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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20
CORRESPONDENCE BOILED DOWN.

"Ignoramus" writes from Seymour that if the leg
slature passes the Andrew bill making il apply TO
all elections and smashes the schoo-book trust we
may yet be happy. even If we have to wear cotton
breeches these cold days. He says votes have sold
for from $40 to S25 at township elections in his
county.
pleased with THE SENTINEL and especially with its
criticisms of Judge Woods for his outrageous action
in the Dudley case. He says; "rhe party that can
approve of such criminaity will soon see the hand
writing the wall. Already thousands bitterly re-
greet the part they took in the past presidential cam
paign and Will, in the future, show their devotion
to country rather than party God speed the right
and overthrow the Vaccinations of traitors"
Franklin" writes from BrOokvilie denouucing
the Cincinnati Enquirer and urging all democrats 10
stop reading IT, The vicious republican TRADES of
Gath and MacBride, and the dirty attack upon
President Cleveland, signed S f. J. whom Frank
lin" takes to he John r. Mclean himself, move him
earnestly beseech all democrats to leave the En-
qUirer severely alone and read THE SENT in
preference to the Cincinnati organ of monopoly and
gutter politics. This is good advice aud it ought to
be needed by every democrat in Indiana.
John II. Brown of Dadair. Hendricks county,
democrat seventy one years old who is in favor of
a tariff for revenue only, writes urging an amend
ment TO the election law requiring that every voter
shall write or cause TO be written his name on the
back of his ticket, and that if any Illegal vote is
cast any precinct the entire of the party in
whose interest the vote is given in that precinct
shall be excluded He thinks with such a law there
would be no more fraud at elections, each party
would to il that no fraud committed by its
own members.
George L. Jenkins of Carlisle. Ind. In renewing
his subscription to THE SENTINEL, says he always
appreciated this paper but regards 1t more highly
now than ever before, because of the bold stand II
takes on all questions affecting the peoples inter-
ests A few days ago Mr.. jenkins called a negro to
account for insulting his wife and daughter An
alteration ensued, the negro drawing knife Jen-
kins and he fired twice at him without serious re-
suits The affair reported in the Terre Haute
Express and other papers outrage growing out
OF politics. Mr. jenkins declares that politics had
nothing whatever 10 do with it.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20
Woods-Dudley Logic.

lie Judge WOODS) told them 1.-THE jury that
advising an attempt" at bribery was a crime;
and II is precisely what constitutes an at
tempt to do thing that the democratic
gans are trying to dodge, and make it appear
that Judge WOODS is corrupt judge.-Nelcs.
We submit that this statement of the
evening Dudley organ is false. There has
been no question as to what constituted
an attempt, and, so far as we know, no
difference of opinion. There was ques-
ton as to whether an attempt to bride was
crime, and also as to whether advising
an attempt to bride was crime. As to
these questions Judge WooDs originally
said:
While it is not crime 10 make the attempt,
1t Is a crime to advise another to make the at
tempt. If A attempts to bride B that is no
Ofense, under this statute; but if A advises B
10 bride c, then the one who cOmmendS or
gives this advice is an offender under this law.
There is no intimation in these words,
or anywhere else in the original opinion,
that the advising an attempt to bride was
not crime unless the attempt were actu-
ally made in pursuance of the advice.
That was an after-thought, made neces-
sary by the peril of DUDLEY.
We do not agree with Judge WooDs that
the attempt to bride is not a crime, under
the statute; but accepting his theory on
that point, there could be nothing more
anomalous than his revised ruling that
the crime of advising is not complete until
the "bribing or attempting to bride" is
shown. The examples of aiding, abet-
ting or conniving at crimes of various
kinds, which have been used as illustra-
tons in attempted deienses of Judge
WOODS, have no similarity to this case,
for in them the result is the important
thing, and the covert act to which the
law looks; and what is more important,
the words themselves imply commission,
for crime cannot be aided. allotted or
connived at except it exist, while any
action may be advised and yet never
occur. In this case the result is wholly
immaterial, for, under Judge WooDs' rul-
ing, it would be lawful whatever it might
be. His ruling was that it is unlawful to
advise the doing of a certain lawful thing
He now says that when all the criminal
portion of this offense the advising) is
completed, the ctitheis not complete until
lawful action attempting to bribe) is
done also. There is the same logical basis
for saying that the crime of murder is not
complete until the murderer buries his
victims body.
There was never more fragrant and
infamous perversion of justice than this
second ruling, or more transparent ex-
cuse offered for moral crime than has
been offered for it. Still partisans will
defend it, or at least pretend to do so.
We wish them JOY in their undertaking.
We have the satisfaction of a certainty
that every honest man of ordinary intelli-
gence says in the depths of his heart
Judge WooDs made mistake-his action
is indefensible-he had better have let
DUDLEY go than sacrifice himself to save
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20
Labor Legislation.

The conspiracy law, passed by repub-
lican legislature at the dictation of rail-
way corporations, is blot upon the stat
ute-books of the state, and ought to be
repealed. Mr.. NoLAN's bin for its repeal
was ordered engrossed by the house Mon
day, and we have no doubt it will become
a law. As Mr. NOLAN said in his very
forcible and effective speech, the conspir-
acy law is class legislation, and, he might
have added. class legislation of the worst
kind, because it is in the interest of cap-
ital, which is abundantly able to take care
of itself, and against the interest of labor,
which is entitled to and should receive
the protection of the state in it's right of
organization and combination.
There is other legislation pending in the
interest of labor which ought to be adopted.
Bills have been introduced forbidding the
employment of private police" or 'detec-
tiVes" to perform the functions of the state
in the preservation OF public order and
the protection of property. These meas
ures are intended to prevent the hiring by
capitalists Of bands Of trained mercenaries,
such as the Pinkerton detectives, TO take
the place OF the police or the militia in
the event of riot or disorder. Such ir-
responsible organizations are un-Ameri-
can. and should not be tolerated in a free
government The workingmen of Indiana
insist, and with perfect justice, that the
state is abundantly able TO protect all
her citizens, capitalists as well as
laborers, in their persons and property,
without the assistance of organizations
maintained for private gain and controlled
by irresponsible private citizens Of another
state. The legislature ought to pass
strong law upon this subject
Another duty of the legislature is to
make stringent Law against the pluck
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20
viii Never Be Repealed.

The election bill passed the senate yes
terday. We are glad to say that only one
democrat-Senator BURKE-concelyed it
to be his duty to vote against it. Eleven
republicans voted against the bill-ALFoRD,
BOYD, BIcHousKI, CARVER, CASTER, CRoNK,
DEMoTTE, Crosse, KENNEDY, SHocKNEY
and THOMPSON of Jasper. 1t is pretty safe
to say that these eleven statesmen would
have voted against any measure of cleo
ton reform that might have been pro-
posed. The present system, which leaves
the doors wide open for bribery, cor
ruption and fraud of all kinds, is evil
IDENTIFY to their liking. The bill
now goes to the house, and that
body ought to waste no time in passing it.
We predict that this measure, once on the
statute books, will never be repealed. We
have 70 doubt it will be amended from
time to time, as experience reveals its
weak points, and indicates where and
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20

THE result of the special election in
Shelby and Decatur counties is exceed
ingly gratifying. Mr.. CARPENTER NOM
ination for state senator, after the devel-
opments in the Ray contest, and in spite
of the fact that he was under Indictment
for bribery, was scandalous in the last de-
gree. His election, under the circum-
stances, would have been disgrace to the
state. His defeat is a wholesome rebuke
to boodlers and corruptionists, and an en-
couraging evidence that vote-buying after
all is not regarded as venial offense in
this latitude.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20

me stores carried on BY the mining COM
panies in defiance of the present law, and
which are an outrage and fraud upon
the miners. A law should also be made
which would put a stop to the impositions
practiced by these same corporations
upon their miners in the weighing of coal.
The present system is robbery rather less
respectable than the sort committed by
the sandbaggers and highwaymen who are
sent to the penitentiarv from time to
time, while the robbing mine-operators
are posing as honored members of society.
The laboring men of Indiana have
right to expect fair treatment at the
hands of democratic legislature. They
have demanded nothing from the general
assembly, so far as we have observed, that
Is not just, reasonable and proper. The
legislative tools of corporations may pro-
nounce every effort that is made in their
behalf "buncombe," but it is not ''bun-
combe, it is simple justice, to remove the
brand of conspirators from workingmen
who combine for self-protection. Nor is
it 'buncombo" to say that capitalists shall
not import companies of disciplined ruff
fans to shoot them down when they do
not so conduct themselves as to please
the said capitalists, nor, again, to deny
corporations the privilege of robbing their
employees of their earnings through the
agency of ''pluck-me stores" and such
scoundrelly devices as are employed in
weighing coal in Clay county.
The democratic party, which is COM
posed mainly of laboring men, must stand
by them in their contest with monopoly
after election Just the same as before election.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20
A Righteous Gag Law"

The consumption of over half of yes
terday's session of the senate in an al
legged discussion of the geological bureau
bill is conclusive evidence that the repub-
lican members have adopted the plan of
consuming the session by political har
argues and thereby driving the dem
ocracy to the people with no legislation
accomplished. The bill in question is as
nearly beyond criticism as any measure
could be. No republican senators OBJ
jected to it except because the members
of the bureau we're not to be appointed by
the governor and were not subject to re-
moval by him. They all conceded it to be
a measure which would promote efficiency
of the service. And yet because the
majority did not donate the appointments
to the republican governor, and give him
a power OF removal which he does not
possess as to any other state officer, they
deliberately wasted half day of the ses-
sion in discussion, not one-tenth of
which had any conceivable reference to
the question before the senate.
There was only one way to stop this
outrageous line of action and the senate
wisely adopted it. An amendment of the
rules was made limiting all speeches to
five minutes hereafter. 1t is pity that
his action was not taken earlier. The
people never intended to hire senator at
S. day to make campaign stump
speeches, or to hire an audience for these
wind-bags at an additional expense of
some $500 a day. If any senator has ideas
on any proposed legislation which he can
not express in FIVE minutes, let him print
them on postal card and mail copies to
his colleagues.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20

The president has approved the act Gre
ating an executive department OF agricul-
ture, and hereafter the cabinet will con-
sist of eight, instead of seven, as at pres
ent. We fancy that the secretary of agri-
culture will prove to be neither a useful
nor an ornamental part of the official
machine. He will be literally a fifth
wheel to the government wagon. We can
see no more reason for creating an execu-
tive department of agriculture than there
is for creating an executive department OF
mining, or one of commerce, or OF manu-
featuring. We do not anticipate that the
great agricultural interests of the country
will derive the slightest benefit from the
creation of this new establishment of Off
cialism. The law was evidently made
under the impression that the farmers of
the country were yearning fer it, but we
think this was a mistake. What the
farmers really need is relief from taxation
and a better market for their products.
The establishment of another high
salaried office, with large corps of we'll
paid assistants, will do the men who till
the soil no good.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20

THE legislature is showing disposition
to make liberal provision for the wants of
the various state institutions. The full
amount asked for has been given the asy-
lum tor feeble minded being erected at
Fort WAYNE. This is one OF the
worthiest charities in the state, and being
under the control of a non-partisan
and very efficient board, its claims have
met with full recognition from both sides
in the legislature. The other state insti-
tutions will be fairly dealt with, and the
people will, we have no doubt, approve the
policy of the legislature toward them. In
diana is rich enough to give an adequate
support to her various institutions, and
will not be deceived by the cry of extrava-
gance and recklessness based upon fair
appropriations for their maintenance. OF
course the legislature should exercise care
full discrimination in votes of money for
these purposes, and refuse to give dollar
more than is necessary. The coat must be
cut according to the cloth, but happily ex-
treme parsimony is not required.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND reviews his four
years administration with just pride in
the results it has accomplished. 1t has
been a clean, honest, practical, and withal
vigorous and able administration, and it
will leave every department of the public
service in better condition than it found
it. Ifit had been less aggressively honest,
less independent OF special interests and
class influences, less jealous of the rights
of the people, it would no doubt have
been continued four years longer. Presi-
dent CLEVELAND will rank in history as
one of the wisest and most patriotic OF our
chief magistrates and it is by no means so
certain, as he seems to believe, that after
the 4th of March he will be Gin no mans
way"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20
JUDGE CLAYPooL hits the nail on the
head when he saws:

UtdU With ne SdNh.
If Judge WOODS second instructions TO the
grand jury are sound in law it would not be
unlawful for any one to hire a hall, openly
before the voters, invite them ont in blocks of
five, or any other way. to a secret place, and
there transact the business. So long as the
payment for votes was done in secret, or no
one could prove that money had actually been
paid, or the advice received had been acted on,
there would be no indictable ofense, no mat
ter how fragrant, public and notorious the adj
vice and profier to buy votes had been.
Judge WOODS second instructions are
not the law and nobody knows it better
than Judge WooDs himself. They are a
wicked perversion of the law in the in
terest of a political scoundrel, and every
body with intelligence enough to under
stand the force of language knows it.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20

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how it may be strengthened and i'm
proved. But Indiana will never return
to the present wretched system.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20
THE CABINET.
Latest Guesses at Gen. Harrison's Chief
Advisers.

Latest Guesses At Gen. Harrison's Chief
Advisers.
Guesses on the cabinet are being made with
greater frequency and boldness than ever before.
Everybody personally interested is the qui vive,
and within a few days at the most the agony must
be
Everybody guesses on Blaine. The magnetic
statesman from Maine will have to 60 IN. Specula-
tons as 10 the secretaryship Of the treasury also
mostly agree upon William Window the man for
that place.
John Wanamaker Of Philadelphia, il is generally
conceded will be member OF the cabinet, probably
pOstmaster-general.
The Nesrs yesterday afternoon addressed itself 20
a guess which somewhat generally accepted a.
inspired, aud with the three men named above puts
John Thomas of Illinois for secretary OF the navy,
Jeremiah Rusk of Wisconsin, secretary OF war, J.
W Noble OF Missouri secretary OF the interior, W
H. H. Miller Of Indiana, attorney general and
Warner Miller OF New York, secretary OF
II never fails to give satisfaction North,
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PER YEAR:
The school Book Question.

WEDNESDAY. FEB. 20.
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Proceedings of Congress For the Week
Ending Feb. 16-OIisceuaueous News
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-03-16
Colonel Carter.

The New Iberia Enterprise of March !
says: Mr. r. ). Carter who died at his
home, Hutton plantation, on Jan. 81
1889, deserves more than passing no
iice in kindly memory of an honest man,
a true friend and good husband and
father. His age was not advanced. being
% years only last Angus t. lie was born
in Pike county, Miss, received liberal
English education and found more than
ordinary success in business, up TO the
time OF the war, when he entered the
army, and from captain he became ma
jOr, then lieutenant colonel of the Sc
venth Observation-Disclosures Chitto Guards
which did effective service on many
battle fields. Shiloh among them. Col
Onel Carter during the war fell ill with
an attack. of pneumonia and since then
suffered more or less from the evil effects
therefrOm until his death, which was
hastened by serious pulmonary weak
ness. After the war his affairs, like the
affairs of many soldiers, fluctuated be-
tween fortune and sett acks. COnlOnel
Carter held good positions on Mississippi
railroads during the seventies, and i'm
1880 came to Louisiana with his family
and undertook the business of farming,
at which he was successful. He was
kind, sympathetic friend to those need
ing friends services. He bore an open,
free and tender heart toward his devoted
wife ana family, and at last bid adieu to
the world and friends, forgave his en-
emies and fell friends, forgave his en-
emies and fell asleep a Christian-fell
calmly into the last sleep-the last brave
act on earth Of the true soldier.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-03-16
City Election.

On monday the lst of April next our
citizens will be called to the poll to elect
board of five trustees to conduct the
affairs of the town of st. Martinsville
for a term of one year. 1t is not proba-
bic that the Republicans will put any
ticket out. much less colored men. there
fore, let there be rs many tickets as our
citizens may choose to put in the field,
and let the voters select among the can
didatc, those who are really the choice
OF the people. Let them be elected by
the people, for the people and not to sa-
tisfy the petty ambition of this one or
that one. The patronage of the town
council Is so small that no politics
should be made out Of it, but the citizens
regardless of politics should vote for the
men who will take at heart the inter.
est and improvement of the town of
st. Martinsville which is now going on a
solid genuine boom. Our town is pros
pering, let us now have for one more
!car an administration composed of men
like those who have conducted the af-
fairs of this town for the last few months.
on Il cash basis.
AS the present charter of the town
was adopted a number Of years ago when
the town was not half of what it is today, |
it becomes necessary to repeal the pre-
sent one and adopting Il new one which
will meet the requirement of today. The
Mayor SHOULD be elected 10y the people
of by the board as is done now.
Also the constable should be elected by
he people. and should have proper
qualification. The amount of taxes and
licenses collected by the board of trus-
ees is not sufficient for the proper MAIN
ainance of the town, which is deeply i'm
iced of ameliOratiOn.
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