Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1870 — Senatorial Convention. [ARTICLE]

Senatorial Convention.

A Republican Convention will be held at Reynolds, White county, Ind., on Friday, July Ist, 1870, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for State Senator for the District composed of Pulaski, White, Jasper, Newton and Benton counties. Each county is entitlefl to one delegate for eacli 100 votes east for Max. F. A. Hoffman in 1868, and one for every fraction of 50 votes or more. Alonzo Cowgill, Ch’n C. C. Benton Co. S. P. Thompson. Ch’n C. G. Jasper Co. John B. Connor, Ch’n C. C. Newton Co. Thomas Bushnell, Ch’n C. C. White Co. Jacob Keiser, Ch’n C. C. Pulaski Co.

“McFarland has been acquitted and the farce is ended. Richardson is dead and jealousy and justice are satisfied. With the result of the trial we are not disposed to find fault, or we could have done so before it began, for we knew he could not be convicted after his plea of insanity, but our fault is with the plea itself. The jplea of insanity every man of sense knows is mere bosh, and it looks so much like double dealing and a farce on justice that we fear it will bring the execution of the laws into contempt. If, as he boldly asserts, he slew Richardson because he seduced his wife, let him plead that in justification and if he proves it, the world will justify him, but, whenever he resorts to the pitiful plea of insanity, we conclude at once that the pretense of seduction is a cheat, and only the imaginings of a drunken who, doubtless, may have badly treated his wife and thus been disposed to abuse or kill any one who sympathized with her. McFarland is acquitted and we have nothing to say of him, but must say that we saw no proof that Richardson seduced Mrs. McFarland, or that she was his mistress, for it may be set down as a universal rule that all men do not voluntarily marry women of that character and it seems almost certain that in his dying moments Richardson would not have committed his children to the care of a harlot as he must have done if the theory of the defense is true. We will go as far as any person to maintain inviolate the marriage vow, but do hold that it is fair that a nrtm shall at least be without sin himself before he makes himself a judge, jury and executioner of the laws of the land, or his own passionate w ill.”—Benton Tribune.

Sixty thousand acres of Land have been fenced this season, near Beaver lake, for pasturage, by Messrs. Milk, of Kankakee City,