Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1880 — The Result And What Caused It. [ARTICLE]

The Result And What Caused It.

As Seen by a Democratic gutacmaa Who Had aa Inside view at tha Whole Boainoaa. O. O. Stealey’o Dispatch to the Lonisville Courier Journal. Satan and the Republican party have triumphed. The bloody shirt and money and imported fraudulent votes did win- We have lost nearly everything ; aava honor Time, labor, money, prestige—evry thing. Ido not propose to plead the baby aoh I am not that kind. I went down yesterday with 225,800 us brave and gallant an army of political fighters as ever existed* God knotfe that the masses of the Democratic party in Indiana did* their doty yesterday * f * * + Then again the Greonbackers con* tributed to Democratic defeat. The Greenback party, or the Nation al party, has been the corse of the democratic party .in the Nation for years. It has been the harlot

(bat the Democrats, have trailed upon to their coat. “Nominate Landers and the Greenbackers will vote for him,’* was the ery, and Landers waa nominated. The nomination of Franklin Lacidett was a mistake * * * * * After the November election I shall write op the inside management of the late Slate camppin. I do not give up Indiana to though the fight to gain it wlßne tremendous. O. O. Stealcy was a member of the elate executive eummittee and knowa all about the aly and tuner movements of bis party. Republicans should take fair heed and not lorgel that “Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty.” Greenback- : era will not certainly vote to aid a party which calls them “cusses” and Harlots. Tbo Republicans regard truo greenbackers with respect but fusion with the Democrats deserves condemnation.