Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1883 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

Keep the rascals out. . Don’t “turn the rascals out* of the peniteutiaries in Ohio for-they will vote the Democratic ticket.— Chicago Journal. The New York Herald calls attention to the harmony among New York Republicans, and the bi iter animosities existing among the Democrats. Tue Rochester Post-Express wants “short party platforms.” The Democracy might simply say: “Resolved, that the Democratic party wants the offices,” and let all the rest be understood. A great many Democrats claim to be in favor of the “old ticket.” Let us gently inquire, which “old ticket?” Buchanan and Breckinridge, McClellan and Pendleton, Greeley and Blair, Tilden and Hendricks, or Hancock and English ? The public land disposed of in Dakota the current year to private individuals aggregates twenty-seven times the total acreage of the State of Klio'ile Island, and yes there are Democratic statesmen who declare it is only a howling waste, and has no right to become' a State. A pap.agraph is being extensively circulated which coveys the intelligence that “a full-blooded negro in Logan county, Ark., is gradually growing white.” The Democratic party may well pray that this piece of new is true, for it has repeatedly been assured that it could hope tbblot out its disgraceful record when the Ethiopian changed his skin.— NdtD York Tribune. The Cincinnati Enquirer is trying to drive Senator Pendleton out of the Democratic party, principally because he is decent. Pendleton always did feel a good deal ashamed of his political associates, and has many a. time suffered a loss of self-respect because he had to train with the toughs and thugs and blackguards of Ohio. They have always called him “Gentleman George,” and have generally acknowledged his social, moral, and intellectual superiority, but not until now have they endeavored to expel him from their carle. “The Republican party must go.” Ylie demand was made in 1860. But the party didn’t go. The demand was repeated in 1864. But the party remained. The demand was encored in 1868. But the party stayed. The demand was again encored in 1872. But tlie party was still there. The demand* with a colossal appetite annex, was yet again pressed in 1876. v But the party retained its place. The demand, gain* ihg voice, if not strength, from a famished stomach, was the vociferation that fatigued the echoes of 1880. But the party continued to do business at the old stand. The demand is to be made again next year. The party will continue not to go, by a large majority. But, as usual, something will go. Aa usual, it will be the Democratic party, —New York Tribune.