Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1880 — “YOU GET.”—“YOU BET.” [ARTICLE]

“YOU GET.”—“YOU BET.”

For market reports and railroad news the Indianapolis Journal is not exoelled. The Democratic party is again preparing its ft>ul stomach for another mess of crow. President Hayes rays he is as firm in his determination he was at the beginning of his administration not to be a candidate for re-election. Both branches of the \\ isconsin legislature have passed, the bill granting female suffrage. As soon ns the governor adds his signature Slie office seekers of that State can commence lifting their ha’.s to the ladies. ' Prosperity in this country and bad crops and dull times in Europe have given a tremendous impetus to immigration. Fortunately we have room enough for all that may come. If they are willing and able to work they need not fear either hunger or oppression among us. If they will let politics, Ind whisky alone and make their into the agricultural regions instead of settling in large cities, they will soon be landlords on their own account.

Many of the Pennsylvania delegates to the Republican National convention, who were instructed to vote for Grant, through the influence of Don Cameron, have declared that they will not be bound by the unit rule. The system of instructing delegates to. any convention is contrary to Republican principles and handicaps rather than facilitates the progress of the party. Republicans should take a stand against .it from the primary to the National convention. A decrease Of the national debt by *5 ,000,010 makes a good showing for the short month of February. Mismanaged finances under Republican government will not be a profitable Democratic argument tn the canvass this year. The fact is a telling one that all the money lost to the country under Republic can management by. reason of the dishonesty cf officials has been the appropriations for Democratic investigations. It is about time these were stopped by t!»e Democrats in 'their own interests, but if they want .to continue them the Republicans *can stand it, and will use all their reports as powerful campaign documents. Possibly there never was a time when so many men were under bail for election.frauds and offences of various kinds. From this it is argued that one of two things is certain, either that more offences of that kind have been committed recentlyor that the people have de- , termined to have political offenders punished. In the interest of good government and of honest politics it is to be hoped that the latter of these two propositions is true. At the same time, however, it would be rash to express the opinion that the particular individuals who have been arrested in Philadelphia will be tried and punished as the law directs and provides.

a recent issue of Harper’s Weekly the point is well taken that the management of the Pennsylvania and New Vprk conventions has not increased the chances for the election of any Republican candidate so far as the virtue and in- . telllgence of the party infer that tin tying up of delegates by those conventions is Intended as a gag on ■ free discussion and selection in the Chicago convention. We are not in the habit of going to the editor of Harper’s Weekly for the best political doctrine, because we do not think it is to be obtained there , as uniformily as might be, but we arc in accord with any Republican who strives by fair means to prevent the direction of the party from being monopolized by the creatures of a few men, in opposition to a policy that meets the wishes of the masses of Republicans. There is bo question at all but that the entire tendency of the Grant movement is to centralize the control of the party and destroy the principle of popular power; and without the practical exercise of that principle, without the voters of the Republican parly believing that in the votes they cast they are acting with a fair chance ot having their wishes carried out by the result of the election, wedo not think that any Republican candidate can succeed. There is. a .feeling that the Grant movement is pregnant with dangers to the Republican idea, which is nothing if it does not carry with it the maintenance of power directly in the bands-of the people and regulated by their will. This last is the manner and form of Republicanism championed by James G. Blaine of Maine in itsfull flower and integrity; and it is plain in view of these tacts, why. Blaine is carried on the erest of the wave of popular preference while Grant is dragged along to the Chicago convention by the machine, the wheels of which creak Ind groan with exceeding harshness.

The action of Parson De Lt Matyr and a few of the Democrats in Congress is enough to fill a wooden man with <tler>mueuc£nt. Jl certainly requires more cheek than is possessed by the traditions! army mule to enable a man of professed intelligence to rise in the halls of Congress and declaim against resumption and the present green back currency. The paper money which a few years ago was worth but 37 cen'.s on the dollar is now at par with gold, and it is well known and fully acknowledged by all, save knaves and idiots, that with resumption came fixity of values and its logical sequence, the rival of all trades and Industries. Visionists may theorist until doomsday but the people well kn>w that re* sumption was the electric spark which lighted the fires in the furnaces and sent upward those pillars of smoke that tell of employed artisans and happy homes. They may do lip-labor in behalf of inflation and the alleged superiority of rag money over coin, but the people realize that specie is the magic power that has started the rusting wheels in a thousand factories and added millions to the productive wealth of the country. These fellows who are trying to persuade the masses that resumption is a failure might accomplish more good by butting their heads against a stone wall.—Delphi Journal.

It is a belief generally current throughout the cast that the unemployed workingmen of San Francisco are a lot of communists who do not want to work, and who prefer to honest labor the excitement of sand lot meetings and the enter* tainment of inccndary speeches, under the that the world owes them a living and somehow or other the Chinese are in their way. This belief may not be fully established by any array of facts, but in an issue between employers and employed the weight of public sentiment and the value of public sympathy must always be bent to the side that keeps the peace until oppression has become so clearly bad as to justify revolution. The bloody threats, the incendiary language, the bad principles, the enmity towards society which have come from the sand lots of San Francisco in the reported speeches of such accepted and approved leaders as Dennis Kearney and I. N. Kalloch, are such as to lead to a condemnation of those leaders; and in the event of lawless violence being precipitated by the frequenters of the sand lots public sentiment is prepared to approve some very decisive action on the part of the citizens of San Francisco. Whatever may be the wrongs of the workingmen, their attachment to Kearney and Kalloch is doing them infinite damage. The speech of Kearney at the sand lots meeting on Friday night jast was a genuine surprise to bis admirers and to those who condemn him, both; its moderation in advising a discontinuance of the meetings was not expected. But the suggestion is easily come by on the slightest investigation that the advice was not the result of moderation at all, but of Kalloch’s shrewd conclusion that the agitation springing from the meetings and speeches was growing beyond his control, and he does not intend to have a collision between the authorities and the rabble with bis own for. tunes cast in with the mob. He too well knows the end of any such struggle.. And the chances are that he has stopped the meetings because those who attend them have served him as well as they can and he does not want to be troubled by their meetings; while his advice to them, prompf.’y accepted, gave him an opportunity to display both his influence and his pretense of advocating only peaceful measures as a leader of the workingmen’s party. Kalloch is now in a position to compromise with some more permanent element in politics than bis present associates form, and having climbed to the topmost round of the workingmen’s ladder he may shortly be expected to kick it from beneath him. We earnestly hope and believe that he will find his new congeners among the Democrats. The Republicans want none of.hiin.

Voorhees and Hendricks are practically upon the shelf. Bayard of 1861, and Bayard since, has a record which will not stand the test. Hancock and McClellan do not carrv the weight necessary for the contest at long range. Tilden, with his load huger thau the “old man efjhe sea,” is nearly an impossibility. Ohio, with Thurman and Groesbeck, will doubtless scramble to the front and demand recognition, but neither has the qualifications for leadership. The indications seem to be that the candidates for the Presidency on both tickets for 1880 will come from Illinois. After canvasing the field the Democracy will more than likely settle down upon their strongest man, David Davis. —lnter Ocean.

An Attempt at Robbery in Rensselaer. Bow he Didn’t set the Greenbacks and Dtnmonda he was After. *1 ▲ Crib-Cracker Cracked. Albert D. Richardson, in bis book entitled “Beyond the Mississippi,” tells of a California burglar, who at midnight climbed to a chamber window, and cautiously opened it. The occupant, chancing to beawake, crept softly to the window, and just as the robber’s face appeared, he presented the smooth muzzles of two revolvers, with the injunction, “You get!” “You bet,” replied the house-breaker dropping and running. An incident similar to this occured in Rensselaer early last Saturday morning, which we give as related to us by the gentleman who came near being relieved of his valuables. Prof. W. Bradford Williams, who gave two Dramatic Entertainments at Starr’s Hall, last week, put up at the Cotton Boarding House, on Cullen street. Being a gentleman of culture he was assigned the parlor bed-room, on the first floor, and possibly received other attentions and courtesies usually accorded well-clad professional individuals and men of means.

Having had considerable experience as a traveler and previous encounters with burglars and pickpockets, he usually keeps himself pretty well fortified against the approach of that class of rogues. Before retiring on this occasion be placed the lid of a shoe-blacking box and other articles suitable, over the lower sash of the window, so that iu the event it should be raised the clatter of their falling would arouse him from his slumbers. He said he bad in his possession only about 1425, but it is his diamond brest-pin and finger-ring, valued at abcut S9OO, that attracts the attention of thieves and coveteous individuals. These articles of value are always taken to bed with him while a Smith <fc Weston revolver quietly reposes under his pillow. On this occasion, however, his money was left in his pocket, and the pants thrown on a chair within reach of the bed. Between four and five o’clock in the morning the articles placed on the window came rattling to the floor, which awoke the professor, who feeling himself secure thought there was no need of becoming alarmed, and possibly the wind, which was blowing n pretty stiff gale, had caused the articles to fall. But presently the window began to creak and slowly arises, a very lit tie at a time. The wind caused the curtains to wave and flutter, when a hand was seen by the dim light of the turned-down lamp to pull them aside. A few moments after a boot, followed by a good sized leg, was shoved through the window, when the man of diamonds concluded it was time to discover by what authority this intruder sought enterance to his room, and

enquired calmly, “Who’s there? What do you want?” The noise created by the wind perhaps prevented the burglar from hearing this gentle salutation, and he con tinued to straddle the window sill, until a shot from W. Bradford’s revolver, aimed at the top of the window, caused the leg to be withdrawn at lightning speed, but as it passed out and the sash was sliding down, the burglar hissed between his teeth, “You son of a —!” This satisfied the man of diamonds that the man was there with burglarious intent and be fired again through the lower sash, this time intending to hit if possible, but the ball failed to collide with the burglar’s physical organism, and no damage was done save two holes in the window glass. The Professor thinks the man followed him from Monticello to this place, and expected to rob him when he should go to the morning train, but finding he did not arise in time, concluded he would accomplish the desired end by crawling through the window. . •' _ _ __________ The last ditch has been abandoned in the Chisolm massacree case against the Gully’s of Kepner county, Mississippi. And yet some people persist in believing that free and fair elections can be held in such a community. The blood of the Chisolm family and their defenders, who were butchered because of their Republicanism, will vex the State of Mississippi for years to come. Tbe“bloody shirt,” Chisolm’s shirt, and the shirt red with the blood of many slaughtered Republicans will yet wipe out Democracy.—lnd. Journal.