Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1880 — GREENBACK MEETING. [ARTICLE]

GREENBACK MEETING.

Since tbe late elections the old bard money parties are ringing it all over the land that “the Greenback party is dead.” To test this statement we call upon all ird-yendent persons, witlvoiu regard to former political associations, who hold to the principles of the Greenback Labor party, aud expect to support candidates fully identified with these principles in all elections, County, Stale, and National, to meet at the court house in Rensselaer, on Saturday, January 24, at 10 o'clock a. m., to organize, or rather reorganize, the party ,in Jasper county, in preparation for the great coming conflict; and failing then, continue the contest till they accomplish their object—an entire change in. the whole financial policy of this great country and witness the downfall of the heartless and ruinous inflation and contraction managers now in power. A. B. Clinton, Chaklek Price, " And many others. Solomon on tl e the elephant, according to the Quincy Modern Argo: “There is no telling the character of the scriptures we would have to. day if they had to be written now. It is easy, however, to imagine, if Solomon was writing in this age. Tie would have a proverb something like this: It is easier for an elephant to dance in a lady’s thimble, than for a man to get to heaven, who sponges his reading or neglects to subscribe for bis borne paper.

The first number of the S<md3y edition of the Indianapolis Journal has found-its way to our tuble. It is as handsome as a girl with a gingham, gown and - as newsy as a Sunday paper can be without bordering en the immoral. Like the regular daily it is ably tditeffand contains a vast amount of interesting and instructive reading mutter. » Ralph Fendio porch easd a bankrupt stock of goods at less than cost and is selling them for a eong. Try him. Willsy & Sigler’s immense stock of Boots and Shoes at the Trade Palaee, were bought before the recent rise in prices, and can. therefore be sold at the old prices. Look at them.