cfshives. If I Jhad my way with men like the Camegies, that prey .ed upon the people’s blood like leeelies, I would hang them. They are public enemies; worse than the Tories were during the Revolution. Why I think the time will come when you would rather—a good deal rather—lake a pitchfork and pitch Republican politicians out of your way than to piteh hay in yonr meadow. The Declaration of American Independence was a mere declaration against a theory and a principle or wrong, rather than against actual grievance. Yon have an actual grievance to inflame your animosity and hospitility to the present state of affairs.

. . . _ . . . >„«! ■: ELLIS & MURRAY. «ANN6IAL> CLEARANCE SALE! SUMMER GOODS. WE HAVE MADE THE FOLLOWING SWEEPING SEDUCTIONS ALL OF OUR PRESENT STOCK OF 25 cent French Sateens at - - 16§ cents per yard 15 cent Sateens at - 10 cents, per yard. I 25 cent French Ginghams at - -15 cents per yard. I 10 cent Dress Gingham at - - cents per yard. I I 5 cent Lawns at | CLOTHING! CLOTHING!| II ~ A Line of Good Wearing - Suits @ 14. A Line of $8 - - Suits @ $6. Two Lines of 110 ~~ Two Lines of $12.50 - - - - Suite @ SIO.OO. Two Lines of $15.00 - - - . Suits @ $12.50. Two Lines of SIB.OO - Suits @ $15.00.

These Goods must be sold to make room for Fall Goods, and yon will consult your best interest by seeing them before buying.; Yours Respectfully, ELLIS & MURRAY.

their country, the historians say; “They were sufficiently disloyal to take all manner of oaths against the government; to be ready in their secret councils to declare they were ready to shed the last drop of their blood to abolish it, and to express their ardent sympathies with its enemies and their detestation of its officers and supporters.” The further comment that “these rural Catilines were never quite ready to risk their own skins ©for their so-called principles,” though well put, does not lessen their disloyalty. They were willing to betray their government into the hands of the rebels, but were too cowardly to do so when the critical moment came. It is an unpleasant chapter in the annals of Indiana, bat facts are facts. —lndianapolis Journals

The last Legislature appropriated $5,000 to defray the expenses us a series of Farmers’ institutes, to be held throughout the State, under the supervision of the faculty of Purdue University, “for the purpose of giving farmers and others interested therein instructions in agriculture, horticulture, agricultural chemistry and economic entomology.” It is rnmored that ox-Governor Gray is trying to have tariff reform added to the subjects to be taught. It seems incredible that he would attempt to manipulate the institutes for political purposes, but it would be quite in keeping with his methods. He will bear watching all the time. —Indianapolis Journal.

Application for License* NOTICE is hereby Riven to the citizens of the town of Rensselaer, in Marion township, Jasper county, and the state of Indiana, that the undersigned Edward O. Green, a male inhabitant of the state of Indiana and over the age of twenty-one years, of Rood moral character, not in the liaolt of becominß intoxicated and fit in every respect to be entrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquors, will apply to the Board of Commissioners in said Jasper county at their September term 188», said term commencing on Monday, September B,lßß*} for a license hi sell and barter sbtritous, vinons, malt and all other intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing and permitting the same to he drank in the following premises to-wit: Theprooise location or the premises on which the undersigned desires to sell and and barter with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank thereon, is a one story brick building forty (40) feet long by twenty (») feet wide on Van Rensselaer street and situated on lot number three (3) block number four (4) of the original plat of Rensselaer, Indiana, and described os follows: Beginning ono hundred and twelve and one half (MX) feet northwesterly from the corner of Washington street and Van Rensselaer street, thence nwrth-westerly on van Rensselaer street twenty!*) feet, thence westerly parallel with Washington street forty (40) ‘jeet thence sonth-easterly parallel with Van Rensselaer street twenty (*) feet, thence easterly parallel with Washington street forty (40) feet to the place of be * Said license will he asked for a period of one year. EDWARD O. GBKKN.

nm notice. THE STATE OF INDIANA,'" ee Jasper County. ( Sofn Jasper Circuit Court, to October term. A. D. 1889. No. 8994. BE IT REMEMBERED. That on this 22nd day of July, 1889, Joel Root, the sole plaintiff; by his attorneys, Thompson & Bro., tiled in the office of the Clerk of said Court, his complaint against said defendants, ami also the affidavit of a competent person that said defendants, John Reynolds Reynolds, his wife, Fatrick Ilanlin, Hanlln his wife, Susannah Cooper, ..... Cooper, her husband, James H. Andrews, Andrews his wife, Cornelia Andrews, Andrews her husband. Thompson W. Francis, Francis, his wife, Nelson Morris, Morris, his wife, Frederick Shnlts, Shults his wife, and all the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees of the said defendants, as well as all the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees of the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees of the said defendants, are either non-residents of the State of Indiana, or have an unknown residencesaid"'attendants are therefore hereby notifled of the pendency of said suit, and that said ’cause will stand for trial at the October Term of said Court. 1889, to-wit: on the 21st day of October, WITNESS, My hand and the seal of (SEAL i said Court, affixed at office In Rens-k.-'Tvr-N./ sclaer, on this 22nd day of July, A. D. 1889. JAMES F. IRWIN, „ „ Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court. By SchuylbrC. Irwin, Deputy. Thompson & Bro., Atty’s for Plaintiff. July 25. Aug. 1-8.

sl2 HARNESS $7. This Single Buggy Harness Is Double and Stitched Throughout, and In white or x. c. trimmed. S2O HARNESS sl2. This is a Single Boggy Harness and is Single Strapped. The trimmings are Gold or Silver, just as ordered. This harness is my specially and is sold everywhere for S2O and is well worth it. These harness are all hand made and warranted for three years, or money refunded. Order direct from me and save the two extra middle mens’ profits, namely, the Jobbers and Retailers.

Win Send C. O. D. with privilege of examining before purchasing, Am not afraid to show my work. When money accompanies order will prepay the expressage. L.G. GUSTAVEL^ WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, mONTICEULO, - JND. 40-Urn. DEW MEAT MARKET. OH AS. M. PAXTON, Proper RENSSELAER - - - INDIANA, All kinds of fresh and cured meats, and al of the best quality, constantly on hand. The highest market price paid for good fa cattle, calves Ac. Give me a call and a sbar of your patronage. CHA3. M. PAXTON.