Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1894 — WALKER TOWNSHIP CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

WALKER TOWNSHIP CONVENTION.

The Republicans of Walker, tp., and all others that, will be legal voters at the November election that wish to co-operate with us, meet at the Snyder school house on SATURDAY, JUNE 2nd at 2 p. ra., sharp, for the purpose of nominating a full township ticket. Every man who wishes for the return of good Republican times are invited. John O’Connor, Geo. Meyers, Ohm. Sec’y. Workingmen who are striking for higher wages do not seem to understand that high wages and Democratic rule are incompatible. The way to get high wages is to return the party of high wages to power.—Kansas City Journal, April 2G, 1894. When our friend McEwen of the Rensselaer Democratic Sentinel looks over the Tenth district aud sees the principal federal officers filled with anti-Cleveland-ites, why should he continue his high sounding praises of those who “turned him down?” —Winamac Democratic Journal. Neither Missouri, Texas nor Arkansas possess a worsted mi l or a carpet factory, nor have Texas and Arkansas a single specimen of a paper mill or an iron or steel industry. Yet the representatives of these states undertake to make tariff schedules for New England.—The Providence, R. 1., News of April 23.

Those Democratic contemporaries who are justifying Senator Turpie’s drunken ribaldry against Senator Aldrich are in a very disreputable business. Not only was Turpie’s conduct in that instance most out-, rageous, and disgraceful, but he had absolutely no cause for it. Senator Aldrich had asserted that the Democratic committee was preparing a new tariff bill, and this assertion was the ostensible cause for Turpie’s ribaldry—but that Mr. Aldrich was correct in his assertion was fully proven by the practically new tariff bill introduced in the Senate, last week.

These lower wages spread disaster in even greater proportion Men with smaller earnings must’ spend less money and buy fewer goods. Thus, with a greater inlux of foreign goods, the demand :or American goods must be less and less. It will affect the stores, both wholesale and retail, where ess help will be needed, competition for employment be greater, and wages lower. Clerks and bookkeepers of all kinds must pay less rent, property values must decrease, and thus disaster spread from one to another, involving all in the network of destruction that has been prepared by these few Free-Trade representatives and senators. Even now there are 42$ per cent of the wage earners in 100 factories of the State unemployed who were busy workers only two years ago.

It is not pleasant news to good Americans that because of lack of orders the great Roach ship yard on the Delaware is about to close its gates for the first time in history. What is more, if Congress passes a free ship bill the gates, opened.—Boston Journal, April 30, 1894. ' v . -

Attorney General Green Smith has; brought eight suits in the Marion county courts—three against express companies, two against palace car companies, two against telegraph companies, and ono against a telephone company —ostensibly to collect taxes due A case is pending in the U. S. Supreme Court to decide the constitutionalityof the tax, which, however decided, will make Smith’s suits unnecessary. But there is a fee for the Attorney General in each of these cases, which 13 the motive for bringing them. The Democratic party of Indiana has foisted a great many odious men upon the people of the state, at one time.or another, but not in its whole history one more wholly and entirely odious than Green Smith. There is not a single redeeming feature in his official and political character.

John Me Id ugh, the Tippecanoe county accident, thought he was doing something smart when he engineered through the last legislature his bill providing that all city officers should hold office for four years. It was an ill-advised aud dangerous experiment and the result conies home to the democratic party in a shapo that cannot be lightly considered. Nearly every city in the state elected republican officials last week, and Lafayette, where Mr. McHugh sought to perpetuate democratic control, went with the majority. Fur the next four years republicans will control about all the city officers and draw the salaries attached.—Mouticello Democrat. McHugh’s bill, referred to above, aud designed to perpetuate democratic control of cities, was a piece of political villainly second only in degree of infamy to the democratic gerrymanders in this state. That the bill now re-acts with such telling force upon the party in whose interest it was designed is a striking case of falling into the pit dug for the feet of others. But why did not our democratic contemporary in White county, and others all over the state, ever perceive the iniquitous characters of the McHugh act, until it resulted in the injury of the democrats? So long ab its ill effects were confined to Republicans, it was evidently all right in their estimation.