Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1881 — Electioneering in Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Electioneering in Indiana.

Correspondence N. Y. Time*. * If electioneering produces thought and inquiry .there is enough in Indiana to enlighten any number of new citizens. Men have voted ten times during the last six months, and are sick and tired of it and of the sight of a man stamping his feet and waving his hands, talking about the government. However, they have attended thoroughly to the voting. The Legislature this year has been the ideal oue, far superior, Hoosiers think, to the “tramp Congress” at Washington. It was Republican, it was anti-liquor, and It was woman's rights. Indiana’s legislators meet only once in two years (oh. happy Indiana!) finish their business" In two months, and depart from the capital. If they do not, every newspaper In the State begins to call them blockheads and idiots, and wants to know why they don’t get done and get out. They do business rapidly, without dallying. They run bills through like leed through a straw cutter. They make speeches of the shortest, smartest, most impassioned description, not about “the party,” nor about the everlasting interests of the laboring man; they are laboring men themselves. The chair is prompt and dignified. The legislators meet in a spirit of comradeship and good fellowship aud to advance the prosperity of the State. A few crafty visages are seen among them, for they mostly show frank countenances that match well with their thickly-thatched heads and dibble frames. Soma have true aquiline features,regular eagle bealy; Some the fair, honest looks of tpe Northern races! others belong to tne darker families or mankind. One oould not ask for a better set of men to. rule the State. “The roaring, million-headed, unreflecting” (see T. Carlyle) has not yet upset Republican institutions in Hoosierdom.