Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — “I Don’t Want that Staff”. [ARTICLE]

“I Don’t Want that Staff”.

If what a lady of Boston said to her husband when he brought home mum medicine to owe her of sick headache and neuralgia which had made her miserable for fourteen yean. At the first attack thereafter it was administered to her with such good results that (he continued its use until cured, and made so enthusiastic in its praise, that she induced twenty-two of the beet families in her circle to adopt it as their family medicine. That “stuff” is Hop Bitten.—Standard. It seems strange that a Philadelphia po. licemsn should grow tired of life and shoot himself in a back room, when he could Just as well have shot some one else and have been hanged for it i ‘ T Judgement of the lower court in the case of Oliver vs. Cam iron, at Washington, has been affirmen. Biley, the oiraman/has arrived at the

-»-■■■■ -■ I«I —- —■ ' The Indianapolis Jouxnxl office wan sold, lart week, to H>n. John C. N«w > Son, for SBO,OOO. The Css!* Cunnty Medical Society expelled Ur. Graham N. F*tch, of Logansport, an exUnited States Senator, and at present ProfeMor of Surgery in the Medical College of Indiana, for nnprofesaional coadoct. ThellEPi BMCAM contains so much more editorial and local matter than the Democratic Sentinel that the ofd “grea*e-|H>t,” as the leading Democrats call him, can’t believe it is all written by tlie editor. Statistics show that nineiy*nine hundredths of the foreign emigration now arriving in this country settle in .the Western and Northwestern States. Will some aMebodied Democrat please arise and explain why an equal share of emigrants do not seek homes in the Southern States ? x

’‘And Satan, rathe also.” Col. Bub Ingersoll having sol it i ted an opportunity to deliver one of his in-i fide! lectures before the Methodist General Conference, now in session at Pike’s Opera House, Cincinnati, has been granted theprnwiege, and he will proceed to enlighted tbc “Bible bangers,” as Bob styes them, with what he don’t knew about the divine authenticy of the scriptures and thrdivinity of Christ.

A Democrat remarked to us on the street the other day that “That quadrangular old fool can’t edit a paper worth nothin’.” We admitted that he is incapable of properly conducting a newspaper,but couldn’t see why he should be denominated “quadrangular.” The Democrat continued*. **WeH, you see the old mongrel has, or professes to have, a Democratic side; that’s one. Then there’s his political blind side; that’s two. His flattering flatricide; that’s throe. And his Green backside; that’s four.

Uncle Jimmy continues to disgust his handful of readers with a lot ot xiliy twaddle about the “ringstecs.” The only visable political ring in this connty exists between the old greese-pot of the Democratic Sentinel and a half-dozen Greenbackers. The leading Democrats are damning the “stupid old fool” for his perversity, and declare they will start a Democratic paper in Rensselaer that will fairlyrepresent their party. They say “he is so devoid of brains that he cannot write a three-line political editorial to save his life.”

State officials do not receive as large salaries as many people suppose, and were it not for the honor of serving the State in an official capacity the applicants for office would be less numerous. The Governor’s salary is $5,G00 a year, out of which he must pay all his clerk nnd messenger hire, except for private secretary who receives $1,500. The Lieutenant-Governor receives $6 per day while serving as president of the Senate, and milage Also $5 per day as a member of the board of equalization, aggregating about SSOO annually. The Secretary of State, to which office our estimable fellow towsman, Hon. Horace E. James, is aspiring, receives a salary of $2,000 a year, but certain fees increase the amount to about $4,000. The salary of the. Auditor of State Is fixed at $1,500 per tnnum, but the yearly income will average full $5,000. TheTreasnrer of Stale is required to give bond for $150,000, but his salary is fixed at However he manages to pocket all the way from $5,000 to sfo,ooo additional. The Attorney General gets $2,500 a year, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, £2,500. After the expenses of elections, assessments, house rent, housekeeping in a style becoming a Stale official, and a thousand other things, there is but little left but empty honors.

Some persons are of the opinion that a mere mention of a third party, in the event ol Grant and Tilden becoming the presidential nominees, is calculated to encourage a movement of that kind. That may be true, but at present it fa the duty of those upon the watch-towers to point out every impending danger, and if the nomination of Grant is calculated to produce such an effect, now is the lime to sound the alarm. To our thinking there never been a time sinoe the organization of the Republican party in wb*icb it was so apparent that the fttte of the party depended so largely on the action of lhe national convention as.at present. By an improper nomination va would not only loose the office of chief executive of the Nation, but a large num* berof Congressmen who have heretofore obtained their majorities by the “skin of their teeth.** To bold these doubtful and. gain others—which we must do in order to get control of Lho-nex«t Congress —it is higlily ? necessary have a eandidate for psestdani who wiH unite every element in the Bepubiican rank’, and whose candidacy

We are not of that class of patriots who believe the Republican party is infallible in the selection of its presidential candidates, because experience has taught us that not withstanding our former success, “when we think we stand we may fail,” and are therefore not “vain in our own imagmauone.” Our duty as we see it is to caution all delegatee against being carried away by tbe tide of publie opinion eu gendered by a few fanatics who may be “booming” a certain candi-. date under whom they are expecting place and favor. Neither are we of the class who believe the Republican party will suffer irrecoverable defeat it our candidate is not nominated. All we ask is that t hose may be chosen who will serve our party best by avoiding the dangers ot the future.