Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN. . - Thursday, June 11, 1896. — IWtlDimt THUKSDAS BV GEO. 3S. ' PUBIdMUtR AND PBOrBTKTOB. OFFICE——In Republican building, on .Ormer of Washington and Weston streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ■Jne Six Months 75 Three M0nth5.......... 50 Official Paper oj Jasper County.

Republican Ticket.

FOE PRESIDENT wm. mckinley. OF OHIO. STATE TICKET. ' * For Governor—JAMES A. MOUNT, of Montgomery County. - —— For Lieutenant Governor—W. S. HAGGARD of Tippecanoe. Bor Secretary—W D. OWEN, of Cass. For Auditor—A. C. DAILY, of Boone. For Treasurer— f. J. SCHOLZ, .of Vandorburg. For Attorney-general—W. A. KETOHAM. of Marion. For Reporter of the Supremo Court— CHARLES F. REMY, of Bartholomew. For Superintendant of Public Instruction—D. M. GEETING, of Jefferson. For Statistician—S. J. THOMPSON, of Shelby. For Appellate Judge, First District—WOODFlN D. ROBINSON, of Gibson. For Judge Appellate Court, Second District WM. J. HENLEY, of Rush. For Judge Appellate Court, Third District— JAMES B. BLACK, of Marlon. For Judge Appellate Court, Fourth District, D. W, OOMSTOCK, of Wayne. For Judge Appellate Court, Fiftd District V. Z. WILEY, of Benton. County Ticket. For Recorder, ROBERT B. PORTER, of Marlon Township. For County Treasurer, JESSE C. GWIN, of Hanging Grove Township. For County Sheriff, NATHAN.J. REED, of Carpenter Township. 1 For County Coroner, TRUITT P. WRIGHT, of Marion Township. - For County Surveyor, JOHN E. ALTER, of Union Township. For County Assessor, JOHN R. PHILLIPS, of Hanging Grove Township. For Commissioner Ist District, ABRAHAM HALLECK, of Keener Townsnip. For Commissioner 3rd District, FREDERICK WAYMIRE, of Jordan Township

Announcements of Candidates.

FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE. The Hon. U, Z WILEY having been nominated for Appellate Judge, some lawyer of tlie Circuit win probably be promoted to the bench. We are authorized to announce that Simon P. Thompson of our eity, a member Of the bar for over thirty years and a man well known to the people of the circuit is willing to become the Republican candidate for. that honor. FOR JOINT REPRESENTATIVE. Mr. J. A. Lovett will be a candidate for Joint Representative Of Jasper and Newton counties. To be determined by the action of the Republican district nominates convention. Dr S. N. Caldwell, of Mt. Ayr, will be a candidate for Joint-Representative for Jasper and Newton counties, subject to the decision of the Republican nominating con ven tlon. ■ We are authorized to announce the name o Pierce Archibald, of Newton County, as a can didate for Representative for Jasper and New ton Counties. Subject to the approval of the Republican nominating convention. We are authorized to announce the name of John F. Johnson, of Newton Connty, as a candidate for the office of Joint Representative for Jasper and Newton Counties. Subject to the action of the Republican nominating convention.

All the diversified arts and industries are represented in the endorsement the people give reciprocity. It is clear the repeal of the reciprocity treaties was not a response to a popular demand. The revoking of the treaties that meant so much to American enterprise was consistent with the Democratic course of opposition to everything of Republican origination. It was inconsistent, however, with the talk of opening foreign markets to Americans, with which Democratic speakers rounded out stump speeches. The system inaugurated by Republicans, is the only one by which foreign markets may be secured for home producers, without sacrificing home industries. One loss that results from the revoking of the treaties of the McKinley law, is the flour export trade to countries South of us, amounting to $16,000,000 yearly.

Plain English At St. Louis!

On the gold standard, universal among fiirst-class and progressive nations, the people of the United States, notwithstanding the disaster of a civil war, have written the most glorious chapter in the history of human progress. On the gold standard, which has been their standard since 1834, the people of tfae United States have cleared the forests, opened up the mines, bridged the rivers, planted the grain belts, established the cattle industry and founded the great communities of the northwest On the gold standard the south recovered with phenomenjd qdick-

mess from the ravages of War and added to a single staple paanifold industries inaugurating a new era, making if a manufacturing as well as an agricultural region. But for the gold standard and the honor of the United States babking paper and silver with gold neither the northwest nor the southawOuld be known jn civilization as they are to-day. " 1 On the gold standard the east and the midland have been Able not only to do their own share in -making the United States first of manufacturing countries but also to assist the west and the south with surplus capifai without which the national growth would have been seriously retarded. On the gold standard American credit has commanded the money centers of Europe and procured the wealth which, turned ifito energy in the United States, has brought together American labor and American natural resources in an unprecedented combination of power, materials and skill, making the country foremost in every moral and material attribute. The gold standard is indispensable to the future of the United States as it has been invaluable to its past. The platform at St. Louis must reassert the present gold standard of the United States in positive and unequivocal terms. Plain English at St. Louis!— Times-Herald.

CRUMPACKER WAS NOMINATED.

But the Majority Was Less Than One Vote. The Republican Congressional convention at Michigan City last Thursday resuited in the nomination of Judge E. D. Crumpacker, of Valparaiso, but by the smallest majority on record in the history of political conventions. His majority was only a little more than one half a delegate vote, or to be exact, was just 52 hundredths of a vote. This result showed that the friends of both candidates have been making some pretty wild estimates on the strength of the respective men. The convention was called to order by District Chairman McCoy, and Judge Gillette, of Hammond was elected chairman and J.*B. Van Buskirk, of Monticello, secretary-; The expected contest of three delegates from Monon did not materalize. The resolutions adopted endorsed the Republican state platform, and emphatically favored the nomination of Me Kinley for President. J. W. Youche, of Lake Co., put the name of Judge Crumpacker in nomination; and Col. Dick DeHart, of Lafayette performed like service for Mr. Hanley. The ballot resulted as follows; —County Crumpacker. Hanley. Benton.. . .96 17.04 Jasper 13.00 3.00 Laporte 30.00 12.00 Lake 38.00 .... Newt0n.....;.... 4.90 8;10 Porter 24.00 1.00 Tippecanoeso 52.50 Warren 18.00 Whitell.4o 10.60 T0ta1.122.76 122.24 Whereupon Judge Cumpacker was declared the nominee and the convention adjourned. Congressman Hanly spoke from a hotel balcony after the convention, pledging his support to Judge Crumpacker. THE CANDIDATE. Judge Crumpacker is a native of LaPorte county, where he was born on May 27, 1851, and is of mingled Virginian and German origin. His boyhood and youth were spent in Porter and LaPorte counties, where he attended the district schools, did farm work and utilized every spare moment for reading the not too large line of books obtainable at the farm house, Later on he took an academic course in the Valparaiso Male and Female college, and in 1873 begun the study of law with the law -firm of which Judge Henry W. Talcott was the head. He entered the law school at Bloomington Ind., and was admitted to the bar, beginning practice in 1876. He started out alone in his profession, and had only his own efforts and energetic ambitions to rely upon for the success which has been won. As a lawyer, Judge Crumpacker has occupied a prominent place in the courts of northern Indiana for the past [fifteen years. He is yet young, hardly more than come to

his I prime intellectually, yet he hasbphind him a brilliant record which few lawyers of his age have been able to 'attain. ' ' ' I 2. ■ He served the Judicial district, of which Lake and Porter counties are composed, as Prosecuting Attorney, with ability and distinction and left the office with a clean and clear record. He was a member of the State Central committee in the campaign of 1888, and in that capacity, rendered good service to the party and the country, in the campaign which resulted in the election of General Harrison as President. In the spring of 1891 lie was appointed one of the five Judges to the Appellate bench for the state of Indiana, and served on that bench with distinguished ability. His decisions as Judge were clear, clean and able and the lawyers all over the state, during his service there, learned to know him and regard him as an able jurist, gifted with fine reasoning, powers and having the best scholarly attainments. He was nominated by the party for reelection in the campaign of 1892, but was defeated with the rest of the ticket in the democratic landslide of that year. Since his retirement from the bench, he has been engaged in .the active practice of law and has a practice which extends over the northern and especially the northwestern part of Indiana. One who knows him says of Judge. Crumpacker: He comes from honest and honorable parents, hardworking, plain, every day people, just what thous, ands upon thousands of farmers are in the northern Indiana. Just such farmers’ homes have furnished the best blood and brain of our great nation. Such homes have sent forth the men who have- lifted the nation to its highest plane among the. nations of the world and have made it the pattern for all people, all nations and all governments, because it exemplifies the principles of freedom for the masses of the people, without regard to wealth, station, or o 7 birth. He is the product of that great party and that great nation which has made it possible for the boy from the poprest family to compete successfully with the sons of the richest and the highest, for the very highest honors within the reach of American citizenship. While he has held high public positions and has practiced law with energy, ability and vigor, he has never turned his back upon the friends nor the lessons of his youth. The feeling of avarice, malice and revenge has never found lodgment in his breast and while he has always contended for his position in politics and in all the avenues of life, he has never carried tile controversy to a point .of personal feeling and antagonism.”

MAJOR McKINLEY’S CANDIDACY.

By the Honorable Charles Emory Smith, Editor of the Philadelphia Press. In New York Independent. At the beginning of January four names were conspicuously in ttha public thought in connection with the Republican nomination for the Presidency. Speaker Reed, Senator Allison and Governor [McKinley were active candidates and rightful aspirants. ExPresident Harrison, tho neither candidate nor aspirant, was on thousands of tongues as the statesman whose brilliant and successful Administration marked him as pre-eminently fitted to lead in the restoration of its glories. His early, siqcere and peremptory declension compelled the abandonment of that hope, and concentrated public attention on the three already named. There were others who were proposed within there own States. Of these Governor Morton was the most prominent and imposing figure; but for reasons not at all to his discredit his nomination was never treated as a serious probability. None of the other “favorite sons” were ever regarded as anything more than pleasing diversions. Reed, Allison and McKinley were everywhere considered "the real competitors. They were all earnestly in the field, and were all entitled to aspire to the highest honor by the right of recognized leadership, of long and eminent services, and of undisputed fitness. They were'all of Presi[dential proportions; they were ap-

parently fairly well matched in the elements of their strength; I and at the .’outset uo one, unless gifted with a ran* powAr of divk nation, could easily have foretold the result ofHhe race. ■' The delegates to the National Convention have al! been elected, and Governor McKinley has a decisive majority. His nomination is as well assured as any future political event can be. Never since National Conventions came into being has any contested candidacy been so clearly determined in advance. Lincoln the second time and Grant both times had no contest at all. Clay was named in 1844, after the Tyler treason, by common consent of his party. Aside from these cases, the Presidential prize has always' been disputed, and the result has never until now been so conclusively settled before the convention. Governor McKinley’s overwhelm-

ing success is unparalled in Presidential struggles. It is as remarkable in character as it is extraordinary in its completeness. It is peculiarly and unmistakably the people’s success. It has been carried on the crest of a great and irresistible popular uprising, as broad as the nation and as ardent as its patriotism. The politicians have generally been against McKinley; but they have been as powerless to stem this current as a house of cards to stop a cyclone. What was regarded in many quarters as an invincible combination of bosses has been utterly impotent against this sweeping tide. Such an unmistakable, popular choice is presumptively a good choice. Under our institutions the will of the people is the law of Actions. As & rule their deliberate judgement is unerring. They sometimes make mistakes through a temporary misconception, as they did in 1892, but rarely in the sober, second thought, as now. This is the awakening from that deadly blunder of four years ago, and all the more weighty and impressive as the intense assertion of returning reason. The case for Governor McKinley’s nomination might be rested on the indisputable fact that the people demand it, and that their plain will ought to be respected and followed. And when wq come to examine the reasons for this widespread feeling the argument becomes doubly forceful. Such a profound popular movement never occurs without a gieat underlying and impelling cause. This mighty uprising for McKinley springs from the eager, passionate determination of the people to retrieve the stupendous mistakes of 1892, with its direful blight, and to re-establish the principles ami policies of which they regard McKinley as the foremost exponent and representative. Here are some of the leading considerations which explain this popular devotion and justify his candidacy. First. He personifies protection and typifies the reaction frem 1892. More than any other man he stands for the ideas which, apparently, passed under a cloud in the delusion of that hour and which are again on the high tide of public favor. The attempt has been made to show that others had as much to do with the McKinley Bill as he had. Jt is altogether immaterial. The fact remains that for ten years he has been more conspicuously identified with the cause of protection than any oilier chieftain. His leadership is far from resting on the McKinley Bill alone. It began before and continued after. In 1888 he was the foremost champion of protection against the Mills Bill. After the disasters of 1890 and 1892 he was the one heroic fighter who never lowered his flag. Others faltered, but his faith never wavered. He upheld the banner of protection on a thousand platforms all over the land, and McKinley and protection are everywhere inseparably associated in the public mind. Tho an earnest and faithful advocate, he is not an extremist. He is altogether practical, and would adapt tariff rates to existing conditions. But as the pre-eminent representative of the cause which now appeals to the industrial and business elements of the country de unites, above any other, the aspirations of his own party and the hope of recruits. Second. He is a thorough American, and embodies the patriotic and progressive spirit of

Americanism.' -lie is highly popular ih America and highly unpopular in Eutope 1 . rtj is more interested in building up the prosperity of Ttis bwiF country tSgfi that of foreign countries. He is more anxious to, enlarge our trade than that of our national competitors. Without any narrow impulse of national provincialism, he defends the Anftericau system because he believes it is the best system. He wants the American standard of wages. for American labor, and the American market for the American producer. He would ddvclope the American marine, commercially advance the American flag, and peacefully extend on this continent the sphere of American ideas and interests. He holds that American greatness will best be realized by thg fullest developement of American resources and by quickening all the springs of American enterprise. Throughout his career he has been thoroughly American in the best sense. Third. He is earnestly and faithfully for sound money. His record on this subjett, tho unscrupulously misrepresented, is clear, consistent and satisfactory, His attitude has been that of his party. He voted for free silver coinage once, but that was in 1877, when silver stood at 94, before the Latin Union had closed its mints to silver and before our resumption of specie payments. He has uniformly voted against it since. His root principle has been repeatedly set forth in his speeches. He believes, as the indispensable condition, in uncompromisingly adhering to the world’s money standard, which is gold, and'in uniting with it the largest use of silver which can be maintained at full parity and exchangeability. He would permit no debasement of the standard and no depreciation of the currency. He doesn’t believe in cheap money or “cheap” men. The attempt in some quarters to discredit his devotion to sound money is absolutely baseless. It is simply a campaign weapon of his party rivals against his nomination hud of his political opponents against his election. As already practically the candidate of his party he would not be justified in speaking before the convention. The Convention will* adopt a strong and unequivocal sound money platform; the candidate’s letter of acceptanee, like his record, will plant him unreservedly on it, and thia clatter and cloud of dust will vanish.

Fourth. An important consideration is that the election of McKinley will assure, beyond that of any other, the first remedial financial legislation that is immediately necessary. The first vital step is increased revenue with fair protection. On the currency we are safe, if wo hold fast. The one danger was free silver, and that danger is past. It can’t co m e without positive legislation, and with a Republican House that legislation is impossible. But more revenue and protection are the first measures in the restoration of financial stability and general prosperity, and they require affirmative legislation. The possible difficulty lies in the Senate. The Dingley bill was beaten there by a narrow but sufficient margin of Senators, who said: “No more revenue or protection without free silver.” To dwarf the protection issue is to leave them free for the repetition of that crime; to magnify and emphasize it is to compel their submission. Their own States can be carried on a protection fight, and a home sentiment created which they cannot disregard. The nomination of McKinley means such a fight, and has a significance in that direction as no other could have. - Fifth. The engaging personal qualities and the attested ability and fitness of Major McKinley strengthen and confirm the public reasons for his nomination. He is a* man of singularly attractive personality, of beautiful character, and of a sweet and spotless life. Enlisting as a private in the Union Army at seventeen, he came out of the war major at an age when many youths are still in school. Elected to Congress before he wag thirty, he soon, became a conspicuous leader and has ever since been one of the large figures on the national stage. A strong debater, a trained lawmaker, a statesman of large and varied experi-

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ence, a man of even temper, wellbalanced mind, sure insight, sound judgement and stainless honor, he is both worthy and fitted for the Presidency. He is eminently stong in the saving sense which has carried him successfully through a remarkable career. His domestic life is a tender romance which touches every true heart, and his great public safety and surety lie in the fact that he keeps close to the people. It is the people who have stood by him, and he may be relied on to stand by the people. Thus this great -popular movement for Governor McKinley rests upon the salient truth that he represents and embodies, in a preeminent degree, the things which the people are determined to have. Republican policy has a distinct meaning; McKinley’s candidacy expresses what it means, and that is the reason why it has been so irresistible a success.

Notice of Osborne Cemetery. All parties interested in Osborne Cemetery, Hanging? Grove Tp., are requested to meet at the cemetery on Saturday, June 6, at 9 o’clock A. M., for the purpose of clearing up and putting in order the cemetery. An ejection of trustees for the cemetery will also be held, at that time. David Culp, Secy, and Trees. Warren <k Irwin make the most desirable farm loans of any firm in the county.

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STALLTON ABE will make the season of 1896 at the owner’s stable, on what is known as the “Judd” Porter Farm,2J miles south-east of Rensselaer* Abe is a dark bay, weight in full flesh 1,750 pounds, about 16| hands high, white bind feet to first joint, little strip in the face. Sure foal getter 1 . Terms:—To insure colt to stand and suck, 18.00, In case of sale or removal of mare fee becomes due at once. SPANISH JACK. “Kentucky Junior,” is of good bone, well proportioned and desirable to breed from. Weight about 1,000 pounds, 15| handshigh. Terms:—llo-00. Conditions same as above. Due care against accident will be taken, through will not be responsible for damage if any should occur. Elmek Fisheil Rensselaer, Ind, FARMS FOR SALE and EXCHANGE. M. M. Tyler, Demotte Ind, Has several good farms for sale also 5 farms to excharge for a stock of general mdse. All nice, good land, perfect title and situated near RaM Road Towns, and only 50 miles fronts Chicago. Write or Telephone me at Demotte Ind. W. R. Nowela has desirable im» proved and vacant City property for sale on easy terms. Also executes deeds, mortgages, leases etc. Office over Leopolds Bazaar.