Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1879 — REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

The Democrats of Jiirtoori are opposing' emigration to that State flrom tRe east oh tfie ground that in all probability the majority of the immigrant* may prove Republican ih politics. A great majority of Missouri Bourbons would doubtless prefer having the State fenced in and permit the enclosure to grow no with weeds and brambles rather than jeopardize their Democratic supremacy. Some very remarkable experiments have been made with the new instrument called* the andiphone, from which the affliction of deafness is likely to loose half r.s severity. Experience, however, has yet to rhow how far the deaf people can derive a constant practical benefit .from this device. There is no question but that it enables them to hear the spoken word; the difficulty is that its peculiar operation, may seriously affect the delicate organization of the brain by subjecting it to an unnatural use. The effect on the hearer by the audiplione is produced by the vibration of the sound through the teeth on the nerves at the base of the brain, and how these nerves‘will Sustain the wear of constant conversation remains to be seen. If the andiphone can cnly be occasionally used without producing bad effect on the brain, that fact w ill be a very,great misfortune-

It will not be denied that raannfactirring prosperity has sprupg up ' with fresh and substantial vigor all over, the country. Wherever there are pre*i employing establishments paying* out wages regularly, merchants are enjoying an improved trade and realize that the times are better.. More men are buying for cash in tnannfactpiing districts than ever, and creditd are not allowed to j.extend over pay-day, which two features are putting ready money into the hands, of the merchants, and enabling them to promptly meet their obligations. It is unfortunate that we arc not in the way of handling more of the money cf wages in Rensselaer. Although the benefits of the improving condition of business affairs are perceptible among our business men, still they do not feel as buoyant as they would if there were a larger number of. working people among us engaged In manufactories paying out regular wages.

That the British government does not understand the temper of the people is shown in its last two acts —tiie arrest of Irish agitators and an order to censurize the special correspondents of newspapers in the Indian army. It can safely be predicted that the British public will sympathize with the defendants in 6tate trials for free speech in Ireland;’it may be relied upon that the public will not be deprived by its government of the unofficial yet valued information from ’special newspaper correspondents at the seat of war’to which they have beoome accustomed, and which in the south African, Afghanistan ami Burmese troubles have proven more accurate and reliable than official advices. Perhaps the arrest of the Irish agitators might have been tolerated with some grumbling; but to dilate the news from the camp supplied'by newspaper enterprise by corrections by the army officers will prove, if presisled in, the fatal error of the Beaconsfield administration.

The Laporte Argus , which,by che way, is a hard-money Democrat sheet, edited with more than ordinary Democratic ability, in speakins: df the Grant boom, says: It U expected to cxtpnil tliroUgh the south and swallow up thcUebcl Brigadiers; but it the Brigadiers come out for Grant what use will J the Radicals have for him? * True enough. The Republican party and unrepentant rebels can’t ride inr the same boat. Two serious objections to any sneli arrangement have not been and will not be surmounted. In the first place there is. no considerable southern element that would support Grant for the presidency; and in the second place Grant would accept no nomination for which he would be indebted to the ex-Confederate people of the sonth. He knows them too well. They would exact and ho would refuse to render, certain services in return for their support, if given. Therefore such a nomination conid produce nothing for General Grant bat defeat in the good he wonld intend to do and quarrels and bitterness between him and his new connections. He is far too wise to put his fame and popularity in jeopardy by coqneting in politics with those whose aim in polities is control for personal and sectional benefits. And as ther6 is another and more congenial channel in which onr greatest soldier and worthy fellow citizen can pursue any political ambition ho may have, with better chances of success and increased glory than by a southern connection, the discussion of the latter is little less than folly and waste of time in it either in theory or fact, because motive on Grants part must bo ui~ lerly lacking.

We have before expressed the belief that General Grant would accept an offer of the presidency of an isthmus canal company having a solid financial backing. The offer ha« been conveyed to General Grant uuder the money conditions mentioned, and we still believe that he will lake the position. In it be will find a splendid field for the exereisc of qualities for which he has a wide reputation. It seems to be an opening for a great man out of employment attended by unnsuil advantages of iatne and profit. For General Grant, has had all the nopor his native land can bestow, and who can be said to enjoy the warm affection of our whole people, this canal presidency is the best presidency lie tan accept. By it he can enlarge his glory while bis success will benefit the whole world. The presidency of the United Stales for a thirdterm is full of perils out of which no good to one in hispreaent position before the people can flow. Hail to the builder of the big canal in the person of oui great soldier, where many other able l inen have failed.

Despite the 200,000 new people who have gone into Kansas during the past two years with and without capital the state is still full of waste places, and where land is cheap society is next to notlmur. It has been so liberally advertised by railroad companies and swindling land agents that the wonderful tide of people that has flowed into her vast expanse of late is not a thing to be wondered at. The false pre. tenses of ad vantages easily availed of by all, have benefited the state by increasing the population. But the experience of the pioneers has not been such that it ought to induce any person to leave a place in the ea3t where enough to oat can be earned, to go to Kansas with little aud soon have less. Those who have gone there will stay; they will plant trees, w ork themselves ahead and finally prosper for the benefit of their successors. Kansas wants people to fill, up her prairies and fight down the disadvantages attending a wonderful natural fertility of soil." She has got *a good many of them and they are. doing badly enough so far as present comfort goes, and we ean see no good reason why any of-our people jyho contemplate leaving for the west should go to,Kansas to help break ground for the next generation to profit by. A Kansas fever is a bad thing to get just now. If anybody wants to go west to farm let him select a state where there are good assurances that the can be depended npon, which they cannot be in Kansas. Go to a country where!here are some forests, where a house decent to live in can be built and where one will not be compelled to call a hole dug out of the hill, home. Many of our people in Kansas have wisely stuck to the towns, and as traders have done well, but those who go there within the next few years to flourish as pioneer farmers wiil need much more than the sympathy of their friends east to see them through. One good season makes Kansas people crazy with exultation and brag; one bad season makes them starve.

[ludianapolis Journal. J The Republican State Central Committee met at their rooms last evening and resolved to bold the Republican State Convention at the city of Indianapolis, on the 25tli day of February next, to nominate a State ticket and candidates for presidential electors; to appoint delegates to the National Republican Convention, and to appoint a Republican Slate Central Committee; that the representation to the convention shall ho one for every two hundred, or fraction of one hundred, votes cast in each county for Gen. Harrison for GQvernor in 1876; that the Republicans in the several counties iu the State should hold county conventions during the month of January, to elect delegates to the State convention, and at the same time perfect their county organization. The formal call for the couvention will not be sent out for some days, but the question of the time of holding the convention liai beeu settled as above. There was a full meeting of the Central committee present, only two dis. tricts being unrepresented, and the subject was fully discussed, and it was finally, with great unanimity determined to hold the convention early, in order to perfect the organization of the party in time to secure a full vote on the constitutional amendments on the first Monday in April. Whether the action is for the best, time only will tell. It has been decided, and the Republicans of tbe State would do well to leave the discussion of the wisdom of it open until after the election. There are very decided arguments in favor of a perfect organization ot the Republican party in Indiana at an early day, and for this purpose a couvention was necessary, and it was considered impracticable to hold two State conventions. The Republican receives many valaabe compliments.