Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1880 — The Republican as a Campaign Document. [ARTICLE]

The Republican as a Campaign Document.

Danng February 8,000 foreign emigrants arrived at New York, ninety per cent, of whom will vote the Democratic ticket Henry JPepper, Senator Bayard’s law-partner, was foond dead in bed Wednesday rooming, at Wilmington, Delaware That pepper-box is empty and can be no longer used to season the political pots of the whipping-poyt state. €tty and corporation elections held in Maine, Mondayof last week, recited in Republican victories aid large Republican gains. Gar- « don’s fusion party were completely snored under. Stealing States will not be popular in 1880. The next Indian a Legislature will have some important work before it, viz: To elect a U. 8. Senator, pass upon the revision of the Statutes and enaetlaws conformitory to thi constitntionsl amendments—should said amendments be adopted.? 1

* The indications now are that notwithstanging the zeal manifested by the friends of the several Republican candidates for the presidency the second choice of each of the delegates to tho Chicago convention will be the nominee. The elements seem to be harmonising. The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that no note after maturity shall draw a higher rate of interest than six per cent., except a note contains the proviso—“until amount is fully paid.” Note holders will do well to remember this and collect when due—if they can. The uninterred remains of the Greenback party in this district met at Shelbyville yesterday, and went throngh *the dismal ceremony of nominating h candidate for Congress. The person selected to head the funeral procession was Dr. De La Matyr, whose attachment to the !ite lamented d&ring its life, justly entitles him to. the position of ohief mourner.—lnd. Journal. ■ ■ ■ ■— A boy named Yoankin, aged fifteen, has been sent to the penitentiary for two years, from Fountain county, for consealing a stolen pocket-book containing seventy-five rents in money and a promissory note for twenty dollars. Jf he had stolen a bank or embezzled some wealthy stock company he might to day be enjoying life and liberty among the nobby young men of bis town.

. Brick Pomeroy went home from the St. Louis Greenback convention, last week, K “mader’n a wet hen,” and slipping behind the barn kicked himself into the conviction that he is an old fool andf'shll never have anything more to ; do with such an pograteful party. In a recent issue bf his paper he says he has spent a Ground fortune for the cause; has been abused by those who ought to help their servants; has been left in the larch by hundreds ot men; been sucked dry and roundly abused by. a score of Greenback editors whose papers hediad helped to keep alive, till at last he is convinced that a man of principle receives more cuffs than coppers in the discharge of duty. One by one the pillars of the Greenback tabernacle are toppling to the earth to rise no more forever. . *

. % f Another advance in the price of white news printing paper makes that commodity worth 11 cents per pound in the market. This will cause another outcry by tbe newspapers against tbe duty on this article. But the principle of protection properly applies to the manufacturers of newspapers as well as the manufacturers of pig iron, and .the former can no more afford to take an unfair advantage than the latter.. We do not believe that the present high price of paper is due .10“ a combination! among the manufacturers, bat to tbe great demand there ifrnow for it. All manufacturers of goods on which there is now a protective duty are on their good behavior, and- they probably know very well that if they do not behave themselves by moderation ia profits and thereby lose the protection they now have, they will hose it lor a long time to come. Tbe way for them to lose it is to kreep prices np by combination for pnrposes of extortion from consumers. And consumers of white news printing paper are a class who will icafce very load and effectual complaint when they find ont they are being imposed upon.

Whether Grant or Blaine shall be nominated at Chicago on June 2, and Tilden or Bayard at Cincinnati on Jane 22, the certainty is that we are about beginning a most excited and vigorous presidential straggle between two great political partiea nearly equally divided in- voting strength. The eonatry will be stirred to iu depths by the movements of tbe two competing armies of canvassers, and discussion rUi wax hot wherever men holding

opposite views may assemble.— Every man will be compelled, If the instinct of patriotism and of interest in public affairs is not dead In bis breast, to take one aide or the other, and advocate the election of either the Republican or Democratic national ticket. In Indiana we also have the responsible duty of electing next fall a full State ticket and any man who has nothing but indifference and neglect for what is occurring under circumstances of profound agitation, fraught with high promise and great peril to the future of the 'country, Is indeed unfortunate and is debarred from some of the leading pleasures and privileges of eitizensbip. The war will be one of words antil the dsy comes for easting the ballots, and then the party that has taken the deepest interest from the most intelligent standpoint in the issues on which controversy has raged, will be successful. The political will be faithfully reported in all its bearings and considered in all its manifold details in the newspaper press, and the Republican will perform its full share of this work in strenuous efforts to advance the welfare of the country through the success of the Republican party, its men and its measures. An important chapter in the history of the country is about to be written, and all the events and data from whioh the record is to be made np will be given promptly and fully as they occur.

The powers of the government will be given by the result of the next November election to the Republican party, whose strength is at the north, built op on the progressive,, liberal ideas prevailing at the north and demonstrated by evidences of industrial and social development and popular respect for equal rights; or the powers of the government will be given to the Democratic party, whose strength is at tbe south, built np on the aristocratic and narrow ideas prevailing at the south, and demonstrated by evidences of contempt for honest industry and healthful social improveraenfrjout of the poverty, prejndices and ignorance of tbe past, and a sinister disregard for tbe righto of any but the strongest. Tbe Republican will be found during the canvass consistently and faithfully advocating a continnance of power in tbe hands of the Republican party, which represents just political and social influences, and it will be tbe best document daring the campaign for increasing the Republican vote in Jasper county. One dollar will pay for it from the present date till tbe first of January, 1881.