Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1883 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

The Spiingfield Republican treats the conduct of Southern leaders and newspapers in their sudden change from hostility to a caressing of Ben Butler ! under the general head of “Burying the ! Spoon. ” It would be worth millions to the ' Democracy if they had no Speaker to I elect this winter, and no committees to ' frame. That majority in the House ol Representatives is .the weight which j will drag them down in several ways in | 1884.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat j ■ I The Democratic State Committee of lowa has determined to test the efficacy | of money in the lively political contest i in progress in that State. A large cor- ! ruption fund has been raised, and is being distributed in sums of SSO and SSOO “for use on election day.” There : is little danger that the canvass can be 1 influenced in any such disgraceful manner.— <'hiriigo Tribune. The Republican party cannot help the negro over the obstacles of preju-; dice and ignorance at one bound. No party can. That problem lies above the possibilities of a party. It will be solved when the negro is fused into the citizenship of this country by means of education and the accumulation of wealth, intelligence and power. In this, as with the white race, the mani-: festation of success must be through j individuals. The ignorant negro can- j not advanqe with the educated and refined of his race. The poor cannot be j as independent as the rich.— Louisville Commercial. Every Republican State. Convention held this year has cordially approved of the administration of President Arthur. Both factions of the party unite; in honoring him. Probably he is not - liked by the leaders of either faction, but they are all conscious that his course has the approval and confidence of the people at large, and they dare not, in the face of dangers pressing on the party, leave out that expression of prai-e which the rank and file of the party demands, and which Mr. Ari tbwX’s. wise, eousevy o patriotic and honest course as President eminently deserves. — Xew York Herald. The Des Moines Register says: “As j thrilling a scene as ever occurred in the old Opera House, where so many thrill- ■ ing things have occurred, was the reply of Gen. Harrison to the Democral in the audience who interrupted him with the cry of ‘the bloody shirt again.* The reply of the General was so mag- * nifieent in manner and so electrieal in effect that the reporters all stopped ta listen to it and to look at the General, and never took down the splendifl j burst of a little speech at the time. W$ ! give this as neatly it: He was speaking of the war and its issues, and was going i along quietly but strongly, when a j voice rang out from the dress-circle, j ‘The bloody-shirt again. ” The (> Gen- j eral’s eyes flashed fire at the’ words, ! and, springing ■ forward to the foot* J lights, and holding his right hand! toward the person interrupting him, h« ' said,with a wonderful, electrifying powei ; which swept through the audience like a storm, ‘Yes, the bloody-shirt again! I j have seen thousands of them on the field of battle, wet with the blood oj loyal men —and I would a thousand times rather inarch under the bloody- i shirt, stained by the life-blood of 8 Union soldier, than to march under tbs t black flag of treason or the white flag of cowardly compromise.’ The effect was tremendous, and the audienct cheered the inspired little speech again and, again for over % minute’s time. The Democrat knows now what a cyclone is. He knows, too, what • j roused lion ia.* . " ‘ ~T~" C ' '