Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1876 — Page 4

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MAOR WILLIAM H. CALKINS.

-fire district which was once repJ 2 m tj-ltitirun a Sun m *SL*lanuws wMNMruMru 111 COl»x«vfs vj * ajvwuyrur iCnltax nnd which furnished the «K>UII«A| BUM W* MBBJsa twi'winuvu vecv (nation with a republican vice 'tof'esi&nC'Aa now 1 represented by «. a democrat. Hundreds of republic an voters assisted io compact the defeat of the party of their choice and early love. We •awoorrupt men had crept into pevrer and honorable position, and ftk they should be rebuked. The pasty deserved a lesson from the people. It needed to bo reminded that it could be the exponent of wirtue only while it was pure. <Grevtous was the provocation, swift. Its punishment. But not more swift was the humbling of its pride before the censure of the people. Salary-grabbing was made odious, and the grand old party which had boldly defended the nation's honor and preserved its existcnee when assaulted by the grimvisiged giant of dvtl war, which had triumphantly borne down and crushed out armed rebellion, which had destroyed chaos and set order in crowned glory upon the vacant throne—this great party bumbled itself in the duet, an a weeping penitent, before the censures of a wirtuons and indignant people. Not a word of justification nor a syllable in palliation has the republican party even spoken for wrong or fraud. Never did a republican convention adopt a resolution that endorsed a wrong act of one of its members; but many have been the reproaches and resolutions of condemnation that its conventions have spoken. Where revenue frauds have been discovered, the official guilty of their perpetration has been promptly removed and summarily punished. Was a whiskey ring discovered its members were relentlessly prosecuted, and, when found guilty, fined and imprisoned.' Where, in tho history of this or any other government, has there existed an administration which so vigorously prosecuted professors of its own political ereed, or so severely punished them when detected in crime, aa tho administration of President Grant prosecuted and 'punished counterfeiters, dofaulting paymasters and manufacturers of crooked whiskey? Go ■to the Missouri penitentiary and ask Gen. McDonald, CoL Joyce and Chief Clerk Avery how many parallel instances they have found in all their reading. The republican party is the great reform party of the age. It ’■efornaed the condition of the country when convulsed with civil strife, and restored peace where there was war.Jjt reformed ten millions of rebels and compelled their obedience to rightfol government. It reformed four millions of slaves and made freemen of them. It reformed the constitutions of sixteen slave states and gave them a republican form of government. It reformed the vast uninhabited -wilds of the for West, by fostering the building of immense lines of railroad, put them in a eonditioa to be inhabited by civilised people, and compelled those unproductive

•ncres to contribute to the prosperity of the nation, and bear tbeir proper* Item of its hardens. The republican patty has reformed the democratic parly by keeping it out of power until in a national convention it published to the world its acceptance and hearty endorsement of ail that it had opposed in legislation for the elevation of the slave. The republican psriy has reformed the democratic party by keeping it out of power until in a national, eon ventinn it published to the world its acceptance in sincerity and hear|y endorsement of the amendments to die constitution which establish the equal civil and political rights of all men of whatever race, odor or previous social condition, in thia government. Tito republican party has reformed thefnancial theory of this government and provided a paper currency which is sound, whicit is Stable, which is convenient, and which is of nearly equal value with gold and of greater purchasing power than silver. The republican party hai reformed itself and presents hot eat men arid capable w its candidates for official position. ilajor .William JI. Paljtips, of

La Porte, should be elected to repcause he is a member of this party. Ho should be elected because he is its candidate. He should boelected because he is an exponent of its fundamental doctrines. He should be elected because he is in foil sympathy with them. He should be elected because he gallantly fought to preserve the integrity, the honor, and the life of thia great nation. Ho should be elected because he holds no political connection with those who have attempted to destroy the nation. He should bo elected because he is the poor man's friend. He should be elected because he is in favor of civil service reform. He should be elected because he is opposed to the payment of the claims of those who were rebels for property destroyed by Union armies while engaged in suppressing armed rebellion. He should be elected because he is in favor of an economical public policy. He should be elected because he is in favor of the rigid reduction of national expenses. He should be elected because he is a friend of the free school system. He should be elected because he is opposed to refunding the cotton tax, in whole or in part, levied and collected from 1863 to 1868, and amounting to $68,072,388. He should be elected because he is in favor of the faithful payment of the public debt. He should be elected because he is in favor of the payment of the public debt at the earliest practicable hour. He should be elected because he is the friend of citizens of foreign birth. He should be elected because he is in favor of protecting the rights of these eitisens in foreign lands the same as though they were natives of the United States. He shonld be elected because be is opposed to land grants to companies or monopolies. He should be elected because he is in favor of exterminating the barbarous custom of polygamy in the territories of the United States. He should be elected because he is in favor of affording sufficient safeguards for the protection of our frontiersmen from depredations by Indians and armed bodies of thieving Mexicans. He shonld be elected because ho is opposed to the late disloyal people of the South ‘gaining at the ballot box what they risked on the battlefield and lost. He should be elected because he is a capable man. He should be elected because he is an honorable man. He should be elected because he believes that the United States of America is a nation, and not a league. Every republican should vote for him because he is a republican. Every democrat should vote for him because be is a patriot. Every man who was a Union soldier should vote for him because he was a soldier too. Every independent-green-back advocate should vote for him because he is in favor of the repeal of the resumption act, and the remonetisation of silver. Everybody should vote for him because be is competent, honest, trustworthy and safe. Let no republican scratch his name from the ticket on election day, drat vote tor him, work for him, and give him not only the full party vote in Jasper county but strive to Increase it to a larger majority than was ever oast here for a congressional candidate.

WHEN TO TEUST THE PENOCRATIC PARTY.

Numbers of republicans in thia county will vote the "straight ticket unserstohed* this year who haven’t dona so for many an election. But parly lines are pretty tant this campaign and they can’t be blamed much. No sensible republican feels like bassrding the keeping of the nation in the bands of democracy while there is possible danger of saddling two and a half billions of rebel claims upon the government. You say there is no danger of thia. Well, people said in 1860 there was no danger of a civil war; but in less than a year there was a war and the expenses of it are not paid yet So people sometimes say on a cloudless summer morning, There will be no rain to-day. They go out leaving tbeir umbrellas at home and i eturn from a pleasant ramble among the groves wet to the skin. There are those who think' they bear the rumble of distant

thunder' in the South when the calenders of congress art arovhSod with such claims and southern representatives like Mr. Riddle of Tennessee, Mr. Witahire of Arkansas and Mr. Merriman of North Carolina introduce bills in congress which are designed to open the door for their payment. Is it not safer to prevent the poeibility of this thing oecurlng, than to nm the risk of it? Are not times hard enough now, and is not the burden of existing indebtedness sufficiently oppressive? Why then should people not be alarmed by the menaces of the present congress? There is only one political party in the country that has ever shown any disposition to sympathise with rebels, and there is only one party strong enough possessing the inflexible determination to resist every attempt made by people who engaged in rebellion to recover from the loyal people any portion -of the losses they sustained by reason of their own wicked acts. They risked and lost; now let them go to work and earn honest livings by the sweat of their brows as many and many another unfortunate speculator has been compelled to do from time out of mind. No payment of rebel losses by the war, io as much a cardinal doctrine of tho republican party as any other sentiment In their articles of faith. The republican party is the only party in whose custody it will be safe to intrust the welfare of thio government so long aa a pardoned or amnestied rebel lives who asks to be remunerated for th* loss of property he sustained by reason of the war which his own wickedness and folly precipitated the country Into; or that hie cotton tax of 1803 to 18'68 be refunded. The sooner those claims are withdrawn from the files of congress; the sooner democratic ruffians quit shooting defenseless women and children besfc&se they are negroes; the sooner northern democrats stop reminding the soldier element of the republican party that there has been a war, by nominating for presidents and governors those who called them “hirelings,** “doge,** “cutthroats,*’and every offensive epithet of reproach to be found in the vocabulary Or framed in the language—we say the sooner these things are done the more rapidly will hasten the day when the democratic party will be safe to trust.

FOR STATE REPRESENTATIYE.

Republicans should bear in mind the importance which attaches to the election of a representative in the state legislature. It is among the important offices to be filled on next Tuesday. The political complexion of the state legislature in the opinion of the outside world makes Indiana a democratic or a republican state, and will materially affect the result of the presidential contest. It Is therefore especially important that every true hearted republican be vigilant and alert—active and earnest—on election day, and see to it that not a single vote be lost to John P. Garr, who Is the republican candidate, which might otherwise be secured to him. In Mr. Carr republicans have an able, conscientious and worthy advocate, and one well qualified to discharge the grave and important duties of a law-maker. He came to the state many years ago, and is well acquainted with the wants and desires of the people. He is capable oi giving wise counsel in the halls of legislation. He is a man of strong mind, pure motives, sterling honesty, correct habics, fixed principles, dear perceptions, familiar with the details of business, is economical, and is not ashamed to advocate the right, nor to assail wrong wherever it may exist. He has a heart large and generous enough to listen to and consider the wants of his constituency, and the nerve to defend their rights. He has ever been the poor man’s friend, and his earnest champion against the encroachments of oppression and wrong. He is a mdi that any one might be proud to claim as a friend. Then let republicans see that he receives the full party vote of Jasper county. Do thio and the result of next Tuesday's contest wilt show our district has elected to represent them at the capital ah unswerving friend of the principles of liberty and virtue.

JOHN VANT WOUD.

On the republican ticket of Jasper county, as a candidate for eommirioner from As first district, appeare the name of John Van’t Wood, of Keener township. This gentleman was bora in Holland, b probably about fifty yean of age, twenty-six of which he has passed in America. He b a man of mon than ordinary natural ability; possesses aohehriy attainments superior, even, to many native bora eitisens; b shrewd in the study es human nature; ban agreeable conversationalist; an excellent neighbor; an honorable man; and a good exemplary citizen and member of society. Tor a number of years before moving into Jasper county he was a resident of the city of Chicago, where he was managing editor of a newspaper published in tho Holland tongue, and held positions of trust and honor. He was second assistant comptroller of the city of Chicago for six years, during which period he had control of the issuing of licenses to draymen, saloon keepers, public carriers, and the many departments of business which pay taxes into the city revenues in this tnanner; he also, as a part of bb official duty, had to oversee the management of the bridewell or city prison, and the redemption of property sold for delinquent taxes. Afterwards he was elected to the office of justice of the peace; an office which in Chicago or any other large city b vastly more important than in our sparsely settled townships. Indeed the business of a justice’s office in Chicago amounts to more than that of our circuit court. So honestly, so intelligently, so faithfully, and so satisfactorily did Mr. Van't Wood perform his official duties in the several capacities where he was placed that upon the occasion of bb resignation and determination to move into Jasper county the Chicago Tribune considered it an event of sufficient interest to its local readers as to publish an article of considerable length auDounting the fact, and complimenting in highest terms of praise the honored citizen who was about to remove from their midst. Mr. Joseph Medill, who is chief stock holder of tho Tribune company, who was mayor of Chicago during the term succeeding the great fire, having been elected by the people irrespective of party proclivities —a gentleman of national reputation nnd unquestioned veracity—was himself the author of that notice. Mr. Van’t Woud became a citizen of Jasper county with thb high endorsement as a letter es introduction. Until he became a candidate upon the republican ticket his honesty was not questioned and his integrity never assailed. Within a few days, however, the champions of reform have busied themselves in the circulation of a report that he swindled the treasury of this county by demanding exhorbitant fees for conveying an insane man to the asylum at Indianapolis. In order that intelligent men may see how little foundation there is for thb charge, the claim is here reproduced:

Btatb or Imdiasa, Jasfsb Codmtt, m: (a the matter of Jacob Bakker, insane. BTATIMKITT or COSTS. John Van't Mfoud, mileage for self and two assistant#, viz: Leonidas Viccry and John Kooi, from Keener township to Ban Pierre, 8 persona 48 miles @ 15 cento 421.60 Mileage for self and one assistant, tlk Leonidas Vicory, from Ban Pierre to Indianapolis, 2 persons 240 miles A 16 cento 72.00 One day’s snbsistnnoe for patient- .60 $94.10 Charles H. Price, clerk Jasper circuit court ~ $8.60 Daniels. Fairchild, Justice of the pCftC© ,•• •»eoeueeSQUe* **** 4.20 Lorenzo Ttokhtm,\ justice of the peace. ..*•••. •••••••• 2.00 wmnw vx». A. A. Tyter.ss.2o Thomas Antrim, examining physician . 6.95 William D. Van’t Wood 6.20 John VaU’t Woud... 5.20 John K001..............w...1.35 L. L. Daugherty, sheriff. $1.20 J. A. McKenzie, clothing bi11......534.40 State of Indiana, Jasper county, ss: I, Charles H. Price, clerk es the Jasper circuit court, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct statement of the free taxed in the case of Jacob Bakker, an insane person, as appears of record in my office. Witness my hand and the seal f SSAIAof said court this 28th day of August, A. D. 1876. CRablbs H. Pbicx, Clerk Jasper Circuit Court. This claim is a just one. It was made in accordance with the provisions of law. The services mentioned were performed. The persons named performed them. The claim was made out by the hands of Charles H. Price, who Is not a republican. It is certified to as “a true and correct statement” by the clerk of Jasper county, who is not a republican. It was examined and allowed by a fWI board of commissioners, two-thirds of whom are not republicans. The fees are fixed in a bill that was passed

bv the last legislature, which was not republican, and received the official approval of Hon. Thopias A- Hendricks, who b not a republican. The whole claim of Mr. Van’t Wood, witness fees and all, amounts to $99.30. Of thb sum $43.80 were paid to Leonidas Vicory, and 17.20 to John Kooi, as shown by the receipts of these gentlemen now in The Uniox office, and subject to the examination of any person who may be so curious as to desire to see them; and 50 cents for one day’s board of the patient. Thb makes an aggregate of $50.90, add to thb 15.20 witness fees, making $56.10, and subtract from the total received by him and there is left $43.20 as the sum total received for railroad fare, hack faro, hotel bills, use of team, three days time, and the care of a dangerously insane man. It is not an unreasonable charge. We have never heard Mr. Van’t Wood’s friends claim that he ba saint, and do not know that the subject of religion enters properly into the discussions of the political campaign. It b not claimed for him that he ever occupied a pulpit in the capacity of a preacher calling sinners to repentance or warning them of the wrath to come. But neither b he chief of sinners, nor has he ever been silenced by a conference upon charges of lewd conduct with the ewes of the flock. Indeed he is only an ex. emplary citizen of Jasper county, soliciting suffrages on the sole merit of political and mental capacity to perform the duties of commissioner in a creditable manner.

A canvass of the voters of Jasper county has been made by the republican central committee, and returns are now in. Unless those who were engaged in making the canvass have been careless, or were shockingly deceived, there are between 1,880 and 1,900 persons entitled to vote here on next Tuesday. Without entering upon details, it may be said that tho classification of these voters is liighly gratifying to republicans. They will carry the county by an unanticipated majority. Gen. Harrison and Major Calkins will be especially gratified by these figures. Perhaps it may not always be safe to count chickens before they are batbired, or majorities before they are polled, but there is a fine prospect for a prolific crop. Come out, republicans, and show bow many there are in Jasper oounty who have kept the faith of tho fathers.

Judge J. T. Logan did not appear to address the grand rally of independents who assembled in Rensselaer on Tuesday to hear him. They—the independent-greenback party —gave up the show of contest in Indiana two weeks ago. When Mr. Wolcott spoke here Saturday night he announced at the opening of his address that he did “not appear as a candidate soliciting suffrages, but as the advocate “of a theory.” Probably there will not be 5,000 independentgreenback votes polled in the state next Tuesday. At present writing Marion township, Jasper county, has only ten men in it who have votes to squander in that careless way.

When the Remington Recorft copperhead political editor says that Hon. Win. K. Parkison ever charged the people of Jasper county $6 per day for attending the fair at Rensselaer four days, or when he says or intimates that he drew from the treasury of J asper county any other sum of money for anything else than official duties performed, or material supplied-*-tbe Remington Record?t copperhead political editor exhibits as much horror of the naked truth as Beelsebub is said to have of holy water.

When the copperhead who manages the political department of the Remington Record says that Hon. Wm. K. Parkison ever accepted $5 per day for services a* county commissioner, he knocks truth as oraxy as a hog with blind staggers’. Mr. Parkison never took $6 of the “Hard earning* of a tax oppressed” people for a day’s services in hi* life. It was our “retrenchment and reform” board of commissioners who grabbed that fee from the moment they sat in their official chairs.

Look ont for spurious tickets next Tuesday.

wwr v A Y U. a w a ****** independent candidate for sheriff of Jajiper county, WM Hub week fa distributing sparions, eo-oaDsd republican, tickets, on which hb name was printed as the candidate for sheriff in the place of that of George M. Bobia«m who b the republican candidate for that office. If Mr. Lamborn denies thb charge we are prepared to prove its truth by gentlemen of the highest standing m Jasper county. No fair means can defeat Mr. Robinson, and no unfair tricks shall defeat him if seasonable exposure will prevent it “The republican party b corrupt, and “the people want a change—they want “honest men in office,” nays Mr. John A. Lamborn, independent candidate for sheriff, as he goes up and down Jasper county distributing bogus republican tickets. We can prove by more than , one responsible witness that Mr. John A. Lamborn has been distributing spurious tickets in Jasper comity. We can prove that he was engaged in thb missionary enterprise as late as Tuesday—day before yesterday.

Mr. John A. Lamborn, the independent candidate for sheriff of Jasper county, preaches honesty and reform in politics; but thb week he has been circulating so-called republican tickets with hb own name printed in place of that of Mr. George M. Robinson, who b the republican candidate. We can prove that Mr. John A. Lamborn, independent candidate for sheriff, has stooped, to thb contemptible little trick: And. the same with intent to deceive. For a week past Mr. John A. Lambora, independent candidate for sheriff, has been engaged in distributing spurious republican tickets. Thb b a fact. Watch I Examine carefully the ticket handed you to vote, and if any names are on them you do not like, scratch ; but don’t be deceived by any fraud. Mr. John A. Lamborn, independent candidate for sheriff of Jasper oounty, has been engaged in distributing bogus election tickets. That’s the kind of “reform” politician he b, and if he denies it, we are prepared to prove it on him.

POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Allen CaU i* an independent candidate for Assessor of Marion township. William S. Day is a candidate for assessor of Marion township, subject to the decision of the people st the October election. The Republican Ticket FOR PIEffIOT OFflffi UHTEB ITHEB, RUTHERFORD B. HITES, OF OHIO. n» wx fusmt of the mom hub, WILLIAIA WHEELER, of Hew Tori. FOt HMBIM. MCIOll: FOB TUB STATE AT LABOX, THOMAS H. NELSON, of Vigo CoueSy. FOB BISTBICT ELBCTOBS, Ist District.—JACOß 8. BUCHANAN. M District.—LEVl FERGUSON. 3d District.—ALANßoN STEVEN*. 4th District.—DAVlD OVERMKYKR. Sth District.—HENßY C. FOX. Sth District.—J AMES N. TEMPLER. 7th District.—JOHN M. BUTLER. Sth District.-WM A. MONTGOMERY. Vth District.—MONßOE M. MILFORD. 10th District.—JOHN M. WIMER. 11th District.—HENßY C. THORNTON. Uth District.—HOMEß C. HARTMAN. I»th District.—FlELDlNG PRICKETT. FOB GOVBBXOB OF INBIAXA, BENJAMIN HARBISON. FOB LIKVTXXAMT SOVBBXOB, ROBERT N. ROBERTSON. FOB JUDGES or TUB BUPBXMX OODBV. Ist District.—WlLLlAM P. EDSON. M District.—ARCHIBALD O. VORIS. M DistricL-HOHATIO C. NEWCOMB. 4th District.—JOHN F. KIBBEY. FOB BXCBBTABY or STATB, ISAAC P. WATT*. I.- fob Arnmnt or stati, WILLIAM M. HEBS FOB TBXASUBBB OF STATB, GEORGE F. HERRIOTT. < ran ATTOBMXT OXXKBAL, JONATHAN W. GORDON. FOX BXrOBTXR OF BCHUEMB OOSM, LEVIN T. MILLER. fob sgpßßixnxnnfT or public ixmpbvotmh, - OLIVER H. SMITH. FOB CONGBMB.-rTXNVU DISTBISS, WILLIAM H. CALKIN*. FOB AUBMMT. fob pbobboCtob tkibtixtb judicial cibovw, HENRY S. TRAVIS. go uxM T r 'auc.r: urj. FOB TBXASUBBB. HENRY I. ADAMS. fob aaxßirt. GEORGE M. ROBINSON. FOB BUBVBYOB, GEORGE M. JOHNSON. FOB COBOWXB, NORMAN WARNER. FOB COMMISSIOXBBS, SfgSa-SKLltf'Zm.o.. Sd District.-WILLIAM B. PRKW.

LBGAL NOTICES. y QTICE TO CONTRACTORS. < Auditob’b Owen, IRSMBSBLABB, JABPBB CO., IB*. ( S»pt»mbtr Ith. njt. o’clock a. on the twentieth (SO) day ofOctober, 1878, to do the earthwork on a certain grade on the south aide of the Kankakee river, w.W mid, Mope, IK to 1. SpeoiSeatiena inr on the line of the above grade. All material to be furnished by the contractor. Fluii and anecifioations are on tie In this offlee, for inspee - tion of bidders. The work to be completed ata time to be amed upon by Me board and the con trwdor, when the contract shall be awarded. Te be paid for when completed and accepted, br the board. The board reserve the right to Bra»y uunn U-4 Auditor. Jasper Conaty.