Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1874 — A Democratic Editor’s Discovery. [ARTICLE]

A Democratic Editor’s Discovery.

The Rensselaer Union, a Democratic paper published in Jasper county, Ind., has this to say about the Intb Ocean and its management: If. we are not mistaken, the managing editor of the Inter-Ocean was at one time a carpet-bag member of Congress from a Virginia district. By the term “carpetbag,” we mean that he was down in that region directly after the war closed, and by some hocus-pocus obtained a certificate of election during the time of transition from rebellion to reconstruction. He was properly a citizen ot another State, where the people held entirely different views upon poiitic.il questions even the most tiivial ; he did not reflect the -feelings of the people whom he assumed te represent; was not of .hem, did not understand them, could not sympathize with them, did. not have .their continence, and was not a representative man. Of course, after political disabilities were removed from the people, and they were permitted to choose tor themselves, this man could no longer be sent to Congress from that district, and, having no interest there, his trade being gofie, he was compelled either to work, to leave, or to starve. He chose to leave; and now the oolumns of his paper are filled with intense, proscriptive, partisan illiberally. In yesterday’s Inter-Ocean we discussed this question of carpet-baggefs, and showed who and what a carpet-bagger is. We said that Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln, and Stephen A. Douglas were carpet-baggers, and we need hardly remark that the editor of the Inter-Ocean would feel very well satisfied to stand iu their company. Notwithstanding this, the Rensselaer Cation is mistaken, as the editors of Democratic papers usually are. The managing editor of the Inter-Ocean was not “down in that region directly after the war closed.” He did not “by some hocuspocus obtain a certificate of election during the time of transition from rebellion to reconstruction.” He did not assume to represent the people of Virginia while “properly a citizen of another State.” He did not pretend to reflect the feelings of the people there while he “did not understand them, could not sympathize with them, did not have their confidence, and was not a representative man.” He did not leave there because his trade was gone; nor because he was compelled to work or starve.— He did not leave Virginia, and, to save himself from starvation, come up to Chicago ai d start the Inter-Ocean to avoid work. The managing editor was never a carpet-bag member of Congress from Virginia. No editor of the Inter-Ocean was ever a oar-pet-bag membor of Congress from Virginia, nor from Kentucky, nor from Lousiana, nor from any other Southern State. There never was a carpet-bag member of Congress from Virginia having even the surname of the editor of this paper. There never was a member of Congress 6f any kind from Viiginia of that name, and, finally, there never was a member 6f Congress from any Southern State of that name. We do not know how reliable the Rensselaer Union may be ordinarily, but if this editoral is to be taken as a sample, we should say that there is room for it to grow considerably in veracity !—Chicago InterOcean.