Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1879 — For Secretary of State. [ARTICLE]

For Secretary of State.

From the La Forte Her al< I. We made mention a few weeks ago of the fact that tbe triends of Horace E. James, late editor of the Rensselaer Union, would present his name before th* State Republican nominating convention for Secretary of State. Mr. James has a splendid record. He was four year* in the army, we understand, as a private soldier, and has been eleven years in active editorial life, and during that time stood at the head of the fraternity in Northern Indiana. He is at present a member of the Republican State Committee, chairman of the Tenth Congressional District Republican Committee, and postmaster at Rensselaer. In all relations of life Mr. Janies has occupied an honorable and consistent position. As a newspaper writer he is able, cultured and gentlemanly. As a state officer he would be found capable and honest. As a candidate he would be formidable, especially where he has long been known. Northwestern Indian a has rarely, if ever, been remembered in the division of the spoils, and a man coming up from the respectable county of Jasper, which never failed to give from 300 to 500 Republican majority, ought certainly to be considerately treated. We hope that Mr. James will receive the support at the convention that his merit and worth entitle him to. From tbe Logansport Journal. The Journal notices that the name of Horace E. James, of Rensselaer, is frequently and prominently mentioned in connection with the Republican nomination for Secretary of State, and considers it an excellent suggestion. Mr. James is a gentleman of fine attainments und high character, and possesses rare qualifications for the position named. As an editor he has had large experience in public affairs, and an extended knowledge of the administrative needs of Indiana. lie is an ardent Republican worker, and in the recent “tirn°s that tried men's souls,” gave proof of the sincerity of his belief by serving his country in the ranks of the Union army. His nomination would be creditable to the Republican party of the State, and very gratifying to his hosts of Republican friends in Northern Indiana.

The people after all see very little of General Grant as he flies through the country. Only the favored few get so much as glimpse at the man whom all delight to honor. The principal feature of every reception seems to be to lunch or dine, as if the great business of life, especially the life of a great man, is to stuff. How much more satisfactory to the people would have been that trip from Chicago to Indianapolis, if it had occupied eight hours instead of four! The train should have stopped ten minutes at each county seat, giving the General an opportunity to exhibit himself on the rear platform and a few hundred people the chance to shake his hand. Some sandwiches, with some sweitzer case and bologqa, taken on the train between stations, would have served the essential purpose of a lunch just as well as Blue Point oysters on the half shell. Our plea is in behalf of the people who don’t jet tickets. They should all be permitted to see tho-hero at a rate of speed less than fifty miles an hour. In short the exhibitors should allow Grant to travel as an elephant rather than a caged lion.—Peru Republican. Although not so intended, the financial recommendations in the president’s message are happily acting as a brake on both political parties in congress and will prevent any tinkering with the finances. The 1 republicans promptly sat down-up-on the president’s recommendation to retire the greenbacks, without even the formality of a caucus. They thus take the popular side, and, of oource the democrats dare not take the other, and have wisely decided that the policy of the demoerts on finances should be one of masterly inactivity. So, all in all, everything has turned out for the best so far as the country isconcerne<L—South Bend Tribune.

A prominent Republican in Mig*is*ippi, for some time a member of .Congress, in a private letter to a friend in Chicago, indulges in the following lively writing: WhenjGrant is posted, his head i* always level, and if he is nominated we will buckle on our armor and go into the fight in old-fashioned style; bntwe won’t strike a lick for any Miss Nancy s, nor for any man of the icicle kind, either. We want a man with blood in him as well as brains —some one who is neither too saintly nor too cowardly to strike back. The mbst human thing any of the apostles ever did was when Peter lammed away with his cheese-knife and cut off the fellow’s ear; and though he was reproved, because It was not in accordance with the “plan oi salvatiofi,” I notice he got the best place up yonder, and, so long as he keeps the keya, I’ll wanrant he’ll never go back on a poor devil for making a square fight.