Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — Page 4
THE REPUBLICAN. T . I d U iQursqayi u*cc., -.did, louo. ISSUED BVKBY THURSDAY BY 3EO. S. MARSHALL. Publisher and Proprietor. OFFICE In Repsblican building, on Ciruprof Washington and Westen streets. ■— >■ XxLxViJxIO Ur o U isoC'ikli JIU/Di* <tee Tear . ■.... y j ..,i...;51,50 Six Months ............ 75 Three Months 50 Official Paper oj Jasper County.
To Jasper County Republicans.
The^B^pub! ican voters, of Jasper County, and all others who will act* with them in the campaign of f 89• >. —tfiU meet at the usual voting phree" in each precinct on the 11 th. day of January, 1896, and transact the following business, to wit: Ist. To select five precinct Committee men, one of whom shall be i chosen chairman of the precinct committee, who will be a member of the County Central Committee. ' 2nd. To select -one delegate, and one alternate delegate from each precinct to represent said precinct in the District Convention to be held in I Rensselaer on the 21st. day of January, 1896, for the purpose of electing a tnember of the State Central Committee for the 10th Congressional , Di st . Jasper County being enti- ! htted lo 8 delegates each delegate., so 1 sei ected wi 11 be ent ill ed to cast 8-19-pf one vote at said district convention. 3rd. The members of the County Committee so chosen shall meet at i ofi Saturday, January 18,1896, at 1 P. M., to organize by the election of a County Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. ' . The selection of these precinct Committees is one of the most important acts in the coming campaign and should secure the thoughtful consideration of every voter, in order that the best men may be chosen for political work. T.J. McCoy, . Charles E. Mills, Chairman. Sec.
Crawfordsville Journal: The Harrison administration paid off; 8260the interest charge try of nearly 8300.0’00.000 The debt was reduced from $844,000,000 to $585,000,000. Under the present admistration it has increased by $162-l s 327.700, the total now standing at 8747.361,060. This must be the “delicate predicament” referred to by President Cleveland in his message. Onr townsman, Thos. J. McCoy, has been very much set upon from various parts of this congrSsional district to be a candidate for the position of district chairman, and he has finally consented that his name be presented at’ the district convention to be held here Jan. 21st. The prospects forliis election are very promising; and the liepublicans of the district will make no mistake if their choice for this honorable and responsible position falls upon him.
It has looked for a good while as though a war with England), was likely to come, sooner .or later; but it ought, so far as can honorably be done, to be left for England to force on the war, and thus give to America the moral vantage ground of being “thrice armed” in having “our quarrel just.” Furthermore, beyond question or dispute it will be the part of wise statesmanship to stave off a war with England for a few years, if possible, in order to give the country a chance to get put of the financial and industrial hole the Democratic free trade policy has put us into, and also to give us an opportunity to strengthen our navy and to provide some defences for our many now entirely unprotected sea and lake ports.
Thpre is really no need to go to war to lick old England. The Chicago Inter Ocean has got her completely thrashed already, just by big talk and making ugly faces, being exactly the same means, by the way, by which China lately gained so complete a victory over Japan! We take no stock in such ..'l., . |
dragging and bloviating as the Inter Ocean and other papeis are indulging in. We have no doubt but that the . United States can old England” in a fair fight, but at the same time there is no use to dgny the fact, that we could do it a great deal easier and with .vastly- less Idss to ourselves, if du ring the last ten or fifteen years Hoiirrulers 11ad list (Tied m oreTd’ i the advice of wise and really brave ’ men, and less to that of braggarts and demagogues. In that case l oirr miavy Woukl" beenJvastl y stronger than it flow is; our great sea and lake ports would not be of hostile fleets; we would have had a hundred torpedo boats instead of only two; six times as many big modern cannons as we have, ;and plenty ol modern repeating rifles to arm the millions of brave men who are ready and anxious to use them in our nation’s defense; instead of having to send the most of them out armed with weapons 25 years out of date.; The most outrageous case of the now all too. frequent cases of judicial robbery we have ever heard of has just been perpetrated in dCass eounty at the expense of Carroll. A. vagabond named Whitmore, who killed another vagabond, in Carroll was tried in Cass, by I change of venue, and now Carroll is saddled with costs amounting tothe~euOrmous sum of in a case, the trial of which ought hot to have cost one tenth of that
sum. ’ Of this sum $4,400 was paid to attorneys; being allowed to them by Judge Lairy, the previously unknown young lawyer whom Gov. Matthews appointed to fid out an unexpired term in the Cass circuit court. These enormous allowances are a gross outrage on the people of Carroll county and if there is any way, it can be done legally, an appeal from them should be taken. And if there is any way' by which a judge can be punished, except by the condemna ion, of public opinion, for such outrageous allowancI es, it ought to b 6 done in this case.
Briefly stated —the —Venezuela question is this: England and i Venezuela have disputed for .60 i years over a piece of territory about as large as New York State, which both nations claim. Ven-’ ezuela —has always wanted lhe question arbitrated but England hasalways refused. In 1840 an agentijof the British government named Schomburgh run through the disputed territory a line which he thought would make a good boundary,—for England. The United States demands that the whole question be submitted ■to arbitration. England says that she is willing to arbitrate as to all "Beyond the Schomburgh line, but no further. That much she has firmly grabbed and is bound tet hang on to it.. Congress has now authorized the President to appoint a commission of Americans to make a full investigation as to what the'rightful boundary is, and if that commission reports that England has no right to all the territory up to the Schomburgh line, that country will either.have to back down from its refusal to arbitrate, or fight Uncle Sam This position on the part ot the President and Congress is right on the line of the Monroe Doctrine, and is all right. We greatly hope there will be no war, but bad rather see war than any backdown on the part of our government. There is no danger of war until at least after the comfnission reports, which will probably not be for several months; and although there is much danger that war will then grow out of the trouble, the chances for peace are probably much greater than for war.
It was reported a little while back that a man wanted to establish a shoe factory in Rensselaer if he could get the right kind of a “bonus.” Yea “bonus” “aye, , there’s the rub,” for when we recall how many narrow escapes the people of Rensselaer have had in the past from being badly done
up on this bonus business, the, word has a very suspicious sound. There was the “Aetna Iron Works,” for instance. We came within:an ace of putting §12,000 “bonus” info that. Crown Point got ahead of us, however, and got the works. The man put up the building, got his bonus and the Title to the "tot, went east' and' mortgaged the outfit for all he could get and then left. And that was the end of thjU iron works. Then there wap the bamboo babybuggy business. Michigan City out-bid us -on that - They raised the bonus and got the factory; it run in a sort of way for a year or so, and that was the last, heard nf that Then how near we eame to being caught up by a bicycle factory man whose sole capital was wind. And it was. a short time.ago, when The Republican effectually punctured a movement to buy a canning outfit from par* ties who were morally certain to have" swindled us. These few instances of the bonus swindles Rensselaer has narrowly escaped, are not quite all that- might be mentioned. But they are enough to show the general unreliability of this kind of propositions.
Whatever others may think or say regarding their wishes for, or th ei r hope <1 - for results of, a _ war with Great Britain, for our part we can not, in conscience, say that we have any joy in such a prospect. On the contrary we most earnestly hope that some- honorable way out of the difficulty may be found, and a resort to war be avoided. - Under no conceivable circumstance, except the preservation of our national honor, can the
results of such a war, however successful we may be in it, be sufficient to recompense the destruction of life and property it must inevitably occasion. A war between this country and England under the present condition of affairs, would be the calamity of the ages. It would be destructive, almost beyond human conception. They are the two richest nations of the earth; and in the, case of both, to an extraordinary degree, is their weal til- exposed to the capture and destruction of the other. England owns practically all the foreign commerce of the world; and in spite of all her mighty navy could do to prevent it, our half dozen or so incomparably' swift cruisers .would work such havoc among fier merchant ships, as would make the ravages of the Sumpter and the Alabama among our own vessels during the civil war, comparatively insignificant. On the other hand, while the United States is thus inflicting immeasurable damage upon England’s confmerce; England, through the great advantage of her predominating navy, and our defenceless and exposed sea and lake ports, will retaliate by their destruction, or by levying upon them tribute almost equivalent to destruction.
The two nations are remarkably evenly matched. The advantage which the United States has in being compact while Great Britain is^scattered, is equalized by the advantage Great Britain has in being prepared while the United States is Unprepared. Both nations, above all others, are propd, patriotic and persistent; and neither can be expected to acknowledge defeat until they have fought to. the very limit of national exhaustion. And they are so evenly matched in natural powers and accidental advantages that neither can be brought to that point without the other suffering nearly to
as great an extent. We have no doubt but that, in the long run, England would suf-1 fer more than the United States, and that to us, the victory would finally come, but it would probably be at the cost of such appalling loss of life and property on both 'ftides, as in no other international war of modern times was ever equalled. B. F. Ferguson will loan you all the money you want at 7 per cent and 3 per cent. Come call and see us before going elsewhere ■
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’ ~~ X. McCoy. T, J. McCoy .A. R. Hopkins, , Pres. Cashier. As_>t. Cashier. A.McCoy&Co’s.Bank KKKBitKI.AEB. INDIANA. THE OLDEST BANK IN JASPER COUNTY Established 1854. T Transacts a general banking business, buys notes and loans money on long or short time on personal or real estate security. Eair anU liberal treatment is promised to all. Interest paid on time deposits. Foreign exchange bought and sold. AOUR PATRONAGE IS SOLICITED. Patrons having valuable papers may deposit them for safe keeping. Addison Parkison, Geo. K. Hollingsworth President. Vice-President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. * tan#: State luL RENSSELAER, IND. Directors: Addison Parkison, James T. Randle, John M. Wasson, Geo. K. Hollingsworth r il Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This jlauk is p-ewired to transact A gener al Banking Busmess. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. «S"At the old stand of the CITIZENS’STATE BANK.
H. J. Dexter wi 11 sell you groceries cheap for cash. Remember him in the Odd Fellows’ new building. LAWYERS. v tLLIA¥ B. AUSTIN. ‘ ABTHVBH. HOPKIN» Geo.. K. Hollingsworth. RensselAer. - - - - - ; - - - - Ind - second Boor of Leopold’s Block earner Washington and Van. Renscplaer street Practice in all the courts, and ptwebae®. sell and- lease real eststc for L. N. A. A C. liw.Co. B. L & 8. Association and Renseel aer Water, Light & Power Co. Rensselaer Bank, We make farm loans at 6 per cent, interest,, payable annually. I. O. HARRIS. E.T. HARRIS President. Vice President, J.C. HARRIS, Cashier. * Money loaned In sums to suit borrower. Exchange bought and sold on all banking points -Collection made and promptly remitted. Deposits received. Interests bearing certificates of deposits issued. Simon p. Thompson David J. Thompson A ittmty at Lavs. notary Putin. p LOMPBON A BRO., L ATTORNEYS AT LAW Rensselaer, Ind. Practice In all too courts. We pay particular attention to paying taxes, selling and ... leasing lands. M. L. SPITLER Collector and Abstractor
W. MARSHALL, A TTORNEY AT LAW, Practices in Jasper, Newton and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to settit ment ol Decedent’s Estates. Collections, Conveyances, Justices* Cases, Etc. Etc. Etc. Office Over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, . . Indiana FERGUSON & WILSON RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Will practice in all the courts. Careful attention given to any and all kinds ot Legal Business intrusted to them OFFICE West Side of Public Square. GROUND FLOOR. yORDEOAI F. CHILOOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Attends to all business in the profession with promptness and dispatch. Office in second story of the Makeever building. ' I * a OHIRLEBE. MILLB. u ATTORNEY at Rensselaer, Indians. Pensions, Collections and Real Estate. Abstracts carefully prepared, Titles Examined 4W* Farm Loans negotiated at lowest rates Offi.. up stain over Citizens Bask. JAMES W.DOUTHIT ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rm»LA». lEDIAWA. Office over Laßue Bros., grocery. XV-«.