Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1894 — SOME FRIENDLY DEMOCRATIC COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

SOME FRIENDLY DEMOCRATIC COMMENT.

’ Jaeper county is entitled to the nomination for joint Representative this year, and has only to ask for it to get it. Two good men in Rensselaer are engaged in friendly contest for the nomination. They are Marion L. Spitler and Charles E. Mills. It would be invidious and improper for The Republican to express a preference between the two men, at this time. But either of them would make a useful and an honorable Representative, and either if nominated, would, we are confident, receive the united and hearty support of the entire Republican party of both counties.

The Valparaiso Daily Messenger says; “A democratic skunk is no fit-iter —than—a—Republican skunk. * * This will be a bad year for skunks.” Right j’ou are; and it’s going to be a bad year especially for democratic skunks and democratic ingrates.—Winamac Democrat Journal. Very true, brethren! It will be a bad year for democratic “skunks” and ingrates. In fact, when you come to think about it, it is going to be an awiul bad year for democrats of all kinds, except those who are smart enough to forsake the rotten hulk of their party’s ship, and come over to the Republican vessel. And there’s lots of ’em coming. Just lots of ’em! If the Roman Catholics of this country follow the teachings of Archbishop Ireland they need have no fear of the A. P. A. “The Catholic church, so far as she wears a national aspect, must be American in America,” said the eloquent archbishop in his sermon on St. Patrick’s Day. If the Catholics want to show the injustice of the A. P. A. they will follow this advice and be satisfied with one flag—Old Glory.—lnter Ocean.

A very formidable petition will soon be forwarded to the Post Office Department at Washington, protesting against the removal of the post-office from its present location. It has been in that one place now about 15 or 16 years, and the generality of people are well satisfied to have it remain there. To the great mass of the patrons of the office the present location will be more convenient and acceptable than in the more crowded “trade center” of the next block west The business advantages which the business men of “the block” will derive from the removal of the office, are probably very much over-esti-mated. In a small town, where all the business of the place can be done in one or two rooms, it is, of course, a great advantage to have the post-office in the same room, or the next door, but in a town like Rensselaer, where business is divided into its different lines, and distributed into forty or fifty different rooms, the immediate proximity ot the postoffice is of very little value. We are satisfied that the great majority of the patrons of the office, of all parties, would prefer to have the post-office remain in the old accustomed place.

There is less excuse for Democrats to now pretend to believe that the present hard times are not the natural result of their imdending free trade, from the fact that these hard times are exactly what Republicans for years everywhere said would follow the adoption of free trade, or approximate free trade. Read, for instance, the following extract from a speech delivered by James G. Blaine in Oct. 1890, and note how prophetic of what has since happened his words are: “The great southern wing of the Democratic party are determined to establish the doctrine of free trade in this land. They will be assisted by their northern allies. The fight is now on. There is a great body of visionary but educated men who are employed day by day in writing free-trade essays and arguments in favor of that doctrine, which find their way into every newspaper in this land. The great body of our people have never experienced themselves the sufferings which always result when the protective principles are laid aside. Poisoned and excited by the wild statements of these

writers and the demagogic appeals of Democratic speakers, the result will be that in the very near future "these forces which are now working will be strong enough to defeat at the polls the party advocating the doctrine of protection. It must inevitably follow that uncertainty and doubt will ensue. The business men of the country, fearing the destruction of the principle of protection, will decline to engage in business, consequently mills will shut down and the workingmen will be thrown out of work. The people will then see as they have never seen before that they cannot be prosperous and have work while this principle is threatened. In the midst of their sufferings they will learn that the only way they can be prosperous and happy is to vote for the party that has built up the industries by which they have gained a livelihood; because they will then see clearly that when the manufactory is shut down there is no demand for the only thing which they have to sell, and that is their labor.”

Upon the Appointment of the New Postmaster, The Hammond News, the recognized Democratic organ of Lake county, thus comments on the Rensselaer post-office appointment: ANOTHER OUTRAGE. “Congressman Hammond has recommended Edward P. Honan for postmaster at Rensselaer. We unhesitatingly pronounce this appointment one of the most infamous of the many rank appointments made by the mis-represen-tative from this district Editor James McEwen was an applicant for the position and ever since a few weeks after the election he was cajoled by Mr. Hammond into believing that he was the favored man. Between the two applicants we do not pretend to judge, but for Mr. Hammond to turn down one of the oldest and most deserving Democrats in the district and one of the oldest Democratic editors in the state after keeping him in anxious expectancy for more than a year, is an outrage and a crime.” The following, referring to both the Rensselaer and the Remington appointments, is from the Monticello Democrat:

Congressman Hammond has recommended Edward P. Honan for postmaster at Rensselaer and John F. Major to the same position at Remington. We are sorry that Mr. Hammond could not see his way clear to give the Rensseaer office to our old friend James McEwen, who by long years of party service, certainly _merits some recognition. Mr. Hammond’s appointment at Remington was a knockout blow for Joe Peffley, one of the energetic young democrats of that town, and> the recognition of an element that has done little for democracy, except to absorb all the official pap that the influence of Dan Voorhees and other friends could throw that way.