Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1874 — The C. & S. A. Railroad. [ARTICLE]

The C. & S. A. Railroad.

We notice fay the Loganepqrt Star that Eari Park, Beaten eoanty, hae a new paper—The Mirror. A Utah eorreriffeoifant to the New York Herald anye tin reports concerning the failing condition of Brigham Young’s health are wholly without foundation. The estimated value of school property in the State of Indiana, is placed at $lO,373,692, by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. * Indiana went for Hendricks in October, 1872, and within thirty days gave 20,000 majority for Grant. That shows what Republicans can do when they try. How would it do to try in the new ’76 ? —Attica Ledger. Washington, Nov. I. —The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer, at New York, to sell one-half million dollars of gold each Thursday during the month of November, the aggregate amount to be $2,000,000. The Brooklyn Argus soys: “We are are requested respectfully to caution the Democratic rooster upon the watch-tower* of liberty not to mistake moonshine for day-break ; and also to observe that, as a rule, it’s a good thing for roosters to delay crowing until they are sure of their corn.” The statement of the Treasurer of State—Hon. J. B. Glover—shows the receipts during fiscal year ending the first day of November, to have been $3,072,195.06, with disbursements amounting to $2,827,991.21, leaving a balance of $244,203.78, as against $185,175.47 at the corresponding date last year. Arrangements are bring made for another editorial excursion of the Indiana “rural roosters.” This time it is the intention to take in Memphis, Little Rock, Jackson, Vicksburg, New Orleans, Mobile, Jacksonville, Savannah, Atlanta, Montgomery, Charleston. Richmond, Knoxville, Chatanooga, Mammoth Cave, Louaville, Nashville, Evansville, Vincennes and Terre Hante, and will start about the last of February, or the first of March. Mr. C. W. Ainsworth, the prime mover of the affair, has had the assurance from many points, that the hospitality of the Southrons would be generously tendered to the Indiana “quilldrivers” and their wives.

The ooctract has been lei from the Kankakee river to to a Mr. C’fifton, who was in town last Tuesday.— Heeays the hands are to be put to work on the grading within ten days. A Iso, the contract has been let from Delphi to Monticdlo, and the hands are at work in fall force—7oo strong. Track laying will commence at Englewood in a few days. The probabilities are that this grand line of railroad will be in running order from Chicago to Charleston, South Carolina, within the next three years, as the work is progressing rapidly in the Southern States. Rensselaer and vicinity will he called on in a few days to furnish the required amount of aid to secure the road through this place. If we do not respond to tike call the road will be built east of us.— Shall we giro aid to this enterprise and thereby secure a railroad through our already thriving ftitfe city ? or *h*il we stand idly by and see this grand thorougfhre built within five or six milfs of Rensselaer ? Fellow-citisens, the qaee<*on is for yen to solve. How will you decide it ? The Union recently quotes from an article in this paper and eonunents bf naming again a list of persons whom it has repeatedly published as salary-grab-bers, Credit MobiKer and Sanborn contract swindlers, etc. The object of those comments is only to misrepresent facts,' makes false impression upon the readers of the Union, and to damage a party whom the Union warmly supported till the personal ambition of its editors sent them off on a tangent. According to the coarse of reasoning pursued by that paper, every man who is accused of a crime is guilty whether he committed the crime or not. lake the Dutch magistrate who pronounced judgment immediately at the dose of the plaintiff’s testimony, because “Der ease was Mane.” Secretary Richardson has been dished up to the Union t readers several times as having been appointed to ■office after being proven corrupt. Now the statement of the fact* would hurt neither Secretary Richardson, President <3 rant, nor the Republican party. But then that would not suit the purpose of those who depend for success upon humbuggery and misrepresentation. The Union very well knows, or it ought to know, that Mr. Richardson’s case ms investigated and that he was exonerated. The .chargee against him were abundantly refuted and ho was bauaraMj acquitted.—

Why should not the President recommend and the Senate confirm him 7 The omb» knows, or it ought to know that in no earn baa an officer of fibs government been found gnSty of fimttd or peculation and been continued in office by the Republican administration or by Congress. Hie men who have been charged with such things, and the charges sustained, have bean summarily dealt with. Those who have been black mailed and proven innocent have bean restored or given other offices. Isn’t that The Union knows, or ought to know that regular black-mailers gather at the national capital and propone to perform just the kind of work for the members of Congress that the Union has performed for the Jasper eonaty officer* this summer, unless the members come dorm handsomely with the stamps to buy them off from their dirty work. This was what originated the “newspaper gag-law” so hated by the Union, and is of the same character as the letters demanding money and threatening arson and murder if the money was not forthcoming, so much in vogue a few years ago. The Union, however, not content with the calumnies it had heaped in a torrent upon Mr. Babcock, the County Auditor, before the election, claims that ho was especially aimed at in the article quoted.— During the campaign we took as strong grounds in favor of Mr. B. as could have been taken for any man. The election is passed. What we now my will neither help nor harm his case and we take this occasion to deny that he has done more towards getting this paper here than any other man, and further to my that all ve said in his favor before election, we now repeat and reaffirm, because we believe it to be truth. And we again invite any who voted against him in consequence of the Union'* charges, to investigate and see if they have not been foully deceived. Although we do not intend to submit ourselves to a cross-examination until we have been regularly subpoenaed, we will just my that our article was induced from the fact that it is too often the case that men are supported and sustained by the Republican party, long after they have shown a disposition to act the viper and bting the bosom that gave it warmth and vitality. The Republicans have too frequently for their own good, allowed men to “set up the pins’' for the nomination, at a convention, of a parson who was by no means the strongest man, and have then supported him because bis friends were numerous and influential enough to considerably affect the vote, shoold he not be accepted. We regard this as a wrong way to look at such things. If we can’t elesfc a man upon a full understanding of the facts in the case and upon principles of right and justice, let us foil in that instance at once and not win that election by electing a man who is not the fair choice of a majority only to create distrust and future defeat. Let it be known to the world that when a man, or his friends for him, undertakes to wire-work to defeat the will of the majority in a convention, that the Republican party will in no case accept him as their nominee. Let it be understood that when an institution, nourished and sustained by the Republican party, begins to wriggle and squirm and show it* fangs and threaten the servants of that party, his not to be petted, coaxed and trusted, but is to be dealt with promptly, and this knowledge, together with the knowledge that the party will stand by and defend its faithful servants, will insure constant victory. The mortifications and humiliations of the present year will not soon be repeated.