Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1903 — Letter to Mr. J. H. Chapman. [ARTICLE]

Letter to Mr. J. H. Chapman.

Editor Gaoztles died Monday in Colombia, 8 C., from the wounds inflicted by Lieut. Governor Tillman. This Tillman is a nephew of the other and more notorious blaokguard and ruffian in the U. 8. senate, and both are off the earns pieoe. This murderer is the same Tillman who so grossly insulted President Roosevelt after the latter bad withdrawn an invitation to Benator Tilltnau to Prinoe Henry’s dinner.

The unanimous re-eleotion of Senator Charles W. Fairbanks by the Indiana legislature calls to mind the fact that Indiana’s senior senator ia one of ten men who, during the entire history of the State, covering a period of eightyseven years, have served longer than six years as representatives of Indiana in the upper branch of congress. Senator Fairbanks is one of a half doflfin Indianians who have beeu chosen to a second term in the senate without faotional opposition. Besides Senator Fairbanks, Senator Morton is the only republican who was ever eleoted to to a second term in the United States senate from Indiana.

The Mouticello Journal shows strong indications of a desire to blossom out as a full-pledged sooialiet organ, but seems afraid to do it for some oause. But why not if it thinks that way. Socialism is as respeotable as any political system, when thd anarohiatio element is kept out, sod there is no denying the faot that it has

made wouderfol progress in numbers in the last few years. Their veiws seem to us entirely impracticable at least in the present stage of omlizition, but their impractioabiliy does not detract from their right to a fair hearingKipling’s poem of a few week’s ago, denounced the alliance Jof England with her rival and enemy Germany, in their demonstration against Venezuela. The allianoe as he oalled it, “with the Goth and the shameless Hun.” It was very bitter language, but in the light of the Germans’ outrageous and unaoticms against VenezueroTthe sinking of their war vessels and their repeated attacks on the forts, the latest of which oooured Wednesday, are thoroughly justifying it. One good result of this polioy of the Germans will be that it will create suoh an adverse pu blio opinion in England that no similar German alliance will be possible very soon.

There baa just been a case of white-capping right in our neighboring oounty of White. It is time for Gov. Durbin to get in action again. To call out the militia, declare a martial law in White county, send a speoial message to the * gialature, and a squad of special dot otivee to Ohalmersi and a whole lot of things A worthless booribg beast, who not only spent «U he earned himself at the salt ><«„<*, but according to statemeLtft made, even took the jprovisiona bia poor wife had earned by washing and ‘'soaked ’’ them for liquor, was taken out and soundly thrashed by bis justly indignant neighbors Of oourse th'a white capping was s most dreadful deed and will exoite the governs? terribly, and if Congressman Grmnpaoker don’t get in auother interview on account of it. it will itfvbeoauae it ooourred in his own t'fstriot. If this seme fellow had butchered his whole family which Is has so hideously abased and

left the state, the matter would not have disturbed the peace of mind of the ‘‘Powers that be” to the least exteht. No doubt many people who read the Crumpacker pink tea and pink necktie story ia Tuesday’* Republican set it down purely as au invention of some paper. Bat that is not so, for the story, incredibly silly as it is, Came from Washington =■'through packer interview channels, essentially as we gave it. Psopl6 may also be inclined to doubt the truth of the statement of Crumpaoker’a regular and freqnent interviews through the Indianapolis Sentinel’s Washington correspondent. But this is do exaggeration either. On every possible or impossible occasion Crump sits for an interview by thie correspondent. Why he ohooses this rank Democratic organ to keep himself before the people of Indiana instead of the Indianapolis Jonrnal or News, is probably because those papers have too much respect for their standing as newspapers to permit their columns to be used week after week by a self seeking narrow guage politician to keep himself in the public eye. Perhaps, also, the Sentinel correspondent works oheaper But cheaper or not it is a certain sure thing that he don’t give Crumpacker all these puffing, flattering interviews for nothing. Maybe, also, the correspondents of other Indianapolis papers are not willing to take his regular interviewing oontract on the conditions he insists upon. One of which, we can be sure, is to permit Crumpaoker to deny any interview which seems likely to prove a boomerang, and to bring him more criticism than compliments. In that cake the toady correspondent must meekly permit himself to be proclaimed a liar, and make no protest. Moreover, and this fact should not be lost sight of, Mr. Crumpaoker has a great ‘‘stand-in” with the Democrats. They recognize the truth of what a leading Democrat of Rensselaer once stated, that on important Administration and party measures, Crumpacker sides with the Democrats much oftener than with the Republicans. The Demooiats know that this district is hopelessly Republican, and they therefore go on the principle that half a loaf is better than no bread, and that half a Demoorat is better for them in Congress from this district than a whole Republioao. Hence they deal very tenderly with Congressman Crumpaoker, and right here, in proof of this, we would like to ask what reader of any Democratic paper in this district ever noticed in it any criticisms on Crumpacker? Any suoh strong and constant attacks, for instance, as each real Republicans as Landis, Hemenway or Briok are constantly pursued with in their distriots? Not much! The word has been passed around loDg ago, that Crumpaoker was a pretty good Democrat for most purposes, aud to treat him accordingly.

Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Sir: Your business is, when a house burns down, to give the owner some money to build a new one. It is a good business. Queer that the world got on so long without it. We paint the one that burnt down and the new ode too. What is better, we paint the houses that don’t burn downYon insure the houses that burn; we insure the houses that don’t. You have the ashes aud smoke; all the houses are ours. We paint read/ paint: Devoe. We-sell the paint to painter; we doo.t paint. =L*ad and oil is the oid-fashion paint. Devoe is good paint-things ground in with the lead sod linseed oil, the best paint in the world and the cheapest, because the work is all done by machinery. Nobody wants poor paint; there’s lots of it, though, in the world. . y Yours truly,

F. W. DEVOE & CO.