Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1890 — REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION! [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION!

The Republicans erf the Tenth .Congressional District will meet in delegate con vein ion at Rensselßpr r Jasper .cuu.iiiv.v— lin n ana, one o’clock p. in:, on riiursdav, August 28th, ISUO, for tlie pwv}»H; x of nomiuatiug a camiicDta lor Congress. , The counties in . wad «dsti;ict will be entitled to representation in said convention as follows: Cass county 19 Carroll county 13 Fulton county 10 .Jasper county 8 Lake county 13 Newton county 0 Porter county 1.2 Pulaski county 6 White county. • • 10 E. D. Crumpacker. Chm’n Com. Speaker Reed very properly observes, in answer to the criticisms of his plan of quorum-counting, that it has been practically tested, unci the result is a record of “capable and sensible” service on the part of the house that “has attracted the approval of the whole country." This is really all that needs to be said upon the subject. When a policy is seen to work well, that is sufficient; and in the present case Mr. Reed has been thus amply vindicated. , the correspondence of the State Department in the Behring Sea controversy is highly creditable to the Administration, and the more it is read the greater will be the general admiration of the style in which Mr. Blaine has handled the subject. The Democratic papers devote themselves largely in this connection to Tory small matters. Evidently

they have no higher object than misrepresent facts with the 1 vio\v to obtaining a paltry partisan advantage. The most earnest and ardent advocates-es silver in the Western States agree that the silver bill, made a law by the, President’s signature last week, is better than free coinage. The majority of the business men and bankers of both ' -s» ! ' Eastern and Western commercial ! centers, so far as they have ex[pressed themselves, Lhink that its effect will be good. In fact, the only dissatisfied ones seem to be the! Democratic politicians whose pffort to block silver legislation failed so dismally. L The Crown Point .Register, which has been opposing Hon. \Y. D. Owen in the interest of Judge Johnson says: “Judge Johnson, whose name has been repeatedly mentioned throughout the 10th Congressional district as a probable candidate for congressional honors, we understand, declines positively and emphatically to enter the race. While Mr. J obnson has many warm persoral friends in old Lake county who would like to have him boosted into a seat in Congress the Judge probably knows his own business best. This leaves the field practically open to Billy Owen, and let’s all lay off onr coats and see that he gets there by a rousing old time majority.”

The long deferred execution of Kemmler, by electricity, took place last tveek, at Auburn, N. Y. The affair gseems to have been pretty badly bungled—so much so in fact that the popular feeling has very generally been turned against this supposed merciful and humane method of inflicting the death penalty. There is no doubt, however, but that the reporters who reported the execution, in their efforts to make ns sensational an account as possible, greatly exaggerated the unpleasant and horrible features of the affair. Further there is no good reason to believe that the physicians who ~ examined the man’s brain after death, were mistaken in asserting that he suffered no pain and that his brain was paralyzed at the first shock. The experience of other men who have endured and survived very powerful shocks of electricity corroborates the doctors’ opinions. The experience of the man Cooper, in Lafayette, only a few days ago, is a case in point. Although most ‘terribly injured and burned,he remembers nothing of the occurence after he took hold of the deadly wire. The substitution of electricity for the rope as a means of execution, was a movement in the interests of humanity and as such ought not to bfe wholly con-j detuned, on account of not perfect- j ly succeeding at the first attempt. People who deplore the scenes at the execution of Kemmler, need not remember any furtner back than the hanging of Coffee, at Crawfordsville, for a still more horrible occurrence, and one when the great bodily pain and mental agony of the victim were undeniable.