Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN Thursday, May 31, 1894. d • ISSUED SVEHY THURSDAY BY Q-220. s. - - PUBLIfrHKR AND PBOFBTKTOB. OFFICE la Ropabiicim budding, on craer if . WasSingtOßniWKl Wcjtob TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Toftt . .-..• B>x Months - 75 Three Months 50 Official Paper of Jasper County.

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, are requested to meet at the Snyder school house on SA IURILhY, JUNE 2nd—— at 2p. m, sharp, fur 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,’ chm. Sec’y. Wlieatlield Township Convention. Notice is hereby given to all the Republicans of Win*H field township and all who wish to cooperate with us in the Welfare of the good .old- .part y are -requested - to - meet at the Wheal Held school house in the town of Wheatfield at 2 t; ra., on SATURDAY, JUM’. llOth, 1894. , for the purn se of nominating the

Jfollawjn g o Ificers; - One To w n ship- Tr ti sfeth — Two Justices of tlie Peace. Two Constables. ~ Oise FTwnsliip Assessor. ", 1 John Graves, - Chairman. Wm. Miller, Secy. C. R. Pollard, of Delphi, has now come out as a candidate for the democratic nomination for Congressman. This meaus, of course, -an abandonment of hie fight with Judge Reynolds for the nomination for Judgeship in the Car roll an 1 White circuit. -

Prospect-, for speedy action on the * ariff billare becoming brighter. The demaucluf tire business of

the country for relief from the present paralyzing uncertainty is becoming so < mpl.al c tkat it cannot h” n-m-h longer resisted.— New York Herald. Wliat bat- become of the wonderful “relief from the paralyzing UDCoitainty” that was to follow the immediate repeal of the Sherman law a year ago? The Herald's economic opinions and predictions have become the laughing stock of the country; They are almost too idiotic for sane consideration.

If the Johnston delegates and their numerous advisors, at the Hammond convention, had had their abundant political morality ten ja red with a few measures of political shrewdness, they would have given a much better account o themselves. They not only let the Landis “Kids” out-general them at evtry iitportant point, such as organizing the convention, securing a majority of the Credentials Committee, <tc., but, worst blunder of all, after they had v it! d awn from the convention with a majority, as *they claimed, of the legally elected delegates to the convention, they broke for home, crying and cussing, instead of staying and orgarizirg another convention and naming 'another candidate. Had they done this they would have 1 ut t hings in such- shape that the state committee could and must have taken hold of and adjusted the matter. In failing to do this) they came about as near thrown g tbeir whole case away as.it was in 1 their power to do.

In 1893, when the Fulton county Demociate juilitied over the election of Grover Cleveland, they marched up and down Main street yelling, “1 here’ll be no sixty-eight cent wheat.” They prophesied better than they knew, for the price of wheat has been less than sixty-eight cents that dav to this.—Rochester Bepublican.

It is useless to attempt to deny the fact that the congressional matter ia the Tenth District is in a bad shape. In fact, to a shrewd observer, the badness of the situation was about as apparent before the g net n‘.bur as after it. The friends of the rival candidates- had—waxed altogether 100 warm. Both sides were too anxio it s'to win. For days before the meeting of the convention it was evident that the nomination of Mr. Johnston or Mr. Lai dis, would result in a.feeling ofTulterness that w >uld seriously endanger the chances for Republican success in the district. Whichever candidate was to be. chosen, must be so. through votes of delegates from Lake county. And these delegates, whether they were to be the s ’-called . “regulur” delegates selected at Crown Poii t, or the contestants selected at Hammond, were all chosen by methods which so far as adequately expressing the will of the people was concerned, were essentially farcical. The idea of a single county mass convention, in a county like Lake, with 8,090-Republican voters, and -SflflL square miles of territory—it is preposterous in any ease, and especially when held in a place like Crown Point, about the most inaccessible in the county so far = a§

corned. And added to this,' were the facts that this Crown Point county mass convention was called on only eight days notice, and-thitt-the Landis men from the largest t.iwn in the connty were shut out from dtendiiig by what, rightly or wrongly, half the voters in the district believed to have

been a premeditated trick. A nomination which turned on c’elegates so chos n could not fail to creat dissatisfaction, just as now the nomination which turned on the action of those, who contested them, is giving dissatisfactionWhat tire final outcome will be, is at present a matter hard to foresee, In the meantime however, The Republican considers Mr. Landis as at least the legally nominated candidate, and unless he either himself' resigns the nomination, or the district committee sets it aside, we shall give him our support as such candidate, just as we should to M r. Johnston, had he been the legal nominee.

“God made women for mater nity before anything else, and this country wants more mothers and less voters,” said the Bev. Isaac N. Halderman in a sermon in New Y. rk hast Sunday. By the token the female suffragists could say: “God made man foi paternity before anything else, and this country wants more fathers and fewer boodle aiderman and legislators.” If a woman’s voting two or three times a \ear will make fewer mothers, what will be the effect of a woman’s sewing fourteen hours a day to make $1.70 a week ?—-Peoria Herald.

The meeting which was recently held in New York to urge the speedy passage of the Wilson tariff bill was held pursuant to a call signed by a 120 “business men and mercantile concerns” of that city. An analysis of the lists of names shows fifty-eight of the signers are importers of foreign goods and eight are dealers in imported goods. Thus more than 50 per cent, of the signers were persons who live by dealing in goods which displace American manufacturers and take the bread out of the mouths of American workingmen. It is quite natural that they should desire the speedy passage of a “reform” tariff bill.— Indianapolis Journal.

He Knew The General

From his pulpit Sunday Rev LTadd. pastor of the Presbyterian church at Monticello, read the riot act to Gen. Coxey and his clans. “I knew this Coxey personally at Massillon, Ohio, the point at which this commonweal had its inception. He is a disgrace to his family, is disowned by his own father and brothers, is a gambler and a horse racer. And yet this charlatan, this vagrant, this libel upon mankind has the audacity to claim his infamous movement as a Christian uprising,”— Hammond News.

Yes and he was divorced from his wife on the grounds of his extreme cruelty. But he is a great populist leader, and their candidate for Congress from his dis-' trict, all the same.

THE CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.

The principal facts of the Congressional' convention, at Hammond, last Thursday, are briefly told. here. When the convention met it was found that the regular Luke county delegation, elected in mass convention at Crown Point May 10, was contested by another delegation, elected at Hammond a week later, this last being called by a single member of the county committee. This contest, of course, threw Lake county out in all the proceedings until the contest was settled; this being thp established rule in such cases. The grounds upon which the contest was based, was the claim that legal notice was no.t given for The Crown Point convention, and that the friends of Lmdis in Hammond were restraiud from attending that convention by the taking of their tram for the use of the J ohnston men. The committee on credentials, were B.in number, one from, each ■murrty, exceptmg Lake. Five of them reported in favor of seating' both Lake county delegations,

giving eac h delegate a half vote Ihe oilier tbree report>.-ti iu favor! of seating only the thirty Johnston delegates. After much sparring, and the voting down of various compromise propositions, the majority. report carried by a vote of 78 to 76. At'this point the Johnston men, headed by the regular Lake county delegation, stampeded from the convention and went home. ' After .an adjournment of an hour or two, the remaining delegates re-assembled and nominated C. B. Landis, by unanimous vote. Wm. T. Wilson, of Logansport, was chairman of the convention, and W. B. Austin, of Rensselaer, secretary.

Meeting of the Adullamites.

The People’s party convention yesclay was one of the largest thirdparty meetings held in Indiana since the greenback years of 1878 and 1882. Those who knew the leaders and active spirits in those assemblages saw all of them who are living in the meeting of yesterday. They believe in the power of the government to create unlimited wealth with a printing press in the form of fiat money. They have at their tongues’ end all the heresies and misinformation by which they sustain this view. They are for the most part honest, but they cannot recognize a sac", and logic or experience are wasted upon them. To these can be added that class of men who in ancient times assembled in the cave of Adullam —those who are discontented. Among the discontented are many who set out in the old parties in pursuit of office and have failed. They constitute the spiteful and the unscrupulous element of the party. Those who looked upon the convention must have been struck with the number of

old men it contained and the absence of the intelligent and active young men who constituted so large a portion of the Republican State convention. Among those ■who participated was an unusually large number of men who have voted with the Democracy in the past. Ihe platform is the same in effect which the first national greenback convention adopted. Its open declaration for fiat money is not so emphatic in set terms, but it indorses the Omaha platform, which declared for the loaning of unlimited paper money on real

property by the government. The platform is longer and more of a jumble than its predecessors. Claiming to be for one kind of money, the platform would have the Indiana Legislature make three kinds for those who have debts to pay. Some of the things it asks the Legislature to do are wise, but most are absurd. The

tariff, which might be made to give the farmers of the United States the largest and best market in the world, is declared to be of no account. The surrender of the farm products of Indiana to

the free competition of Canada is of' no * possible account, but the free coinage cSilver, of which notan Indiana farmer can present fifty dollars’ worth as a product, is demanded with vehemence. Every practical interest of the mass of farmers and workers in the varied industries is ignored, but the interest. of tjie bonanza silver mine owners, already rich, is looked out for in a declaration which will enable them to have a dolltrmade out of half a dollar’s worth of silver bullion. As a calamity party in Indiana the People’s party will take the place of -the-Denmeracy, ._and willdgetdhe greater part of its increased vote from the disgruntled Democracy —lndianapolis Journal. The 4, Something-For-Notliing” Fallacy Hon. IL G. Horr of ihe New York Tribune continues to ventilate the fiat money, two per cent." loan and other visionary theories now claiming attention, in his own inimitable way. A correspondent asks him in reference to the populist theory of the Government loaning money on good security at 2 per cent. what. effectsuch a "policy would have on home and foreign trade. In his answer he

says: The first question which these “populists” should answer is this: "W hat right "Has the general. eminent to loan money at all at any rate of interest? Where does’ the Government get the- power to go into the banking business in any such sense as these gentlemen claim? Why should the general Govt rument loan numey any more than it should run farms, manage factories, open factories, open mines, carry on the cattle business keep a livery stable, build ami run hotels, raise chickens and geese, or furnish the people with spring lambs, garden truck and eggs? Then after showing the logical result of the government inaugurating such a wild policy as the populists suggest, he adds: One more suggestion: Why do these gentlemen confine their loans to people xyho can give security? Why do they limit the interest to 2 percent? Ifit is the duty of the Government to furnish money at 2 per cent, why not aTT per cent? Why charge any interest at all? People would rather have money and pay no interest than to pay even 2 per cent. Butter still, why not give them the money outright, principal and interest? Why require security in any case? There are so many people who need money and have nothing on which to give security. Why discriminate against the poor, the very poor, and in favor of those who already have something which t hey can . p ! edge? If the Government can make good money by simply printing it, why not supply all the people want at all times free of expense and toil? Why should people labor and sweat and worry to get something when the Government can furnish it with so little outlay of brain and muscle?" The old-fashioned" way of getting one’s bread by the sweat of one’s brow should become obsolete say these modern financiers. They scout the idea that money to be valuable must cost labor. They tell us that money is simply a medium of exchange, that the idea of value should be entirely divorced from it. That people will go on giving something in exchange for nothing so long as they do not know that it is for nothing may be true. But counterfeit money is not good, even though exchanges are sometimes made with it. It is a lie all the same, though not detected.

Buy your farm wagons of B. F Ferguson, and save money. Ten different makes of Sewing ma chines, At Steward’s.

Plymouth Rock to McKinley.

The famous document entitled “American Tariffs from Plymouth Rock to McKinley (96 pages) published by the American Protective Tariff League, has just been revised and re-issued. It should be in the hands of every person who wishes complete and reliable information upon the tariff. Sent to any address for 10 cents- Address, Wilbur F. Wakeman, General Secretary, No. 135 West 23d Street, New York. ■ . » Estey organs and pianos, and Estey A Camp organs and pianos, on exhibition at C. B. Steward’s. Clothing just received, prices positively lowest. Fendigs Fair. Thirteen-stop, full walnut case or gan, $35. C. B. Steward. «

il The Leader of 1 0 Ij Il This istl«j|| •Low Prices’ I’l i II I t i We will inaugurate our WEEKLY SPECIAL SALE, Commencing Saturday morning, jn n a 9 1894, at 8 o'clock Saturday, June 2nd. iTHIS DAY ONLY. j x Ladies’Dongola slippers, worth £l, only 75c ) Ladies’kid button shoes, worth $2, only $1.25 S Men’s congress or lace shoes, worth 2’25, n0w..... 1.50 < a Misses kid button shoes, worth 1.50, 0n1y..1.10 L \)> Ladies’shirt waists worth 1.00, only .59 <(/ Yus Men's all wool suits, worth 10.00, only 7.75 M/ Men’s all wool suits, worth 12.50, only 9.75 $ J •j Boys’ all wool suits, worth 9.00, 0n1y.... 699 M Children’s J. and P. suits, worth 1 50 98 Children’s J. and P. suits, worth 2 50, only 1.25 <U' ps Men’s satinetpants, worth 1.85, 0n1y.... 1.00 ?i ' REMEMBER THESE PRICES ARE FOR J SATURDAY ONLY

Monday June 3rd. TABLE LINEN DAY. $1.25 table Linen, this day only, 92c 75c table linen, this day 0n1y...,61c 50c table linen, this day only ... .39c 40c table linen, this day onTyL . ,32c 48c red table linen, this day only 41c 33c red table linen, this day only 22c Wednesday June sth. MUSLIN DAY. 20 yds Lawrence LL muslin.... 1.00 20 yds bleached muslin 1.00 Lonsdale green ticket 8e Fruitofthe Loom".'. 8| Call in and see us on muslin. ■■■aEQnaMKMKßaßmacaaun Friday, June 7th. SHOE DAY. $3 50 Fr kid button or lace shoe 2.99 2.75 Fr kid button or lace shoe 2.00 2.25 kid button shoes 1.50 2.50 ladies’slippers 1.89 Be sure and attend our shoe sale as PRICES TALK?

Remember the Sale Days and be sure and call and see our elegant line of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes and Carpets. THE MODEL. WILL A. MOSSLER, Manager. RENSSELAER, IND. ATTENTION LADIES! | MRS. CRIPPS J KEEPS a s™ DRESS MAKING Establishment ~ ~ DRESS MAKING g- in Porter & Wishard s dry goods Z 2 store, 2 doors west of McCoy’s Bank. AT •2 I will do all kinds of Fashionable Dress-mak- 78 PORTEK & wisjiabd’s Stv ing for Ladies, Misses and Children. ——- ... Also carry a fine line of Children’s readymade dresses. Call and see the latest styles gr of little girl’s dresses. LS

MILTON CHIPMAN Does all kinds of Steam Fitting * * * * * ♦ And Pipe Work, Repairs Engines and Boilers, Also Handles Water Tanks, The Best on The Market. Prompt attention to all orders, and satisfaction guaranteed.

DISTRICT TICKET. t or State Senator, ISAAC H. PHARES, of Benton County. For Prosecuting Attorney, T. 0. ANNABAL. of Newton County. For Joint Representative, MARION L. SPITLER, of Jasper County. Cor. 4th A Columbia FtmUml toil, hi Mo Cop,tag ftaa Tui-Btokfc *Mi Btohnto. Mamai omrw. Wrtto tor CMalagaa to al. CADBBRa PrMMMt.

Tuesday, June 4th. CHALIES, CALICOES AND GINGHAMS. Red. black and blue calico 5c Good calico 34c ISaHies., LTTTTyL........3c~ Ginghams fancy, worth 10c.... ,7cApron check gingham 5c Remnants of calico and Ginghams at special prices. DRESS GOODS DAY. $1.25 silk finish Henrietta 90c 1.10 silk finish black Henrietta. 82c 95c silk finish black Henrietta.., 75c 85c [pattern only] hop sacking. 60c 75c morie silk, all colors 41c White goods .at ’ Special Sale Day Prices. Saturday, June Bth. CLOTHING DAY. We win I fl PERCENT. aHow | 1 J DISCOUNT ON ALL CLOTHING. Now is the time to buy a suit.

sl-15 for Pillsbury Flour. We have a car of Pillsbury Flour just received from the Minnesota mills, which we are selling for less money, [for cash] than it has been sold for in Rensselaer. 50 pounds Pillsbury best for $1.15. This flour has the reputation an d is no doubt the best bard wheat flour manufactured m the United States. For sale at the mill by 88-2tp. Sayler <fc Collins. No one in ordinary hea 1 th need become bald or gray, if he will follow sensible treatment. We advise clean - liness of the scalp and the use of Hall s Hair Renewer.