Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — FOR VICTORY IN 1896. [ARTICLE]

FOR VICTORY IN 1896.

The official count of the vote cast > ° ; * .in the, recent election in Kansas show a plurality for the rnpithliemis of 81,000 ami also demonstrates the even more agreeable fact that the populist propaganda in that much bedeviled state in the throes of tt dissol ution. --L a faye 11e Courier. Auditor Daily’s report will show —that the State debt has been reduced $400,000 during the past year. The total foreign debt of the State is about seven million dollars. A little more than oneseventh of this amount has been r refunded during the /ear at a reduced rate of interest and a saving of $27,000 in premiums. John Sherman, in a letter to the Philadelphia Press, said:luanswer toyamrijTreßticrmKFtuvvhuttierthure ought to be tariff on wool, I can say unequivocally that such, a duty is vitally necessary to preserve an industry of tire greatest importance. From the beginning of the goveru--—meaTa dijity loa wool has b6ofi impOsed, specifically for protection, r. aud was recommended by Jefferaon, Madison and Jackson. “ ' ■ - The United Kingdom sba bought from ns this year, to September 30 th, 105,250 heassof cattle less than she bought in 1894. This represented $9,000,000 Joss iu the sale of one American farm product, at the rate of a million dollars h month, and shows what it costs oiir farmers to capture the markets of the world. The financial distress and the disgraceful results the success, of Cigyoland and f ree trade, in 1892, lias put several million s then vot ed that .way, into a stH. mimf "-where they fully eudoi se two famous lines ijfigd; - “Ot all sad words of tougu 11 or V eu < The saddest are have, had Ben.’; mmmammmma mm ■ ’* ’ The New Albany Tribune, Gen. Packard’s paper, favors Major G. T.Dpxey, of Anderson, for The Republican -nomination £*>r Governor, the fcpe.i ial preference being on the grounds that. Doxey is the onlytspldier candidate in the field. Doxey is an excellent man and -lee sol.her point 'is very much in ills fav 1■ r. 111. there is now quite a g.e.'d si/, -d S iiiad of excellent men willing, not to say anxious, to accept the Republican nomination’ fflim Governor this year, and not one of them, so far as yet heard of, who would not*make an acceptable and available candidate, and fill the office with ability and honor, . after election. Senator Lucien Baker, of Kansas, has summed up the cost of the present administration and says: “The death blows aimed by the Democratic Congress,” he, said,“at the great .commercial, financial, manufacturing, agricultural and laboring interests of the country gave the people such a fright that they will nut have another Democratic Administration or Congress for the next thirty years. The hiss of $80,000,000 of gold a year to go to Europe to pay the balauce of trade, against us; the issuing of $173,000,000 of 5 and 4 per cent bonds to pay the running expenses- of the Government over and above the usual receipts of »170,000 .009 a year, mocl which wilt cost, the people about $400,000,000 before they eliminate that debt from their overburdened shoulder's; these, I say, are but small matters compared to the loss of business by the country as shown from the clearing house re-

ports. These were over $5,000000,000 in 1888, and but little less in 1889. Business dropped to $3,500,000,000 in 1892; and to only J 2,000,000, 000 in 1893; and but little better iu 1894 and 1895, or a net-loss to the business of the country of over $10,000,000,000. The most deplorable part of it is the laboring people have had to stand HboutonehaTf of thisloss. ’ ’ The Supreme Uottffiinrits-Te-cefit very sensational decision in the Ryan case, did uot, in words, apply the same ruling ta cities and towns as they did to counties. holding tllem not liable for accidents persons from defective roads, bridges etc. But the court can not, with any degree of consistency, avoid applying the same principle of Don-liability to citiesand towns as soon as any similar case affecting them is brought fore it. The reason for declaring counties not liable apply exactly as much to cities and towns. And this fact has been generally recognized, all oVef the state, and in Indianapolis, where the city had been paying out considerable sums in-settlement of claims for. personal and property injuries, that policy has been dropped and no more such claims will be paid, unless the Court again reverses itself, and declares cities 1 iable. There has been some consideration of a proposal to bring suits to recover back money already paid on such claims. It is thought that . there would be no trouble at all in getting judgment, but the quests m is whether the Judgments would be worth anything after getting them. Of course this last suit by Lafayette parties vs. Rensselaer will :be affected if the Ryan decision is carried to its logical conclusion aud applied to cities aud towms. Aud so generally is this thought to be the outcome, that there is little if any disposition anywhere to settle this last claim, but on the contrary a determination that it ought to be fought to the last. - *.

The republican State committee at their receut meeting decided upon an early date, for organizing ... ... : preparatory to the coming campaign. District meetings to select members of the State committee were appointed for Tuesday, Jau. 21st. Delegates to these district meetings are to be selected by precinct meetings to be held Saturday, Jan. lltit, and county Committees are to be organized Saturday, Jau. lSf h. The district meeting 'for the District will beheld at Rensselaer, and f-n -Jan. 28th. the new State committee will ffieet"at Tndiuimpblis for organization. The basis of repreaeiitation to the district conventions to be held in the venous districts Tuesday, Jaft. 21, 189<>, has been lixed as follows: One delegate and one alternate delegate for every two hundred votes and fraction of cue kuuA ,dred or more votes cast for William D. for secretary of State at the Novembe'r election, 181)4. The number of delegates to the /Teath District convention 'to be held at Rensselaer is as folloWs: Lake 19 LaPorte 21 Jasper 8 Bentou * 9 Tippecauoe 27 Porter..../.. • 12 Newton • b White 11 Warren T0ta1...... . . .... 122 The only business to be transacted at the district convention is the election of a member of the State ceutral committee. The Loganiport Journal, the leading Republican paper of the old Tenth district, and in its leading county, takes leave of the old district, and enters into the new, in quite a different tone from the rasping,, carping, not to say insulting spirit, shown towards the uew Tenth district by the.. L-ifayette Courier; which by its positibu aud .ability, if it had

E —— common sense and good temper to 1 match, might easily succeed the Logansport Journal as the recognized leader of the Republican press of the district. Here is the way the Logansport Journal talks; regarding the changed district: “Cask’finds herself among new friends and greets them cheerfully, turning tearfully—for the old; Tenth contained a brave lot of wholesouled aud - with deep regret comes the thought that we meet with them in congressional councils no more. Lake and Porter sticking together like; twimJjfoflieiT, Jasper aud NewTonl always for the best man, White a little strategic, Pulaski and Fulton solid and steadfast, Carroll goodnatured. Cass they call “The Kick r.” but they didn’t mean it; of course. Regretfully we give the parting hand with best wishes for the many friends of the old 1 Tenth. In the Eleventh Cass finds herself for the first time in thuybanner Republican district of the State,* the “Peace and Harmony” district may it henceforth be and so be rightfully called. In it Cass shows up with the next to the smallest delegation instead of the largest as in the old Tenth, and its power lies largely in its ability to promote peace aud harmony, always an important attribute in the under dog. The question whetker a country paper supplies its miscellaneous and genera Ine ws maffierMJy"MW use of “ready prints” from the city or by stereotype plates obtained fromrthe same general sources, is one in which the public has very little interest; but inasmuch as our neighbor the Pilot took occasion of pur recent change from the former method to the latter, to make some comments which the facts do not warrant, we will refer to the matter again. Qur neighbor’s statement that The Republican ridiculed the Pilot in every way when it made a similar change some months ago, is entirely at variance with the facts. We simply printed out the hypocrisy and deception the Pilot was trying to impose upon its readers, by its claims of wonders ul merit in the stereotyp©*pfeter inethod ready prints. The Pilot further claims that it is Its example which has “driven” The Republican . to to adopt the plate method also. Here agairl our neighbor is far away from the facts. Iu truth, if the Pilot’s use of the plate method had had any effect upon us at all, it would have been to deter us from making the change. For verily and in truth we do not consider the Pilot nearly so good a paper since it began using plates, as it was when it used readyprints. It mixes its home-set and it's plate matter up so badly, and gives such undue prominence to its plate matter over the home part, aud especially to the political plates, with their repulsive and disgusting, and utterly senseless cartoons; that we can not but believe that the majority of its readers would welcome the cliauge, if the Pilot resumed the ready-print method at once. Of course the few populistic enthusiasts whose counsels rule the policy of the paper, will prefer its present form. Lastly, there is nothing in the Pilot’s claim that the use of plates instead of ready-prints, is an evidence of “progress.” If it were so, why do four out of every five of the best country papers iu Indiana, published in towns of less than 5,000 population, use the ready-prints? Two out of Monti - cello’s excellent three for instance; alMbree of Winamac’s; one of Valparaiso’s two; all of Crown Point’s; all in Newton county; all in Benton county except one of Fowler’s three, and that one much the poorest of the lot. With all due respect for Pilot editor’s ability as a newspaper man, we still venture to assert that the most'of these “ready-print” papers we have men 7 tioued,- and scores of others we might add, are quite as “progressive” and-qyite as ably edited as is the (pretended),“all home prinl” Pilot. As before stated, Tko

changed to the plate method, simply to give home advertisers the space before given to forejgo advertisers, and if, after the holidays, or at any other time, when we find we eau make a better paper for the same outlay by again using ready-prints, we shall do so.