Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — Page 2

THE CAMPAIGN.

The Demoralized DemocracyVictory Assured for the Re- ' ■. publican Cause. •••--’■ The Reasons for Delay. Indianapolis Journal. . . - Already the Democratic organs are declaring that the Republican Senators are filibustering to prevent the passage of the tariff bill upon which Mr. Voorhees opened the debate a week ago today. As the days pass all these organs and all the freetrade champions will denounce the Republican Senators in indignant editorials and in much displayed headlines. They will be accused of a desire to prolong industrial paralysis for what they may think to be the interest of the Republican party. The free-trade orators and editors will assume that industry and business suffer because the Voorhees or the Wilson bill can not be passed at once. Doubtless some of them know better, but they are all anxious to shift the terrible responsibility of the present business paralysis. The Democrats have had the tariff bills under their control for four months. Both of them have been devised, revised and amended by Democratic committees, without “Consulting the Republican minority with regard to their provisions. They have taken their time and have two bills. And now, when the Voorhees bill comes before the Senate, Democrats desi re. to pass it at once before there is time for its proper consideration. The Senate had the McKinley bill before it more than two months, and yet it contained no essential change of tariff policy; but here is a bill against which the industries of the whole country have risen because it is proposed to most radically change the revenue and ■economic systems, and this important measure, involving the fate of millions of wage-earners and hundreds of millions of capital, must be forced through the Senate practically without time for the representatives of those who oppose it to discuss it and topresent the objections of the pepole interested, who were refused hearings by the Senate finance committee.

There is ground for reasonable hope that the bill before the Senate may be defeated. It cannot stand intelligent criticism. Already every local election shows that the great North is opposed to both the Wilson and the Senate committee’s bills as a measure before Congress was never before protested against. The country wants neither, and if this fact is emphasized it is quite probable that neither can be passed. At any rate, their defeat would be so great a boon to the country that it can stand a few weeks of uncertainty in addition to the year in which the Cleveland policy and the Democratic Congress have prostrated the business and the industry of the Nation. If either of the bills shall become law, the evils which the industries of the country apprehend will be’made certain. If a few weeks of discussion and amending or attempts at amending culminate in the defeat of both measures, the country can afford, and well afford, to wait while the battle is beingfonght.

Dictation of the South. Ohicaso Inter-Ocean. Against the protest of leading Missouri Democrats who live in the Eleventh Congressional District, and concede the election of Charles F. Joy to the Fifty-third Congress, the Democrats in the House have voted to unseat him for no other reason than that he is a Republican and a Democrat contested his right to the place. Mr. O’Neill's friends are all in Washington. He has little sup - port at home, where his defeat is acknowledged alike by friend and op - ponent. There seems to be no other reason for the unseating of Congressman Joy, of St. Louis, than to make another exhibition of the power of the Southern Democracy. The South is in the saddle and loses no opportunity for showing its horsemanship in riding over all opposition, whether It comes from without or within the Democratic party. It rules that party, and through it rules the country. The Southern Democrats have shown that bull-dozing and fraud at the polls wore not solely for the pur - pose of helping the Democratic party. These were means to an end, and the end was Southern control of the country. With 127 Congressmen from the fourteen Southern States, elected by fraud and force, these leaders have year after- year given 121 members to the Democrats and but six to the Republicans. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware have not had a Republican Representative in Congress for years. Missouri has had two, North Carolina and South Carolina one each, and Tennessee two. These six Republicans have alone represented the protection sentiment of the South, and none of them came from the States that have received mdtet benefit from protective legislation. Having ,J2l members of the Democratic caucus, consisting of 219 Congressmen, the South has a clear majority of 21, and is able to control the House, and through it force upon the country such legislation as it •ees flt. It is in the minority in the Houle, having only one third of the members, but with a clear ma

jority of the Democratic caucus and the blind obedience of Democrats to caucus dictation, and driven by Speaker Crisp, the South is able to sit in the saddle as securely as in the good old antebellum days. It elected the Speaker and he distributed the committees in such a manner as to place the Southern members in control of each to dictate legislation. These Southern men control every important committee and dictate every important act that goes back to the House with a favorable report. As an illustration of how complete is this Southern rule, Congressman Amos Cummings, of New York, a stanch Democrat, analyzes the committees and shows that while there are seventy-six Confederate veterand seventy-four Union veterans in this Congress there are forty-four ex-Confederate soldiers holding places as chairmen of committees and only eleven Union veterans holding similar places. Such soldiers as General Sickles, of New York, though a Tammany Democrat, has no recognition from this House, ruled by the solid South. . It is useless for Democrats from New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio,or Illinois to appeal to the Fifty-Third Congress for consideration for their industries, because the South rules the caucus and dictates the policy of the party. It is useless for St. Louis Democrats to protest that Mr. O’Neill was not elected to represent them in this Congress. The South decides who is elected and who is not, and it has decided to give the seat occupied by Congressman Joy to Mr. O’Neil.

A Free Trade Fiction. Indianapolis Journal. Those papers which are appealing to Congress to pass the Wilson bill never fail to reiterate the statement that tariff revision was demanded by an overwhelming vote of the people at the polls in 1892. Every intelligent man who is familiar with all the facts relative to recent elections knows that the assumption is false; that the fraudulent vote of the naturalization mills in Chicago, New York and Brooklyn had more to do with the result than any change of sentiment regarding the tariff; but Chairman Carter, of the Republican National Committee during the campaign of 1892, has an article in the North American Review for April which shows the falsity of the free trade claim. In the first place, Mr. Carter shows that per cent, of the popular vote was 45.98 in 1892, which was the smallest since 1872. In 1888 his percentage was 48.63, when he was not elected. He next shows. that in the country north of Mason and Dixon's line and west of the old slave territory, id spite of the People’s party movement, Harrison’s' vote in 1892 was only 148,276 behind his vote of 1888, while Cleveland, the legatee of all defections, received 72,431 votes less in 1892 than in 1888 in the same ter 1 ritory. That is certainly not an “overwhelming verdict.” Mr. Car - ter shows that a change of 27.426 votes properly distributed in California, Delaware, Idaho. North Da - kota, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri and West Virginia would have given these States to Harrison and secured his election. It. was the use of an alleged sectarian school law which lost the Republicans Wisconsm. andrTvith the iHcgat vote in Chicago, gave Illinois to Cleveland. Indiana was lost to the Republicans largely because several thousand Republican farmers kept their agreement to vote the Populist ticket, while the Democrats who led in these negotiations under the direction of the Cleveland committee broke their pledges and in the secret ballot booths marked their ballots for Mr. Cleveland. It was the Homestead affair and the use made of it by Democratic managers which lost the Republicans thousands of the votes of organized labor in all of the older States. It was not hostility to protection which lost Kansas, Colorado, Nevada and other States to the Republicans, but an adhesion to the financial heresies of the Populists. These matters are of little consequence now, only so far as it is always useful to remove misapprehension. The North has never been for free trade, and it was nevermore hostile to it than at the present time, as the elections which have taken place show, and those in November will further demonstrate.

A Chip Off the Old Block.

D Isnatch, Lexington, Ky, Colonel Breckinridge is now serving his fifth term and is close to sixty years of age. He has a family ol grown up children, three girls, one of w-hom is married, residing at Stanton, Va.,, and two boys, one a lawyer,aiding in defenseof his father. The other named after his grandfather, Robert J. Breckinridge, is o' a wild disposition. Bob, tvs he is known here, got into frequent difficulties and figured in newspaper articles. Just before the breaking out ol the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal Bob got on a spree and had several lights. Col. Breckinridge telegraphed from Washington to put him in jail and keep him there until he returned, which instructions were followed. It was decided to send Bob on a sea voyage to be away for three years, and just as ho was boarding a vessel at San Franciscc he read an account of his father’s doings with Miss Pollard, and wired his brother Desha here: “Put the old man in jail and keep him there until I return."

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

TRUTH VS. FICTION. I That truth is stranger than the wildest flights of inventive genius has often been said. Many cases, actual occurrences, bearing within their array of facts all the elements of romance, have transpired in this country—mysteries developed but never solved. One Of the strangest stories of this character came from Deer Lodge, Mont., recently. It is complete in all its details. Murder, conviction on circumstantial evidence, a king term of imprisonment for the unfortunate man, the return of the supposed victim, the release of the innocent man from a living death? Many years ago John A. Shea, then a lad, was bound out to Charles M. Clayton. Clayton used the boy roughly, and Shea at last ran away. Fearful of bei ig returned to Clayton, he successfully covered his tracks —no trace of him could be found. Clayton’s neighbors, knowing of his harshness with the boy, began to investigate. Their inquiries led to his arrest. He was tried, and, being unable to tell what had become of the boy, or to produce any evidence whatever as to his whereabouts, was convicted and sentenced to fourteen years at hard labor in the penitentiary. This was seven years ago. Shea in the meantime had traveled a long distance. He drifted from place to place, at last bringing up at Pierre, S. D. In all his wanderings he had never heard from Clayton—nor cared to. In a casual conversation with a chance acquaintance the subject of circumstantial evidence was discussed, and for the first time he heard of the great misfortune that had befallen his old master. Shea at once left for Deer Lodge, Mont., to prove Clayton’s innocence and set him free.

THE COXEY CRUSADE.

In the Middle Ages crusades' to rescue the Holy Sepulchre from the hands of the infidel were often organized, and the deeds of valor and frenzied zeal of soldier and fanatic and countless hordes of barbarians who fought and bled and perished in those awful wars have served as themes for history and romance that still enthrall the interest with a wondrous charm. Richard of the Lion Heart, and Barbarossa, and Pope Gregory, and Saladin will ever live in the minds of men because of their deeds in those campaigns, and the cowardice of Peter the Hermit — whose impassioned appeals were the inspiration of the phenomenal mobilization of countless thousands of human beings,. men wdmen and children, moved by a cotnmon impulse to lay down their fives in an effort to attain a purely visionary object—will ever remain a source of derision and amusement to the student of history. And although history records that the movements spreading over the greater part of a century —no less than six campaigns ■being conducted—attained a certain success, and a decimated army, a mere fraction of the numberless hosts that gathered from the far off wilds of Norway, and the bogs of Ireland, the coasts of England, and from every Christian country in Europe,’ entered the Eternal City and established a new order of things that endured for a time, yet it must be always held that the untold suffering inflicted, as a result of the foolish movement, upon the human race, far more than outweighed the gain to the cause of Christianity. -Although it is claimed that results were brought about that could not otherwise have ever been attained, in the light of our present civilization we see that time would have brought the same results without the fearful and needless sacrifice of human life. So it will probably be in the case of Coxey’s crusade. While this latter-day movement can not rank in importance with the great crusades of history, its importance need not be underestimated, for its author's methods have been very similar to the frenzied appeals of Feter the Hermit. That it has not attained alarming proportions is surprising, and can only be accounted for on the theory that people have grown too wise to be humbugged to any great extent. What the outcome will be none can foretell. What the ultimate results none can foresee. If it has already reached high tide it may be safely predicted that a failure will be the resuit of the grand demonstration to take place on the Capitol steps on the Ist of May.

MR. FISHER OF INDIANA.

An Indiana man has again come tothefrdnt and achieved unenviable fame as an originator of swindling schemes. His name is Fisher and he proved to be a fisherman of soipe ability and considerable success, landing suckers with neatness and dispatch. Relying upon

the credulity/bf by a no means small Class of people who possess more cash thou discretion, he rconfidentially addressed skiHful appeals to their avaricious tendencies, knowing that the desire of so many people to get very large returns from very small investments would bring him dupes in plenty. His scheme was co-operative speculation in stocks on the New York Exchange, and he promised his customers 20 per cent, a month on sums from S2O to SIOO./ The attention of the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange, of which Fisher & Co. were members, was called to the advertisements of the booming brokers, and investigation led to most damaging disclosures. Inquiries began to pour in from all parts of the country, and after a thorough investigation by a committee of the Exchange the managers suspended Fisher & Co. for six months, and requested Postmaster Dayton not to send through the mails any more of Fisher’s circulars.

SIGNS AND OMENS.

The desperate, hopeless and useless struggle of human muscle against the constant and ever increasing encroachments of labor saving machinery in the various industrial trades still goes on, always ending in the defeat of the laboring man and bringing additional hardships to countless - thresholds and additional wealth to the fortunate few. The last notable case of this character was a riot against a newly patented grading machine introduced in Buffalo last week, which does the work of fifty able-bodied men. One thousand Polish laborers struck against the use of it, a riot ensued, the police charged the mob, the laborers were beaten r the contractors were triumphant and serenely continued on their way, regardless of the fact that by their hasty action hundreds of people were probably brought to the verge of starvation. So it has been, so it must continue. Muscle must surrender to sinews of steel. Human flesh is to-day the cheapest commodity that the world produces. American laboring men have long since ceased to meet these constant inroads upon their only heritage with violence, recognizing the utter uselessness of the struggle. It is none the less certain that each year sees the field for human effort narrowed and opportunities for the illstarred scions of impoverished sires lessened. Thrift and energy can no longer be said to insure a competence to any man who is dependent on his muscles for his material advancement. Many yet will succeed in life, but the outlook for those who are “down on their luck,” who are already under the ban of misfortune, poverty, and the merciless competition of modern machinery in the trades to* which they have been trained backed by the wealth of soulless corporations and the law’l strong arm, is dark indeed. Heretofore these innovations have been largely confined to the introduction of machinery in competition with skilled labor. Now we see that this was not enough, but steam and steel must displace even the lowest grade of human labor. Such occurrences as this one in Buffalo, if carried out throughout the country, mean serious trouble to the body politic. Riots and bloodshed must come as a natural result—Fortunate indeed will the country be if they do not end in'anarchy and revolution.

PEOPLE.

Prof. Ernst Hackel, the “German Darwin,” is 60 years of age and has been*connected with the University of Jena thirty-three years. Donald Murry, a newspaper man of Sydney, New South Wales, has invented and patented a device by means of which an operator in York, with a keyboard in front of him like an ordinary typewriter, can not only produce type-written copy in New Orleans, but is claimed can operate a type-setting machine here and deliver his matter thus in lead, ready for the forms. Not only that, but the same operator, by using a number of telegraph lines, can set up the same copy simultaneously in a dozen places. Major William Downie, one of the most noted pioneers of ’49, died at San Francisco Harbor a few days ago under singularly pathetic circumstances. One of the features of the Midwinter Fair is a ’49 mining camp, in which are the identical cabins in which lived some of the most famous miners, now mostly millionaires, of those davs. such as Mackay, Flood, and O’Brien. Major Downie’s cabin is prominent in the camp, and he was on his way from Victoria, B. C., on the steamer City df Pueblo to occupy it during a portion of the time that the Fair is to be open. A committee went aboard to welcome the old miner, and while they were telling him of the grand old times that awaited him, and he was ecstatic over the prospect of again meeting his old partners of pioneer times, an attack of heart failure, undoubtedly brought on by emotion, came on and he fell over on the deek dead.

A FAMILY FEUD.

Hon. A. C. Harris and W. H. Bruning Shot by W. H. Copeland. Indianapolis was wildly excited, Tuesday, over a sensational shooting affray in the law office of Miller, Winter & Elam. William H. Copeland, of Madison, shot Hon. A. C. Harris, of Indianapolis, and W. H. Bruning, of Madison. Mr. Harris was wounded in the left arm, the bone being broken. Mr. Bruning was hit by two bullets, one of which struck him in the left arm, the other fracturing the lower jaw. Copeland and Bruning are

W. H. COPELAND.

brothers-in-law. Mr. Harris was Copeland’s attorney in the cases between Bruning and Copeland, and received his wound while trying to hold Copeland down. The difficulty was over family affairs, Copeland charging that Bruning had tried to alienate his wife, and that he had systematically swindled Mrs. Copeland in the settlement of the elder Bruning’s estate, the larger part of which, he says, the junior Bruning absorbed. Bruning denies all the allegations of Copeland. Mr. Copeland has been a member of the Legislature and is a prominent attorney of Madison. All the parties are prominent people. Ex-Attorney-General Miller, in whose office the shooting occurred, was mixed up in the melee incidentally, The office where the tragedy took place is the one formerly occupied by ex-President Harrison. The affair created a tremendous sensation at the capital. Mrs. Copeland arrived at Indianapolis from Madison, Tuesday evening. She confirmed Copeland’s statements concern'ng the quarrel between her brother and husband that resulted in the shooting. Mr. Copeland was arraigned in the Poke Court, Wednesday, and was fined $25(1 lor carrying concealed weapons. The fine was stayed. Ho was held in bonds for 12,503 for assault with intent to kill W. H. Bruning, and in bonds for SI,OOO for the issault on A. C. Harris. Mr. Harris's arm proved to be broken' :n two places, and a stiff joint may result :rom the injury. Mr. Bruning’s Injuries ire serious but he will recover.

DEWY S IVES DEAD.

The ‘‘Napoleon of Finance,” Surrenders to Consumption. Henry S. Ives, of New York, died at Asherville, N. C., Tuesday, of consumption. Henry S. Ives was well known to stock brokers and railway managers as a "financial meteor,” who suddenly shot out of the eastern sky and exploded when he Struck Indiana. In other words, when Ives confined his operations to Gotham he was in tlie swim, but when ho started out West on a railway wrecking tour and

HENRY S. IVES.

tried to gobble the C. H. & I), and Vanialia lines, lie struck a snag that wrecked aimself. As a result of his speculations lie was arrested and spent considerable time in Ludlow street jail. He finally ettled with his creditors at five cents on the dollar and went back to Wall street. His schemes still kept that great financial muter uneasy for a year or more, but in June, 1891, he suffered a hemorrhage of the lungs,'after which ho retired from active efforts on the street. He is supposed to have saved a largo amount of money from his numerous projects, all of which failed to materialize in a profitable way to his numerous dupes.

A MONETARY CONFERENCE.

Ucxlco Propose, that Ono Bo Held In that Country, Another International monetary conference. this time, perhaps, to be held in the City of Mexico, is among the probabilities. The Mexican government, through Its diplomatic representatives, is quietly pressing upon the attention of the powers the feasibility of again undertaking an adjustment of the monetary question, and the time is believed to be ripe for further effort In that direction. Minister Romero has already suggested the matter to our government in a way that does not at this Inoment require a direct response, and the ’resident is consideHng it carefully, for Undoubtedly the success of the undertaking will depend in a largo measure upon the support of the United States. The adhesion of Great Britain, too, Is of the first importance, and the report that she will limit her co-operation to the representation of India alone hardly realizes the hopes of the projectors of the conference, though it may not operate to defeat the meeting.

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