Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1893 — Republican Organization. [ARTICLE]

Republican Organization.

The Republicans of Jasper county and all who wish to cooperate with them are requested to meet in their respective townships on SATURDAY, JAN., 6, 1894, at 2 o’clock p. M., for the transaction of the following business: Ist. The election of a precinct committee in each precinct of each township, the members of which shall elect one of their number to be a member of the county central committee. 2nd. The election of one delegate for each precinct to the District convention to be held at Logansport Thursday. Jan . 18th, 1894, for the election of a member of the State Committee. The places of meeting in the several townships, unless otherwise designated by the existing township committees, shall be as follows: Barkley township, Center School House. Marion township, the Court House. Carpenter. township, Exchange Hall. In all other townships, the respective voting in such townships. The central committee selected as above provided, will meet on • Saturday, Jan. 13th;-- 1894, at 1 o’clock sharp, at the court house in Rensselaer, for organization, in accordance with the call of the State Central Committee, by the election of a chairman, vice-chair-man, secretary and a treasurer. M. F. Chllcote, Ch. Jasper Co. Rep. Cent. Com. The vast Democratic majority of thirteen months ago, of 34,000 has melted down to next to nothing, and the Chicago election of Tuesday was morally, a great Republican victory. The New York Sun thinks patriotic Americans should regard the preparations which the provisional government of Hawaii is making to defend itself against the United States with pride and shame—“pride because these men, many of them, are of our own stock, and have been doing in Hawaii what their ancestors did in the American colonies in 1776. Shame, because the force against which the Hawaiian republicans have been taking precautions is that of the United States, the mother country of many of their number, the natural friend, ally and supporter of freedom, the natural enemy of monarchy.

President Cleveland’s message on the Hawaiian situation, was received Monday. It is a ponderous re-hash of Blount’s one-sided, misleading and essentially false report, and ; a labored attempt to hoodwink the American people as to the real animus of the administration in this matter. More than ever are we convinced that Cleveland and Gresham’s attempt to force back upon the people of Hawaii this wretched, abandoned, half-barbarous queen, whom they had rejected, was a monumental crime;, a crime against liberty, against patriotism, and against civilization. Even in,its ignominious failure, it has brought more shame and disgrace Upon the American people than any other —than all in the whole history of our country’s intercourse with, other nations and peoples of the earth.

- 'Tffinols is agaih a safel^BeptitS-" 1 lican state. The loss of 33,000 democratic majority in Chicago inevitably makes thejstate Republican. The Chicago election Tuesday resulted in the election of Hopkins, the Democratic candidate, on the face of the . returns, by 1300 majority. Cleveland’s majority in ’92 was 34,000—a Democratic loss of nearly 33,000. The Republicans claim frauds and will contest the election. - Eckles, the two by four country lawyer whom Cleveland made Comptroller of the currency, because he wanted the other office Eckles was after to buy some Democratic Congressman with, seems to be in it strictly for revenue, as Gresham is for malignity. Eckles has appointed Duncan & Gilbert, an obscure law firm of which he was a member, and of which a brother* of his is still a silent partner, attorneys for the receivers of the three Chicago National Banks that suspended through the stress of the Free Trade panic. That this firm is getting enough out of their appointments to make a liberal “divy” with Eckles, the Comptroller, is sufficiently eyident from the fact that they charged the Columbia Bank alone SBOOO for “legal services” for the months of July and August, and never a law suit to manage, or any other work performed of any importance. At - whafr rate the same alleged lawfirm is charging the other two banks has not been made public. That the whole outfit is getting rich off of those banks, however, there is not much room to doubt. Neither is there much doubt but that the Columbia Bank, and probably the Chemical, could and would have promptly resumed business, had not Comptroller Eckles kept them in a hole, in order that he and his precious law firm might rob them blind on the pretext of “legal services.”

Muncie J\ r ews: We note with considerable satisfaction that the new tariff bill is so mindful of the interests of the poor man that they place paintings and statuary upon the free list. The duties of these two articles brought in less than $250,000 last year, but the laborer will be pleased that this is to be taken off. When a nian working for one dollar per day, with a family to keep, can get his paintings and statuary free of duty, it is a blessing he should not fail to appreciate.