Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1894 — Sound Sense On the Congressional Question. [ARTICLE]

Sound Sense On the Congressional Question.

The Republican State Convention will be held April 26th. Jasper county is entitled to nine delegates. As much as the original Wilson bi.l cut down the revenues, and as large an annual deficit as it provided for, it was not radical enongh in that direction to suit the Southern Democrats, aud all their amendments were along the line of still further reductions in the revenue. There is probably more in this than a blind belief in the dogmas of free trade. It looks mightily as though they were setting out deliberately to creat a vast annua! deficiency iu the revenues for a purpose. If so their object is not hard to find. By causing the revenues to fall a hundred millions or so behind the expenses of the government every year, and thus piling up debt to that extent, they hope to make the pension system unpopular, and thus secure their cherished design of pujging the pension rolls.

There seems to be general sentiment among Republicans all over this part of the state, in favor of early nominating conventions. Quite a number of counties have already called their conventions, and Others are moving in that direction. The philosophy of this sentiment seems to be in the fact that the Republicans everywhere feel that this is the year of all recent years, when the welfare of the country demands a sweeping, old time Republican victory. To that end they don’t want Republican strength wasted in long canvasses for nominations. They want all their fighting strength reserved for the struggle with the free trade, free soup enemy. Another strong point in favor of early conventions is that less time is thus given for the growing of strifes and ill-feel-ings among rival candidates for nominations; and that also the early conventions give more time for such bitterness and ill feeling to subside, before election day arrives. We are satisfied that if the Jasper county central committee decides on calling an early eonnty convention, their action will meet with almost universal approbation among the Republicans of the county.

The Bey. Sereno E. Bishop, of Honolulu, and one of the most eminent clergymen in the Sandwich Islands, aod also a native of the islands, has a long letter in the' New York Independent , the leading religious paper of the country. The shameful coprse of Cleveland und his tools in Hawaii is exposed and condemned in the most complete manner. The great length of the letter prevents its re-publication complete, but we give the closing paragraphs, showing the views that are held among the best people of Hawaii of the character of the queen Cleveland tried so hard, and failed so ignomiuiously, to restore. After referring to the queen's patronage of the hula dancers, the letter say«: The hula dances, of which Lilinokalaui was a patron, as well as her brother, are very loathsome forms of the dause a ventre of the Cairo tdrls in the Midway Plaisance, which was recently suppressed in iSew York City. They are fan to mi tics of the unspeakable. tin ay be Raid with almost certainty of all who participate in their most common forms that they have lost all sense of modesty or chastity. The hulu, with its obscene chanting accompaniments, simpjy coubti u£» the drama of heathen lewdness and the loath- * <>in it urgy of idolatrous worship, lu no other funotlou of the old **' - »■ *'

savage life of Hawaii is the essence of heathen vileness so completely embodied as in the hula. It is this sort of a tiling that Cleveland and Willis have been at work to set over us, in the person of Queen Liliuokalani, who is herself something of an adept in the hula dances, altho not so absolutely saturated with them as was her brother Kalakaua. Their policy may thus be termed one not only of “infamy,’' but of nastiness. They are working to rehabilitate in Hawaii, the foulness of the old heathenism, and to trample down our native churches under the the hoofs of the Kahunas and the hulu dancers. I write from the experience of much close intimacy with Hawaiians as a pastor and teacher, during nearly seventy years pince my birth among them.

Ghodland Herald. There is every indication that while the contest between W. W. Johnson and C. B. Landis for the Congressional nomination is going to be a lively one it will also be a good natured fight, as it should be. We believe that either of the gentlemen named, or Capt. Frank Swigart, of Logansport, would make a capable and satisfactory representative of the tenth, and their is no reason for the rank and file to wage a bitter warfare because of a super-abundance of good material. Hon. W. W. Gillam, of this place, will not be a candidate, but were he on the track we would take the same pleasure iu supporting his candidacy as we did two years ago, believing him to compare favorably with the able gentlemen who are now seeking the nomination.