Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1883 — A Democratic Dilemma. [ARTICLE]

A Democratic Dilemma.

The Lafayette Courier angrily . denies the statement that Netting has been lionized and petted, ?,fter the manner in which fashionable female fools often treat murderers and ravishers of other women. “They Say,” the Rensselaer correspondent of the Remington News,’’appears to scent a scandal, afar oil and lifts up his ears and cries, ha; ha’! in the following ' words: ■ uA'../' '■ “Rensselaeris not clear of sea’dal and there will be something slightly sensations! among some of the “tony” ones if some of their acts should happen to come to light, and they will, if they are not careful.

y n should exercise the right lie lias, under the law, to take a change of venue from Benton county, as it seems quite probable that he will, from fear of lynching, in Fowler, the case would, quite probably, be sent to Rensselaer for trial, as Newton county has no jail. ' A full account of the late deciEion of the United IStatesHynpreme, court declaring the civil rights law unconstitutional, except •in the District of Columbia, and the Territories, will be found upon our inside pages. This decision is probably good law, but very poor justice- In any case the good work in the cause of equal rights, which the law has already accomplished, cannot be taken away. Deputy prosecutor AVatson announces his intention to clear out the gambling den over a business room on Washington street. This establishment has long been a fountain head of depravity m our midst, and if Mr. Watson goes to work in dead earnest to rid our community of its pernicious presence, he will do a-good service and recieve the co-operation and commendations of all good citizens.

Rress. . The Ohio Democrats tvon their victory on the basis of the Scott law, which they’ will not dare to rck pcal, and in favor cif higher duties on wool, which they will be too cowardly to impose. Their success is dearly bought, because it will compel them either to fulfill ’ heir promises or dodge them. With the devil on one side and the deep «ea an the other, they are “welcome to the thorny bed o’ their victory.”

It does not take a good memorv or an old man to remember that the democrats were loud and open in the assertion that in time United States bonds would be only worth the paper they were printed Upon. It is something to see these same statesmen anxious because so few of them are left unredeemed. The currency of the United .States, the best the world ever saw, and the entire financial policy of the Nation is Republican in eve rysense and the less Democrats say the better[lnter-Ocean. After the democratic papers have finish their silly crowing over the result in Ohio, if they will take time to consider the matter, in a rational manner, (if they ever do consider anything in a rational banner), they will find that their victory their is not worth nearly so much as they would seem to believe. Not only is their majority of last year greatly reduced; but an impartial study of the returns shows that had not Urge nnmbers of republican voteiß, in the country districts stayed away from Ute polls, probably on account of not wishing to take liles on the prohibition question, the state would have gone republi-