Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

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Sonthern democrats are finding it difficult to denounced protection while enjoying its beneficent re* suits. The Dallas News complains: “‘One democratic state convention after another refuses to even call the word ‘tariff.’ " What’s the -useof persisting in the habit of condemning what everybody knows is a good thingt - It is said that the Bryan para de in New York was so timed that=it should proceed along Broadway just as the business and manufacturing districts turned out their hundreds of thousands of employes Under the tarifl law that Mr. Bryan help ed to frame in 1894 it would not have been necessary to be so parti cnlar in order to get a crowd out for a procession. Half of the population of all the cities-in the cotmtry tnt& nothing to do but watch parades. ! Governor Hauly evidently believes in making the representation of the minority pally OH-4tt4£aTO iustitutiona' l*>ards real rather than nominal, thus carrying ouF the iid tent of existiujifjaw. He has recently appointed Fred Bays, chairman of the Sullivan county democrats committer, as a member of the board of trustees of the southern hospital for the insane, and the appointment seems to meet the approval of men of all parties in that county. Governor Ilauly is nut only maintaining, but is seeking to improve; the high standard of institutional management which have lo jg prevailed in Indiana. Parker does Framing-.

;A preacher ha<J a- three hour serlnonupon ‘‘The Major and Minor Prophets.” “HeTintecl an hour aridj a half upon the major prophets. The congregation grew restless.” He j talked another hour and a'lialf up|on the minor prophets. The con- j Lgregatjofl grew more restless, .. Fhk{ t ally he said: “And what place shall I we give Malacbi!” An old sinner ! in the back seat arose and said: 1 “Malachi can have my place—l’m | : going home. ! A dispatch from Kentlaod says The Chicago & Indiana Southern railroad has caused an increase in activities at the stone quarries, two miles east of that city. A branch of the road will be built to the quarries; extensive improvements will lie-made there, and the quarries, will furnish Crushed stone for ballast and blocks for the ftteeL-mills at Indiana Harbor and Gary. The quarries cover one hundred acres, aml five hundred men will be employed iti developing then!. The big Bteruberg dredge on the Iroquois ditch, still continues to have bad luck, the latest in that line being the JbrSdfing atoay of their dam last Sunday, so that they have been at a stand still since that day, building a new dam and waiting for it to fill with water again, to float the dredge. Iu respect to their worst trouble, the caving in of the ditch shies against the dredge, they now hope the worst is over, as they are beginning to get into-solitler grouud. and for - several moves-past they have had no trouble. A little further on they will get into comparatively , solid digging,, where no further trouble at nil is apprehended from I sealing banks.