Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — Page 2

A CONVICT'S THREAT.

BY E. T. TAGGAKD.

The jury in the Court of had already been out nearly an hour. Owing to their prolonged absence, the judge had left the bench, and the few ; interested spectators, who remained in court, in the absence of the judge, vacated their seats, replaced their hats, and gathering in little Knots, began earnestly to discuss the probabilities of a verdict. The 3 prisoner, Robert Taylor, a swarthy-visaged. powerfully framed man, appeared the least concerned Of all who remained in the room, and conversed with a few friends who gathered at his side, with an air of utter indifference, and appealed to be unconscious of the fact that upon the 3 result of the jury’s deliberation depended bis liberty. The charge against him was burglary. and I was the principal witness against him;., and indeed it was upon my evidence that, he was convicted. Returning home to my boarding house late one night, I met Bob Taylor, the prisoner, emerging from the house, with a well-filled carpet-bag. I knew him tobea stranger, and as I eyed him closely, he quickened.his pace. I followed. He ran. Then, satisfied of his guilt, I pursued him and raised an alarm. When ho reached the first corner, he pulled a revolver from his pocket and pointed it at me, but before he could pull the trigger, he was . felled to., tbe earth by a heavy and well-directed blow of a policeman’s club. For this he was now placed upon trial. Though apparently an attentive list—ener to- the—remarks <>f his friends, ' professional ones undoubtedly, who were whispering wordS'Of encouragement to him, I discovered, when I occasionally glanced toward him, that ho was glaring at me under his heavy eyebrows, and the snake-like glitter of his eve, and the demoniac expression that ' accompanied it made me shudder. After an absence extending over ah hour, the rumor reached the court that the jury were coming. All were seated again, hats were removed, the judge returned and resumed his place upon the bench, and the jury, filing in one by one. marched. to their places and were seated. Then was heard, in clear, ringing tones, the voice of the clerk: ■•Prisoner, standup!” ’ The prisoner stood up. of the jury, stand up!” The jurors obeyed. “Prisoner, look upon the jury—jury, look upon the prisoner.” The request was obeyed. “What say you, gentlemen of the jury, do you find the prisoner at the bar guilty, or not guilty, of the offence charged?” “Guilty!” answered the foreman. “Prisoner,” said the judge, “after an impartial trial you have been found guilty of the crime of burglary. The jury, after q patient and prolonged deliberation have so recorded their verdict. Nothing now remains for the court but to pass its sentence upon you, which is that you be imprisoned in the State prison for the term of five years.” The trial was over and the spectators tiled out of court, myself among , the number. When I passed Bob Taylor he called me to him. “John Styles,” he whispered in my ear, and every word. sounded _to me like the rattle of a snake, “you have been the means of sending me to prison. I go. But beware. Look to 1 * I _ ? . • • 1 • A •

yourself. There is no jail in America 1 can hold Bob Taylor six months, and when 1 escape my first shall be ' to you. Go where you will, I shall find you as certain as a blood hound does its prey. Andwhen I -find you, John Styles, look to yourself, for then my revenge shall be speedy.’’ “My dear sir,” said I in an expostulating manner, “I but did my duty.” ••You did it well,” said he, “and my duty shall be done equally well. Say your prayers, my boy. for your life alone will satisfy Bob Taylor.” -.- The handcuffs were placed upon his wrists, and as he was being marched from the court room on his way to the county jail he turned toward me and gave me a look that I shall never forget, so full of fiendishness that it seemed to me as though I was gating on a demon himself. “Do you know anything of this prisoner?” said I to a detective who lingered in the court room after the prisoner had departed. “Do I know Bob Taylor! Better ask me if I know myself.” “What is his character?” • 'He’s a bad man.” __ “He has threatened me because I appeared against him.” ••Well, my friend,” said the detective, “if he has threatened to take your life he’ll take it I’ve had considerable experience with convicts in my day and generation, but I’ll tell you what, my boy, I’d rather the whole kit and crowd of them would threaten me than that Bob Taylor, Why there was our old sergeant, he railroaded Bob got him dead to rights, give him the collar and up he went. What was the consequence? Bob got two years. Two years and one day from that date the sargeant was killed, struck from behind at night with a sand club. We arrested Bob, but he had covered his tracks well, and as we could prove nothing against hiip he was discharged. Look out for hl tn, neighbor; he is a bad egg.” The character, revengeful disposition, and steadfastness of purpose of the convict alarmed me. At present he was-securely in the iron grip of the law, but how ilong would he remain po? And if ne should escape? I not bear to think of the eonsequences to myself if such a thing should occur; but from the, knowledge of the desperate character of the man

which I derived from the detective, I determined to leave nothing undone to secure my safety. Six months passed, and amid the cares and anxieties of everyday life I had almost forgotten the episode of the court room. One evening we had a large party at Our house. The music was delightful, the ladies Were in their'most fascinating mood, and-enjoyment was general, when a loud ring was heard at the door-bell. In a short time the servant entered with a telegram. It was for me. I was engaged in dancing a quadrille at the time, and with the permission of my fair partner I opened it. It read as follows: , “To John Styles, New York City:— Bob Taylor escaped last night “T. Johnson, Keeper. ” Excusing myself I rushed to my room, seized my overcoat and hat, and left the house. He had escaped over twenty-four hours before, and perhaps even now was shadowing me to my death. My only way was to quit my old haunts, stop at a hotel temporarily until he was recaptured, or if the police failed to arrest him, to leave the city, I went to the nearest hotel, and secured a room on the top floor, Jor I desired to be as far removed from danger as possible. • Securely locking my door, I retired; but pot to sleep, for the dangers that beset me were of so alarmipg a character that sleep became a stranger to my eyes While I thus lay in a half dreamy condition, I heard a fall in the room. I tried to jump to my feet, but an iron grip was placed upon my throat. I tried to call for help, but' the glittering blade of a.dagger was uplifted to my gaze andmade medumb. It was the’ Convict, Bob Taylor. “Didn’t I tell you I would meet you again, John Styles? Bob Taylor always keeps his word. They didn't treat me very roughly up in the prison, and I ‘Was pretty comfortable,* everything considering, but I said to myself, ‘now Bob-, you've got an_engagement w-ith-that.ere chap that thought he was doing Kis~duty~ when he sent you up here. Honor is honor you know, and when, you make an engagement you are bound to keep it right up to the handle every time.’ “I watched my chance, hid away in the shop when they were all going into supper, afterward crawled down to the railroad track, dropped on top of a freight car, laid myself flat, and as it was dark when wc reached the city, 1 jiis^,watched my Opportunity. Slipped into an area-way, robbed the first man 1 that came along of his clothing, and went to your house-.” - ••Mercy ! ” cried I. “Mercy, eh? I’ve got a duty toperform now. Did you think I didn’t seeyou when you came out of your house and jumped on the car? You got on the front platform. 1 stepped on the back. You came into this hotel and engaged a room. I waited until you had been there some time, went to the j hotel Office, asked for the number, on the pleathat I was a friend, ascended r tb it, but on peeping through the fan- ! light I saw that your room contained a scuttle leading to the roof. ’He’s my meat,’said I. ‘lt’s’ safer, my boy, to 'drop through scuttles, than to force doors. I ascended to the roof, pried open the scuttle, and here I am.’” “Do not kill me!” said I, in course accents, for he held my throat, likea... vice, and I was almost choking., “Take my valuables, take iffy money, but do not take my life.”

“Kill you! Why, I’ll kill you as though you were a pig! Thinkyou Ihave worn the prison stripes for six months for nothing? Think you I have worn my fingers to the bone for nothing? Stood a whipping at the post, and borne the shower-bath, and not have my sweet revenge? In one minute you die! Oh! revenge is sweet!” I saw the fatal knife raised; with a tremendous effort I threw him off, clutched the raised arm, and gave vent to agonizing screams. He had the Btrengh of ah athlete, and we were evenly matched. Across the room we struggled. I could hear steps approaching. They reached the door of my room and I begged them to. break it in. My strength failed me. For a moment! beheldthe gleaming knife aloff. I saw it descend. I felt its sharp sting in my side. I fell. When I recovered consciousness I was still in my room, and near me stood Bob Taylor, heavily ironed. A doctor was attempting to stop the bleeding from my wound. They removed me to my home, and for many days my life wavered in the balance, but, thanks to a good constitution and excellent nursing, I recovered my health again. After he had stabbed me Bob Taylor attempted to ascend to the roof through the scuttle. A police officer was there awaiting him, and with a heavy blow of his locust he knocked him senseless into the room below, where he was secured by the attaches of the house who had succeeded in entering my roomThe next day he was coveyed back to State prison. I was not yet safe, however, for within three months I received a telegram that Bob Taylor had eacaped again. Would not prison bars, armed keepers and heavy shackles hold that man? Was Ito be ever thus hounded to death because I had done my duty as a good eitizen and given my evidence against him? What nervous anxiety I suffered, what terrors I now endured, no mind can picture, no pen can paint Every step upon the stairs drove me to agony. If the window rattled I thought it was my persecutor in pursuit of me. Ten days had passed. I had not left the house during that time, and so rapidly had I diminished in flesh that my condition was alarming. The anxiety of my friends was also apparent, for the long continued excitement was threatening to drive me mad. A letter came directed to we. I

opened it with trembling hands. It read as follow's: John Styles, Esq:—For the last ten days, otir sewer has teen stopped. To-day we investigated the cause and found the* dead body of a. convict wedged in the pipe into which he had crawled, expecting thus to reach the river and escape. He must have been overcome by the poisonous gases and miserably perished. We removed the body, and it has been fully identified as that of Bob Taylor, the notorious convict.” ' I cftuld read no more. Overcome with conflicting emotions, I fainted. I was soon restored to consciousness, however, but if I was to live a hundred years I can never forget my adventures with the convict.

A CORN PALACE.

A Modern Sioux City Advertising ■Wonder. The Sioux City corn palace —and there was never a corn palace outside of Sioux City—is a palace covered and embellished; as with tapestry, outside and inside, with products of the field, com pr-edominatmg ingeniously and fancifully arranged, In building the palace a large structure is first erected of lumber of a shape that will carry and show to advantage the multiform decorations with which it is to be adorned, It is in form lofty, with broken lines, pinnacles, buttresses, bridges gables, ornamental windows, -eteF ■ ; —— Over every inch of this wooden surface are laid corn and kindred plants in architectural harmony, in a multiplicity of designs. - The corn is em—ployed in the stalk. the.i.ear. .the kernel and even .the husk has its decorative uses. All the grains and grasses of the field lend themselves to the beautifying of the palace. The walls are covered on the outside with ears of corn, cut lengthwise or crosswise.

Sioux City Corn Palace of 1890. Opens Sept. 25. Closes Oct. IL

and nailed on in geometrical figures or other designs. The various colors of the cereal permit of a wide range of shading and coloring, while its artistic possibilities developed from year to ■ year in building the palace, admit of the production of effects that fire as startling as pleasurable. High over the entrance of the palace of 1889 was King Corn's crown as the nucleus of a sun burst, while below was the national flag in graceful folds all wrought in vari-colored corn as ' true, and as beautiful as if painted by an artist’s brush. The roof is overlaid .with corn leaves. Pinnacles and columns are capped with the sorghum p ant, or with grains and grasses. ! The irridescent walls, seen from a near distance, seem to be a rich mosaic of polished woods, while with the “Banners, yellow, glorious, golden,” that “From its roof-tree float and flow,” the palace enraptures the beholder as .one who looks upon a cloud-painted mansion that may dissolve before his ‘eyesr-—■ ’ —: ' "■ ■■ The interior worK is finer and more elaborate. Here the kernel of the corn is largely employed, producing amazing and lovely effects. On the Wai 8 are'wrought p ctures illustrating farm scenes, legendary and nursiiu talks, etc., with a fidelity that is calculatefl to raise a_.douht that the material employed in the homely utilitarian growth of western farms. Frescoes and flower figures of persons and animals, draneries and thousands of surprising and beautiful things are made of field plants for the dohght of the visitors to thepal \ce, whose ast.nishment is succeeded by admiration of the genius that conceived and dtvleoped so much of art and beauty from such homely fabrics as are employed.

How to Beat a Trust.

Springfield Republican. The jute trust thought they controlled the only suitable mateiial fair cotton bagging, and proposed to maJU the cotton planters pay for it. As a consequence the price was rapidly advanced to 15 cents: and th er the farmers revolted. The 4Hiunco took the matter up, and pledged it members to use no more jute bagging. Ths result was two-fold; the price of jute has fallen to sicents, and cotton bagging has largely taken the piece of ju„e, and bids fair to drive it out of use altogether. Jute is cheaper than coU j ton now, but ths farmers will not use I the fonher, and expect to recoup tlieraI selves by better prices fortheir cotton. In any event they have fairly beaten the trust.

How to Clean Russet shoes.

Detroit Fiee Press. Do you of the russet shoes know ho'.z to Clean the leather And restore it to its first estate? Of course you nave tried the varnishes and washes, and t found them altogether vexation of spirit. And the real thing is so easy when you ’ know about it. Just squeeze the juioe of a lemon on a.bit of soft cloth, give the leat* er a thorough treatment with thia and see if your shoes don’t look as well m they dir when you bought them.

INDIANAPOLIS LETTER.

Indianapolis, Sept. .. The political gossips are just now having a good oeal of amusement in watching the attacks of the Evansville Courier and the Sentinel of this city on their party platform. The editor of the Sentinel was the chairman of the committee on resolutions, but somehow or other he failed in getting * platform just to suit him and the Courier has been a little off-colored with its party for a long time. The Courier practically accuses its party of cowardice, and declares that Democrats are for the broadest kind of free trade, and the talk of tariff reform means that, but the party is too cowardly to declare in its platform just what it means. This is bold and manly in the Courier and goes to establish the truth of one of the charges the Republicans have always made against the Democrats — that they were in favor of anything for expediency, and had no real oonvlctions, but were only after votes. The Courier has always been much bolder aud more honest than its party and ileserves credit for tearing off the mask under which Indiana Democracy has been playing before the public. That the Courier tells the truth when it says the Democratic party is for free trade of the broadest description, is evidenced by the fact that not a single Democratic paper in the State has denied it or charged that the Courier was speaking for itself and not for the party. The party has played under the guise of tariff reform for some years, but in Indiana there has been a growing boldness on that subject. When the Presbyterians fell out with the- established, church they so hated the forms and ceremonies of the old church that they thought it was the correct thing for them to get away as far as possible front...forms, and., ceremonies of all kinds, so they changed all the order of worship, stood up when the}’ prayed and sat down when they sang, and even cut the marriage ceremony to a few syllables. The Democrats so hate Republicanism that they think themselves in duty bound to go just as far as possible in the other direction from that taken by the Republicans. If the Republicans should declare that the Lord’s prayer was of canonical order, the first Democratic convention that would be held in Indiana would resolve that the prayer emanated fromßddha, or was the production of Bob Ingersoll. The Republicans are for America and Americans, for protection, hence the Democrats are for free trade, not because they have any idea that it would be a good thing, but simply because it istheoppositeof pro tectiom The Sentinel does not say much on the tariff question but sails into one ortwo of the other planks of the platform with a vim. To speak after the manner of men it has literally knocked tjie stuffing out of the plank on the State debt. That plank assumes all responsibility fOr the whole debt of the State, and then declares the Democrats are proud of that debt, and that for every dollar of it the State has got value received in the way of great public institutions. The Sentinel says the Republicans are responsible for nearly. $5,000,000 of the debt, and that the platform lies when it says the State has had value received for a single dollar of that $5,000,000. The truth is, both the platform and the Sentinel he about the matter. The Republicans are not responsible for a dollar of the present debt. When the Republicans first came into power they found a legacy of debt amounting to nearly $12,000,000, that the Democrats had failed to pay off in the reign of a quarter of a century. More than that a Democratic rebellion confronted them, which entailed a large addition to that debt. The Republicans, before they surrendered power, paid off every dollar of the war debt, and reduced the Democratic debt from $12,000,000 to less than $5,000,000. That is a part of the present debt of $8,500,000. If the State never got value received for that, the Democrats and not..the Republicans are responsible. Thus the Sentinel does not tell the truth when it says that it is a Republican debt, and the platform lies when it says the State got value received in the shape of great public institutions. Both the Sentinel and the platform lie in the other part ,of the proposition, when they claim that for the other three and half millions theStnte has had value received in the public buildings erected. More than ene million of it was borrowed to pay interest on the debt that had descended from a former generation of Democrats. The'Democratic Legislature annually eat up all the revenues of the State in extravagant appropriations, and the State officers were compelled to annually borrow money to pay the State interest or let the credit of the State suffer. The money so borrowed amounts to over one million dollars. The same Democratic Legislatures so increased the current expenses that at the last session it found a deficit of more than a million staring it in the face and it authorized the making of a loan to meet that deficit. So it happens, practically only a small amount of thp new debt has gone into the public buildings. But the fiercest assaults of the Sentinel have been directed at another plank of the platform. That section reads as follows: “Wb demand the adoption of a system of equalizing the appraisement of real and personal property in this State, »o the end that an equal and proper uniformity in such assessments shall be secured, for the reason that voder tkisting regulations many counties ufl compelled to pay an u«jus: p<portion of thp State’s expenses, v rich others us unjustly escapes." That p’ank was originally intended by the Demo-'rets as a sop to the farmers as th it Mass of citizens have been

claiming that land was bearing more than its share of the burtlens. The Sentinel comes out and declares that tax on personal property is a fraud and must eter remain a fraud, and demands that all levying a t%x on personal property be repealed, and says that in the near future all taxes will be laid on land, This is a bold attack of the Sentinel and a bold declaration of the' purposes of its party. How will it suit the farmers? To make land bear all the burdens of the State simply means ruin to the agricultural part of the community. How different is the Republican programme on this subject. The Republicans declare in favor of compelling personal property to bear its full share of the burden, and then to add to the revenue by requiring all corporations asking favors from the State to pay a fair price for such favors. Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania each have similar laws to that proposed by the Republicans. In Ohio the law produced last year a revenue of $146,379. In New York the receipts from the charges for filing articles of incorporation amounted to $198,982. In Pennsyalvania the report of the Auditor for the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1889, shows the collection of tax on corporation stock and limited partnerships to have been $1,953,771. There is no doubt but that a law requiring a proper fee on all articles of incorporation filed with the Secretary of State in Indiana would produce money enough to pay the interest charges on the State debt, thereby relieving the land of the State of that much of a burden. The farmers would, do .well to carefully study the two platforms on this question in connection with the editorial utterences of the Sentinel.

Demoer tie Plan of Taxation.

Sentinel Editorial. I Democratic Platform The tax on personal| We demand the property ought to be adoption of a system wholly repealed. * *jof equalizing the ap-’ The prospect is that praisement of real the system of personal properproperty in land will tv in this State, to remain as it is,, ter the end that an equal some generations at and proper uniformileast, but that alh'ty in such assess taxes, at least fori meats shall be seState and local pur jeured, for the reason poses (except such as-that under existing may be derived from'regulations many the sale of franchis- counties are comes) will, in the nearpelled to pay an unfuture, be laid upon just proportion of the land. State’s expenses, which others as unjustly escape.

A Good Sound Policy.

Warsaw Times. The Republican convention showed its faith in the people of this State by its nominations. No less than four of the nine candidates are natives of Indiana, two of the rest were but two years old when their parents came here to reside, and still another has been a citizen of the State for nearly a quarter of a Century. This is a good, sound policy. Men who have spent all their lives here'Ou’gKt to understand the needs of the State better than those of,us who have only been here a few years.

Petition for Election Supervisors.

Chairmen Michener and Laymen, of the Republican State and county -committees, respectively, and other Mariop county residents having applied \jo Judge Gresham for the appointment of supervisors of election for Marion county, and the latter, in consequence of his absence from the diitrict, has assigned the dhty of such appointments to Judge Woods. The law requires that the district judge’s o'ffice shall be open ten days prior x to the election for the appointment of supervisors. The attention of Indiana soldiers is called to the following extract from a speech by General Cutcheon member of Congressstspni Michigan : There is one thing we have greatly missed ig the present Congress, and that is our weekly list of presidential, vetoes of pension bills. The present chief executive evidently believes no w, as he believed before his election, that it. is no time to weigh. the .gratitude of the country for its soldiers with an apothecary’s scales. In the nine months since this Congress convened no veto of a pension bill, great or small, public or private, has come from the hands of Benjamin Harrison. In addition to the many hundreds of private pension bills which have become a law during this session, we have placed upon the statute book, as a monument of the fidelity of the Republican party to its promises, the act of June 27, under which not hundreds but hundreds of thousands of disabled soldiers, and soldiers’ widows will receive the grateful bounty-of the Nation.

Union soldiers on the Democratic State ticket: • • • • • • • ••••••••• Union soldiers on the Republican State ticket: Ivan N. Walker, Robert, W. Mcßride, John W. Lovett, William T. Noble, John Worrell. —Madison Courier. Since the Democratic platform has declared in favor of increasing the appraisements and tax burdens of real estate the Sentinel waxes bold to say ■ *the prospect is that all taxes, lat least for State and local purposes,- except each as may be derived from the sale of franchises, will, in the near future, be laid upon land.” We do not think the future is very near when that will ba done in Indiana.

Out of Every So Collected ns National Revenue, $2 go to the Soldiers and Sailors whs Saved the Union and to Their Dependent Families. The Republican party in its last National platform proclaimed this doctrine: < “The legislation of Congress should conform to the pledges made by a loyal people and be so enlarged and extended as to provide against the possibility that any man who honorably wore the Federal uniform shall become the inmate of an almshouse or dependent upon private charity. In harmony with this recommendation, which the people indorsed, the Republican Congress and the Republican President have placed an additional annual sum of $35,000,000 to the credit of the pension fund for the benefit of 250,000 just claimants whose names have until now been absent from the rolls. The pensions of 50.000 men already there are increased from $2 a month to $6. The pension list is enlarged to include a total of 750,000 beneficiaries, and total of $150,000,000 per year is applied for their relief. For the coming year the Government will pay $2 out of every $5 collected for the maintenance of the infirm, maimed, and dependent heroes who offered their lives in its defense. History contains no instance of such a practical demonstration of gratitude on the part of a nation to its soldiers and sailors! This was accomplished as every stage, as, perhaps, was natural, in the face of a violent, bitter, relentless Democratic opposition. The party which, in the eloquent words of George William Curtis, the orator who now prositutes his eloquence to its service, “fell from power in a conspiracy against human .rights and now sneaks back into power in a conspiracy for plunder and spoil, that party would naturally starve the heroes who escaped its bullets. That it has failed to do-so is not the fault of its Congress or its President.

NICODEMUS.

INGALLS ON THE TWO PARTIES.

From Pittsburg Speech. If a man is a Democrat, in God’s name let him be a Democrat. [Applause.] He that is filthy let him be be filthy [laughter and prolonged cheering], and if he is a Republican in God’s name let him be a Republican in off years as well as in presidential years. [Applause.] Fellow-citizens, I am often asked—being what is commonly called a Republican, and that is, as we say in the West, “a Republican from the head of the creels,” in whom there is no variableness; not a shadow of turning— l am asked what is the difference between a Republican and a Democrat, or the difference between the Democratic and Republican party? What odds does it make except that one or the other shall have the offices? I have one observation to make to that point, fellow-citizens. I have bne slight observation to suggest as to the difference between the Democratic and Republican party in the off years’ as well as ih the presidential year, and that is that, upon every issue, upon every question affecting the the welfare, prosperity and the existence of this Nation for the last thirty years, the Republican party has always been right' and the Democratic party has always been wrong. [Applause.] And it is just exactly as wrong at this particular moment of time as it was in 1860, 1861, or at any time since 1861. Slavery, secession, State sovereignty, reconstruction, the public credit) the national currency, the resumption of specie payment, the coinage of silver, protection to American labor, [cheers and applause], and the tariff for the protection of American industries, I say to you that upon every one of these questions, from the beginning down to the last syllable in the record of time, even so late as Thursday of last week, the Republican party has always been right aud the Democratic party has always been wrong [applause], and it will continue to be wrong, world withou tend. Amen, [Prolonged cheers.]

Temperance Evangelist. A special correspondent to the Chicago Lever encourages the faithful by writing that though the actual vote for the Prohibocratic ticket at the late Vermont election (1,214) was less than the vote of 1888, its relative strength was greater because the aggregate vote of the State was less this year than in 1888. That year it gave less than 2 per cent, of the entire vote, this year it gives 2 3-10 per cent., so that in two years it has actually gained 3-10 of 1 per cent. Immense gains! But in order to show this “immense gain” the correspondent takes the vote for Governor, 1,382 in 1888, instead of the vote for President, 1,460, and wholly leaves out the fact that in 1884 the Prohibition vote was 1,752. Immense gains! Seriously, is it not disgusting to see men of sense on ordinary subjects playing at party, when in twenty years it can. command only 2 3-10 per cent, of the votes of a State, and when it-. has steadily fallen off since 1884? And they claim to be Prohibitionistsl Nonsense! They are obstructionists and nothing else. The Democratic State organ says that the tax on personal property is a fraud and ought to be abolished. The Democratic platform demands a higher appraisement of real estate, which meaits a proportionate release .of pern sonal property from taxation. This position will be approved by moneylenders, owners of mortgage notes and corporation bonds and coupon cutters generally; but what do real estate owners think of it? The new Demqcratic departure in favor of a single land tax ’will scarcely be aonroved by the farmers of Indiana.

MORE PENSIONS.

IMMENSE GAINS.