Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — GRAND DEMOCRATIC FARCE! [ARTICLE]

GRAND DEMOCRATIC FARCE!

- 4*1* * jffeJ, s.jS Ae4 twear They Waver Will By the Nsofrei Party. The Boar bon Leaden ot CarP«ater Tew whip aelspa Job am the leadlat "There's Music ia ths Breezes '' The barefooted and unterrified Demoeraoy of Jasper county to the number of about forty-five assembled at the courthouse last Saturday afternoon, pursuant to sail, to pot in nomination candidates for eounty officers to be elected this fall and to transact such other business oommon to county conventions. Mr. Joseph Hunt, of Gill am township, vu ohosen president and D. B. Miller and J. W. Duuthit, of Rensselaer, secretaries. After the convention was ready for business Mr. Thomas McCoy moved to proceed with the nomination of oounty officers, which was promptly seconded. The Chairman stated the question and paused for remarks. At this juncture Mr. James Plunket, the spokesman of the Carpenter township delegates, arose and commenced an argument favoring the postponement of the Convention and the nomination of oounty offio»ra until some time in July. The objeot, as Mr. Plunket slated it, was to wait until after the Republican and Democratic State aud .National convections hsve made their nominations, that the Democrats of this county might t|ke advantage of any messare or mistake these conventions may make. It waa plain to be seen, however, that the ostensible objeot of the postponement was to permit the Greenbaokers of Jasper oounty to make their oounty nominations first that the Democracy may conour in their nominations, and by coalition defeat the Republicans. The motion was argued pro and con for a few minutes, but no Democrat being present with sufficient stamina to publicly denounce snch scheming demogoguery, the motion was put and oarried by a alight majority, though a number of delegates who were personally opposed the postponement' did not vote at all. A number of delegates who were of the opinion that the Demooratieparty of Jasper county should be able for onoe to stand upon its own legs, commenoed a general murmuring, and not a few left their seats and stalked out of the convention. One remarked as be descended the stairway, “I am done with the d—n Democratic-Green-back-Knownolhing foolishness.” The Democratic party ia noted for iti blunders, but this excels anything that ever happened in this county. The rain last week prevented many farmers from working in their fields; and for this reason there waa a larger representation from tbo out townships present than they oan reasonably hope to secure again. The date fixed for holding the convention, if we mistake not, ia the first Saturday in July, whioh will be the third day of that mouth, and a very busy one with farmers, because at that time they will be right in the midst of their wheat harvest But it is possible that this ia a part of the programme of the leading tricksters to enable them to make the nominations without the aid of the ooootry people. It has always been very patent to a casual observer that the oountry people are of but little use to the Green-back-Democrat ie leaders of this oounty until election day, and then they are jolly good fellows.

There are two or three of the leading Democrat* in Rensselaer, however, whom we mait do the honor to state, that they have positively asserted that they will not under any cireumstanoes collude with the Greenback party at the fall election, and we believe they are sinoere in what they say at present, but when the whipping-in time comes their convictions may be materially ohanged. In order to revive the party spirit of the unterrified generally and to allay the discord of the dissatisfied ones in partionlar before the convention should adjourn, J. W. Doathit, Bsq., was oalled upon to make a speech, and he spoke. We are free to admit that from a Democratic standpoint the speech was a good one, and none were more surprised than ourself at the ability and oratory displayed by this rising yonng lawyer. Of course be eulogised the Democratic party for its antiquity and the tenacity with which It dings to existence though Us putrefying corpse has been several times prepared for burial, and

ill® Democratic ll- g noanpß years, but bia bearers were unable to determine whether ho referred to the etar* and stripes of th# or the stars aad bars of tbo now defunct Southern Confederacy. There Is no good reason why political partisans should not he as honest in polities as in dollars and cents. We boldly assert that the partisan—be be Republican, Democrat or National—who will sacrifice the principles of his party to collude with any opposing party for the sake ol efiee, i* politically dUkoneti, and we should dislike to trust him in the business channels of life. Ths Democrats of Jasper eounty can never hope to aeeare any ranaooable degree of respect so long as tlieir leaders remain the willing tools of a handful ot Greenbacker*, because in the eyes of such measures are neither honest, wise or profitable. •