St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 November 1892 — Page 4

Cl)e JuDrpentient. WALKERTON, INDIANA. NOV. 12. 1892. W. A. ENDLEY, Editor. “Where was I at?”—The Republican Party. — Gen. Miles looks for an Indian war this winter. The Strowger automatic telephone is now in use at LaPorte. The democrats are evidently preparing to capture the earth. If the democrats want anything they don’t see, they will please ask for it. And even Ohio and Illinois joined the sad republican funeral procession! The republicans are now saying with a significant look, “just wait till ’96.” Hon. Joseph Cannon, a republican candidate for congress in Illinois, survived the wreck. McKinley will be the logical candidate of the republicans for the presi--4 dency in ’96. The “landslide” for the democracy, which began two years ago, seems to be “sliding” yet. Russell Harrison’s paper lias been closed by the sheriff. Misfortunes t never come singly. |. The democratic victory was a landI slide such as has not been paralleled | since the days of Buchanan. g j Victoria Woodhull Martin, candidate g; for president on the woman suffrage g; ticket, was lost in the shuffle. || The democratic plurality on coni' gressman in this district four years ago, before the landslide commenced, was B 355, The Elkhart Review reports several I cases of grip in that city. Is the coun- | try to be visited by this old enemy |K again this winter? republican editor is too B| DIIS LTy en v p nresent cutung his ; way out of the snow to . I, torials on “How it Happened.” | i The people's party made a surprisX ingly good race. It secured 10 electoral * votes in Kansas, 4 in Colorado, 3 in | Nevada, and 1 in Oregon, making a | total of 18. fe Everybody is glad the campaign is R over, and no one more so than the ediH tors of political papers, who t ear the I? brunt of battle, getting little thanks and less pay for their trouble. i By a simple calculation it is shown 8 that the number of people which have existed on the globe during the past K 6,000 years approximates the grand || total of 66,000,000,000,000,000. fl This paper predicted some time ago that something would be heard to L ‘ drop with a heavy thud some of these days. The indications pointed strong- & ly to a landslide one way or the othe r . Ki It is said that two feet of snow fell in the northern part of Michigan last I Wednesday; but it was no comparison B with the snow storm in New York state, Illinois and several other states, Kj last Tuesday. F The grand old. man, Gladstone, did T not know of the death of Tennnyson until he heard it by chance in a sermon. The snail-like pace of England W and other foreign countries in many respects is incredible to an American. The Indianapolis Sun says: It must be conceded that this campaign has been remarkably free from the JK vile personalities that have characterized many political contests heretofore. It has been a battle of princiI i pies, not puerile pusilanimity. The people have expressed, through the ballot, their dissatisfaction with the present policy by which this country is governed and desire for a change. Now let us have it. Let us have democratic rule to a finish—the simon pure article, clean and unadulterated. Hon. J. D. Thayer, of Warsaw, the ' republican candidate for senator from Kosciusko county, suffered a stroke of paralysis while making a speech, the other day, and at last reports—Wednesday—was in a dying condition. He is a brother of 11. G. Thayer, of Plymouth. Prof. Totten is still harping away about the end of the world being close * at hand, declaring that he gets his evidence from the scriptures. There are some people who become very nervous, even frightened, about such things, and Prof. Totten or any one else who will make such predictions ought to have a coat of tar.

IT DOES or CHECK MURDER. Whatever else is to be said of the new method of execution, certain it is that it has not acted in any sense as a deterrent of crime. Nor could that be said of hanging or of any other method of taking human life by judicial process. There would seem to have been a veritable homicidal mania during the past few weeks. It is a dull day when ■ the metropolitan district alone is not able to furnish one or mor .) sensational murders, to say nothing of ordinary cutting and shooting affrays. The utter failure of the death penalty to act as a check upon murder has led thinking men to consider less what mode of its infliction is preferable than whether it should not be abolished entirely. That it has not proven in any sense a preventive has been abundantly shown in our own and other States and countries. It hadn’t even the effect to lessen the number of forgeries, highway robberies and other felonies in England when they were capital offences, as there was no marked proportionate increase in such crimes after its abolition. On the other hand, with the advance in civilization, men are coming to seriously question whether a community has any right to put a man to death under process of law. This feeling has led to long delays in the punishment of murderers, and it is to be believed not infrequently to their escape from all penalty, even though guilty. We are led to believe that on a pure question of the public policy to check crime the death penalty is worse than useless. Much of this complicated machinery that makes the law serve rather for the interest of criminals than for the protection of society has grown up out of this strong feeling against capital punishment. The reform in our criminal administration that is needed in its simplifying, and that will not | come as long as public sentiment against the death penalty calls for such excessive and minute safeguards to be placed for the protection of those accused of murder. So much for the effect on the administration of justice. As to the possibly criminal cases, it is a preposterous idea that respect for the sanc- । human life is to be created by tile . , . . nie. 1 his present law is not onfy^rpTwfc^ . , , , - "’^rous and useless, but it is absolutely I prompt and certain punishment OT mulefactors. Its repeal is demanded by a large section of the press of the State, by the State medical societies, and by many eminent clergymen, lawyers and publicists. The movement should be brought to a successful finish during the next session of the Legislature.— Buffalo (New York) Evening News. How the Election Went. ADMITTED THE FACTS. Newspaper editors have to be very careful in opening their columns fore statements. But aware that tne Dr. Miles Medical Co. are responsible, we give room to the following testimonial from R McDougall, Auburn, Ind , who for two years noticed a stoppage of skipping o i the pulse, his left side got so tender he could not lie on it, his heart fluttered, he was alarmed, went to different doctors, got no relief, but one bottle of Dr. Miles’ New Heart Cure cured him. The elegant books, “New and Startling Facts,” free at J. Endly’s tells all about Heart and Nervous Diseases and the wonderful cures. CONSUMPTION CURED. An old physician, retired from practice having had placed in his hands by an East India missionary the formula of a simp ■ vegetable remedy for the speedy and pe ’ manent cure of Consumption, Bronchiti I Catarrh, Asthma and all throat and Lun ' Affections, also a positive and radical cure ■ for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Comi plaints, after having tested its wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases, had ! felt it bis duty to make it 1. nto his I suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive I and a desire to relieve human suffering, I will sene free of charge, to all who desire ! it, this recipe, in German, french or En- ■ glish, with lull directions for preparing and using. Seat by mail by address with stamp, naming this paper. 820 Powers’ Block, Rochester, N. Y. W. A. Noyes. The healthy people you meet have healthy livers. They take Simmons l Liver Regulator.

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