Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — DISTRICT NOMINATING CONVEN TIONS. [ARTICLE]

DISTRICT NOMINATING CONVEN TIONS.

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.

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.

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.”