Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1882 — Election next Tuesday. [ARTICLE]

Election next Tuesday.

Look out for campaign lies fired ofl at the last day. It is an old democratic trick often practiced in Jasper county. If the republican voters of Indiana will observe the three following injunctions their success will be as certain as the 7th of Nov. comes. The first is; Turn out and vote. The second: Turn out and vote. The third: TURN OUT AND VOTE. More than any other office to be filled this year, with the possible exception of congressman, the state senatorship is strictly political in its character. The republican who allows personal considerations to decide him to vote for Mr. Hoover for that office has failed his party in “the hour of its utmost need.” Voorhees declares that democratic success means death to the amendments. English says the same thing.. McDonald and Hendricks say the same. The Indianapolis Sentinel, the state organ of the democratic party declares that democratic success means death to the amendments. Temperance democrats, by hundreds and by thousands, the best men in the party all over the state, all say the same thing and are using their best efforts to defeat their own party. The temperance democrat who allows himself to be deceived by •tyat miserable juggle of words in the democratic platform is “duller than that fat weed which roots itself in ease in Lethe's wharf.”

Ohio was lost to the republicans because 75,000 of them stayed away from the polls. Let eveiy Hoosier Republican turn out, and Indiana will have a splended Republican majority. The Republican platfoßm says that a man may be just as good a republican whether he favors pro. hibition or opposes it. The democratic platform says that unless a man is “especially opposed” to prohibition, he is no democrat. There is no question but that a clear majority of the voters of Indiana are republican in principle . It rests with them to decide whether the shameful disaster which has overtaken Ohio is to be repeated in Indiana. Moie than 75.000 republican voters staid away from the polls in Ohio on that day of dark disgrace. Will the republicans of Indiana subject themBelves to a reproach so shameful as that? Our cause is right in the sight of heaven, let our efforts be worthy of the cause and our victory will be assured. ■BBonm The Sentinel of course declares that the very unpleasant revelations which appeared in the last Republican are falsehoods. That of course was to be expected, but for our part we have no doubt that every allegation reflecting upon the democratic candidates could be substantiated in a court of justice Take for instance the fifty dollar check cashed by Farmer at the Goodland bank, Now there is no question whatever about the check. Does any intelligent man believe there is any question as to the purpose for which the check was given ? Mr. A. J. Yoeman, who probaly understands the circumstances as well or better than anybody else, says that Farmer is a poor man, and has a right to sell his political influence for money.

The Democratic Sentinel has reiterated, until it really almost 6eems to believe, a certain silly statement to the effect that this paper some weeks ago made some ‘‘damaging admissions” in regard to some of the republican county candidates. It professes to find the evidence of the said“aclmissions” in a sentence which occured in a certain contributed article in i which the writer, in making a point ngiiust some insinuations of the Sentinel, used words Jthe plainly intended meaning of which j was as if we were to say: “If we I grant for the Bake of argument that some of our candidates do not represent life-long sobriety.” And what if we were to use an expression to the same effect again and say that “if we grant for the sake of argument that possibly some of the republican candidates do not represent “life-long sobriety?’’ In every church you will find plenty of men who do not “represent life long sobriety.” In the Blue Ribbon temperance society of Rensselaer you will find a large i number of men who “do not represent lifelong sobriety.” On the democratic ticket, can be found without trouble, men who do not represent “life long sobriety.” On the democratic county central committee, are two very conspicous examples of men who do not represent “life-long sobriety.” But it is what men now are, and not the venial faults of the past, that just men, consider in forming their estimates of character. But there fire no admissions to be made in regard to the republican ticket except the admission which every truthful democrat must make that all the republican candidates are honest, sober,, moral and capable men, and who will ail be elected next Tuesday ‘‘and don’t you for get it. «

Shall the people rule by upholding right doctrines or shall the “liquor league” deceive us to our hurt/

Moses B. Alter is a most faithful officer who on the very eve of the election remains at the desk as attending to the public business. The people will saj by their votes '‘well done.” Remember, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Let every republican be at the polls on Tuesday next, and work and watch. We are at war with the money of the whiskey league, and only vigilance and hard work will route the enemy. Do not be indifferent this “off year,’’ but rally in full force, put your shoulder to the wheel and send the old republican car to the front, where it belongs, in this year of grace 1882. The result in Ohio has had no effect upon the republicans of Indiana except to teach them the necessity of harmony and hard work. The lesson has been taken to heart and its suggestions have been acted upon. Republican prospects in Indiana are most excellent. Only get out the vote and the state is ours, the legislature is ours, and the doubtful congressicnal districts are ours. Let us go in and win. John W. Powell, in war a brave soldier, in peace a good citizen, has performed the duties of sheriff in a quiet and unostentatious, but intirely satisfactory manner for the past two years. Can it be possible that any man, democrat' or republican, who has the public good at heart, could wish to see him succeeded by the man whose name appears upon the democratic ticket for the same office?