Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 October 1886 — Page 4

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THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. The GAZETTE has addressed its readers before on the subject of selecting the beet men to fill our county offices and it repeats this advice now to all who are willing to take it, Democrat, Republican, Greenbacker or Prohibitionist, 88 our friends may be. The common desire of all good citizens who have the interests of this great and growing county of ours at heart should be to fill our offices with reliable, competent and experienced men. For, indeed, after all this fuss about the election is over the question has been simply that we have employed men at certain fixed fees and salaries to conduct our county affairs for us in a safe, economical, oompetent and obliging manner. No business man would pretend to hire a man as clerk in his store until he bad satisfied himself thoroughly of the competency of the person to fill the place. No farmer would hire a man to work for him on the farm unless he knew that the person was able to fill the duties expected of him. This large corporation of ours—Vigo comity—is merely an aggregation of individuals, and every citizen in it should do for the oounty when dealing with its affairs just as he would do for himself as ap individual if his own personal interests were involved. If this rule is jealously carried out the good people of Vigo county, regardless of whether they are Republicans or Democrats, for we were citizens before we were partisans, will have men filling the public positions of •whom they need never be ashamed. There are no great questions of party principle involved in filling our county offices. Therefore, let us consider this .question fairly and honestly.

As is customary, the Democratic and Republican parties have each named candidates for the different offices to be filled next month. The Greenbackers of the county—and. they are by no means an inconsiderable number—have made no nominations. We take it for granted that they will support the men they think best qualified for the different places. The Prohibitionists have put up a county ticket There area number of them in this county and they will vote for their candidates as a matter of principle purely.

The GAZETTE believes, and it is candid with its hundreds of readers throughout the oounty, that the Democratic county ticket is, taking it as an entirety, the best presented to the people of Vigo -county for a number of years. And there was every reason why this should be so. Admittedly, the Democratic •county convention was the most representative gathering of the party in a long time. It transacted its business in a clean, businesslike, dignified manner. There were no charges after the, convention had adjourned that nominations had been improperly brought about and there were no delegates searching around for candidates to get orders on the exchequer cashed. The delegates were imbued with the sentiment that only the right kindof men should go on the ticket.There has been a growing sense of independence among both parties in Yigo county for several years, and the delegates were disposed to recognize that good and just sentiment and place in the field a ticket that would, by the-excellent character of particular nominations, attraot to its support the votes of men who believe that fitness rather than politics is the qualification that is most desired among us. Let us see whether they succeeded.

The county ticket is headed by Judge James M. Allen. What a strong and an excellent nomination to begin with! His name alone is a tower of strength. He has been on the bench of the Superior Court now nearly four years. Four years ago he defeated one of the oldest and most respected Republicans of the county by a majority that went up over a thousand. At that time those who knew him best predicted an honest and a firm administration of our judicial affairs. An element of the bar had disgraced our courts by scenes that need not be retold here. Judge Allen early stamped out these manifestations of disorder and by a display of firmness and dignity that delighted every lover of ordet in the county he was soon master of the situation and the public was no longer treated to such scenes. His record as a judge is not to be surpassed in the state. Although hundreds of cases of the most intricate kind, many

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of them involving delicate questions of the title of land, passed through his court, they invariably stood the test of Supreme Court review and came back confirmed. He is an eld citizen of the county, a man of mature years and of a trained legal mind. The people cannot be too careful in selecting an experienced man for the Superior Judgship. It is no offioe to experiment on.

Then there is Frank Armstrong, who was unanimously put forward for County Auditor,in which office he has so long been chief clerk. Is this a good nomination? It is only necessary to ask that question of the scores of Republicans all over the county who are going to support him. The GAZETTE says without fear of contradiction that there never was a more fit nomination madS in Yigo county by any party. No one pretends to deny this. We doubt if there is a man in the state who knows more about these hundreds of records of all sorts that make up the Auditor's office than Frank Armstrong. Indeed, so general and genuine is the acceptance by the public of Mr. Armstrong's peculiar qualifications for this place that it looks as if his majority would be something phenomenal. But even if his election unanimously was assured it would not be asking too much of the thinking, tax-paying part of the community, whose interests will be subserved immeasurably by placing him in charge of affairs in that important office. It is not only the duty but it should be the pleasure of all good oitizens to give him a vote that will show that the public fully realizes when it has an opportunity of paying a tribute to merit. Besides being thoroughly oompetent, Mr. Armstrong is a clever and accommodating young man. No business man or farmer who ever called at the Auditor's office found him any way but attentive and obliging. Although the offioe is without denial one that cannot be ran by a new-comer, the Republicans committed the inexcusable blunder of nominating a man who, while he is no doubt a good citizen, has probably not been in the Auditor's office more than two or three times in his life, perhaps never, and who certainly could not tell one record from another if his election depended upon it. Indeed, it looks as if the Republicans deliberately abandoned the field altogether''upon Mr. Armstrong's nomination.

Now we come to Doug. Weeks, who has beefifc nominated for Sheriff. He was bodftand raised down in the lower part of 4|te county, and everybody in that section of the country knows him and thinks well of him. His nomination comes in the nature of a promotionjust the way to fill an office acceptably and just as they try a man in ohureh sometimes—on probation. He has been a deputy sheriff now for about three years and he has done his work faithfully, conscientiously aBd promptly. John Cleary, the present Sheriff,who has made one of the best officers the county ever had, learned the duties of the office in the same way Mr. Weeks has done. Doug. Weeks has all the elements in him to make a first class Sheriff. He is familiar with the duties of the office and will not have to "be broken in" and then rely on the experience of deputies to carry him through his term. He will be able to take hold of things himself at the start and run them to the end. He comes from good, honest old stock. He is a poor boy and that is not to his discredit. Although he had strong and popular competitors in the race for the nomination he triumphed on the first ballot by a majority that meant plainly that he was the undoubted and honest choice of his party for the office. He will run well outside of his party, particularly in the lower part of the county, where he is known. It is a good sign when a man is well-liked where he has lived and is known thoroughly.

Honest Jim Cox is again the candidate for Treasurer. He is now serving his first term, to which he was elected two years ago by a decided majority. He has served his first term so acceptably that a number of prominent and popular Republicans, such as Messrs. Louis Finkbiner and Daniel Hirzel, who were solicited to take the nomination jRgainst him, declined. It was only on the night before the convention met that a young and untried, though a very estimable young man, was forced against his own protests to agree to accept the nomination by a committee that waited upon him. Thus it will be seen how well he stands even among his opponents. Mr. Cox is strong with the people. The business and fanning elements are for him because they know that with him the money of the county is in safe fend honest hands. He has been tried and not found wanting. He has been accommodating as a public officer, and he is an old and respected citizen against whom no one can say a word.

J. W. Stout is the Democratic nominee for County Clerk. Everybody who knows him, and hundreds who don't know him, call him "Billy." He is a good-natured, wholesouied fellow, who is the life of every company he is in. He is a poor man, and if that wasn't honor enough for an honest man, nature

insisted on making him rheumatic, so that it isn't such an easy job for him to get around. Bnt he will run with the people, as he did for the nomination, as if he had four legs and as if they were all good, solid legs, too. Every farmer who ever stopped as his guest at either the Boston or Henderson Houses knows what an honest, reliable man Mr. Stout is. He is a country boy and was born and brought up on the farm. He is deserving of any honor that the oounty can bestow upon him.

Perley J. Bell is the candidate for County Recorder. AJ1 the older oitizens of the oounty knew his father, Dr. James Bell, who has been dead for a number of years. Perley is a young man. He has served already as clerk in the Recorder's office and he knows all about the duties of the place. He will not have to learn. He is a good penman and is at home when working on records. He was a member of the old Governor's Guard and was a popular member of that organization, never failing to do good-naturedly whatever might fall to his lot.

The candidate for Criminal Prosecutor is Harry Donham. He comes from the old and respected Donham family, who live in the southern and southeastern part of the county. He is a young lawyer of promise and would not neglect if elected to see the law impartially enforced. He was born and grew up on a farm and is a graduate of Ann Arbor Law University, one of the best institutions of the kind in the ciountry.

No one will deny that the office of Coroner is one that should by the plain dictates of common sense be filled by a physician. It is essentially a physician's office. The GAZETTE does not know which party is responsible for filling the Coronership with non-professional men, but it supposes that each party is about equally culpable in this respect. It is not the only duty of the Coroner by any means to see that his subject is dead and if he isn't to make him so. There are other reasons why the office of Coroner was established. Dr. Haworth's opponent, Mr. Kornman, is a first rate barber and a good fellow, and if any of our readers want to get a good shave we advise them to give his shop a call, but he is not the right man for Coroner. Dr. Haworth is the man for the place. Dr. Haworth, besides, is a young man of many personal qualifications. He was a member of the old Terre Haute Light Guard, being among the first members of that organization.

Thomas Ryan, the candidate for county commissioner, is a substantial farmer of Honey Creek township. He has property interests and thus would have an interest in seeing that the affairs pf the county w&re administered carefully and economically. The fact that he was nominated over other strong and acceptable men and that the voice of his townpbip was in favor of him in the convention, is proof that he will be strong before the people of the county.

A happy division was made in the legislative ticket by giving one nomination to the laboring men of the city and the other to the farming interests of the country. These are two elements that are badly needed in our state leg-' islatures. If more of them could be crowded into them the interests they represent would not be so badly neglected. The nominees are Cornelius Meagher and Isaac N. Kester. Mr. Meagher comes from the hot furnaces of the rolling mill. He has been a hard-working man all his life and will not be found voting on the side of corporations in the Legislature. The same is also true of Mr. Kester, who has twice before been a member of the Legislature and has proved by his record that he was a faithful and watchful member. He was placed on the ticket because of the resignation of Mr. James Daily without either his knowledge or consent, but he decided to accept, in consequense of the h#nor paid him.

The nominee for County Surveyor is Richard Strout. The Strout family is a family of surveyors and Dick would fill the place well.

This completes the county ticket. Who will say that it is not an excellent one in every respect? The nominees area strong, competent, well-balanced set of men. They are honest and they come from among the ranks oi the people. It is a ticket that appeals to the support of men of all parties and men of no party. The universal verdict on it will be that it is the best ticket the party has put in the field in years.

MUCH space in this issue of the GAZETTE is given to a stenographic report of the eloquent and effective speech delivered at Dowling Hall last Saturday night by Hon. John E. Lamb, the Democratic candidate for Congress. The crowd that greeted Mr. Lamb besides being a very large and a very enthusiastic one, gave the distinguished speaker the closest attention throughout Whenever Mr. Lamb addresses his fellow-citizens he has something to say of interest, and his speech of Saturday night will rank among his best efforts and will repay careful perusal.

In Great Britain during the last year 1,403,547,900 letters alone were delivered.

'HIE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

JAMES T. JOHNSTON'S RECORD. The Republican congressional campaign in this district is apparently being run on two separate and distinct issues. One is that Hon. John E. Lamb ate chicken in his fingers in Parke county and the other is that he missed 109 oalls of the roll during the two sessions of the Congress of which he was a member. These issues are being worked vigorously. This is one picture. Now let us look at another.

The Cincinnati Times is a radical Republican paper. The issue of the Weekly Times for this week lays before its readers the record made by each member of the present Congress during the session that olosed on the 6th day of last August. That was the first session of the Forty-ninth Congress. James T. Johnston, Republican candidate for Congress, sat in that Congress during that session. The Times article appears in the form of a two column article from their Washington correspondent, who introduces the subject as follows: "Now that the dear people are being called oh to return many of the numbers of the House to the next Congress, it may be interesting to see just what their records in the last session of Congress v, ere. From the official records of the House your correspondent gathered the facts which make up the following statement. The table presented below shows the number of bills introduced by each Congressman, the number of bills which became laws, the number of times he was present when the roll of the House was called and the number of times he is recorded as absent."

Thea follows a liet of the 322 members of the House, with the record, as stated above, carried out as to each one.

The 154th name on this list is "James T. Johnston, of Indiana." That is "our Jim—Johnston, of Parke." Here is his record:

Number mt Mile introduced 34 KamlKrafbillithat becaaeliwa.. 4 Somber mt roll calls mlaeed 89 unsber of roll calls answered 63

A glance through the column devoted to "roll calls missed" shows that therei were 261 of the 322 members of Congress who have abetter record in that respect than James T. Johnston. There were 15 members who lieve the same record exactly (89 roll calls missed) as James T. Johnston. There were only 46 Congressmen out of the total 322 members of Congress who missed more roll calls ki the first session than James T. Johnston. Carrying the dissecting process further James I. Johnston— "our Jim"—missed 26 more roll calls than he answered during the time he was in Washington. This is Republican authority, too. It is the Cincinnati Times speaking.

And let it not be lost sight of that the Hon. James T. Johnston made this record in the first session of the Fortyninth Congress. If he will miss the same number of roll calls in the next session of that Congress, which begins next December, then he will have missed 178 calls of the roll in both sessions. "Our Jim" doesn't look as pretty as be did, does he?

Now, we expect the Terre Haute Express—that great exponent of Truth and Justice and Fair Play—to pull Johnston's name down from its ticket. No later than four days ago that paper asked the people of the district with tears in its eyes if they could consistently support a man for Congress who had missed roll calls in Congress—"even though," to use its own language, "each call of the roll was on a motion to adjourn."

We suppose that Johnston will now withdraw from the race for Congress.

COL. R. W. THOMPSON will speak at Dowling Hall tonight. Terre Hauteans always listen with delight to their own silver tongued orator. Time was when he addressed his fellow citizens often. Of late years his absence at Washington and press of occupation in other directions has prevented his speaking except on rare occasions. It is, therefore, with increasing pleasure that his fellow citizens of all political creeds and all classes hear him' now. The Colonel is a Republican, and pretty strict in the faith, too, but he is more, a great deal more, than a mere partisan and all of us of every creed, delight to do him honor. We are not going to vote the Republican ticket this fall, but if he was a candidate himself for any thing under the shining sun, the people of Yigo county would make it unanimous.

PARKE COUNTY REPUBLICANS.

They Refuse the Use of a School House to a Prohibition Candidate. ROCKVILLE, Oct. 12.—[GAZETTE special, j—Andrew F. Mitchell, Prohibition candidate for Representative, is making his canvass of this county this week. He made an appointment at Mecca Mills, a small station five miles west of here, to speak in the school house at that place last night. Now it happens that the trustee, teacher and director were all Republicans, and they refused Mr. Mitchell the use of the house. So much for Parke county Republicanism.

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J. S. Jordon is in Kansas prospecting. He has sold his property here and will remove with his family to either Kansas or Arkansas, he has not yet decided which. Mr. Jordon is one of the old residents of Terre Haute. For a number of years he was associated with Mr James B. Edmunds in the management of the Journal and afterward engaged in the shoe business. He and his family have many friends here who will regret to hear of their departure.

James M. Bolton, of Fayette town ship, is having the bay on his farm baled for shipment to Washington. He has about 100 tons. It is being baled by Soule's Bros., steam baler.

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