Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1894 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. - . . ■ - ■ -V ' ? ,-Gxgr.e E. Marshall, Editor. " RENSSELAER INDIANA.

“Look unto the heavens and see; ind behold the clouds which are higher than thou.” “It takes all kinds of people to make a world,” but what is the use —of so many cranks'* a—Emperor William js taking a lively interest in the Chinese-Japa-nese war in Corea. lie studies all the reported movements of troops, and has obtained maps, charts, and every variety of information obtainable. The Kaiser would like to visit the scene of hostilities if it was at all possible. A very “old settler” turned up near Marengo, Ind., last week,, in the shape of a terrapin turtle. In the harvest of 1868, two brothers named Young found “his excellency” and carved their names on his coat of mail. When found, after twenty-six years, the names on the turtle’s back were as plain as the day they were cut,land apparently the “baste” had not grown the least bit. Peter was only a big bulldog in Brooklyn, but his character for integrity was above par. For years lie had been the principal guardian of a simple-minded child, the daughter of Mrs. Curley. Last February a cruel trolley car crushed the life out of Peter. After consultation with attorneys, Mrs. Curley has brought suit against the car company for 15.000 damages— a very high valuation for a bulldog.

There are now, all told, sixteen vessels of various classes in process of construction for the United States navy at the different navy yards, and at private shipyards building under contracts. In the list are four first-class battle-ships and two second class. Within the next two years all wooden vessels now in the service will be dropped from the naval register, and the “new navy” will be complete, unless Congress in the meantime provides for the construction of more ships. The Peary Arctic expedition recently returned from the Northern regions. Mrs. Peary, in an interview at Washington, “talked some,” and a company of scientific gentlemen, who also accompanied the expedition, held a consultation at Philadelphia and decided to make a statement in reply. They charge Lieut. Peary with being ungentletnanly, a tyrant totally unfit to command such an expedition, and state that “no Arctic expedition can ever succeed with a woman along to hamper it.”

Chicago will probably soon furnish another sensational assassination for the delectation of newspaper readers. Repeated attempts have recently been made to shoot Judge Bretano and family in their own house. The assassin has not bebn ipprehenhed and officers have so far 'ailed to obtain even a clew to his identity. Judge Bretano tried the Prendergast case, but says that he has no enemies that he is aware of, ind does not think his official acts ire the cause of the attacks. He is entirely at a loss to account for the attempts on his life.

A millionaire can do as he pleas- ! ?s, live as he pleases and where he ‘ pleases. A good many millionaires have availed themselves of this privilege and have built themselves residences in a variety that would seem to indicate mental aberration in less favored mortals. Ex-Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska, has recently “laid over’’ all f other wealthy men in this regard. The retired Senator is wealthy, as is also his “better half.” They have considerable property in Washington City. Mi's. Van owns a neat church which was unoccupied. The Vans went down to ,the capital, some time ago, to look after some repairs on their property, and the Senator suggested that they “camp out" ip the church instead of Cfoing to a hotel. The plan was agreed to, furniture was procured, and the family “moved in” at once and have been enjoying the novelty immensely and regard it as a gpeat scheme. They like it so well, the lot in which the building is located being 50 attractive, that they Will have the church remodeled into a dwelling and will make it their winter home. Hiram S. Thomas is a colored man of New York city who has amassed a fortune of $200,000 in his liminess as a head waiter, and latterly as a hotel proprietor at Saratoga Lake. Recently he saw fit to Invest some of his money in a resiience in an aristocratic locality in

Brooklyn. The Brooklynites were indignant to a degree, unheard of, and mdved “heaven and earth,” so to speak. Mr. Thomas jg. disposed to be reasonable and will sell out at a slight advance of about $1,250. One of the residents who made the most strenuous objection to Thomas’s proposed location in his neighborhood was Gen. Mollineaux, who stated that he knew Thomas personally and had not the slightest objection to him, but he realized that his settlement in that particular place would Ke a serious financial in jury.

The reign of crime in New York city has almost become a reign of terror, and has spread to Brooklyn. Hoboken and several of the populous suburbs. Garroters at Hoboken choked two men nearly to death, took all their valuables; and did their work so quick that the wives of the victims, walking only a square behind, knew nothing of the trouble until they came upon the prostrate forms of their husbands. This happened at 9 o’clock in the evening. The entire suburban community surrounding the metropolis is alarmed, and with reason. Evidently the police regulations have become sadly inadequate.’ The boldest daylight robberies are also becoming quite a common thing in outlying districts. Occasionally important arrests, for these crimes, are made, but as a escape with their bootv.

A new era in railroading appears to have dawned in America- Fast trains, of a speed that until quite recently would have been regarded as phenominatyare becoming the regulation thing, and schedules begin to show ajnaterial change. The recent “fiver” special that flew from Chicago to Indianapolis in four hours and eight minutes via the Big Four route was an example of this tendency that was rather startling and was hot regarded as likely to become a settled practice. Yet xhat great system on Sunday, September 30,put on a new “flyer,” to beknown as the “Knickerbocker”, that is to make the distance from New York to St. Louis in twenty-nine hours. This speed is to be maintained every day in the year, “no preventing Providence.” The Big Four generally takes the head of the procession, but in this instance the procession don’t seem to be in it at all.

The deadly bacilli may become a theological issue in the near future. Communion services that have been conducted for centuries according to an established custom are to be made a subject for modern innovation. The single wine cup, that by common consent has been regarb, d as a sacred symbol—or, at least, good enough to contain the sacred wine—is likely to be displaced by individual cups. Rev. Dr. J. H. Gunning, who is also an M. I)., is a Baptist pastor in Brooklyn. Dr. Gunning has been investigating and has reached the conclusion that the ordinary Communion chalice is full of bacilli, and is an active agent in disseminating disease. He has accordingly inaugurated a new crusade. His own church has adopted his ideas,’ and their influence will be used to induce others to join with, them in what they .believe to be a really important reform. .Verily, “the old shall pass away and all things shall become new.”

Bequeathed His Pension.

Cincinnati Enquirer. Said B. C. Rains, a special pension agent: “I had a peculiar case in Washington county, Tennessee. A man named Adams drew a pension for total disability, and I was instructed to call and see if the disability was still total. When I reached the house a young man eame to the door, I asked: ‘ “Is this where John Adams.lives?’ ‘ “It’s whar he did live, stranger.’ ‘ “Where does he liye now?’ . “ ‘He don’t live. He’s been dead for goin’ on five y’ar. I’m his son.’ “Then. I explained iny mission, and he said: “ ‘Oh, thet’s all right. Walk right in and take a cheer. Pap could 'Write, an’ he made a will; the pension war the oSiy thing he hud to leave, but it’s come in mighty handy.’ “He produced the will, and sure enough, the pension had been devised to him. I didn’t have the heart to tell him thatJLt was not valid, but he receives no more pension.”

An Effective Speech.

At a meeting of the Temperance Union held in a small Pennsylvania city, some time since, the attendance consisted wholly of white people, with one exception—the pastor of the African M. E. church. He was a full blooded negro, as black as the absence of liirht. The. colored brother was requested to address the meeting, and rising in his place, he gazed, around upon his exclusive white audience solemnly. Then he said: “Brethren and sisters, I feel exactly like a huckleberry in a bowl of milk.” _ A practical beekeeper does not expect any great results from flower fields thraa miles

THE CAMPAIGN.

The Financial Record of the Democratic Party in Indiana. Creed of the Populace. It’s a heap of consolation in this general stagnation, when we find a fellow mortal, an official, or a State, That we can just get a shot at, curse, belabor and get hot at—we can stand so much better the unhappy frowns of fate. How it fosters resignation if the tide of emigration strands our barque upon a sand-bar,'where it seldom rains or snows, . ... . To attribute lack of rations to the banks and corporations—how the fireside faces brighten!what intelligence it shows! What we want’s a clap of thunder that will burst the banks asunder—a division of the plunder is the thing for which we sigh, f. But to talk of thrift or labor, that may help to feed my neighbor, but for ine. I must confess, it’s a little bit too dry. I’m a true-born politician, and it plain!}’ is my mission to secure a seat in Congress when my bleeding country calls. That is why I am engaging in the war the Pops are waging, though the northwest winds are raging in my summer overalls. —Kansas State Journal.

Gov. Matthews on State Finances.

Indianapolis Journal. Gov. Matthews, in his speech before the recent Democratic convention, made the folowing reference to State finances: “Our State debt, the largest part of which was incurred by Republican administrations and difficult to account for—that part that may be justly attributed to our party going into the construction of necessary State buildings and for improvements, and fpr every dollar of which we can show full value received —is now being diminished. During the but little over eighteen months of my administration there bas been paid $710,000 of this debt, and I trust before the iist-nl year may have slosed we may make it an even million. This, too, with the fact that we have lowered the rate of tax, including a levy for a sinking fund to provide for the gradual extinguishment of the State debt.” And he asked: “Is this not a magnificent showing, a glorious history of legislation?” It is a very disin?enious showing,, with nothing magnificent about it except the gall that claims great credit for the Democratic party for its tardy change from a debt-making to a debt-paying policy. The Governor’s statement that “the largest part of the State debt was incurred by Republican administrations” is not true, as can be easily shown by official records within two minutes’ walk of this office. The State debt in 1870 was $4,167,507, and this was less than it had been in forty years. Between 1860 ind 1870, during most of which time the Republicans had control, the lebt was reduced $6,011,760. No part of the debt as it stood in 1870 was created by Republican admin.strations. Every dollar of it existed when the Republicans first came into power into 1861. From 1870 to 1880 the debt was increased $830,671. rhe Democrats were in control of the State governmen t during nearly the .wht>»_ this period, embracing the administrations of Governors Hendricks, WtHiams and Gray, and th e increas ainth e d ebt was due on - tirely to bad financiering on their part. From 1880 to 1890 the debt increased from $4,998,178 to $8,540,515, and every dollar of the increase was due to Democratic legislation and financiering. During nearly the whole of this decade Democratic Legislatures were making appropriations in excess of the State's revenue and borrowing money to pay intterest, and at the end of the decade its interest account amounted to $273,825 a year. During the last few years of the decade, viz., from 1885 to 1890, the debt increased from $6,008,608 to $8,540,615. The peinocratic Legislature of 1891 recognized the fact that something must be done to increase the revenue and reduce the debt. They iared not go on borrowing money and piling up debt any longer. The people wore clamorous for a change of policy. This led to the enactment

RUNNING UP AGAINST A SURPRISE.

Uncle Sam—Gentlemen, you might as well lake off your armor now.

of the present tax lalw, under which the revenues of the State have been largely increased. Auditor Henderson, in his annual report for 1892. said: “Instead of an annual deficit of half a million dollars, as under the old regime, we now have a net surplus of that amount. Instead of borrowing money to pay interest on the public debt, as was done under the old order of things, we now provide forour interest and have a large surplus besides,” Thus a Democratic auditor virtually admitted the criminal folly of the Democratic financiering that prevailed prior to 1891, and congratulated the people on the change that had been made. It was indeed high time for reform. When Governor Matthews came into office the State debt, according to Auditor Henderson’s report for 1892, was $8,830,615, and the annual revenue was the largest ever known. The auditor said: “The annual surplus in the State treasury above the ordinary expenses of the State government and the payment of the annual interest debt is $500,000.” The governor says: “During but little over eighteen months of my administration there has been paid $710,000 of the State debt-” As there was an annual surplus of $500,000 of revenue over expenses, there is nothing surprising in this. The money came out of the pockets of the people, and a Democratic administration could hardly do less than apply the surplus to reducing the debt which the Democratic party had made. The Governor’s claim that in addition to reducing the debt “we have lowered the rate of tax, including a levy for a sinking fund to provide for the gradual extinguishment of the Stat edebt,” is buncombe. It is true that the tax levy has been slightly reduced, but taxes have not. Owing to the largely increased valuation of property, taxes are heavier revenue- larger than -ever before. People who pay taxes will not be deceived even a little bit bv the Governor’s buncombe.

The Reduced Cost of Living.

Chicago Inter-Ocean. Mr. Frank MacVeagh is trying to make the workingmen bf the State think that under Republican rule the cost of living went up faster than the rate of wages. He does not deny that the laborer got more money, but he insists it cost him so much more to live that he was really worse off. Before us is the twenty-fifth anniversary number of the American Grocer, a trade paper with which Mr. MacVeagh is supposed to be familiar. It devotes attention to the changes wrought during the last quarter of a century, and had the object of the editor been to furnish hard facts pertinent to this discussion he could hardly have hit it better. The Chicago grocer is abundantly refuted by the American Grocer. The prices.given are wholesale prices. The table is as follows: ' . 1869. 1891. 'Flour, per br1...,..5-6 62’ $ 3 30 Su'rar, per 1b.... 13% 04% Coffee, p rib........ 15% 18% Tea, per lb. 59 20% Rice, per lb 06% 014 Mess beef , per brl 11 41 8 19 Mess pork, perbr1...,31 01 13 80 Lant. per tb.... b. -484 07%Butter. per lb 254 254 Cheese, per lb 14 10% Canned tomatoes. No. 3, doz 2 10 95 Canned corn No. 2 per doz.. 275 8) Canned pea-lies No. 3 per do 3 50 1 30 Canned salmon No. 1 per do 3 75 1 5> It will be observed that the only increase is in the price of coffee, a staple for which we are wholly dependent upon importation and on which there is no duty. Free trade is enjoyed in coffee, also in tea. The duty was taken off both soon after the war. Butter is the only article in the list which shows no fluctuation. The greatest reduction is in sugar, with lard and mess pork next and flour and canned goods not far behind. The truth is that the necessities of life cost about twice as much twenty-five years ago, and this holds true in wearing apparel as in food. The only sense in which the cost of living Mias increased lies in the fact that between the increase of wages and the decrease of prices the workingmen have come to live much better than formerly. The jewsharp and acbo rdcon have given

place to the piano, and instead ol mess pork for his heaviest meal the wage-worker has come to look upon roast beef as an every-day dish. But if the free trade policy should be carried out and made periiianent, the homes and tables of the laboring men would again be barren of luxuries, and even the necessaries of life wonld severely tax the resources of the average wageworker,

TO WOOL-GROWERS.

The Men Who Sacrificed Their Interests Must Be Beaten at ' the Polls. To the Republican Wool-Growers and Thoss Engaged in Sheep Husbandry in Indiana; The great wrong with which we have so long been threatened is now consummated. The “party perfidy and dishonor,’' named by President Cleveland in his Wilson.letter, now besmirches the> pages of our statute books. Whisky trusts and sugar trusts are amply provided for. The $8,000,000 and more annually collected as customs duties on foreign wools that came into competition with your wool and mine in our own markets have been sacrificed, and we are to be taxed forty millions upon our sugar to increase the wealth of the Democratic sugar trust as a supposed equivalent for a contribution to a purpose not to be named. • The whisky tbust is amply provided for. Coal and iron ore in the mines of trusts and wealthy syndicates are to be protected against foreign competition. But the more than one million farmers and flock owners, isolated and scattered through the land with their flocks without money for bribes, or the control of more votes than their own, must submit to a competition calculated to annihilate the great sheep industry of the United States, ; forcing-our .farmers _to relyon_snch_ crops and cereals as, by reason of their already overproduction, are glutting the markets at unremunerative prices, and ruinously exhausting the fertility of their soils. Well may the President cry out as he did, “How can we face the people after indulging in such outrageous discriminations and violations of principle?” And yet, with his conscience smarting as if pierced by the stings of ten thousand scorpions, he. lacked the honest courage to face those avaricious and grasping combinations, and by the exercise of his constitutional power defeat a measure so infamous; He skulked into hiding that the “perfidy” might be consummated and the honest toiler of the land ruined. H&d that perfidious bill been one granting a pittance to a soldier foi the loss of an arm at Chickamauga, or a leg on the bloody field of Gettysburg in the defense of his country, no one doubts the patriotic alacrity with which he would have consigned it to the tombs in his watchfulness of the public treasury by the exercise of the veto power. With the protection you deserve and are entitled to have, your home market is the best wool market in the, world, because the American people consume more wool per capita: than anyother people in the world. With wool on the freelist, your clip comes into competition with two billion pounds annually produced by cheap labor on cheaper lands, affording perennial pastures, with a less transportation cost to the producer than would be incurred by the Indiana farmer in reaching our Eastern wool manufactories, where most of our wool finds a market. Hence we must changf the law, or abandon our flocks. We cannot afford to do the latter. Oui only hope is in the Republican party. The eleven traitors to the farmers interests holding seats in Congress from this State are, many of them, seeking re-election. They and others holding like political views must be beaten. - -/- To accomplish that, we must necessarily incur some expense. Th( means must be raised by those whe seek the change. We are connected with no such syndicates, or heartless and grasping trust from whom wf can expect aid. As a metnber of a committee for the purpose, I appeal to every Republican wool-grower ot the State, and farmers generally, to contribute a small portion of theii means to that end. Please forward such contributions as yon are‘willing to make to me at Wabash, Ind., and I will receipt for the same— if-it is even very small —and shall be personally responsible for the propci expenditure of every penny so received. I will, as far as practicable, see that each Congressional district of the State gejts its proportion in accordance witty the contributions made from each. Let us, my fellow wool-growers, and those engaged in sheep husbandry, make a determined effort to displace thbse who so wantonly have sacrificed that great interest of the farmer, that more than fifty years experience as a wool grower has taught me is indispensible to successful husbandry. We cannot afford, in this trying hour, to fold our hands and let the elections go by default. We must teach those who have brought this hitherto prosperous country to its present deplorablt condition a lesson they shall nevei forget. C. Cowgill. Wabash, Ind., Sept. 11.

Awful.

Puck. Mrs. Catchings (weeping)—Didn’t you hear about it? Mary has run ofi with that young Gil ling ton. It’» awful, awful, awful! Mrs, Gadders (a social rival) —Wei’ I should say so! Have his parent) offered a reward for him yet?

HARRISON’S CAMPAIGN.

The Ex-President's Tour Through Southern Indiana. A special train bearing ex-President Harrison and party left the Union Station pt Indianapolis at 9:30 a. m. Oct. 12; on a campaigning tour through southern Indiana. Short stops were made at Plainfield. Clayton, Greencastle, Brazil, Terra Haute, Vincennes, Princeton and a few other points. At nearly all the places crowds were assembled and Gen. Harrison spoke briefly. The objective point oi the trip .was Evansville, which was reached on schedule time. At Evansville an immense crowd was waiting the arrival of the train. The Hemenway Club, of Petersburg, escorted the carriage of General Harrison to the hotel. Excursions had been brought in from all the smaller towns, and the procession at 8 o’clock contained over two thousand men. Tha great hall with a seating capacity of 2.800 was packed to its utmost limit, Mr. Cicero Buchanan acted as chairirfan of the meeting and introduced Gen. Harrison in an appropriate speech. The distinguished speaker was greeted with enthusiastic cheers. When quiet had been restored Mr. Harrison spoke at great length from a Republican standpoint. He compared the financial and tariff policies of the parties in an able way, greatly to _the_di§adYantage_qf the Democratic plan ot tariff reform. Bad as the situation is, he said Democrats still threatened to make it worse by continued agitation. The eminent speaker took up Congressman Wilson’s London speech and dissected its fallacies without mercy. In conclusion Gen. Harrison implored his hearers to not throw away a sure thing by pursuing the swamp-lights of free trade, nor seek the markets of our own and better markets. There was great applause when the exPresident had concluded. Hon. Hiram Brownlee followed with a brief but forcible speech in support of Republican doctrines.

The special train left Evansville at S o’clock Saturday morning, on the return journey. Shortstops were made at Boonville, Lincoln City, New Albany, Huntingburg; English, Seymour add Franklin, and brief speeches were made by Mr. Harrison at each place. The stop at Lincoln-Citywas-UnexpectecL /This place is in Spencer county, the village where Lincoln spent his boyhood. The grove in which Lincoln’s mother is buried was pointed out to the ex-President and members of the party. Mr. Harrison caught the inspiration, and the five minutes' speech he made was pronounced the gem of the trip. In part he said: My Fellow Citizens—l am glad to stop this morning near the home where Abraham Lincoln spent part of his life. You will miss your chance if you do not improve the’ fact of your residence in the neighborhood of this interesting spot by giving a thoughtful study to the lite of Lincoln. Who would have supposed, what prophet would have predicted such a career to the boy as he lived under circumstances of hardship and poverty in this neighborhood? Who is there in this country that had not as good a chance as lie. The story of his life has been a perpetual foundation of inspiration to our boys, and it will continue to be so long as the country lasts. It shows that we have here no limits to what a boy may do for himself. „ Another thing I like to talk about was the. great, genial, human kindness of Mr. Lincoln. He was so different from other men in these times, who are trying to instill prejudice into the -minds of their fellow-countrymen to make them hate somebody. That was. not one nf Mr. Lincoln’s habits. He had a great love for his fellow-men. I remember once when a delegation of workingmen came to him. in a little talk to them he said. “If another man has a housc_au<L you haven’t any, don’t pull down the other man’s house, but build one for yourself.” There was great good sense in that remark, and the man will be happier and more successful in his life who takes that philosophy to heart.

THE KENTUCKY SERIAL.

Another Chapter of the Same Old Story; Near Stanton. Ky„ Saturday, Oscaf Morton was hanged by a mob. Mortoi( had killed a citizen and was released oii bond. He then proceeded to get drunk; md went on a hunt for the Sheriff and killed him. Morton was jailed for the last offense, A mob quickly formed and marched to the jail. The jailer wad overpowered and the keys to Morton’s cell obtained. He was found lying in hiy shirt sleeves on the floor of his cell, andi ifter a bitter struggle, was seized and iragged out. He then became very im-| prudent, and told the mob that he did not taro what they did with him provided they did their work quick. After a short ( parley he was taken to a little bridge some distance from town, and the rope was placed around his neck. The leaders drew their guns and told him to jump or Jlso he would be riddled with Pullets. Turning aroumq the doomed man cursed Itis captors, and, uttering wild imprecations, leaped into space, The jump broke his neck, and, after dangling in the air for some minutes, he became still, and a volly pf shots were fired into him. The mob then dispersed, and the body was left dangling from the bridge. Miss Adele Parrott, a teacher in the Muncie public schools, suddenly disappeared from that citv at the noon hour, Oct. 9, and was mysteriously missing for several days. Gn at excitements prevailed and the search for the missing girl was vigorously prosecuted. Saturday word was received from Ft. Wayne that Miss Partott was safe at her home near that city. Miss Parrott says she suddenly concluded to go to Florida and went to Indianapolis to buy a cloak, going from there to Ft. Wayne. Monumental disgust prevails in Muncie ovy the affair. Aurelius Joyce, Republican candidate for clerk of Marion county, died at his home in Indianapolis. Friday, from a complication of diseases brought on by exposure and over exertion in his canvass. i

GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY.

1 AtTo’clock, Friday night, a train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac road was “held up” by robbers near Quantico, Va. Seven men were in the gang. The express car was dynamited. It is supposed that the bandits secured between 6150,000 and 6-03,000. The robbers all escaped, and there is no clue to their identity. “Blinkens has given up calling on MisisGoldcoin. Did her father object'to his suit?” “No; it was the mastiff that ruined it.”