Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1890 — DEMOCRATIC SENTIMENT. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC SENTIMENT.

As Expressed in the Columns of th< State and in the Platform of the Party. Sentinel Editorial Jan. 6,1887. THE BUPREME COURT. Damn their cowardly souls. The members of the Sureme Court Of Indiana are afraid of their shadows. Yesterday Judge Elliott delivered the opinion of the court in the SmithRobertson lieutenant-govenorship case. There was no dissenting opinion, more's the pity. * * * If on;y one man had shown honesty enough and courage enough to have dissented, something of the august character of the court would have been saved; but it stands now a crying shame, [The Supreme Court at that time consisted of Judge Niblack, Zollars, Mitchell and Howk. Democrats, and Judga Elliott, Republican 1 ] , - I Democratic Platform. 1 Judges Coffee. Berkshire and Olds, Republican members of the Supreme Bench, deserve the contempt of the people of Indiana for their action in overturning the settled construction of the Constitution, reversing all legal precedents and contradicting their own rulings for the sake of a few petty offices and at the dictation of unscrupulous political tricksters. Sentinel Editorial, Feb. 9,1890. The men who were hanged and the men now in the Illinois penitentiary for the Haymarket crime were the victims of the most flagrant judicial outrage in the annals of this Republic. It was the mob spirit that convicted them. It was a jury of cowards and lickspittles that brought in the verdict. * * * The time will come when the trials of the Chicago Anarchists will be regarded by enlightened people the world over with the same feelings of horror and amazement with which we now review the trials of the Salem “witches.” . „ Sentinel Editorial, Sept. 14, 1890. The tax on personal pronerty ought to be wholly repealed. * * * The prospect is that the system of private property in the land will remain as it is, for some generations, at least, but that all taxes, at least for State and local purposes (except such as may be drived from the sale of franchises), will, in the near future, be laid upon land. *’«