Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1879 — GREENBACK MEETING. [ARTICLE]

GREENBACK MEETING.

Since the late elections tbe old hard money parlies are ringing it all over the land that “the Greenback party is dead.’’ To test this statement we call upon all independent persons, without regard to former political associations, who hold to the priuciples of the Greenback Labor party, and expect to support candidates fully identified with these principles in all elections, County, State, and National, to meet at the court house in Rensselaer, on Saturday, December 0, at 10 o’clock a. m., to organize, or rather reorganize, the party in Jasper county, in preparation for the great coming conflict in 1880; and failing then, continue the contest till they accomplish their object, —an entire change in the whole fiiiantial policy oJ[this great couutry, and witness the downfall of the heartless and ruinous inflation and contraction managers now in power. Rensselaer, Ind., Nov. 17, 1879. A. B. Clinton, C. P. Hopkinl, John Bickmei., W. C. Pierce, George Bessie, John Kohler, Deny N. Welsh, S. W. Irwin, J. D. Hopkins, Ezra C. Novels, J. A. Burnham, Charles Price, S. W. Ritchey, James Welch, E. B^kr,

Monticello Democrat:—Every once in a while somebody, and sometimes two or three somebodies, come to Monticello on private business, and oftener on no business at all. They wear good clothes, and talk knowingly of “investments,” “stocks,” <fcc., take strolls about town, view the beauties of our surroundings, then go away. Straightway thereafter rumors are flying thick and fast on our streets that a lot of “capitalists” have just been here and expressed themselves as highly delighted with the wonderful water power, beauty of the scenery, &c. Well, suppose they did? What does it all amount to? Simply So much I 'talk, and nothing more. Whenever a man or a number of men come here and buy ■property, commence putting up mills, factories, or dwellings, then we 6hall believe in “capitalists,” and extend them the right hand of fellowship. To use a very com mon expression, we would really like to see them “put up orshut up.”

Huntington Herald:—Certain ambitions gentlemen in Huntington county who are putting money or credit in efforts to establish newspapers for exclusively personal benefit, may wake up some fine mornings in the course of a few months and realize the important fact that “all is not gold that glitters.” Bread is “the staff of life”— is actually one of the essentials necessary to sustain life—and to obtain it requires either hard, honest labor, or its equivalent, hard cash. Publishing newspapers for glory and fun may answer for a brief season, but the demands lor bread or cash are sure to present themselves in such a way as to preclude evasion. Don’t forget that faet Kentland Gazette:—There is no escaping the fact, look at in what light you may, that the Republican party is the party of peace, of unidn, of uationaHty, of progress and per consequence of the intelligence of this country. There is no State in the north, nor community where men are not free to exercise every right guaranteed to citizens under the law. There are no shot-guns at the polls; there is no bulldozing or butcheries on account o f opinion’s sake. But men exercise their rights in peace and unmolested. This is not so under Confederate control, but it must be so and the intelligent North will make it so.

War has been formally declared between the Catholic Church in New England and , the public schools. The Archbishop has directed all priests to establish parochial schools and to threaten all parents who refuse to patronize them with the displeasure of the church. In certain localities the priests aro instructed to withdraw the children of Catholic parents from the public sohools without awaiting tbe formation of parochial schools. The Terre Haute coal dealers have formed an association, and raised the price of coal from ten to twentyfive per cent, on small lots. It is understood that every dealer in the city is a member of the association* and that it is the intention to keep the scale of prices right up to the top notch all winter.