St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 February 1893 — Page 4

Stye 3nbcptnlitnL WALKERTON, INDIANA. FEB 18, 1893, W. A. ENDLEY, Editor. The justice of the peace salary law ,was defeated in the legislature. A bill is before congress providing for the use of power breaks and automatic couplers by all inter-state railroads. Sunday, Feb. 12, was the 84th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. The event was generally celebrated throughout the country on Monday. Lincoln was one of the loftiest types of the common people. His name is of the enduring Hind. The assaults being made upon President Harrison by some of the republican newspapers because of his appointment of Judge Jackson, are ill-timed, petulant and childish. These same papers will have abundant reason to feel thoroughly ashamed of themselves later on. Bruce Carr, ex-auditor of Indiana, died at Indianapolis last Tuesday morning. His death was very sudden and unexpected. The deceased occupied a prominent position in state politics, being one of the principal workers in the republican party. He was about 44 years of age. Can any one give an excuse for the existence of the present Indiana legislature?—lndianapolis Sun. We’d like to know who has even hinted at the idea of there being any excuse for its existence. The Sun should not ask such foolish, superfluous questions. The following from the Atlanta

Constitution might be read with prolit by some of the magazine editors of the .day: “A disappointed author writes to say that he ‘can not get his poems in the newspapers.’ Good! Send ’em to the magazines; they don’t know poems from peanuts.” President-elect Cleveland has made an official announcement of his cabinet, selected up to date, as follows: Secretary of State—Walter Q. Gresham of Illinois. Secretary of the Treasury—John G. Carlisle of Kentucky. Secretary of War—Daniel S. Lamont of New York. Postmaster-General —Wilson S. Bissell of New York. The Mishawaka Enterprise, a strong republican paper, takes a sensible view, we believe, of President Harrison’s action in appointing Judge Jackson to the supreme bench. The Enterprise says: “President Harrison evidently knew what he was about when he appointed Judge Jackson, and his fault-finding personal enemies like Clarkson, are only making asses of themselves by their violent criticisms. The “perfidy of the President,” as Clarkson denominates it, is no worse than the “perfidy” of President Lincoln who appointed the present Judge Field, a strong democrat, to the supreme bench. The general public is pleased to see occasional endeavors ol this sort to lift the judiciary out of the slime of partisan politics.” It seems that the present Indiana legislature is not even capable of makjpg a good dog law. In commenting upon the dog law as passed by the house last week the Indianapolis Sun says: “The dog law, as passed by the Indiana house the past week, is an outrage, and should be killed. It does

o “7 not assure the farmers of the benefits i^^^^Wßffleeymind commit other depredations of a serious character. The law then goes on to increase, by a large figure, the tax on each additional dog owned by one person, if The Sun understands its provision aright. While this may reach a very few persons who harbor and claim mongrel curs of bloodthirsty peoclivities, it also attacks a very large cumber of gentlemen in the state who possess and breed dogs of pure blood. These latter dogs do no harm in any community. They do not kill sheep, they do not spread hydrophobia, they do not mu at large, and they do not conduct themselves in other than a circumspect maimer. They are closely watched and carefully kept within bounds. it is an outrage to tax their owners, therefore, more than a dollar a year for each dog, because it serves no good purpose. Such taxation is a buiden because it will not in the slightest degree remedy the evil of! which complaint is made. The bill Should be killed, or amended properly?’

The ladies of St. Paul and Minneapolis, it is said, are raising their whoops in honor of Mr. Bleeker, who has introduced an anti-crinoline bill in the Minnesota legislature. According to the Michigan City News a seven year old convict was recently received at the Northern prison. —Ex. Perhaps the News has been misquoted. Criminals of such tender years are not sent to penitentiaries but to reform institutions. The bill in the legislature to abolish the prison contract system in this state, which the labor unions favored, was defeated last week. When it comes to defeating bills the present legislature gets there with both feet. But the people would like to see it pass something occasionally. Clarkson’s bitter attack upon President Harrison for his appointment of Judge Jackson is itself a good illustration of the low conception of judicial positions against which the prsident’s act was a vigorous and timely protest.—Boston Journal. The republican and populist mem,bers of the Kansas legislature are armed to the teeth and war seems imminent. Both sides are obstinate and one will nut give in an inch to the other. Blood would have been shed ere this, but Col. Hughes, commander of the state militia, hits three times disobeyed the governor’s order to take the capitol building. The President has sent a message to congress in which he advocates the full annexation of Hawaii instead of establishing a protectorate. He deems prompt action upon the treaty very desirable. Among other things he says: “It is essential that none of the other great powers shall secure these islands.

Such a possession would not consist with our safety and with the peace of the world.” It seems that President Harrison should have consulted one J. S. ('larkson, one of the alleged bosses of the late national republican campaign,before he appointed Jackson as Lamar’s successor. Clarkson is having a great deal to say in criticism of the president's action, a great deal that is abusive and uncalled for. President Harrison perhaps acted with as much wisdom and discretion in this appointment as any of his criticiaers would have done under the same peculiar circumstances. But Clarkson, for a mere politician, displays a surprising amount of audacity in presuming to publicly criticize a • man of President Harrison’s superior calibre. From a narrow, partisan view there is a chance for finding fault with Harrison’s appointment of Judge Jackson, but viewed from a more sensible and liberal standpoint the appointment was a proper one. Harrison was placed in a very trying position, the exactions of which he met in a masterful manner. Harrison, however, is too broad a statesman to always meet the ideas of the peanut politicians. BFathered by Goatees. The Hon. Isaac P. Gray is entitled to all the comfort he can get from the fact that Judge Jackson of Tennessee has whiskers a good deal like bis own- - Indianapolis News. Notice of Election. Having been requested by a majority of the candidates asking that an election be held for the purpose of selecting a postmaster at Walkerton we hereby make said call. The time for holding said election will be on

Saturday, March 4th, 1593, k*^*^** efion. It is not desired that voters of other counties or townships should vote. 11. M. Smith, Geo. W. Chapman, ' r , ... 11. E. Rupel, ; - ommi ttee. A. F. Young, Ballot for Postmaster. S. J. NICOLES. J. E. FITZGERALD. MRS. E. J. SNELL. P. Q. NICHOLS. W. T. ROGERS.

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