Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1890 — Republican County Ticket. [ARTICLE]

Republican County Ticket.

Per Oopnt-y Clark, WM.fi. OOOVF.K, Of Carpenter Township. Tjjf County Auditor, HAUHY B. MinntAY. Of Barkley Township. f For County Treasurer, MARK 11. HEMPHILL, Of Marion Township. For CountyjSherjlf, PHILir BBC E. Of Marion Township. For County Surveyor, JAMES C. THRAWLS. Of Marion Towitship. For County Coroner, RIAL V. BENJAMIN, Of Marion Township. For Commissioner First I; .strict PRESTON M. QCSKRV, OfGillant Township. For County Commissioner Third District. OLIVER P. TAB Eli, Of Carpenter Township.

The federal election bill has passed the House and will probably soon oass the Senate and become a law. In spite of the prolonged and frantic howl the Democrats are making against this bill, and especially the Southern Democrats. it does not contain a "single provision that in any way can interfere with, or'annoy anyone who is willing to JhifiOiil u> every man the rights grants by the constitution. It is a just and & righteous bill, and no unprejudiced men who favors the supremacy of the Constitution of the United States and of the principles of right and justice, can fed any fault*vith it. ■■if — turn w- mi wm

There are large numbers of old soldiers and soldiers’ .widows and orphans ia this county who are entitled to pensions under the new disability pension act, aud many have already taken the preliminary steps towards securing what they are entitled to. In this connection . The Republican feels like saying to all of our readers who are , contemplating applying f° r P ea_ sions under this or any other Act, that their safest, cheapest, wisest and in every way best course, is to make their applications tbr-rngh the local agents. Their pensions will be just as large and come just as soon, and whatever money is pfel for the service, will be kept at home, instead of bemg paid to non-residents who are already wealthy and whose wealth does no good to any but themselves. Keep the pension agent fees at home, by all means.

We think that the more,folly the old soldiers end their friends learn to understand the provisions of the new pension law the more

[they are dispose l ! to look upon it |as a very liberal and satisfactory | piece of legislation. It is not, by any means, all that could have been desired, nor all that was, in justice, required, but considering the difficulties in the way or liberi ai pension laws, the act as passed was perhaps till that could reasonably have been expected. The Republican majority in Congress , is narrow at best, and especially is that the case in the Senate; and , what is about as' much in ! the way of pension laws |iu that body as the close majority is the fact that quite a number of the eastern Senators, wealthy and half Hugj wumps as they are, are not favorj able to liberal new pension laws, ; and holding the balance of pow.er 1 as they do, their views must, necj essarily have considerable’irttiuence in shaping the pension laws, it is a very liberal law and will put vast sums of money in the hands : of our brave ox-soldiers, or the i widows, paients or orphans, iu the aggregate, and put the money where it is most needed, and thus prove a vast benefit directly. Moreover, in a less direct way, the passage of this law will be a good thing for the soldiers, for it will afford Congressmen an opportunity to see how favorably the people look upon the expenditure of large sums of the public money in pensions, and it will thus pave the way for still more liberal treatment of the Union soldiers, in the very near future.

According to a statement in the ; Logansport Journal, Judge Baldwin makes no secret of the fact that (in his mind’s eye) he could j be nominated and elected toCon-| gress by the Democrats of the Tenth district, without the leaet difficulty, if he would only soy the word. But he won’t because, forsooth. the position of OongresFi man is quite too small potatoes to man of the Judge's great calibre, as measured by himself, and therefore the Democrats of the district must, as Baldwin himself says, nominate one of their own number. The opinion the Judge has as to the ease and certainty by which he could be nominated and elected by the Democrats, does not accord jat all with the opinions of the said Democrats, on that score. Though very ready to quote and compliment the Judge when he made free trade the excuse for leaving the parly whieh had disappointed his aspirations for office, they changed their tone very quickly, wlieh liis name, . began- to be tinned as a candidate foi-Congi'wss J against Billy Owen. When it comes to talk of that kino, then they have no further use for Baldwili. The Demqcfatic papers of; tin* district are giving, very free j ■ exj ressioJi to the views of their party m this respect, ami the tenor i of their remarks is well iliustrated by the Moatieello Democrat, in the following paragraph: “Judge Baldwin says hs§ could be elected to Congress on the Democratic ticket, but he does not wish'to goto Congress. Mr. Baldwin evidently has a very exaggerated opinion of himself. He could not come within 3,000 votes of being elected to Congress on the Democratic ticket and the democrats of the 10th district don’t want to send him to Congress, either. He can rest easy on that score and turn his entire to the suit now pending against him for failing to list property for taxation.’’

A recent decision of the supreme court maintains that if a man wants to go faster than another ahead of him on the rood he is going he has a right to pass, aud if prevented by the other, and an accident should happen thereby, the man thus obstructing the road is reponsible for the damage done. No man has a right io iulriuge on the rights of others in trying to pass however. —Ex. -

It can be said of Hon. E. P. Hammond of Rensselaer, recently nominated for judge by the Republicans of the thirtieth judical district, that no more upright man ever wore the ermine; his ability and learning displayed as a jurist is unquestionable, and his maDy fine qualities of head and heart have

gained him the admiration and rer speet of ail wim know krm. Mr. Haimmutd was appointed, while filling the office feF which he is again a candidate, by Gov. Porter, to sufKfeedr Judge Wood, resigned, on the supreme bench of the state. The choice of John T. Brown, a leading lawyer of Fowler* for prosecuting attorney, nominated with unanimity, also gives general satis-faction-among the Republicans of the thirtieth judical district.—LaFayette Sunday Times.