Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1875 — The Press and the President. [ARTICLE]

The Press and the President.

Iwj Republican ip the county should Mbwrib* for Th* Jabfxr Rktublicak at once. Next year 'being the C’ententhe jeer of e Presidential election, every eitisen should take a county paper. In dubs of ten or more we will fcrfitih the Rxyublican from now until the first of January, 1877, for one dollar and twentyfire cents per year. The net proceeds of the soldiers’ reunion lately held at Indianapolis amounted to $1,134,76* which was turned over to the Monumental Committee to he applied to build a monument The Centennial Exposition will be opened on May 10th, 1876, and remain open every day, except Sunday, until November 10th. There will be a fixed price es 50 cents for admission to all the buildings and grounds. Some of the leaders of the woman’s movement in lowa are discussing the propriety us electing a woman to the United States Senate from that State. Just imagine, if you please, a lady walking out with one of her colleagues to consult “Barclay’s digest.” A Washington special to the Indianapolis Journal states that President Grant will take strong grounds in hit message on the common school question, in favor of the recognition of Cuban belligerencj, and of continuing the Republican party in power aa she only one pledged to a sound national currency. Tuesday of last week was an eventful day in the history of the nation ; nearly a dozen States held elections, and as the Tesult might be, so might we with much oertainty calculate the probable result of the grand contest in 1876. The destiny of the country for good or evil depended to h great extent upon the decisions of the freemen of the great States of Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania, and the news from them, was by both parties awaited with much interest. The election has been held and the Republicans are victorious, and our party may now, from one end of the country to the other, gird up its loins, and with proper effort can, with every reason, calculate upon a Republican successor to President Grant.

The Carruth-Landia esse bids fair to be one of the most famous on record, Landis, the well known proprietor of Vinelaad, N. J., shot the editor Carruth in the brain many months ago. It was thought at first that the man would die. Afterward it appeared probable that he would recover. Finally, however, he died. Had he lived ninety days longer, that is, one year after he was wounded, Landis could not have been legally charged with causing his death. As it is, he now stands in the same position as if the shot had proved immediately fatal. The length of time between the shooting and the death of Carruth will, however, be made the subject of grave discussion by lawyers and physicians. The defense, no doubt, will try to make it probable that Carruth died from other causes than the bullet. From tile LaPorte Chronicle : It having been stated that the libel suit brought last winter by the editor of this paper against the editors of the Rensselaer Union, is slumbering peacefully in the courts of Newton county, we are moved to say that the remark is not true, and to confirm our words, we publish the following affidavit: State of Indiana, Newton county. In Newton Circuit Court* Oct. term, 1875. Jasper Packard vs. Horace E. James and Joshua Healey. Affidavit for change of venue. Joshua Healey being duly sworn on oath saith that the defendants in the above entitled cause cannot have a fair and impartial trial of said cause in the 30th judicial circuit of the State of Indiana for the reason that said plaintiff has an undne influence over the citizens of said circuit, and he therefore prays that the venue of said cause be changed to some other eireuit in said State.

(Signed,

JOSHUA HEALEY.

Subscribed and sworn to Oct. 11,1865, before Zimri Dwiggins, Notary.

The Ban Francisco Chronicle, alluding to the abuse by partisan journals of the President for the sale of bis farm stock, which was purely a private matter, modestly and becomingly conducted, wisely remarks that “it is a fact worthy of notice in estimating English civilization as compared with our own, that the general tone of the English press in speaking of per*

sens ia authority is invariably guarded and respectful. When the Loudon press feels called upon to censure any measure of the Government, or to criticise any p«Wie =.», there W , tag moderation m its style which might be profitable on this tide of the Atlantic. Even the most pronounced Opposition organs speak with decorum and reserve of the short comings of the Government They indulge in no intemperance of language and in nothing that can fairly be characterized aa vulgar abuse. With ns, on the contrary, no past services, however distinguished, and no position, how. ever eminent, exempts a public man from the vulgar abuse of unlicensed scribblers. Ulysses S Grant, the President of-the United State, has rendered services to this Republic which ought to win for him the everlasting gratitude of every American citizen who has in his breast a single spark of genuine patriotic feeling. c No matter what may have been his errors in the administration of the Government; no matter what nowise appointments to office he may have made , no matter what personal defects he may have exhibited, it is certain that to him, above all other men, we owe it that we are to-day a nation with one flag and one Government. It is certain that his name will lire in history as ODe of the greatest men that America has yet produced. He has twice been chosen by large popular majorities to the highest office in the gift of the people, and every sneer and alar leveled at him is as much an insult to American institutions and to the American people as to the individual man against whom they are aimed. His public acts are legitimate subjects of criticism But when bis private life is invaded, when his acts as an individual cit r zien are seized upon and made the theme of invidious criticism and brutal attack, the feelings of patriotic, fair-minded citizens are outraged.”