Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — Skinner Is His Name. [ARTICLE]

Skinner Is His Name.

If the Democrats bad the privilege of nominating the Republican candidate for President it would be Grant, and if the Republicans bad the privilege of nominating the Democratic Candida to for President it would bo XHdoo. According to tbo estimate of the inter Ocean Grant baa already thirty more delegate rotee than is necessary to a choice. Unless aomethiog happens more than usually transpires under each cireum■laocee, Grant will next Repabliean candidate for President.

The Delphi Timea warn* its readers not to “put too maoh ooofidence in looal or Kational splits in the Replblicaii party. A Republican hardly ever gets so mad aa to a sendee hfr hope* of official 1 brood and butter by scratching a ticket.” There’s where-you’roff, Bro. Cramplon. The Republieans are the only independent voters, and it la mot possible to beep them from scratching candidates they may not like. With but very few exceptlone the Repoblban party ia composed of iatelllgent men, who read and think fbr themselves and are governed by their own opinions. It is the Democrats who are driven to the polls and voted like esttle without a knowledge of the men or ths measures they sre supporting. Were it not for the indifference of Republican voters the Republican party woold be much more successful. But we prefer to hsve it so, for were it not so the Republican party would become as corrupt and as non-progressive as the Demoorstie party.

We have no space to devote to Unde Jimmy this week, but it is hoped he will continue his “Soliloquisras” to the disgust of his two hundred readers. Not less than s half dozen of his subscribers each week return his paper through the post office marked ‘'refused.” Since Unole Jimmy commenced the publication of his patent medicine sheet, some three years ago, he has been sending his paper regularly to at least one hundred persons who never subscribed, and now he keeps standing at the bead of a column the law bearing on delinquent subscribers, and if they do not pay np before the close of this political campaign he intends prosecuting them for the amounts due. We have heard several of them deolare the; will never pay him because they did not order the paper, but the' law considers every person a subscriber who takes a paper from the postoffice* Uncle Jimmy’s manner of conducting a newspaper is like his politics—of the dishwater kind. T' •»»’■ ■ The court at West Point before which a. farce is progressing now relative to tne Whittaker outrage, in held«in deserved eonteaspt, and no matter how or what it finds in this case it can only convinoe the country that many of the white cadets, encouraged by the offioera of the academy, have determined that ‘‘niggera”" shall not enjoy the benefits of a military education at the government expense. On Saturday a number of experts testified that they believed a letter written by 'Whittaker to his mother, and s note of warning written to him previous to the cutting of his ears and the •utrage, were written by the same person. And on this the court is about to decide that Whittaker committed the outrage on hfmsel£ The country will not believe that he did until he confesses or there is other evidenoe than an easily forged resemblance to his bandwriting. In this whole business, young Whittakeris conduct hA been manly, straightforward and entirely consistent with the theory of innocence. His previous character has been rßown tobavebeen above reproach, and on Saturday be bore a long, searching and severe cross-exami-nation with a fortitude and honesty which eould only find their strength hg conscious innocence, or be imitated by a consummate duplicity of which a youth of twenty years is incapable 1n his circumstances. The practice of the virtues by which b« established his good character has not fitted him for deception of such a perfect and accomplished kind. Having replied to a Ibng string of malicious questions in the attempt to entangle him, respectfully, promptly and oreditably, an the adjournment of the court of bis persecutors he walked out of with the firm and erect bearing of an honest man. The decision of tbs court could plainly be forseen from the start. Ths very morning after tbs, outrage, ths ofdeers of the military academy and the cadets, who all knew of Whittaker’s exemplary mode of life and good reputation, allowed him no benefit of them but started the story of bis own guilt immediately; and have sustained it with bitterness and' persists*ee aver sines. All the evidence tiler have got now to justify the findibg they are about to make ia the testimony of experts ia chirographj that the two notes above referred to were written- by

the same pereoa. It is not enough to convince aa unprejudiced mind against a good character tad open, i manly conduct If this young man is disgeaedfi by thk court «a *ucb evidence bo should immediately be re-instated as a cadet by the secretary of war or the president. So powerful is the feeling against the boy oa the port of tbo court that Martin I. Townsend retired from the case satisfied of the defendant’s inaocsace, bat cousinced that the more bo was defended the worn it would be for him. A Greenbacker writes to the Nation View pronouncing John Sherman “a breeder of famine, a scourge of God i a Herod IL, an assassin of liberty, a orucifier of the people, a renegade from hell, begotten In sin, conceived in iniquity and spewed red hot out of the womb of hell into the lap of civilisation, to enroe and blast and damn this country worse than the seven plagues of Egypt.” We don’t believe it! We never did like John Sherman and bis ways, but can’t resist the conclusion that the writer of the above is prejudiced. He should cool bis fevered brain and regulate his disordered stomach with a Seidliu powder.—Delphi Timas. Let the Greenbacker rent and rare and tear his hair—he is a harmless lunatic and won’t hurt an) body. Hating John Sherman is about all tbs pleasure he has and about all. ths revenge he hopes to reoeive. Sherman has more brains than the whole Greenback party, and having defeated the fiatists at eveiy turn he rather enjoys their abuse. >

It matters not how idle or foolish may be the dreams of the Greenbaokers, yet they are evidently disposed to run a ticket. They meet at Monticeilo to-day (May 20th) to put in nomination a candidate for Congress. Not one of them expeots him to be elected, nor can one ol them tell what is to be gained by his running. As a third party it gives no evidence of vitality enough to ever accomplish anything, even if it had an objeot in view. The currency question, npon which it was ostensibly based, is fqyever settled, sod to the satisfaction of the people. The wild chimera of issuing unlimited numbers of green r backs can never be reflated. The business of the country {Tin a pros, perous condition, with money more than enough to meet all legitimate demands, sud the people will never, by any set of theirs, unsettle that condition of affairs. • As a party today it is absolutely without an object, whatever might hsve been its aim in the past. There sre issues at stake of the most momentous character. Those issues sre to be fought out between the two old parties. This is no time for good citizens to J>e led off in pursuit of any side issues.—Logansport Journal.

One week from next Wednesday the National Republican convention will meet at Chicago for the purpose of nominating candidates fur the offices of president and vicepresident of the United States. The prominent candidates are gentlemen of great ability and wonderful achievements. Whieb, if nominated, would reoeive the most general support, is impossible to foretell, but upon any of them, it appears to us, Republicans can well unite, and with any of them success seems quite within our reach. Democrats are demoralized by the action of a revolutionary congress. There will be “bolters” on both rides, and “sore heads” will not be all against us. The wanderers are returning. The greenbackers, having accomplished mostly what they sought, are coming baok. Every indicatioa points to victory. Let the key-note of the Republican campaign be, Triumph. The signs are right Right must prevail.—Vidette, 2lst

* [Looosport Journal, May 20.] Yesterday, tho Greenbackers of the Tenth District held their convention at Monticeilo. The crowd was a email one in numbers, but immensely big in pomposity. Leroy Templeton waa made Chairman and C. H. Price, Secretary. Speeches were made, and the usual vocal pyroteenres indulged in. Dr. H. Z. Leonard, of this oity, spoke oftenest, as is usual with him. After the speaking, J. M. Skinner, ot Porter oounty, was nominated for Congress, while a breathless world looked on with awe. The platform was divided up into five parts, eaph part being infenlteaimally small.

The first resolution declared in lavor of a free press, and free speech. It was the same old-fashioned buncombe resolution offered by gillies on all occasions. The second resolution was to the effect that the government should issue all money, tnd make It a legal tender. This resolution breathed death to National banks. The third waa against the use of Deputy Marshals at the polls. This was shot off to tickle theDemoeraey. Just what it meant or- what would be the effect of it, no member of the convention knew exaetly. The fourth was the stereotyped one in favor of paying the bonds according to the contract Thia ia just what the government intends to do. The fifth aud last, waa a declaration in favor es the gassago of the infamous Weaver