Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1880 — NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Presklent, - JAMES A. GARFIEEO, afOMlo. Far Vtee-PreaitfeMt, CHESTER R. ARTHUR, aTR. T. The Republican State Ticket For Governor, . SLBJ.BT G. PORTER, Of Mario*. For Lieutenant Governor, .* THOMAS HANNA, ot Fvtauui. For JndcM of SaprnM Court, Ist Dtstrirt, BTNON K. ELLIOTT, of Marion. JdDirtrict, WILLIAM A. WOODS, of Elkhart. For Secretary of State, E. K. HAWK, of Crawford. For Auditor of State, ED. H. WOLFE, ot Bach. For Treasurer of State, BOSWELL 8. HILL, of Clay. For Attorney General, DANIEL P. BALDWIN, of Cm*. For Superintendent Public lastruetion, JOHN M. BLOSB, of Vanderberg. For Clerk of Supreme Court, DANIEL M. BOYBE, of Tippecanoe. For Reporter of Supreme Court, FRANCIS M. DICE, of Fountain. For GoagreM, _ MARK L. DaMOTT,of Porter. For Joint Representative ot Jaaper and Newton Countlee, • WILLIAM W. GILMAN, of Newton. ■ In our grandfather's day a “alienee gave absent.” Oar Supreme Judges gay silence means to oppose—the coustitutional amendments. The Democratic Supreme Judges have decided that the man who stays away from the election coanta more than the man who votes. Samuel J. Tilden and Horacio Seymore have each written a letter to the Cincinnati convention de* dining the nomination for President. One put in a plea of old age, the other poor health. Neither is able to tackel the Republican lamb.

Every statement to the effect that General Garfield at any time dabbled in Credit Mobilier stocks, can be put down as a Democratic lie in inn factor edout of whole doth for campaign purposes, and no Democrat possessing a grain of truth and .decency will repeat it Garfield borrowed 1329 of Ames, and returned it to him, and that is about the extent of his transactions with the great fraud. The joint Representative convention, between Jasper and Newton counties, held last Saturday, resulted in the nomination of William AV. Gilman. This county’s delegate vote was divided between Gapt. M. F. Chilcote and Dr. Ritchey. Newton united on Gilman which resulted in his nomination. The nominee is an intelligent gentlemen and will give this district a creditable representation. It is a remarkable fact that dark horses in political campaigns always win, and always prove themselves excellent men for the position to which they are elected. While we do not concede that it irfteces■ary for our presidential candidate to succeed, to be supported by any coincidence as this, yet it is a thing to rejoice over that he has this double surety of a glorious campaign and a triumphant victory.

The Democratic charge on Gen. Garfield has not given our political enemies any comfort. Ou the other Band they have come to confusion ijj their work of making false allegations against an honest map whose career speaks for itself, and with which the people are acquainted. On the subject of Credit Mobilier, the Democratic argument on this occasion has been neither eloquent or pointed, and the loud talking they still keep up is for the purpose of covering their defeat after disaster. After the nominations are made at Cincinnati they will be put upon the defensive. We have only time to say that the congressional convention, at Logansport, nominated Hon. Mark L DeMott, of Porter county. The following la the result of the first ballot: Thompson, 38; McConnell, 22; Bringhurst, 18; Shults, 14|; Shryock, 20|; Hatch, 12; DeMotte, 44. DeMotte was nominated on the eleventh ballot. The nominee is a native of Indiana, bom in Parke county. He is a graduate of Asbury University and commenced the practice of law in Valparaiso. He served in the army, in the 4th Ind. battery, under Fremont, and afterward .was promoted to'a place on Fremont’s staff. He has the ability to make a vigorous and aggressive campaign, and no effort will be spared to make it a successful one.

Horace E. James accepted his defeat for the office of Secretary of State good-humoredly and thankfully. His friends gave him a willing support but they were not sufficiently numerous to carry him through. The following is the vote: Emanuel R. Hawn, of Crawford county; IL J. Lockhart, of Delaware county; Joseph Y. Ballou, of Cass county;lsaac H. Montgomery, of Tipton county, and Horace E. JameS, of Jaapsr county, were named for Domination. The ballot resulted: Hawn-; 361; Locldtart, 189|; James,*l76; BkUou, 9?|; Montgomery, 208. The next ballot resalted in a nomination, Hawn receiving 535 votes; the Others having, Lockhart, 102; Ballou, 30; Montgomery 211, aud James, 147. .

The Supreme Court of Indiana has declared the State Constitutional Amendments, voted on at the spring election, unconstitutional. The amendments were passed by a Democratic legislature and overruled by Democratic Judges,consequently it is a Democratic measure. The constitution says any amend' meat to the instrument, aftei being adopted by two successive Legislatures, shall be submitted to the voters of the State, “and if a majority of said electors shall ratify the same, such amendment, or amendments, shall become * part of this constitution.” The Democrats commenced opposing these amendments when they learned that the Republicans were in favor of them, and being defeated at the polls they importuned the Supreme Judges to declare them unconstitutional, in which they were successful. The Supreme bench is occupied by two Republicans and three Democrats, and the last named declared that a “majority of said electors” means voters who did not vote as well as those who did vote, and those who did not vote they counted with those who voteef again st the amendments, thus defeating them. This is Democracy of the highest order, and worthy of every honest man’s—contempt. It really seems that Democratic officials of every grade can be bought and sold like pigs in the market, and perjure their souls for partisan purposes. By this decision the State election will be held in October, as heretofore.