Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1894 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN Thursday, July 5 1894. ----- t»UID«Vm THURSDAY BS GEO. E. PUBLISHSH AND PHOPBIBTOB. .„QFE ICE In Republican building, on orner at Washington and Weston streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Tear .... .........1., $1.50 Six Months.. 75 Three Months 50 OflcialPayor of Jasper County.

In the annual readjustment of safaries of presidential postmasters, announced last week, the salary of the Renssel <er office was increased from §I4OO to In the state the salaries in 15 towns in all, were increased; and. in 13 they were decreased. The only neighboring towns which are affected are, Kentland, increased from §I,OOO to §1,100; Crown Point, from §1,300 to §1,400; and Hammond from §2,000 to §2,300. The call for.the reassembling of the Republican congressional convention, at Hammond July 9th was published last Thursday. It recites that the delegates who met May 24th, having dispersed without performing the duty delegated to them of nominating a candidate for Congress, the said delegates are called to rc-assem-ble, for the purpose of nominating such ; a candidate. The call is., signed by R. H. Wells, chairman of Lake county; H. C. Long, Chairman of Fulton county; dl). E Simons, chairman of Porter county; James Mcßeth, chairman of White county and B. B irders, secretary of Pu'aski county, and later the names of Geo. M. Robinson, vice chairman, and C. E. Mills, secretary, of Jasper c m uty, were added. A democrat wanted to know what somebody had “agin” Grover Cleveland. Here are a few of the many things the American people have “agin” him: He ordered the Starsand Stripes hauled down at Honolulu, ami tried to restore a dissolute and blood-thirsty queen to the throne from which an indignant and outraged people liad driven her. He has insulted and abused every old Union sol w in the land. He has shut up the iiation’s mills, shops and factories, and by so doing has filled the land with idle workmen, with hungry women and children and with untold suffering and misery. He has blocked the wheels of commerce and has brought bankruptcy to thousands of honest and worthy men. AVe might mention other things, but these are sufficient The great man has made a most egregious failure as president, and the people will have a reckoning with both him and his party in 189 G.

The Kentland Enierprise,while ► holding that U. B. Laudis is the choice of a majority of the Republicans of the district, and arguing also that the “snapper” county convention at Crown Point, called obviously, as the Enterprise thinks in Mr. Johnston’s interest, justified the division of the Lake county delegation between Landis and Johnston at the Hammond convention, comes to the final conclusion that neither Mr. Johnston nor Mr. Landis can be elected this year, and that it is the duty of both, as good Republicans, to get out of the way, and let a new man be nominated. The Goodland Herald also advocates the nomination of a new man.

HOW THE PAPERS STAND.

The Republican papers of this district are about as badly rattled and divided on the congn Ssional situation as the politicians and the people* generally seem to t e. The Logansport Journal, the leading liepublican paper of the district, at' first endorsed the nomination of Mr. Landis, very heartily. More recently it has shown sign i of watering. It is very anxious for a “settlement” bat haa not dearly indicated by what method it thinks ihesettlem< nt can be effected. It is how.

ever, rather disposed to ridicule “Bob Border’s bob-tail convention” called for July 9th. The Rochester Republican, an original Johnson paper, thinks the only thing to do now is to do its best to elect Mr. Landis, whom it regards as the legal candidate. The Monticello Herald, always a strong anti-Landis paper, hl- - published in a Landis county, is now his bitterest opponent in the district, if we except the ribald Chesterton Tribune. The Brookston Reporter is also opposed to Mr. Landis, but is much more fair and decent about it than is the Monticello Herald. The Valparaiso Vidette has kept Mr. Johnston’s name at the head of its ticket right along. It is an able advocate of Mr. Johnstou, and will endorse his nomination by the July 9th convention. So also will the Crown Point Star, the Chesterton Tribune, and probably the Lowell Tribune, and the Hebron Leader. The Hammond Tribune has been strongly for Landis. It has lately had a change of management, however, and is now taking a conservative course, and is more anxious for a peaceable settlement than anything else. num ac Republican, which has also been conservative in the matter, now thinks the only show for a Congressman is ’or both candidates to step aside and let a new man be nominated. The stand of the Newton county papers, the Kentland Enterprise, and the Goodland Herald, is mentioned elsewhere. They want a new man. The only Republican paper in Carroll county is the Delphi Journal, and, so far as able editorials are concerned, it is second to none in the district, but being Mr. Landis’ own paper, it is properly silent on the Congressional situation. In copying the comments ofroth r papers, however, it must be admitted that the Journal shows a quite pronounced predeliction for Mr. Landis!

Press Opinions and Comments

Grover Cleveland has fallen further and Jit harder than any man since Sam i’atch. —Muncie Times. Congress and the. Senate are not standing Umthe JDemocratic platform; they are sitting down on it. fell City Journal. Senator Hill is not popular with his party now, but his party is unpopular and he is more respected than any one in it. —Muncie News. What does it profit the country if 525,000,000 be saved in pensions and §34,009,000 given to the Sugar Trust?—Elwood Call Leader. Senator Quay’s testimony 7 on sugar speculation shows one thing, and that is that he is not a'candidate for The presidency.—V ernon Journal. The Sugar Trust and the southern plantations are the only infant industries that the Democratic party regards as entitled to protection.— Gushen Times. The question of the need of a new White House at Washington has been revived The need of a new president is far more pressing at this time. —Columbia City Commercial.

A few years ago Oscar Wilde, when he came to this country to lecture, complained that we had no ruins. But that was before the Democratic party came into power —Paoli Republican. Senator Gorman testifies that ho doesn’t know where the Democratic campaign funds came from Probably nobody ever was really innocent as this old campaigner looks.—Shelby Republican. There isn’t a county in Indiana where the assessed valuation of personal property is not less today than last year. In many of the counties the depreciation runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Democracy is a blight. —Shelbyville Republican. Biby headwear a'most given away at Mi a. Leckliders. SIO,OOO private funds to Loan on Real Estate Mortgages at Citizens State Bank. Ten different makes of Sewiwg m« chines, At Steward’s. The Stmdird is sold by N. Warner Sons. For real city work, go to Mks. L. M. Imes.

The Chicago Conference Committees' Address and Mr. Landis’ Statement.

‘ On Wednesday of last week was puhlished the nddresH qx). the Landis-Johnston controversy, prepared by Messrs. Borders, fAgnew and Wickey, the committee appointed by the Johnston conference, at Chicago, a couple of weeks ago. On Monday last, Mr. Landis published a statement of his side of the case, over his own name. The Johnston statement claims that Landis was given 15 votes from Lake county when, as is held, there was no shadow of a right to contest for more than the 12 votes from Hammond and North township, and no just grounds fur contest there. It also says that in the vote on the adoption of the report dividing the Lake county vote half and half, that five White county men voted against the motion, and that the chairman of that delegation reported only three votes against it. Further it is intimated that the two Newton county Johnston delegates who changed to Landis, were induced to go contrary to their instructions by improper means. Landis, they say, stayed all night with one of these men and bad a long consultation with the other, about a week before the convention. In Cass county, it is claimed, one delegate who was instructed to vote for Johnston, was prevented from attending the convention by threats of personal violence. Mr. Landis in his counter statement, issued last Monday, says that he is sure that if the Republicans of the district were well informed of all the circumstances connected with the Crown Point

convention, they would admit that he was justly entitled to the bulk of Lake county delegates. Says that when Hammond was selected as the place for the congressional convention, he was solemnly promised fair play in Lake county and that no attempt should be made to bind up the county for any candidate; and that this agreement was flagrantly violated, The ered&ntials committee declared both Jolinst n and Landis Lake Co. delegates irregularly elected, and the dividing the vote of the county betwean the two candidates was a fair SettlementConcerning this point Mr. Landis quotes from the Kentland Enterprise a passage to the effect that the Crown Point “snapper” conconvention was call on only 8 days, nominal notice, and scarcely a week’s actual notice, and all for the purpose of heading off Mr. Landis, who was getting in good work in Lake county- Mr. Landis further says that special pains have been tnken to keep from the Republicans the fact that on the day of the convention, the offer was repeatedly made by the Landis men to submit the w hole matter to a primary vote, nnd er the Australian ballot system, but that the Johnston men rejected the offer, every time. The following paragraph from Mr. Landin’ statement is copied entire:

“It was perfectly natural that there should be some feeling at the Hammond convention. The canvass leading up to that convention was, in a majority of the counties, a personal one on the p <rt of Judge Johnston and myself. It was a square fight. Neither of us asked odds or gave them. One week he was victorious aud the next week I was victorious. Ibe day of the Crown Point convention his friends, with the consent of the railroad company, took a train that we had bought and paid for, and the George H. Hammond Packing Company and the East Chicago rolling mills, under their managers turned out an army of men to capture the Lake county delegates It a fight from start to finish. No one will deny that Judge Johnston’s friends took advantage o( every ciook and turn, conceded absolutely nothing, fought for every advantage up to the very moment they h» 3 t in tl ie adoption of the majority report of the committee on credentials; then they abandoned the convention to my friends, and 1 was nominated. The above is a brief but, so far as possible au impartial summary

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of the main points of the two statements, leaving out of both the argumentive portions, and out of the Agnew-Borders address the abusive.

The Congressional Situation.

The calling of the Johnston delegates convention, for July 9th» may eventually make matters_a good deal better in this district, i and again it may make them a good deal worse. It all depends on whether the two principal parties to this unfortunate affair, and their more en thusiastic i rivnds, have clear enough judgement to see the situation as it is, and patriotism and self-sacrifice enough to do what they then must see is the necessary thing to do.

If the nomination of Mr. Johnston By Tlie July HTB”convention helps- to bring both himself and Mr, Landis to a fuller realization of the fact, now so evident to every unprejudiced mind, that there is, ui der existing conditions, no hope of electing either of them to Congress this year; and to realize, further, the fact, mure evident even than the previous one, that the remaining of either or both of these most able and excellent gen tiemen in the field as congressional candiates will practically disrupt the Republican party in the Tenth district, not only for this year, but for many years to come; if this second proposed convention has" the effect to bring these gentlemen and their more earnest partisans to more dearly realize these facts, and, realizing them, they act accordingly to what they

must then see that the best interests of the party require,, and both voluntarily retir6 and give way to a new convention, and a new nomination then, we can truly sny, the convention of July 9th resulted in great good. If, bn the other hand, these gentlemen and their friends fail to realize the situation as it is, or refuse to retire from the field, and both remain as more or less recognized regular Republican nominees Lr Congress, the result will

be much worse than if this second convention had not been called. Not only will the canvasses of the two rival candidates through the district, revive all the old bitterness, and create new; but there will be a heated contest in many counties over the question of which of their names shall appear upon the official ballots as the regular Republican candidate. In several counties this question will be decided by Democrats, who will take pains, in every case, to decide it in the manner best calculated to most injure Republican prospects and to most increase the dissensions in the ranks of the Republican party. While in counties whe e a majority of the Board jof election commissioners will be Republicans, the fight of the respective candidates for recognition as the regular nominee will be * be more demoralizing to the party than in counties .where the decision is in the hands of Democrats.

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Republican Platform.

■We, the Republicans-of Indiana, in delegate convention assembled, reaffirm our faith in tlie progressive principles of tire Republican party. We believe its policies, past and present, best calculated to iwoinote the happiness- and prosperity of tiie people. The administration of President Harrison and the Congressional legislation of thab party were: wisp, pure and patriotic, and we point "to the contrast between the home and foreign policies of that administration—and the travesty oh government inflicted on file whole people. We believe in tlie Republican doctrine of reciprocity, which furnishes a home Market for Jlie-productions.-irLmur. factories andour farms and protects tlie American laborer against the pauper labor of Europe. We denounce the unwise and unpatriotic action of the Democratic party in attempting to climate the reciprocity ■ principle from our tariff system, thereby closing a large foreign market to products of American i farmers and depressing agricultural interests. I We denounce the present attempt of a 'Democratic Congress to overthrow and destroy tlie American industrial system, a course that, with a general .fearviolent readjustment of he country's business to a free-trade basis, has increased tlie-nafionai debt and has plunged the country into themost disastrious business depression of its history. has closed large luimliers of banks and factories throughout the country, lias thrown au unprecedented number of Amier can citizens outAif employment, has compelled thousarids of able bodied men to humiliate them-e ve-, by asking for charity, and has filled our broad land with free souphouses and food markets. We believe in currency composed of gold, silver and paper. Jreadily convertible at a fixed standard of value, ami entirety, under national control, and we favor the imposition of increased duties upon the imports from all countries which oppo.-e the coinage of silver upon a basis to be determined by an international congress for such purpose. We denounce the avowed purpose of tlie Democratic party to restore the era of ‘w ild-cat" money. We believe in a liberal construction of our pension laws, and we condemn the unjust policy of the present ; administration of depriving cx-soldters of their pension without a hearing—a policy intended to east odium upon loyalty and patriotism, We believe it to be the: duty of the State, as well as a nation, to make suitable provision for tlie care and maintenance of all indig en soldiers, their wives, and widows. We, there sore, favor the establfstinient by the State of a* suitable soldiers’ home.for the receptionof stieb soldiers, their wives and widows as may be overtaken by adversity. We demand a rigid enforcement of all existing Immigration“laws liyAheTfatWliir and demand such further legislation as will protect'our people and institutions against the influx bf tlie criminal and vicious-classes.-We denounce tlie unpatriotic action of the Cleveland administratioir in hauling down tlie American flag at Hawaii, and condemn tlie arrogant assumption of power displayed in tlie effort to restore a tyrannical Queen oVefla free people'who Had thrown otrnieyiikeof despotism.

We condemn the outrageous bargain and sale of Federal patronage by the Cleveland adminls tratlon in its unblushing efforts to usurp the prerogatives of the legislative braneli.of the government to force a favorite measure through Congress and compel the confirmation of Presidential appointments by the Senate. We condemn the reckless and extravagant administration of tlie financial affairs of tins state whereby the people are subjected to unjust and unnecessary burdens of taxation, by an Increased asessmen t of property and Increased rate of taxation. and by multiplication of ofllwstqbe sup ported by the tagpayers of the State. We believe that the benevolent, educational and correctional Instlltitlous of the Stale should be placed under non-partisan control. We believe in such legislation, State and National, as will protect the Ilves and limbs of employes of railways.mines and factories. We condemn the policies steadily pursued by the Democratic Legislature of li.diana In so gerryiniuidering the State as to deny the people a fair representation of their views in tne State legislature and National Congress, thus imperiling tlie foundations bf our institutions.

COUNTY TICKET.

For Comity Clerk, WILLIAM II COOVEH, of Carpenter Township. For County Auditor, HENRY B. MURRAY, of Barkley Township. For C< unty Treasurer, JESSE 0, GWIN, of Hanging Grove Township, Epr County Sheriff, CHARLES W. HANLEY, of Walker Towtshlp. For County Surveyor, JOHN E ALTER, ’ of Union Township. For county Coroner, . TRUITT P. WRIGHT, of Marion Township. Commissioner-Fir. t District. WILLIAM DAIINIKE, of Wheat field Township. Commissioner -B>c md District, JOHN C. MARTINDALE, oi Newton Township. Commission! r—Thir I District, DEXTER R. JONES, of Carpenter Township. '

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