Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1879 — OHIO. IOWA. MAINE. COLORADO. CALIFORNIA. CONNECTICUT. [ARTICLE]

OHIO. IOWA. MAINE. COLORADO. CALIFORNIA. CONNECTICUT.

The late Ohio election speak*, loud (or John S!n nuan for Prcsidentjn 1880. * . ..I I The fuiuic historian will doubtless record the fact that James Buchanan was the last Demosfat*® l'reaideot. ' " - f Of the one linnered members of the lowa House of Hcpresetaticvs, all of them are Grectibackers except ninoty-nine. Ilia Resiliency, Governor Blackbarn, of Kentucky, remains as silent as an oyster on the yellowfever question. The Greenback parly in Ohio is growing beautifully leas. Two years ago it polled 38,000 Votes—this year about 8,000. How have the mighty fallen ! The indications now are that the next House of Congress will > have a small Republican majority, and the Southern brigadiers will prefer back seats. . >

f The government has adopted a new line of policy.' Hereafter none bnt bald headed men will be appointed as Indian Agents. We are losing too much hair. Efforts are being iriade_to hold the next Republican National Convention at Indianapolis. Should this be accomplished it will do much toward redeeming Indiana next fall. ' Wheat in some localities has advanced to one dollar and twentyfive cents. All this is due to the late Republican victories, which have done so much toward restoring confidence in commercial circles. The paragraph editor of the Inter-(kea* remarks that since the Ohio election “it requires at least four fingers of strong corn-juice to loosen op the muscles of the Democratic mouth for an admiring smile.* 1 Emigration from the New England States to the West has been greatly revived. If these fortune* huntcrß kuow that Jasper county offers greater inducements than can be found in Kansas, many of them would settle here.

A large number of Greenback candidates for county nnd State offices, in Maryland, have withdrawn. The people are disgusted with the inflation nonsense while orher issues of Vital importance are requiring attention. «. * 1 - vr “ m * m * The Republican victory iu Ohio ought to settle the financial question for a decade to come. The Greeubackcrs are without argument and the Democrats without power. The return of prosperity rises np- like a mountain before them. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin will each roil up a handsome Republican majority in November, for a Republican freshet is upon the lans, and it wiU sweep Democracy so clear* in the North that it will take a- politics? surveyor to- tell where the old hulk once stood. General Grant has been solicited and he has accepted an invitation to be present at the Soldiers’ Reunion to be held at Indianapolis on thc-20th of November. Committees have been appointed and every necessary preparation made to receive this very noted personage.

Half fare tickets will be sold on every road leading into the city. _Tbe Intention is to make this a nonpartisan gathering. General Grant is authority for saying that the Democrats can always be depended on for some egregious blunder to ruin their chances of success, whenever those chances are brightest. We confess to a belief that those chances were brilliant until the last two Congresses compelled every lover of the Union Who has ceased to love Republican leaders to fly back to the old Union party of the war to save tbe Union from a second attempt by the same men to destroy it and all those lofty achievements and grand principles established forever by the bloody battle for its preßervatioß. Republican majorities this year and next wilt in no sense be partisan; they will be given for love of the national idea.

Wo cannot help feeling disgusted with our civilisation when we read that one of the first acts which Americans do in a aew eountry among primitive and untutored people whe reeeivo them with cordial and inriocent hospitality, is to ply them with whisky. Tho next is to swindle their hosts out of their possessions in barter. This is what all Americans who follow the pioneers beyond the borders ot our unreclaimed territory do as tbe first intimation of their philanthropic inlentiona toward the “heathen in lle:r blindness;* and by the time ,

the missionaries get along with their better influences all confidence is destroyed. Thus the explorers on | Ik. Jnimetl* fotjnd«4be situ a-j tio* on the most extrema ron- : fines of the knownWogions ff our continent to tie northwest* whan; the Alents, an ingetianas and hospitable racc, _ but entirely ignorant, I are being rained by s colony ot 1 while# through the instrumentalities of bad whisky and worse faith in dealing. It is a shameful commentary on our national character that whisky and dishonesty are .invariably the earliest and moat potent influences in all our relations with barbarous people. And so it promises to be fur years to come.

General Grant will have occasion to repeat hb determination not to be a candidate for a third Prendential term, we fear, because of this Ohio business. There are many Republicans who argue that the Democrats were beaten so ignominously because of the deaire of the people of Ohio to suppress the rising tide of Confederate influence in national affaire* and that the southerners will not yield the points they have thus far gained without perhaps an effort to create a revolution by which they may hope for advantage. And to stamp out revolution Grant is essential. This view we regard as one involving humiliating cowardice and disgraceful lack of confidence in the statesmen now prominent as leaders ot the Republican party. It implies a want of faith in the only source of strength whence the Repnblican party can draw the vigor for its continued ascendancy—the will of the people of the north that their influence shall prevail in the national councils while they continue to cast a majority of the votes. Against any Repnblican President, backed by the will of the north, armed resist ence would be futile and shortlived. We have a great deal of admiration and affection for General Grant, and look to him to end this folly of an attempt to run him for a third term.

No town in Indiana, perhaps, presents more thrift and enterprise at the present limethnnßensselaer, and it is highly probable the good work will be continued for several years to come. Men possessing brains, capital and muscle can find here a very desirable “field of labor.” A large nnmber of buildings will be erected next summer, and the indications are that our present force of mechanics and laboring men will be insufficient. We believe it is no exageration to eay that many farms ami town lots will increase in value within the next three years from 20 to 30 per cent. Rensselaer is not experiencing a j mushroom growth. The country ■ surrounding it has been for years far ahead of the town in wealth and enterprise, and the railroad which was but recently built to this place, giving us communnication with the outside world, has bad a tendency to develop the valuable accumulations of tbe past. This town and connty possess a number of wealthy men, many of whom own large tracts of land which are being sub-divided into comfortable farms and sold, considering tbe excellent quality of the soil and the future prospects of the county, at very low rates. Somehow the impression abroad is that Jasper oounty lands are low and marshy, but this is a mistake. The principal part of the land is rolling praK rie, with a soil that cannot be excelled in Illinois or either of the Western States.

There is now no need of violent denunciation of Senator Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, for his treachery to the deoent elements of Democracy signalized when he ate his hard money record and sold out to the blatant advocates of the “Ohio idea,” now finally obliterated from influence in our politics. . Some of our Republican contemporaries are holding Mr. Thurman up to the scorn he has so disgracefully earned and take pleasure in scathing him. lie deserves it all, but we do not think that under the circumstances the game is worth the candle. lie occupies about the position in politics that a clergyman detected iu horse stealing would bare in society—perhaps still worse, because he hud no need to do as he did toward the respeotable members of

his party when he destroyed his character and prospects, while the olergymau might have urgent need for the horse-. This need not be held up to the people of the north; they realize the situation of Mr. Thurman becanse they have paid attention to the facts in the case and thoronghly nnderstand their bearing. Mr. Thurman without a field for the exercise of his real abilities as a etatsman, forcibly retired to private life and unhouored by friend or foe, affords a pitiable illustration of the just fate that can even iu our politics and even in the Democratic party overtake and overwhelm the unprincipled and deliberate demagogue.

Ton wilt obeerve that there are 21 columns of reading matter in this issue of tbe IlEruaLicAsr. >-