Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1880 — NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET.

JABES A. CARriELD,«fOW«. For Tk«4»rMM«*t r n»ST» R..4aTHC*,ofß.f. The EspabUc«£ BUt« Tisket Fur Oowmr, ■J ALBERT Q. POUTER, of Marion. IW Liec tenant Governor, THOMAS It ANNA, Of Potman. TerJwJffee of Supreme Conit, WtDlatrlrt, BY SOS K. ELLIOTT, of Xnriaa. , -JR District, WILLIAM A. WOODS, of EUfc«rt. For Secretary ot Stote, E. E. B AWN, of Crawford. For Auditor of tat*, ED. B. WOLFE, of Roan. . For Treasurer of SUM, ROSWELL A HILL, of dap. For Attorney General, DANIEL P. BALDWIN, of Cur For SaparfnteodeatPaMie Interaction, JOHN M. BLOSS, of Vamlerbarr For dark Of Sapneme Cofcrt, DANIEL BOTSE, of Tippecanoe. For Reporter of Supreme Coart, ‘ FRANCIS M. DICE, of Foaatnla. For Uonffraaa, MARK L. DrMOTT, of Porter. Far Joint Representative of Jaepernad New ton CountiM. WILLIAM W. GILMAN, of Netrton. For Pra—rntor no Both District, DAVID L. BI9HOPP. 00TJ1TY TICKET. For Trenearer. MOSEfrNk ALTER. For Sheriff, JOHN W. POWELL. • For Surveyor. LEWIS S ALTER. For Commie* loner of Second Dietrlet, ' GEORGE W. BURK. For Corooer, NORMAN WARNER. •

DeMotte is gaining ground. Alter is the coming treasurer. Lake will come to the fiont with big majorities for DeMotte. Benton county promisee two hundred majority for DeMotte. Glo. r.ous Benton. The Carrolf county Democrats bold their coanty convention next Saturday at Camden. * . ‘•Wise as serpents and Jiarmless aa doves” is good.—from a Democratic candidste lor congress. Ex Secretary Bristow ha* been claimed by thw Democrat's an ac> session. But Bristow says Garfield i ♦ his choice. Hancoc k is on deck with his letter; he wanted to wait tor Jer4, but the Democrats were getting irapa* tient and weary waiting. So the military chieftain sntied up. Nickel’.-* whs trimming his hedges down in Carpenter last week. He came home a sadder and a wiser man. He found that his {Political field was promising but a meager crop.

Oar county ticket is giving universal satisfaction. All over the county it is received with enthusiasm by Republicans, and many Democrats signify their intention to vote it. *'■ Tho attitade ot the Remington Heporter iu county politics is now unmistakably defined. Nickels was down there lust Friday, and no doubt a subsidize to tbe proper extent was assured. The Democrats of Benton failed to make all lovely at their conven-tion-July 24th, all owiDg to that Stomach that Skinner sent down there as his substitute; the Democrats down there declare it was a fraud. General Weaver in a recent speech at Wheeling admits that the worst has not been told regarding Democratic outrages in the, south. Ho says it is not safe for a Republican to live in Alabama or Mississippi. The returns firum Alabama indicate the nsual Democratic majorities. Weaver couldn’t convince'tbe confeds. They had their bullet* all moulded and their bowie knives newly Rharpvned for Republican and Greenback blood.

When Skinner forgot hia speech and did not know what else to say he said in his wiouing way, “My friends vie must be wise ns serpents and harmlcs? as-doves.” He bad reference to the proposed bargain and sale. He meant that the Democrats were wise, aud the Greenbackers, harmless.

Price is still in labor with that HttJe piece;, he will be delivered soon; ,his -renter, Clark, is-getting ’ uneasy lest the "Bow” should de* •troy all bit growing- com. Quite a large area in the middle of - the field has been broken down i» the Ira* tic efforts of* the yotmg Henry Clay. “'The worn and tattered bloody shirt will not be extensively intro doeed iato the present campaign.” . —Rochester Sentinel. It bias been universally introduced already by the Democrats according to the first sentence in the Democratic National platform from which we goote,. “We pledge oar. setatojeaew to the constitutions doctrine* #f tbe Democratic party:** Tne conetrtutional doctrines of the Democratic party have been to ketp the shirt bloody and consequently they dreaded the sight of tbe gory taJe|>re*dto the breeze by Republicans. Ton keep the shirt clean young man, and there’ll be no b jvdj shut in polities.

I 1 ' J I V I that candidal* is so ready in every tbmg to fuse with Democracy. “Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad.” Bamham is evidently mad. Gilman said, Sat nrday night, bis political belief wae that all men acted from hobest mo tivea be they Republicans, Demo eraU, or vbat not. It wee a little unkind In Mr. Gilman to denominate Bomham’e party “what note.” “What is it” would probably bare been more appropriate. A abort time previous to the Chicago conveotion Mr. Hendricks said: “I will tell yoa who I think the Republicans should nominate, and who I consider their strongest man; he is a true man, a man of principle, an bonost man, and would mako a good president for us. Personally, I consider him the best man you oould nominate. I refer to General James A. Garfield, of Ohio.” This is law and gospel to every Democrat in Indiana. Democratic mud mills, please take notlco.

General Manson, Democratic Auditor of State, says: It makes me road to bear or read of people call ing Mr. Porter “a kid glove candidate.” Such talk does Mr. Porter no barm, and is not oreditsblo to the people who imlage in it. Every one knows who knows anything, that Albert G. Porter is the very strongest.candidate that the Republicans could bave.nominated. I think ho is a good roan, and that he deserves all the respect In which be is held.” These are the words fitly spoken by a Democrat whose word noDemocrat a illdare impeach.

Onr cotemporary dcross the hall in conversation the other day claimed that the Republican party were responsible tor the war. We readily adroit it. Had there been no Republicans there would have been none to defend the Republic from Democratic traitors. He also claimed that Democrats helped put down the rebellion. Yes there were many true loyal Democrat*, many that loved the Union, and rejoiced in the flag of their country, that went gravely to the front in its defense. But the war was none the less Democratic for that.. Did Mac ever heai of Republicans volunteering in tho rebel army to*deatroy\ihe Union! Did hp ever hear of at Republican be longing to the orjrer of Sons ofLiberty or of the Golden Circle! Did he ever know of a Republican organization formed for the purpose of sending firearms and amuuition to aid of rebels in arms against the government! Did he or any other Democrat ever hear of a Republican rifle club or KnKlux Klan organized for raiding the country at night to shoot or whip defenseless men hecause they chose to differ in politics with their oppressor! Democrats did these things, they know it; and this is the reason that they beg that the dead past might bury its dead, they are afraid tolook upon their past recordThere is one thing certain, Demo critic Authority can not be impeach ed by Democrats, and Lyman Trnmble, Democratic candidate for Governor of Illinois, has said, “The Democratic party has never yet done an act that would comuuud it to the favorable consideration ot the people of the United Staten but, on the contrary, its traditions and its acts are now, and ever have been, a standing menace to the progress and civilization of the nineteenth century.”

We are about entering upon an important and exciting campaign. Upon the result of this fall’s elec lions depends the legislation and prosperity of ouroountry. We have to meet the same old enemy, thongb perhaps in somewhat varied forms, and settle again at tbe ballot-box, what we supposed had been decided on the battle-field. It behooves as every Republican to be at work, work earnestly, steadily and to a

pnrpose. Waste no idle words in fruitless discussion where no good can be accomplished. Indulge in no vain and approbius epithets. If we have virtue aud right on our side let us present our ideas and arguments in a manly way. In a manner that is calculated to attract tbe attention of tbe reading and thinking mi&det and awaken thought, which will-end in oonviction. Indulge inmHh mg which appeals to the lower p.redjnices of mankind, and awakens the bad in our nature. It is often said that tbe pool ot politics is a dirty one. This need not he so. Our groat political lights, who are opening up the campaign in other parts of the oountry, have taken a higher stand and areiwnumerating a more worthy cause-in their presentation of the political truths of the day. There is a class of voters in our midst who desire to vote for tbe best. Perhaps never before, in time of peace, are tbe people of the country, seeking more earnestly for political truth. Let

those who perpetrate them are open to more gray* charges than the attacked. Theft let as in this cam Krrrsr,ri£r~ side of the question in snch a way as to rescb tho heart snd mind of onr hesrers sod renders, snd if w# fsil to convince We will, at least secure the respect of opponcnta. X.