Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — Jasper County Summer School. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Summer School.

The Jasper County Summer School will convene Monday, July 20th 1896, in the Rensselaer High School Building, and continue in session for five weeks. Classes will be conducted in all the Common School Branches Science of Education, and Literatqre. Forenoon sessions only, com-, mencing at 7:30—-Tuition $4.50 in advance or SI.OO per week. Supt. Sanders of the Rensselaer Schools, and Newton Warren, Prin. of the Sheridan High School will have charge of the work, assisted by County Supt. For any information call on or address, J. F. Warren Co. Supt.

' We have some desirable town property for sale. Vacant lots and improved property. Warren & Irwin.

How It Strikes The Chronicle. So far as heard from there is not a single, great Democratic paper west of the Mississippi and north of Mason and Dixens’ line ‘that repudiate the work of the Chicago convention. And some of these great Democratic dailies, as for instance the New York Sun, one of the most influential Democratic papers in the country, comes out boldly for McKinley. Jn Chicago not a single paper Supports the platform and candidate. The Chronicle, the chief organ of Democracy west of New “York City, repudiates the convention in termes that for strength, bitterness land vigor,, seldom exceeded in newspaper editorials. As a sample of the way the Chronicle and other leading Democratic papers speak of the action of their party’s national convention, we append the following extracts from the Chronicle’s leading editorial of last Friday: “If men ever were reserved for destruction—if from the days of Belshazzar and Sennacherib to those of George lIJ, and Jefferson Davis a supreme power has at any time visited with madness and blindness the creatures, of evil whose overthrow was necessary to human progress, the -gibbering malevolents, Tillman and Altgeld, and all who have followed them in their new crusade of sectionalism, disunion, repudiation and ruin have been under the shadow of that awfnl Will. The Chicago convention has not spoken for the democrats of the United States. It has voiced the ignorance and the immorality, the covetousness and the dishonesty of the least enlightened elements of our population. No center of intelligence and progress and justice is represented in its pronouncements. The Chicago convention has been controlled by and has spoken for the disappointed graybacks of the confederate armies and their kindred, the moonshining lazzaroni of the mountain districts of the south, and for the whooping desperadoes, silver monopolists and debt shirkers of the far west, who never voted a democratic ticket and never intend to.

.The Chicago convention, made up for the greater part of interlopers from the various populistic organizations of the south and west, and by a few score of unconscionable scalawags from the north, wearing the collars of bosses like Altgeld, has not only spoken falsely for the democracy; it has degraded and disgraced the American name before the world in a manner that no similar gathering ever equaled and which every patriot may fervently hope no succeeding aggregation of moral and intellectual degenerates ever will* imitate. Impudently and falsely assuming to represent the most intelligent, most energetic, most self-re-liant people on the globe, the Chicago convention humbly asks for the American republic a place in finance and commerce at the feet of Costa Rica, China and Mexico. With an impulse born of bigotry and fanaticism, it flies in the face of the great commercial nations, closes its eyes to all the pages of history, and, intent only upon winning the approval of the populistic silver protectionists who are soon to meet in St Louis and who have directed its acts in Chicago, it arrays itself on the side of a debased currency and the repudiation of public and private debts* Platform and candidates stand for retrogression and ultimate barbarism.

Platform and candidates repre- ' sent democracy not at all, but are streaked all over with the financial immorality of the Confederate States of America and the bonanza silver mining league and the corrupt senatorial syndicate. Tillman and Altgeld typify and illustrate in their own offensive personalities the violence and recklessness of this latest departure from democratic faith. Both of them able and adroit, both resourceful, both brutal in method, both coarse in speech, both malignant, both revengeful, both insane with evil ambition, both filled with a sleepless zeal to destroy the democratic party, which they know to be a conservative hnd patriotic force not to be enlisted in support of their revolutionary frenzies —the one stands for all that is abhorrent politically at the south as the other stands

for all that is politically dangerous at the north. Aiding and abetting these miserable counterfeits -of democratic leaders, these base imitations of democratic statesmen, are a great host of renegade republicans and populists, the Tellers and Waites, the Blands and Bryans, the Pennoyers and Stewarts, the Taubenecks and Joneses, all hating the democratic name and all hoping that the disintegration of a splendid party may bring to them some trifle in the way of plunder or of spoils.” X,