Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1880 — The Congressional Convention. [ARTICLE]

The Congressional Convention.

Somebody mast make the first suggestion as to when and where the Republican Congressional Convention of this, the 10th district, should be held, and at the risk of being considered modest we will nominate Rensselaer as the most central, geographically, and as accessible as any point in the district. By consulting the map it will be seen that we are the “hub” of the 10th district, and we are emphatically in favor of the “no North,” and “no South” policy, believing that the best way to silence the lection a! strife* that has heretofore disturbed our political equilibrium .is to take the middle ground, and assemble in. the wide-awake little city of Rensselaer. We now ample railaoad facilities, connecting with eveiy county in the district. We have splendid hotel accommodations; - the new “Nowel4 House,” 31 r. Kirt-; ley & Son, being of itself sufficient to accommodate almost the entire j delegation. Then we have a new ! 0, ra House in which the convenn could be Leid. .We would suggest Tuesday, June Stli'as 3 very gockl time to hold the - * * ntion.but would be willing to . mi>c as to'time: providing ' ~**e.:%er i- sJectid as the .place. LiT'us hear from you, brethren i f the press, so that we can have the matter settled at as early a date a-s possible.r— ; The colored individual is again ' in the iroodpile and a large number of Democratic leaders.are sadly afflicted with uogrophobiq. Daniel’s pledges to repeal the resumption act and his investigation of the necro exodus will come oat at the same end of the horn. We bave-the best reasons for believing that the r.egro exodus is the result of a Democratic scheme to fire the Democratic heart iu the , North by reviving the race prejudice and the cry of iit-gro equality and miscegenation. In order to get at the bottom facts we suggest that Mr. Hendricks and other scheming I Democrats be required to.teil what they know- about this matter before the \ ourLces investigating [’"committee. i -i—— i In a free It jjuj lie the will of the I people is tk - usee of power, but; if their wiL i- suktituted by fraud j then our Re pi.biu an form of govern- ' ment becomes a farce. To avoid this danger, Governor Graeclon should receive the punishment prescribed to traitors for treason against the government of his own State. Tliis RepuLlic has too many living j examplesof treason. It should have . a few dead ones, and it would be ! profitable to commence with the ! 'governor of Maine. ’

Oar Democratic exchanges are endeavoring to erect a mountain of' difficulties out of a mole hill of ne- ! gros emigrating from North Caroli-1 na to the Southern portion of this State, and about (Jvery Democratic editor beholds (in liis mind) swarms of plantation darkies marching up to the polls with Republican ballots in their hands. They also see poor white men discharged from the labors of the field, the workshops and. every place ot |>usiness to give place to the colored man, and their lamilies compelled to beg from door to door for the common necessaries ot life. But our Democratic brethren are an exceedingly visionary set of individuals, and endeavor to make their readers believe a lie. It is true a few negros have moved with their tamiiics from the Southern States to Indiana,but the statement that they were brought here *»y Republicans to vote the Repub* iican ticket is a positive falsehood. If the Republican leaders wished to import voters they could get hundreds of young men from Kentucky at a much less expense than shipping a whole family for the sake of one vote all the way from North Carolina. 'All the lying Democratic editors can do will not make the people believe our Republican leaders are a pack of fools. The iact is the Democratic parly is out ot political meat and don’t know what else to say to induce men to support their, ticket.