The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-24

his second wife only short time ago. after
a long illness. There was not person in
the town that enYied him his good luck.
Il am glad Joe won the prize; it will
pay his doctor bills and leave him q sur
plus" was the general expression. In
fact every one rejoiced, and when he
stepped forward to receive the gold
spontaneous shout from 1,200 Threats
made the old brick cour: house shake
upon its native sandstone foundation.
Then there were calls for Hickman,
Hickman and the honest, intelligent
farmer from Salt creek bottoms responded
briefly, saying that when he made his
guess he did not go at it blindly. but
figured it out, taking the increase of school
enumeration and the enumeration OF
OF voters as bases. He had come within
627 of guessing the population of Indiana,
but it was not his mistake. The enum-
orators had made the mistake. THE
SENTINEL, he said, had accomplished
more for the people in fighting monopolies
than any other paper in the country.
Hundreds of dollars were saved annually
to the farmers of Brown county through
the work of THE SENTINEL, for had it not
been for its fight on the school book trust
the Indiana school book law would never
lily in Brown county which had not saved
enough already in school books to pay for
three subscriptions of THE INDIANAPOLIS
SENTINEL. Ever since THE SENTINEL
began to champion the cause OF the
people, three years ago, he had felt it
his duty to support it with his subscrip-
ton, and he hoped that others would see
it from the same standpoint.
The speech-making continued. Anderson
Percifeld, leading attorney Of Nashville
and a good speaker, being called for
kept the audience in good humor with his
anecdotes. In conclusion he said that
THE SENTINEL was welcomed by every
democrat and he was glad that the people
of Brown had shown their appreciation OF
the paper by their presence. On twelve
hours notice one of the largest meetings
held at the courthouse for years had as
sembled to welcome the representatives
of THE SENTINEL, in which he was happy
to note their congressman. He said the
people of Brown rejoiced on this oc-
casion because the prize had been
won by faithful democrat,
an honest man and that the gold came
from paper managed by honest men and
handed overto Mr.. Hickman by foe of
corruption, a congressman who found cor
ruption in high place and who had the
courage to expose it. Even the republi-
can papers, east and west, now admitted
that Mr. Cooper had crushed the dishon-
est pension commissions He had found
the bureau nearest the old soldiers in
charge OF pirate, and now through his eff
forts the verdict of the soldiers and the
general public was "Raum and the refrig-
orators must 90.
Mr.. w. E. Everoad, a rising young
lawyer of southern Indiana, who is at
present the prosecuting attorney OF the
circuit composed of Bartholomew and
Brown, spoke of the hospitality, intelli-
gence and loyalty of Brown county. which
had the least per cent. of population de-
pendent upon charity in the state; a
county that was out Of debt and not
soul in the county jail; a county which
sent more men per capita to put down
the rebellion than any other county
in the state, and also a county which gave
larger per centage of democratic votes.
Why should not the prize offered by the
acknowledged organ of democracy come
to the fountain of pure democracy?
Ex-senator Duncan, speaking of his ma
tive county, said that Jay Gould's money
had never corrupted the voters of Brown
county. No man had ever been
known to sell bis vote. 1t was
true that there were. no millionaires
in Brown county, but there were no pau
psrs also. There was not family in the
county without home and patch OF