Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN Thursday, April 26, 1894. ISBVRD KVKRY THURSDAY BY GEO. S. Publish kb and Proprietor. OFFICE In Republican building, on orner oi Washington and Weston streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Ore Year .......$1.50 Six Months. 75 Three M0nth5..;...................... ... 50 Official Paper of Jasper County.

CALL FOR TOWNSHIP CONVENTION The Republicans of Marion tp., will meet in mass convention at the court house in Rensselaer on Saturday May sth, 1894, at 2 o’clock p. M. for the purpose of nominating the following officers towit: One township Trustee. One township Assessor. Three Justices of the Peace. Three Constables. By order of township Com. Geo. M. Robinson, Chairman. W. B. Austin, Secy. Township candidates announcements. J AMES D. B XlV’O. K, Jamps D. Bal»eo4k will be a candidate for Township Trustee of Mi'r’on Township, subject to the decision of the Republican Township Co' venlion. TOWNSHIP ASSESSOR. C. A. HOPKINS. We nre authorized to announce the name of C. A. Hopkins as a candidate for the offiee-of Assessor of Marion tp., subject to the decision of theltepulicantp., convention. TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE. HENRY GROW. Henry Grow will be a candidate for the °®ce Of Tcwiisiiip Trustee, of Marion tp. subject to the-decision of the Republican Township ® n ‘ vention, of May, Sth 1894. HARVEY J. DEXTER. Harvev J. Dexter authorizes the announcement of bis nameas a candidate for the oilice of Township Trustee of Marion tp., subject to the decision of tile Republican tp.. convention. JESSE F. SMITH. Jesse F. Smith will be a candidate for the office of Trustee Of Marion tp. subject to the decision of the Repubiiean township Convention, of May 5111.1894. W. H. GWIN. We are authorized to announce to the voters of Marion Township that Wm. H Gwin’s for Township Trustee, of said Township Subject to the action of the Republican Township Convention of May sth.

There are women and women in this world, and even among those who assume to be leaders and teachers, there is an infinite difference. Between such true and noble women, and unselfish philanthropists as Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, Miss Anthony, Clara Barton, and Mrs. Livermore, for instance, and those two mischevious and anarchistic seekers after notoriety and money, Mrs. Lease and M rs. Gougar, there is indeed “a gulf fixed.” The original “commonweal” army, led by the dangerous luna tic, C.>xey, who believes himself to be a re-incarnation of Andrew Jackson, and his Lieutenant, Brown, whom Coxey regards as a partial re-incarnation of Christ himself, is still marching toward Washington, and in every part of the country bands are being organized on the Coxey model, and are headed in the same directio . All are abetted and encouraged by the populists, and the movement is fast assuming, most ominous proportion s.

According to Mr. Lease and Mrs. Gougar, not a single benificent law has been passed by any ruling party, in this country for 30 years. The whole tenor of their speeches is in this strain. They rave at, rage at and denounce the powers that be. They excite the minds of the weak and ignorant to hatred against the government, and against the established order of things. They are anarchists, in short, aud between them and Herr Most and Lucy Parsons, there is mighty little to choose. If there was a sufficiently large element of the ignorant, the weak minded and the discontented in the country for them to work upon, the Leases and the Gougars and the Ooxeys aud the rest would have a bloody civil war in progress iu this country inside of six months, and there ia grave danger even as it is.

Mrs. Lease goes about preaching calamity, denouncing plutocracy, and wailing about the poverty of the people, but with her own person radiant with gold and precious jewels, and gorgeous with silks and satins. No prima donna could dress more elegantly or expensively. Is there not an inconsistency in this? The fact is Mrs. Lease is “out after the stuff,” and and she is just as grasping to get it and just as selfish in using it, as are any of the “plutocrats’’ whose possessions she is trying to teach the people to confiscate.

Mr. Thompson, in his this week’s Iroquois Ditch article, op. poses the dismissal of the proceedings. We can hardly agree with him in that view, for we do not believe the enormous injustices and blunders in the firfisent plan and assessments, can be or will be rectified in any other way than by dismissal. Let it be amicably dismissed, and then let k a new start betaken and let the work bo confined to what most of the signers of the present petition understood when they signed it. Namely the making of the lower or outlet portion of the ditch. Let this new ditch begin where Gifford’s main ditch empties into the Iroquois near Burk’s bridge. Let it have, the same depth at that point, as now proposed, and let it be carried down the river,

not at the proposed fall of 16 inches to the mile, but of say 12 inches. This, by the time it reaches Rensselaer will require a ruckdtut of only three feet, instead of five as now proposed. A cut of three fifths the depth, and consequently of only three fifths the distance down stream, will cost but little more than one third the present proposed cut. Let us assume, however, for the good of all concerned, that the cut through town be made wider, and with a better fall, than now proposed. Even then the cost of the excavation would not exceed half of the present estimate, or say 814,000 instead of 828,000. The cost of the dirt excavation, from Rensselaer tp Gifford’s outlet, would add only a few thousands, to the 814,000. Let this cost be equitably assessed upon lands directly or prospectively benefitbed, including a good fair sum to Mr. Gifford for giving him an outlet, and let the other ditches and laterals be made, at such times and places as the people most affected, desire. A few words as to the suggestion that the fall of the ditch from.. Gifford’s.

outlet to Rensselaer be changed from 16 to 12 inches per mile: The swiftness of a stream is affected as much by its magnitude as by the extent of its slope. The Mississippi flows fast with a fall of only four inches to the mile, because there is so much water in it. Now the Iroquois river, below the point where the Gifford ditch strikes it, is comparatively quite a large stream. If a fall of 16 inches to the mile will make a good ditch in the channel and laterals above the Gifford junction, then surely 12 inches to the mile will make a good ditch below that point, for the additional volume of water will more than compensate for the decrease in slope. Of course the suggestion as to the place of beginning the ditch, at the upper end, is only tentative. It might start at the outlet of the Lakin ditch, or even further up the main stream. But it ought not to try to drain the whole county in one operation, and only those benefitted or to be be benefitted should be assessed to pay for it.

Dry goods sold at unheard of low prices at Fendigs Fair. Always the cheapest. Call on C. B Steward, agent for lots in Columbia Addition; 140 lots at prices from $25 to $l3O. When needing any insurance upon farm property call upon Wils Porter. He is agent for this section for the Continental Insurance Company, for sll kinds of farm property, buildings, tools, live-stock, grain, hay etc. Insures against damage by lire, lightning, tornadoes, wind storms, Ac. Give him a trial.

DISTRICT NOMINATING CONVEN TIONS.

The Republican votersof Jasper county, and all other voters or citizens who will be voters, and who will co-operate with the Republican voters, at the November e ection of 1894, will meet in mass Primary convention, on the sth day of May, 1894, at 2 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of selecting delegates and alternate delegates to represent Jasper county at the following district conventions. Jndk-ial Convention, To be-helcLat Goodland, Indiana, on the Bth day of May, 1894, at 2:30 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating a candidate, fur the office of Prosecuting Attorney, for the 30th, Judicial Circuit.

Senatorial Convention. \ To be held at Goodland, Indiana, on the Bth day of May, 1894, for the purpose of nominating a candidate, for the office of State Senator, for the counties of Benton, Newton and Jasper. Representative Convention. To be held at Rensselaer, Indiana, on the 15th day of May 1894, at 1:30 o’clock, p. m , for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the office of Joint Representative for the counties of Newton and Jasper. The basis of representation, to each of said conventions is one delegate for each 75 votes cast for Benjamin Harrison for President in 1892, or as nearly as may be practicable.

The delegates are apportioned and meeting places designated as follows: Marion township 4 delegates, at Court House. Carpenter township, 4 delegates, at Exchange Hall, Remington. Jordan township, 1 delegate, at Never Fail school house. Newton tp., 1 delegate, at Saylor school house. Kankakee tp., 1 delegate, at Tefft school house. Wheatfield tp., 1 delegate, at Wheatfield school house. Keener tp., 1 delegate, at DeMotte school house. Barkley tp., 1 delegate, at Center school house. Walker tp., 1 delegate, at Kniman school house. Gillam tp., 1 delegate, at Center school house. Hanging Grove and Milroy tps., 1 delegate, at Marlboro school house. Union tp., 1 delegate, at Wild Lilly school house. By order of Committee. Chairman.

Candidates’ Announcements. For State Senator. M t. CHILCOTE.,. We are authorized to present to the voters of Renton Jasper and Newton counties the name of Mordecai F. ChUcote, of Jasper county, as a candidate for the office of State Senator, from the senatorial district composed of the counties above named. Subject to the decision of the Republican senatorial convention. FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. JOHN D. SINK. We are authorized to announce the name of John D. Sink, of Newton Co., as a candidate for the office of Prosecuting Attorney for the 30th judicial circuit, of Indiana. Subject to the decision of the Republican judicial convention. JASPER GUY. Editor Republican: Please announce that I will be a candidate for the office of Prosecuting attorney of the 30th Judicial District of Indiana. Subject to the decision of the Republican Nominating Convention. Jasper .Guy, For Joint Representative.! M/L.SPITLER. We are authorized to announce the name of Marion L. Spitler, of Jasper county, as a candidate for Representative in the State Legislature from the district composed of Jasper and Newton counties. Subject to the decision of the Republican Representative convention. 0. E. MILLS. We are authorized to announce the name of Charles E. Mills, of Ja-per county, as a candidate for Representative in the State Legislature from the district composed of Jasper and Newton counties. Subject to the decision of the Republican Representative convention. And Harpers Brothers Too. A special telegram to the Inter Ocean says: It is a dull day now that does not give the Republicans cause to rejoice and add to the gall which fills the cup held to Democratic lips. The time was years ago when the publications of the Harper Bros., gave support to the Republican party. Then came the era ot mugwumpism and the Harpers went with many

others into the camp of the enemy and surrendered. The revulsion has been a long tim&coming, bgt it is here. Harper Bros, are looking earnestly toward the mourner’s bench, and a few weeks at the most is expected to bring them to repentant knees. As proof of this fact is a check for 81,000 just forwarded by Harper Bros., through the Union League Club to. the Republican committee of thirty which is now organizing the city for the fall campaign. In making the contribution Henry Harpersayst scription to the fund of the committee of thirty because we realized that a good work was being done and we wish to have a hand in it. We are willing to do all we can to aid the committee of thirty but we still declare our enmity to Mr. Piatt as a political leader.”

THE DRIFT OF POPULISM.

Reviewing the results of populist victories in the States where they have pccurred, and noting the chaotic conditions which have followed the election of such men as Lewellyn and Waite in Kansas and Colorado, the St. Louis Globe. Democrat draws some logical conclusions. It says: “The simple fact is that populism represents a drift of thought and feeling that is antagonistic to existing institutions. It results in violence because it is inconsistent with accepted ideas of public safety and prudence and with established agencies for the Conservation and promotion of the peace and welfare of society. The men whom it has developed as leaders are eccentric, reckless and irresponsible. They seem to think that it is their mission to create as much confusion and excitement as possible, and to use official authority in the most arbitrary and astonishing manner. If one of them has ever in any contingency manifested an ordinary degree of good sense, the country has certainly not heard of it,, nor is there any reason to believe that they are capable of such service.

It is no longer necessary to discuss populism as an unknown quantity.' The- lessons of experience have taught us what it is and what is to be expected from it wherever it gains ascendency. There is nothing in it as its piactical effects have shown, that intelligent and patriotic citizens can afford to indorse or indulge. Its spirit is essentially mischievous, its tendency is indisputably revolutionary. The doctrines that it represents involve serious dangers, and the results that it is seeking to accomplish are in all respects contrary to the best interests of the people. There is but one proper way to deal with it, and that is to denounce and resist it in all localities and under all circumstances. It includes among its adherents many sincere men, we may allow; but this does not change the fact of its inherent error and peril. The logic of its creed and purposes is in direct conflict with those principles and appliances which society has adopted for defense against prevailing evils. It is calculated to do harm, and harm only. The injury that it has already occasioned is sufficient to satisfy any reasonable person that no good is likely to come from it. When it is plainly seen to be conducive to public disturbance, official usurpation and general demoralization, there is no justification and no excuse for giving it the least countenance. All law-abiding citizens are in duty bound to expose such a force in politics, and to exert their influence for the preservation of the social fabric which it is designed to subvert by such processess as have been introduced in the States where it has secured the opportunity of practical application to the business of government.”

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IROQUOIS DITCH.

Editor Republican ’ The com-mentsof-the Republican us fast weeir ! seems to call for a few further remarks on land and water, rights. The question of whether the lower land is bound to receive water from the upper has vexed neighbors, lawyers, legislatures and courts ever since the dawn of civilization. The , 1 Supreme Court of this state have! tried to define and adjust these rights. j If the higher land hath an outlet; by a well defined natural watercourse I with a sufficient. channel and banks I to prot ct the lower from overflow, ; or the upper hath procured the right to keep a channel open by purchase, by ditch piece-.dii:gß, or by-long usage bn a claim of right, then the lower must take the water. See Reed vs. Cheney, 111 Ind. 387. The mere flowage of water however long gives no right. See Conner vs. Woodfall 126 Ind. 85. The upper owner can not gather the water from his land into ditches and discharge it upon lower lands without a contract or a ditch diteh proceeding. See Weddell et al vs. Hapner, 124 jnd. 315. A ditch improvement settles the vexed question. Is it not better to ditch than to law? Any man may in the absence of a right secured by purchase or gift erect on his own land such barriers as he pleases to ward off the surface water and floods. The object and purpose of making a public ditch is to settle cheaply the rights’of land owners touching direct drainage and an outlet. Above the rapids it is questionable whether the Iroquois hath had a legal channel. Above Alter’s mill it is an artificial ditch. Above the Groom •bridge there was no channel before the mill dam was removed. The law of 1891 requires the court to find a sufficient outlet. The - judgment of the court will protect land owners. The payment of any sum however small fixes one’s rights to use the ditches constructeel from the nearest available point to the outlet. The costs of location have been incurred. The ditches are described. The whole cost has been estimated. The lai d owners have been notified. They have a right to be heard and be bound by the court’s decision. It seems to me that now is the accepted time to order the work done. Each accounting prorata for the probable 1 effect on the value of our land. The county commissioners have decreed that the improvement ought to be made. I believe each member of that court desires that justice be meted to each of us. The levels show that my land in township 30, range 7 west is on a much higher plain than the Loughridge marsh in township 29, range 6. My land is adjusted to artificial ditches. I am willing to pay my share towards the construction of a common outlet. We are at the cross-roads. If the improvemeat is made the rich, deep soil along the lower Iroquois and Pinkamink will be greatly increased in value. The cheap thin, sandy lands can not bear the assessment as well. Put yourself in the other fellow's fellows place and do as you would have him do. The stoppage of this improvement will sound a retreat in our march toward a better condition. lam not in favor of taking the backward step. It is as easy to lessen or cheapen the excavation now as at any time in the future. Under the statute we can have twenty-two years to pay our share of the cost. I wish we could all proceed in mutual peace and

SIMON P. THOMPSON.

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Republican Town Ticket.

Trustee of First Ward, MOSES B. ALTER. Trustee Second Ward, CHARLES W. COEN. Trustee Fourth Ward, JOHN M. WASSON, Town Treasurer, CHARL-S C. STARR. Town i lerk. CHARLES M BLUE. Town Marshal, THOMAS MCGOWAN.

Republican County Ticket.

For County Clerk, WILLI AM 11. COOV ER, of Carpenter Township.. For County Auditor, HENRY’ B. MURRAY, _ : of Barkley Township. j For County Treasurer, JESSE C.. GWIN, of Hanging Grove Township, - For County Sheriff, CHARLES IV. HANLEY', ot Walker Township. For County Surveyor, JOHN E ALTER, of Union Township. For County Coroner, TRUITT P. WRIGHT, of Marion Township. Commissi- ner—Fir,t District. WILLIAM DAHNIKE, of VV heatfield Township. Commiss'oner- Second District, JOHN C. MARTINDALE, of Newton Township. Commissioner—Third District, DEXTER R. JONES, of Carpenter Township,

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