Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1880 — CAN YOU VOTE THE TICKET! [ARTICLE]

CAN YOU VOTE THE TICKET!

The Rxpcbucax is wedded Us principles and party, hot .not to individuals. * - ran, We don’t want aay dark borsee entered for the presidential race. Since the days of the high joint eom» mission that kind of nags hire not been popular with the people. . Reader, before voting for a Democrat, next Monday, read the article in another column headed“ Can you vote the ticket?” and learn what the Democratic party is Responsible for. Ei ery Republican will be expected to do J»i* doty at the poll* next Monday. The Baccess of the fall electron will depend largely npon the spriog elections. Now it the time to lay the foundation for parlytriumphs. Democratic exchange* assert that a white man has been convicted and sentenced to be bung for killing a negro in South Carolina. The lie won’t believe that story until the hanging takes plaoe. Hiatory contains no precedent.

The Inter Ocetii of'recent date rays Col. A. D. Streigbt was killed at Dalton, Georgia, in April, 1864. The Colonel may be dead, but it be gets the nomination for Governor of Indiana the Democrats will discover that he is a mighty lively corpse. Keelcy the motor man has got a motor, which he plaints is driven by . vaporie power. Reporters of Philadelphia papers have seen the machine work, havescen it started and stopped, and could not discern any motive power tyreept the vapor generator. In about six weeks a practical test of this machine is to fee made and five cords of wood with five vaporized drops of water. Iveoley still lives—and we hope he does not lie. » Office seikera’ literature is becoming remarkably prevalent and not a little burdensome to publishers. Now comes lion. I. N. Davis, of Frankfort, with a load of recom- „ mendations . irom special friends, endeavoring to create a boom for the office of Lieutenant-Governor. It is all well enough lor Davis to work up a litfee cheap notoriety but lie's uot the manJbest calculated to lead the Republican party to victory this fall. We want men of brains, men of means, meu who are a power for good, who are born leaders, possessing the confidence of the people. Success is before us, but it will be no boy’s play to march up and possess it.

The examination of witnesses before the Exodus committee of tbe senate at Washington still continues, and the testimony confirms the worst stories of bulldozing and murder told about the southern whites and their treatment of the negro in political campaigns. The negroes leave their old homes in the southern States for new and strange localities simply because their lives and property are net safe south at the hands of the Democrats. They go agaibst the advice of their own preachers and Republican politicians, who both urge them to stay and hope for something better in the future. But fifteen years of barbarous cruelty, murder and robbery have made them despair, and they have no faith in any remedy oxccpt a residence in communities farther north where public >«entiinent is healthier. Tbe evidence shows that although the negroes of the- exodus begin life anew at the north, in abject poverty and in the midst of.the greatest privation, none of them want to go back. We cannot but believe that the indictment oi barbarity against the southerners is fully sustained. *

It is said that iiafls of American make are so superior to any made abroad that our builders will not use the latter, even though they do have to pay njore'for the* domestic article. This is. a compliment to the excellence of American goods that should hot be allowed to go without notice. It illustrates the principle on which.it is possible for all Americap manufactures to compete successfully with foreign articles, and it should be the aim of our pro* daoers to follow this principle to its fullest development. Wherever they make tbe effort and* properly bring their goods in contrast with inferior and cheaper wares, the question of price looses much of its usual leading importance, because intelligent and sagacious purchasers in the markets be convinced that the best is the cheapest in tbe long run and make tbeir selections accordingly. On this principle the shape and quality of American nails have for months given them high prices, and although the quotations are now falling a little the demand for them continues despite the importation of English pails, and will continue until the supply becomes too great. This contingency is not improbable, but can be avoided by proper care in introducing our nails abroad', where tbeir merits will sell them at good figured as they bare sold them at &om+.

Ator Christianey, who being seventy years of age married a wile of the United States, has become public talk, because es the declared intention of the husband ts apply for a divorce on the grounds be has not yet made definite in any statement thus far published. The young wife baa been supporting berself by work tines her return from Peru some months ago, Mid the baa made a plucky and savage reply to the sstaults in pnblic prints against h€t made by the senator’s friends in advance of bis coming home. What she says die mentions the names of wbitnesses to substantiate, and her narrative accuses Mr. Christianey of opium eating and whisky drinking to excesa;of wife-beating and cruelty most barbarous; and of having been bribed by the late Zaebariab Chandler sos asum of money and the portfolio of the Pernvian mission to resign his seat in the senate to make room for Chandler. Hisson Viotor, his wife alleges, overhead the bargain between bis father and Chandler, told hi* slop-raother about it, and the fact that bit wife knew of his disgraceful conduct caused him to begin bis cruel and inhuman treatment of heir. She avers that sbe intended to allow tbe matter to rest nntil his uegleot and failure to support her gave her a right to a divorce, because her lawyer informed her that having condoned the beatings from her husband, they gave her n 9 good grounds for action. But his announcement that he would apply for a divorce has compelled her to outline her case. Developments, of political importance are promised in this affair. The -social phase of the case is not of particular moment, except that it should not be allowed that an apparently unfortunate young woman who seems to have endeavord to bush up and keep quiet a painful family rupture, shall be traduced and injured by an alleged brute and bribetaker who blabs his domestic affairs to tbe world with brag and bluster as to what he will do. Principally we want to know whether Christianoy sold his seat iu the senate to Chandler.

Notwithstanding the seeming indifference manifested respecting the vote on the constitutional amendments, to Republicans it w»H be one of tbe most important events in the history of Indiana. It is an election at which every voter can give bis influence in favor of honest elections, economy and good government. Amendments to the State Constitution are to be ratified that will, limit taxation, allow only actual citizens of the State to vote and make its laws, and make Indiana laws conform to those of the United States, of which she is a most honored and influential member. Beside these amendments it will also be borne in mind that the selection of townsbijf'officers is of the greatest importance. Tbe assessors chosen this spring, besides tbe usual duties of their office, will be required to re-appraise all the real estate in every township of the State. Every tax-payer is deeply interested in seeing that taxes are fairly and equally levied. To this the Republican party alone stands pledged, and has Dominated men of the highest integrity and best judgment for this important place, and every "voter should give them a hearty support Thw Trustees handle and expend large sums of money, and tbe Republicans have selected for their candidates the most competent and honest men, and every good citizen and taxpayer, irresDeetive of party, will give them their support and consider it a personal duty to see that they are elected. Jasper county is thoroughly and reliably Republican, therefore let no mere questions of friendly feeling allow Democrats, members of the party of treason and plunder, to secure a jingle office. We have arioh and productive county, and it should be governed in every department by faitbfnl and capable officers, snch as are tbe standard bearers of the Republican party. Let every Republican be at the polls on April sth, and do bis duty, and the splendid promises given by a glance over the field before the battle will become the full fruition of a glorious victory.

Two hundred and fifty Irish-Amer-icans of Valparaiso, have pledged themselves not to vote hereafter with tbeDemocratic party. Similar movements are taking place all over tbe country. Irish-Americans are discovering that' their failure to receive the high recognition their telligence and patriotism entitles them to, is because of tbe elose allegiance there has hitherto been between them and one political party. There are a thousand good reasons why an Irishman should be a good Repnblioan. The Republican party is tbe party of liberty, of equality, of honesty, fair elections, of low taxes a stable government, and a stable government means business prosperity,and business prosperity means work at good prices for all. Tbe Republican party is the natural place for an Irishman. He is by nature p&lriotio, a lover of liberty and equality, of low taxes and a. stable government. —Logansporl Journal.

ppfup.ir,.: die Democratic |>r*4 and |j Dei(vatic orators to vote tbe Democratic Mrtue 'Uukei represents and what every voter of it is required to endoreh tbe following famous indictment of Democracy by the eloquent Robert G. Ingersoll sbows.J “Yoqiig .men, whfen asked to vote the Democratic ticket ask tW IW fbeToTTo wmar charges be prove* fake, that-they' cannot be. They are trtiri find stamp tbe Democratic party as a- very charnel house of all tbatls patriotic and true to the love, of the Union and Freedom. . . Remember that every‘State that seceeded from theUnited States was a Democratic State. Every ordinaries of secession that was drawn was drafted by a Democrat. -Every man flint endeavored to text the old flag from the heaven that U enriches was a Democrat. Every rain that tried to destroy this Nation was a Democrat, Every enemy this great Republic has had for twenty years has been a Demoorat. Every man that shot Union soldiers was a Democrat. Every man that starved Union soldiers, and refused them a crust in the extremity of death was a Democrat. Every mau that loyed slavery better than liberty was a Democrat. The man that assassinated Abraham Lincoln was a Dem a ocrat. Every man that sympathized with the assassin—every man glad that the noblest President ever elected was assassinated—was a Democrat. Every man that wanted the privilege of whipping mnother man to make him work for him for nothing and pay him with lashes on his naked back, was a Democrat. Every man tbatraised blood hounds to pnrsae human beings was a Democrat. Every man that clutched from shrieking, shuddering, crouching mothers, babes from their breast, and sold them into slavery, was a Democrat. Every man that impared the credit of the United States, every man that swore he would never pay the bonds, every man swore we would never redeem the greenbacks, every maligfier of the country’s credit, every calumniator of his country’s honor was a Democrat. Every man that resisted the draft, every man that hidiu the bushes and shot at Union men simply because they were endeavoring to enforce tbe laws of their country, was a Democrat. Every man that wept over th e corpse of slavery was a Democrat. Every man that cursed Lincoln because heissued tbe proclamation of emancipation—the grandest paper since the Declaration of Independence —every one of them was a Democrat. Every man that denonneed the soldiers that bared their bosoms to the storm of. shot and shell for the honor of America and for the Bacred rights of man, was a DemoeraU Every mau that wanted an uprising iu the North, that wanted to release the rebel prisoners that they might burn down the homes of the Union soldiers above the.KUads of their wives and children while the brave husbands, the heroio fathers W-ero in tbe front fighting for the honor of the old flag, every one of them was a Deinqcrnt. Every man that believed this glorious Nation of ours is a confederacy, every man that believed the old banner carried bv onr fathers through the Revolution, through the war of 1812, carried by our brothers over the plains of Mexico, carried by our brothers over the fields of the re bellion, simply stood for a ronlraot, simply stood for an agreement was a Democrat. Every man who believed that any State could go out of the Union at its pleasure; every man that believed the grand fabric of the American government could be made to crnmblo instantly into* the dust at tbe touch of treason, was a Demoorat. Every man that helped to burn orphan asylums In tbe city of New York was a Democrat- Every man that tried to fire thecity of New York, although he knew that thousands would perish, and knew that the great serpents of flame leaping from buildings wutild clutch children from their mother’s arms—every wretch that did it was a Democrat. Recollect it I Every man that tried to spread smallpox and yellow fever in the North m the instrumentalities of civilized war was a Demoorat. Soldiers, every scar you have got on your heroic bodies was given to you by a Democrat. Every soar, every arm that is lacking, every limb that is gone, is a souvenir of a Democrat. Every man that was the enemy of human liberty in this conn-, try was a Democrat Every man that wanted the fruit of *H the heroism of all the ages to turn to ashes upon the lips—every one was a Democrat.”