Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1883 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

The Democratic cry of “turn the rascals out” doesn’t consist They are already out, and have been for more than twenty years. The trouble is that the “rascals” want in. # The Brooklyn Times thinks that Robert Lincoln, of Illinois, and Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut, would make the strongest Presidential ticket that could be put into the field. The New York Times’ correspondent, after making an exhaustive survey of the Democratic political situation in Indiana, has arrived at the conclusion that the general sentiment of the Hoosier Democrats is in favor of the ticket of 1876—Ti men and Hendricks. The New York Sun promises a “Solid South” to the right kind of Democratic Presidential candidate. The right kind of a candidate has not yet been selected. But is it not a little risky to promise the votes of Virginia, Florida, North Carolina and even Delaware thus early.

A party continually whining that its members at election times are bodght and sold like so many sheep st the shambles, will never merit the confidence of the country, and so long as it persists in running on this degraded and degrading level it need expect nothing but defeat — Indianapolis Journal. The Ohio Democrats are beginning to get frightened about the attitude of the independent voters. The independent voter is usually a tax-payer, to seldom or never a saloontot; so the Ohio Democrats need have no doubt that the independents will vote against Hoadly, the saloon candidate, and for Foraker and the enforcement of the law. The cyclone and the floods have done a good deal of damage this year, and Democrats have had hopes of the Stato bugs, worms, grasshoppers, and ought until now. It will be noticed that that party is never fat except in seasons of disaster. When whiskyjto free, and gloom settles over the home* of the.touers, Democracy to strongest and noisiest.— lnter Ocean.