Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1879 — Only One Republican Newspaper In Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

Only One Republican Newspaper In Rensselaer.

The action of the Democrat* In Maine baa added largely to the Grant boom for President, while the for “Blaine of Maine” baa altuoat to echo in the west The spirit of Democracy ia alike everywhere. There ia one old Bourboo in Rensselaer whose angry passions rise at tbe coming oi every new citizen whoae politic* opposes his own, notwithstanding Jasper connty contain* an insurmountable Repnblican majority. The Democrats of Shelby vilte, Ind., have notified the world that immigration ia not wanted there. That is one of the counties referred to by Senator Voorhees as being “quite fully populated.” Therefore when people move into Sbelby county they are summoned before the grand jory to tell why they oime there and what they want. Men of means and enterprise who may 'be tLinking of moving iutet “Old Shelby” had better provide themselves beforehand with a permit from the Democratic central committee. It isn’t safe to go there without a passport. Alleast, this ia the doctrine the Democrats are trying to enforce.

In 1976 the Democracy became despcrtately anxious to steal a state. It did not make’ much difference which State it was. nor whether they had been beaUn badly in the popular vote, or only slightly. They tried to bribe the Returning Boards of South Carolina and Florida; and failing there, they tried Oregon.— They were so anxious to just steal a State that money was no object. They offered all the way from S3OOO to $250,000. But Republican integrity was too much for their money, and ignominious failure was tbe result of their unholy efforts. But another scene; In Maine, where the Republicans bad a large majority in the LogishUnre, the vote electing the members of the Legislature had to b« canvassed by*a Democratic State Canvassing Board. This afforded tbe grand opportunity to tbe Democracy to gratify their ambition to steal a state. And what did they do? They simply threw ont enongb of the returns to kill off the large Republican majority, and to give the Democracy a majority in both branches of the Legislature. If this infamy is allowed to live, the Democracy will have by this means stolen the Governor, United States Senator, and a number of small offices. So the Democracy which has from 1876 been seriously affiioted with a tnilignant attack of klopemania, has at last filled the oop of its ambition in stealing ja state. Could anything be more strange in a civilized community? It renders Southern bulldozing almost respectable by comparison.

'lt is not a pleasant exercise to harp continually on the terrible state of society and politics existing in Mississippi. But the press must deal with the facts. The grand jury of Yazoo county has refused to indict James Barkesdale for the murder of Henry M. Dixon, whom he Bbot down ia cold blood, w’bile the victim’s back was turned in the main street of Yazoo City. For this taking of a human life the grand inquest of Yazoo county refuses to order a trial, and deliberately alJow the country to conclude that a Repnblican may bemurdered in Mississippi without the least attempt to punish the murderer or find out by legal inquiry the true history of the crime. Barkesdale has been inconvenienced as little for shooting a man as he could be for shooting a dog. Probably less, for nnder that Christian civilization prevailing in Mississippi the owner of a dead dog would quite likely have shot him for tbe loss of the animal. There is no occasion for comment on this subject. The simple facts are eloquent appeals against tire barbarism a Dem- > ocratic victory next year would put in control of this country. We do not like to talk about a condition of affairs so disgraceiul. But it must be exposed to be broken up. It surely ia not a partsian issue whether or not4ulicences of the Yazoo kind are to be allowed to frame and direct oar national policy. Those who say it- is partisan to condemn the impunity that has been allowed Barkesdale, must call the whole north partisan with emphasis.

While there is a temporary difference of opinion between president Hayes and some Republican congressmen on a few points of finance, some Democrats are indulging the rain hope that Bayard may be able to steal the old Republican .financial policy as a potent influence to draw the support of the massestohim as a presidential candidate. Any such hope is doomed to early disappointment, but it shows at what desperate straws the Democrats- will catch. We have, that confidence in the Republican party’s ability to- twice care of its own financial policy ao well, that the Democrats will not be able to get any advantage from merits and successes which are the undisputed property of Republicans; and that there is to bo uo split among Re- 1

poblicans that will rob tbe party of the jnst fruits of its great achievements in the management of tbe national finances. It Mr. Bayard wants to adopt Republican notions of finance he is welcome to do so of oontse; but any expectation that because of a quarrel between the administration and Republican congressmen .the Democrats can appropriate popular Republican principles as their own and gain votes by them, is the height of folly. The Democrats are drifting about in a little** search for some live issues on which they can base a vigorous advocacy for the campaign oflßSo. The chief difficulty they encounter is in the fact that the Republicans regard the science of pol itics and government as an experimental pursuit in which constant progress is an essential element. Therefore as soon as any new need requires a fresh measure for its supply, the Republican habit is to recognize and meet it at once. This leaves the Demoorats without a really great national occupation and with but poor prospeota of their getting one. Surely they will not be allowed by Republican impudence apd division to get a job at national government on the basis of any principle they may steal from our overflowing store-house. Besides, the Democratic national party is a close corporation owned by a few men, and if Bayard had a portfolio fall of principles of cellestial excellence and bis own manufacture, he and they would be repudiated by the party and one of the proprietors be given the honor of the Democratic presidential nomination—as usual.

In the vaults of the treasury at Washington are $45,000,000 in silver. The mints are turning ont $3,000,000 per month in silver, which will go into the treasury too, very largely, because silver is a nuisance to handle and the people do not want it to carry about for ordinary purposes; but if it continues to accumulate it will force itself into general use by the substitution of silver certificates, and a cheap money will be forced on the conntry from which disaster can spring whenever the conditions of trade become disturbed and confidence requires to be protected by the assurance of intrinsic value in the currency. After having made gold the standard money of the country and the paper currency, supported by the Credit the government, equal in value to gold, secretary Sherman forces the peril of a silver deluge that will crowd out of the place it has fairly earned. He wants a law passed restricting the present legalized copious supply of silver money, and the president agrees with him in his view. But the men interested in silver mining and who want the price of silver kept np by artificial means have marshalled their forces and have met the administration’s suggestion to congress with a howl, and among the bowlers whoae voices are pitched in the highest key are some Republican congressmen and a lew Repnblican editors, who from motives of conseit or interest challenge the financial management of John Sherman and confront his definite ideas of what oar policy shonld be with a beautiful variety of their own notions. This is the foundation on which the Democrats have built their hopes of a Republican split on tbe finances, and because by wise financial legislation before tbe Democrats got control of congress tbe Republicans prepared the means by which the admirable results now on record were obtained, our congressmen should be careful not to assist the Democrats to the advantage of Republican confusion on the eve of a presidential election. It is so plain that the country is satisfied with resumption and its oonseqnences that it seems equally plain there can be no popular sup. port for the measures that tend to defeat Mr. Sherman in maitaining specie payments on a gold basis. To flood the business of the country with depreciated silver like the contemptibleßland dollars is one of such measures, and the Republicans who advocate it are disturbers for the benefit of the Democrats to the extent of their advocacy. But we have every confidence that the party Will come to a hearty support of tbe secretary during the remainder of his term of office, because of the fruits of his policy already enjoyed, and because to destroy them now would be just the folly the Democrats are longing for. It is claimed that because after awhile, under the present accumulation of silver, tbe secretary will have to begin to pay the pablic obligations in silver, tbe saving by such payment would be over the present gold basis of payment from 10 to 18 per cent. Between a swindle by paying debts for whioh gold value 'is due in depreciated silver, and a swindle by paying them in depreciated paper, there is not any difference. And tbe Repnblican party cannot afford to be concerned in a swindle.

When we purchased the Renaselear Union offioe of Mr. Horace B. James, we stated to Mr. X. O. Cissel, the proprietor and publisher of the Rensselaer Standard, that at tome time in tbe scar future we would purchase his office also or pay him a sum of money sufficient to justify him in moving elsewhere. Not being particularly in need of his printing material at present we were not disposed to porchaseliis entire outfit aud be not being prepared to seek a location elsewhere declined to aecept tbs other proposition. Ws finally agrsed to give him two hundred dollars to eesse tbe publication of the Standard on or before the first day of January, 1880, we to fill out all prepaid subscriptions to said paper and he to receive pay for all delinquencies. We further agreed not to do any job printing where the impressions exceed one hundred, except posters or bills too large lor bis job press. Also that he should have the permission to run a job office in tbe town of Rensselaer until such time as he may choose to move away or oould dispose of his material to us or other parties.

This may seem like a big price to pay Mr. Cissel to cease the publication of hia paper, besides agreeing not to compete with him for job printing, but we did it for the following reasons: First,it removes the annoyance of having two Republican papers in a town of this size. Second, it will add somewhat to the value of this office. Third, the legal printing has heretofore been divided between the two offices. Fourth, business men, if they advertised at all, in order to show no preference for papers or party, were required to patronize each of the three publications, and beoanse a large number of the readers of the Republican also read the Standard, it was an unnecessary expense. Besides all this it is possible that daring the coming oampaign a prejudice and strife might arise that would do damage to the Republican party in this county. Another consideration is that during the coming politioal oampaign we desire to devote all oar time and attention to the usefulness of the Republican, tbe success of our party and the basinets interests and enterprise of Rensselaer and Jasper county. This change seems to meet the approval of all parties interested, and no doubt Mr. Cissel and the publishers of the Republican will be alike benefited. We bespeak for the ex editor of the Standard a liberal patronage in job printing, and whatever good we can do him will be cheerfully rendered.

The grand jury in Shelby county summoned before them two colored emigrants from North Carolina to tell why and wherefore they had moved to Indiana. This mast have given the colored men a queer idea as to the kind of freedom they are entitled to and the kind of liberty that prevails in the North. N«verthelesß, they went before the grand jury and answered the questions put to them respectfully aud intelligently. They said they had come here to better their condition, and that no inducements had been held out to them exoept that some of their own people had told them they conld obtain work here. One of these men could read and write, and when asked how he knew where Indiana was, he replied that they had maps and geographies in the Sooth as well as in the North. They explicitly denied that they were brought or induced to come for a political purpose. Of course they were not. They came of their own accord as they had a right to do. Whoever says the Republican party in Indiana or any Republican committee or organization has aided or encouraged the colored emigration movement from North Carolina, knowingly and willfully lies. ' It is a striking commentary on the nar-row-minded and proßoriptive spirit of Democracy that colored men who have come here to better their condition and who have done no harm to any one, nor interfered with any person’s rights, should be snmrooned before a grand jnry to tell by what authority they are in the State. This is the spirit of bulldozing Democracy everywhere. —[lndianapolis Journal.