Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1858 — ROBERT PARKER." [ARTICLE]

ROBERT PARKER."

The Republican Convention which assembled at this-place on the 9th inst. nominated the old farmer whose name heads this article as a candidate for the office of Representative for Jasper and Pulaski counties in the next Legislature. We believe that a more judicious choice could not have been made; and we are sure that a man of purer morals or lnore sterling honesty and integrity could not have been found in the two counties. He is one of the few men who can be considered entirely honest, lie has been a citizen of Jasper county for twentyone years; or rather of the territory from which Jasper was formed; for he immigrated to this part of the State several years before Jasper county was organized, and, therefore, 'knows by experience the hardships and privations off a first settler, lie has twice been elected to the officer off County Commissioner of Jasper county, and was once elected to the 'office of Associate Judge i under the old Constitution; and lie has once been elected to the.office of Justice off the Peace. He is a model farmer, and his whole interest and feelings .are identified with the farming interest of the State—the most important interest, and that upon which rests the whole prosperity of our country. "t. is, therefore, eminently the farmers’ candidate.; and if elected, (which I is certain,) he will go to Indianapolis for; thh.purpose of voting and working, and not! lor the purpose offgassing and making long-] winded speeches, wire-working and specu-. 1 luting, by selling his vote and influence to any person or measure that will pay. Mr. Parker, although a man of general intelligence and reading, is no speaker: he] will not, therefore, slump the district to make a thousand promises and pledges that. lie. would be wholly unable arid never expect j to fulfill. Indeed, it wouljl he much better for the legal and pecuniary interests oP the State if such men as Robert Parker coiuld he sent from every county or district to com- I pose our Legislatures. The few laws, I amendments and appropriations, really neces- i sary, would then he passed in the shortest; time and the session adjourned. But, instead of this,, our Legislatures, being gen- i erally composed of speculating lawyers, po-| litical aspirants and demagogues, all seek-] ing to advance their own interests at the! expense of the State, the time off each session is taken up with speeches for Buneuirib, wire-working, wrangling, passing laws so the benefit of speculators and stock-jobbers, and tearing up and amending good laws, so that the people never get to know what our laws are from one session to another. These ‘.evils can and will only he remedied by “sending the right kind of men to legislate. I’he Expositor man is sorely annoyed because we culled upon him in our hist issue to publish “that missing resolution.’; He is welcome to make just as many persons believe his ridiculously lame cxplana# ti.on of the cause of its omission ns' he can; for our own part, we beg leave still to doubt. Left out by mistake, indeed! Highly probable that the longest resolution in the whole platform should totally escape the observation of the compositor, the editor, and proofreader and all—especially wlnjn tho resolutions were all numbered! B ali! stuff and nonsense! He is also very much that we should dare to insinuate a word against his model of political consistency, lion. David Snyder, by intimating that lie should wish to get rid of this resolution. We l how in deep humiliation before his towering indignation, and acknowledge that it was very improper in us to hint anything against the Tuan whose “past life as a politician”—esjpecially in the fall of 1855 and 1856 —insufficient proof that s his pledges to the measures of his party will he redeemed. (The bird that is hit. will flutter.) Will you not forgive us* friend Berry! (ffj 'There arc two comets now plainly visible. The smallest one appears distinctly in the north-western heavens, just alter dark; tho other, which is much larger and more brilliant, is seen in the east about two o'clock in the ino.rnirig. notice headed “Stand from Under’ 1 ’ in another column. Stckhouse & Bro. will he glad to see their friends at the “(..’aptin’s office.’! . /