Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN r —. t Thursday, February 22, 1894. tfflCID KVKBY THURSDAY BY GKE . E. MARSHALL. PDBttSHKB AND PBOFBIKTOB. . OITi> B is--K<3pnfr»i,H»B BaUding,—Oß oner > VMtiiaxton &sd Weston streets ‘ iftMS OF SUBSGSHTIOIfr Ora Year ....... ...$1.50 811 Months 75 Three Months ... 50 Official Paper of Jasper County.

Pennsylvania elected a Con-gress-mau-at-large Tuesday, at which the whole state voted. Not only is the state redeemed from Democracy, but the majority exceeds anything ever before recorded; from 150,000 to 200,000. If a presidential election were to be held now the Democrats would not get a single electoral vote north of Mason <fc Dixon’s line—and very tew south of it, except as they stole them. Gee'. Fred Km.tier, of Indianapolis, has be*oi looking up Gresham’s war record from the official sources, and finds that he was never in a battle and g- t his wound from a long-range bushwhacker, several dajs before the battle of Atlanta, where, by courtesy, he is said>to have received it. Gen. Knefl r sagely concludes that “Gresham w s a humbug as a soldier, a hum ! iig as a citizen, a humbug ss a lawyer and a humbug as a statesman.”

Governor McKinley in his Lin

colb (fay speech at Columbus pointedly asks: What is gained by reducing the revenue from tariff while increasing the expend:tn y e of an interest bearing debt? Wind . 1 1 of economy is it that redi:ci-s the tariff even if it be ‘r. tax’ by $50,000,000 and at the, same rime adds to the other forms of taxation the burden of SSO 000,0U0 principal and $2,500,000 increased public debt? What if? gained by foregoing $50,000,000 of tariff revenue, which is $50,000 000 without interest, and borrowing SSO 000,000 at 5 per cent, interest? How is it more easy for people to pay $52,500,000 by direct taxation than to pay $50,000, 000 by indirect taxation—assuming tariff duties to be indirect taxes, though in many instances they are not taxes of any kind, or _ not paid by Americans.”

A H. Purdue, of Warrick county, will be a candidate for the Republican nomination of State Geologist. There is probably no one in the state with better prepa- . ratiuu for the work which the of-fice-entails. He is a graduate of the State Normal School and has been a student at Purdue University and also graduated from the department of Geology at Leland Stafford Jr. University, last June. Prior to his graduation he assisted Dr. Brauner in the geological survey of Arkansas, having prepared the relief map of that state which was exhibited in the Government building at the World’s Fair. Drs Jordan and Branner speak in the very highest terms of his work. Mr. Purdue is a yonng man of energy and great personal worth and just such a man as is needed to Sfci • • the state in the capacity of State Geologist He is also a thorough Republican.

A correspondent from west Grant township, Newton county, in the Goodland Herald, thus shows the practical workings of one f-ature of the Wilson bill: Both Andy Thomson and S. H. Dickiubou have sold all * their sheep on account of the Wilson tariff bill. Mr. Thomson has already plowed up his pasture, f./r corn. Dickinson will doubtless do the same, and they will not only sell the grMn the sheep ate, but will put on the market the corn grown on these pastures. Yet Democrats, who were free traders, tell us they do not make the prices. But it is plain to any sensible man that by driving the sugar men and sheep farmers to corn or graiD grov. ill put more corn or grain on l'h»* market, already overloaded, and reduce the price to & ruinous tigure, We were ofoen told by s • ire-box politicians that farmers wore not. protect* d, but they (the farmers) are in a fair way to learn by bitter experience their own solution of the question.

Republican Bounty Convention.

The Republicans of Jasper county, who will be legally entitled to vote at the general election of Nov. b, 1894, are requested tomee ■frrprecinct rmips cotrventtoncm SATURDAY, MARCH 17th, 1894, at 2 o’clock'"?. M. to elect delegates and alternate delegates to represent the precinct or township at the Republican County Nominating Convention, herein called. The number of suck delegates and alternate delegates, apportioned on the basis of one delegate for each 15 votes, or fraction of five or over, cast for Benjamin Harrison in 1892, is for the several townships and precincts as follows:

Ilangiug Grove..... 4 delegates. Gillam 5 delegates. Walker 6 delegates. Barkley, East 4 delegates. Barkley, West 4 delegates. Marion, South G delegates. Marion, East 8 delegates. Marion, We5t....... 11 delegates. Jordan 3 delegates. Newton.... .* 4 delegates. Keener 5 delegates. Kankakee. 3 delegates. Wheatheld 5 delegates. Carpenter, South... 8 delegates. Carpenter, East 7 delegates. Carpenter, West.... 6 delegates. Milroy 2 delegates. Union.... 5 delegates. The places of meeting for the above precinct mass conventions shall be the usual voting places, exthe following: Marion, South, the Town Hall. Marion, East, Court Room. Marion West, Court Room. Carpenter, South, room over Allman's A SVetz’ hardware store. Oavpauter, East. Town I T I. Carpenter, West, Eschar;, i Hall.

CO UN Tl C Zli 7BN "' ' . The delegates elected is above provided, will meet ia ie Court House in Rensselaer, cu DIOS DAY, MARCH 19th, 1894, at one o’clock P. M. to nominate candidates to be voted for at the election of Nov. 6, 1894, as follows: County Clerk. County Auditor. County Treasurer. County Sheriff. County Surveyor. "OoufityUoroner. Commissioner, Ist District. Commissioner, 2nd District. Commissioner, 3rd District. Also to elect 9 delegates and 9 alternate delegates to represent the county at the State convention . By order of the Jasper county Republican Committee. Thos. J. McCoy, C. E. Mills, Chairman. Secretary.

Candidates’ Announcements. COUNTY CLERK WILLIAM H. OOOVEK. We nre auth >rized to announce the name of William H. Coover, of Carpenter township, as a Candida e for theofllce of County Clerk, subject to the action of the ltepublican county convention. COUNTY AUDITOR. HENRY B. MURRAY. We are authorized to announce thd name of Henry B. Murray, of liarkb-y township, asd a candidate for the office of County Auditor, subject to- the action of tire Republican county convention. COUNTY SHERIFF. CHARLES W HANLEY. we are authorized to announce the name of Charles W. ILrnley, of Walker township as a candidate for the office of County Sheriff, subj ct;to the action of the Republican couuty convention COUNTY SURVEYOR. JOHN E ALTER. We are authorized to announce the name of John K. Alter, of Union tp., as a candidate for re-election the office of County Surveyor Subject to the action of the Republican county convention. - : . TOWN OFFICE CANDIDATES. \\’e are authorized to announce the name of Thomas McGowan ass candidate for reelection to the office of Town Marshrl, of the town of Rensselaer. Subject to the action of the Republican town convention.

Some mills are Parting and the fact is paraded by the democratic press which however neglects to state that they start with a wage reduction. Congressman Stevens o! North Audover, Mass., voted for the Wilson bill and hue just started his woolen mills at a reduction of w ages of 15 per cent. Have not the wage earners learned by sal experience that the free trade fight was a fight againfct labor.

R. A. Brown,’ T editdr of the Franklin Republican and president of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, is a candidate for Clerk of the Supreme Court. Mr. Brown' Stands very high in the estinfation hf his brother editors throughout the state, and not less so among other -people where he is known. He will be no load on the ticket if he gets the nomination, in fact quite the contrary, he will be a help to it. He is indeed a fine fellow in every respect. He is popular with all classes, energetic,, well educated, a gentleman and a good man.

At Chicago last week, after the big storm, the Illinois Central R. R. company advertised for 300 men to shovel snow. The next morniug there were 1,000 men on hand, and so anxious were the poor fellows to earn a little money even at that hard and unpleasant labor, that the railroad had to call the police to prevent them fighting among themselves for the work. Before the success of the free trade party closed the work shops and factories, it was almost impossible to drum up half so many men as were wanted, for that kind of a job, let alone three times as many, as is the case now.

Cleveland, having been twice knocked clear out in his fight with Hill over the vacant Supreme judgeship, in the successive rejection of Hornblowc-r and Peckham, on Monday sent in the name of Senator White, of Louisiana, and the nomination was confirmed on sight. Cleveland has none too much political sense, nor any other kind for that matter, but he does know enough to know that if he wants to make dead sure of having his nominations confirmed by the Senate he has~ only to nominate a senator, or a Confederate brigadier. The Senate as at present constituted will never go back on a member of either of those classes.

Neighbor McEwen has been redheaded right along, for several weeks past, in regard to the A. P. A. He not only parades the fact that some of their lecturers have been arrested charged with offenses, (arrested, not covieted, mind you) as a conclusive evidence of their wickedness, but also when 'they are made the victims of lawless mobs, and are forcibly denied their constitutional right of free speech. Our neighbor probably used to record the facts that abolition advocates had been made the victims of mobs, as conclusive evidence of the wickedness of the abolitionists, and he now applies the same principles to A. P. A lecturers.

General Harrison never made an address that did not contain some statement which was so original or so practical as to attract attention. His brief address at Indianapolis of Tuesday evening of last week was no exception, as this paragraph shows: It is generally accepted now as a right princip e that our city councils, our county commissioners, our state legislature should all legislate to create work for the unemployed. You may read in the same newspaper on one page an appeal to a city council to appropriate money to inaugurate a public work to give employment to the unemployed, and on another an article favoring a system of tariff reduction that closes American mills. The Republican theory has been all along that it was right to so legislate as to give work, employment, comfort to the American workman. We believe that the national government has a duty in this respect as well as the City Council and the Board of County Commissioners; and thaf that duty is bent discharged by so legislating that American mills can keep their fires going.

Two of Cleveland’s recent characteristic appointments are General Joe Shelby for U. S. Marshal of Missouri, and Alexander W. Terrell, of Texas, as Minister to Turkey. Shelby, was oue of the worst of the Confederate “border ruffians,” of the-war, who butchered defeusless prisoners and noncombatants, and who wrote a letter,

still in existence, rejoicing over the massacre, by his men, of a number of “Yankee” schoolmasters, and their pupils, children of negro refugees. Terrell’s principal claim to distinction is a poenahe wrqte eul.ogkdng Wil'kes Booth and his murder of President Lincoln. It is no wonder that the malignant Gresham should complete the record of his infamy by refusing to any longer appear among the list of Union soldier pensioners. Men who got hit by Rebel Bullets, even at suck dong range as Gresham did, are in mighty bad repute with this administration, and Gresham is only being consistent with the principles and practices of the crowd he trains with in refusing to longer accept his pension.

THE GREAT “LOWERER.”

As a “lowerer” the Cleveland administration is an incomparable success. It has in fact lowered every thing that should stay up or go higher. It began by lowering the American flag, and it has gone on lowering as if it was at work by the job and would forfeit part of its wage if it had not lowered everything within a given period to the lowest basement. It has lowered wages, the range of employment, the product of mills, the freights of railroads, the volume of industry, the little savings of the workingman, the profits of trade, the price of wheat, and everything else that is essential to to the comfort of the people. It lias lowered values of all kinds — railroads, farms, stocks of goods. Tffkas lowered the funds in the treasury, the customs receipts, the standing of the Bepublie in the eyes of the world. It has even lowered Democratic majorities and the repute of the Democratic party, never the best, until there is scarcely a man in the country who will say without qualification, “1 am a Democrat.” True, it has increased many things, but the increase had the quality of lowering. It has increased the public debt, the army of the the suffering and pauperism of the land, the affection of John Bull for American toadies. In short it has lowered every tiling that is essential to the highest prosperity of the the Nation, and increased everything that can add to its woes and disgrace. Fortunately it will end by lowering itself out of existence, but the lowering process is a general calamity.— Indianapolis Journal.

EFFECT ON HAY.

The "Wilson Bill Will Be Disastrous to the Tenth District. Kontlaml Enterprise. The hay lands of the Kankakee valley cover a large portion of the Tenth Congressional District. Of late years the production of hay has become the leading agricultural industry of this valley. Prior to the McKinley tariff a duty of $2 per ton was imposed. This being found inadequate protection from Canadian competition, tlie McKinley act raised the tariff on hay to $4 per ton. Under the stimulus of this protection ihe hay interest was largely developed throughout the Kankakee valley. This $4 duty was not prohibitory for under it for the year ending June 30, 1893, there was imported 104,181.21 tons. But it was high enough to permit the hay to be made in the Kankakee marshlands, so as to pay fair wages to the laborers employed and some profit to the producers. The result was that in the north end of Newton county, as well as elsewhere in the Kankakee valley, a large production and shipment ofrhay; giving employment to many laborers, and the advance in price of these hay lands. The production of hay in the neighborhood of Rose Lawn was more than trebled. The shipment of hay from that point rivaling in importance the shipment of grain from other railroad stations in the county. Prices of land advanced 100 per cent. Many laborers were employed at good wages, and hay machinery of all Kinds largely invested in. This was causing altogether too much prosperity, and the people of the Kankakee region, voted for a change* and by electing a democratic congressman on a free trade platform practically directed him to strike down this hay industry by knocking off the protection of the McKinley bill for their hay industry. The Wilson bill places hay back to the revenue basis of $2 per tOD, and Mr. Hammond votes for it, as he was in honor bound to do; although he must know, as well as every well informed man in thd Kankakee valley, that it will knock all the,, profit out of the production of hay in his district.

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