Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1883 — Rail-Road Petition. [ARTICLE]

Rail-Road Petition.

The Lafayette Sunday Leader has been sold to Ross Gordon and Charles F. Williams. Gordon will manage the business and Williams the editorial depart iiieiit. The devil doesn’t begin to hate holy-water as badly as we hate to pay money to a railway corporat < ji. Nevertheless when it comes to be a question of either giving a tow.dollars to a railroad company and receiving m return many dollars worth of benefits, or of refusing the few dollars and sustaining many dollars worth of injury, we ;re most decidedly in favor of whacking up the few dollars. Sells Brothers advertise extensively, The Rensselaer exhibition *>£ their fshows, in Remington, Goodland, fKentland and Lowell; both in the newspapers and by bills. The showmen tell us that ! 0,000 people will be in Rensselaer on the day of the show. They have possibly overestimated the number, to the extent of not less than some dozens of persons; but, nevertheless, we believe ourselves, that, the show will draw an immense crowd, and that its merits realty deserve that it should.

The Kansas City Journal thus’elaborately states the Democratic case. The platform adopted by the Democratic State convention of Ohio is, to use a slang phrase “a daisy.” It rein ui ns one of the late lamented Samuel J. Tilden’s political letters, Bayard’s puech at the Iroquois banquet, or Senator McDonald on the tariff, in its verbosity, and hopeless muddiness. Translated into intelligible English, it reads: Resolved, first—We are the Democratic party and sole legatees of Thomas Jefferson’s principles and trade marks (no explanation given.) Second—We want the whole party. Third— And we mean to have it. Fourth—That is if wo can get it. Fisth —And don’t you forgot it. S;xth—We want it distinctly understood that we do not straddle the tariff question. We go it blind—and doaf, and wou’d like to go it dumb. We want a tariff for old women and young women, rich and poor men; for revenue ».o!y; but we want the wool men of )hiq protected. We want a tariff for everybody, and will arrange all inonslstcnces after we are elected. Seventh—We believe in pensioning . oldiers, protecting our citizens, havn*/ permanent money, and paying off he public debt. The Republican party .as done this, but d—n the Republican parly. Eighth—No monopolies, except the ' life-bolding by Ohio Democrats. N do not know Ben Butler. Tenth—High license, but free whisky. Eleventh—Thomas. Jefferson —Constitution of the United States—the inti humble rights of States—hie John Sherman be blanked—hie—whoop!

• The following is a copy of the. essential portions of the petition: “We the undersigned resident freeholders of Marion Township. * * * ask that said * * * Township make an appropriation of to aid the Rochester* Rensselaer & St. Louis Railway Company * * in constructing its railway through said township. Payable when said railway shall be completed and fenced through said township on an east and west line * * * and a depot built within threefourths of a mile of the Court House, in Rensselaer, Indiana. Ceorge M. Johnson, L J. Porter, W. H. Bergman. R. B. Porter, H. W. Wood, D. H. Yeoman, C. J. Brown, PI. A. Criswold, L. L. Daugherty, W. S. Coen, J. AI. Wasson, C. U. Stackhouse, A. Ale Coy, \V. (1 Pierce, T. J. McCoy, W, H. Churchill, S. T. Warren, Walhiec Robinson, John: Makeever, Jacob Kiglesbacb, Ralph Fondig, David Nowels, A*. Leopold, R. Y. Martin, J. W. Duvall, and 92 others.