Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1893 — Town Board Proceedings. [ARTICLE]

Town Board Proceedings.

Hoke Smith, the commissioner of pensions, interprets the disability pension law to say that the disability must have had its reign in the service of the country and that the pensioner must now be unable to earn a livlihood. This ia burgintr the pension rolls with a vengeance. - ?-,W During the last presidential campaign many farmers voted for Cleveland because wheat was only ninety cents per bushel. The solid south, by the aid of calamity howlers of the north, put Grover in the presidential chair. Grover went a fishing and the present price of wheat is sixty cents.

The manufacturers of wool goods are fearing that the democratic congress at its next session will remove the tariff and permit the foreign manufacturers to stock "the American market with shoddy material and thereby destroy the. trade, and for this reason they are running their mills very slowly This accounts for the low price of wool. There is no demand for it. Chesterton Tribune: The friends of Judge Johnston are more determined than ever to see him congressman of this district', and from all sides we hear people so express themselves. Already it is plainly seen that his .defeat is a misfortune to our district and that he was sacrificed for a man incompetent to dll the place. The Judge made a grand fight, but was overcome-fey an upheaval in politics that no man could stem. The republican party is recovering from the disaster that overtook it, and to-day its principles stand out brighter than ever. The soldier is finding this out, the business men are discovering their error and the working man will ere long.

President Cleveland learned how his fishing jaunt on Memorial day during his first term outraged the feelings of all the veterans and their friends and shocked a great many people who have no personal sentiment concerning the day, but do consider that certain prorieties should be observed by the President of the United States in regard to it To deliberately repeat his offence in the light of this knowledge is a proof of the man’s colossal egotism and disregard of pnblie opinion that those who admired him least hardly expected. However the first may have been, this time the trip seems to have been intended as a studied insult to the men who saved the country of which he is by unfortunate turn ofjcircumstances made President.

Col. Dink Botts of Lumpkin county, Georgia, has been interviewed by a New York Sun correspondent and thus expresses himself: “Politics, is an insidious evil that creeps in every where, and disturbs everything, sah. I have never held an office, sah, but I have always been a politician, and when the kingdom come again last March, sah, I had hopes, but they were crushed, sah, crushed. Here Tom, bring them mint juleps, and get two more ready.” Of the Hon. Hoke the statesman said: “Colonel Smith may be a Napoleon of the iuteior, sah, a Napoleon of the interior but, by gad, sah, it seems to me, sah, he is buttin’ his head up against the Alps, sah, in a manner that his distinguished predecessor sah, would have court-martialed one of his officers for doing, sah. Col. Smith, sah, may think he is driving the chariot of political

progress to tneTore, sahTbuFthbr©' are many citizens right here, sah, that sees the couplin’ pin is coming oht, and the britchiu’ is broke in a half a.dozen.-places.’-’ The Republican Party. John Sherman has written a letter to the Ohio State convention in which he shows the position of the republican party to-day in his usual forcible manner. “The Republican party,” he says ‘‘has”esfeablished the policy which ’has secured Ameriea for Americans. It has protected all industries partially. It lias Secured to labor its highest rewards, not only in wages, but in opportunities and advancement impossible in other countries. It has secured us a sound currency, the highest financial credit, general prosperity, and an unexampled growth in wealth, intelligence,”mr vention and developement It has cared for the patriotic soldiers of the war, their widows and orphans, not only by honors and sympathy but by liberal pensions. Compared with the empty and fruitless promises of its adversaries the republican party has engrafted its

policy in acts and executed them, and now points to the history of its deeds as the best evidence of what it will do in the future; while a Democratic party and a Democratic President caunot agree upon or formulate a single affirmative measure of public policy, and cannot even agree upon how aud where it will or can attach any measure of the Republican party. It relies upon temporary discontent, the slumbering animosities of the rebellion, and the corrupt* agencies of the city of New York. Under these circumstances it should be the pride and glory of the Republican party in Ohio to take the lead in our coming election, to revive the latent energy and enthusiasm of the olden times, to bury out of sight all the petty divisions and dissensions inseperable from political strife, and, with courage and hope, to advance our national honor, as in 1863, with our principles emblazoned on every fold, with pride in what we have done in the past, and with confidence that the patriotic people of the United States will rally to our support wherever a free ballot and a fair count is permitted by the ruling powers of the Democratic party.

The Town Board met in regular June session Monday night. A remonstrance was filed in the Hardman and Hammond sewer petition, on Rutson street. The Marshal was instructed to grade Weston street and the railroad be required to put in a crossing. Two ordinances for side walks were passed, one to be from Wallace Robinson’s house on Weston street north to the railroad, the other from Mrs. Ensin’s residence to the railroad. The treasurer waa instructed to loan out the sinking fund a 8 per cent, interest. Charles Steward was appointed Fire Marshal for one year, at one foliar per month. M. F. Chilcote was re-elected as school trustee. A large number of sidewalks were condemned about town, and the Marshal was instructed to notify the property owners.