Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Rewember that The Republican, is now to be found up stairs in Mrs. Hemphill’s building, on Washington street. ■ _ ”1 Attention is called to die pro T gramme of the entertainment to I lie given by Mrs. Eva Kirsclj, on the evening of the 28th. which appears in this issue of this paper. A large, illustrated Holiday supplement, possessing many valuable beautiful features, will be issued with The Republican next week. It will be worthy of a thorough reading and careful preservation. Chicago has been chosen as the site of the next Republican National Convention, and the third I of June selected as the date of its meeting. After Indianapolis Chicago is the most satisfactory to Indiana people of any place that could have been chosen, “The- fool hath said in his heart” 10l the Great Republican Party is a defunct institution and. the democrats will have a walk-over- at the next general election; but the man of wisdom, whether he be democrat or republican knows well within himself that the Republican party is still full of vast vitality, and prepared for an energetic and probably successful campaign next year. The Washington Critic, in speaking of the representative of this district says: “Hon. Thomas J. Wood, of Indiana, seems, to be pretty well up in the matter of spoils. He may be lucky, Im may be shrewd. At any rate he is said to have raked in 1,300 agricultural reports from the Agricultural Department the other day. Some Republican members are complaining that they cannot get any”. It is pretty broadly hunted that Mr. Wood, thinks that his party in this state might do a great deal worse than to make him their next candidate for governor. Unlimited cheek goes a great way in the Democratic party,—as witness the exalted position of Bil 1 Spring er, of Illinois—and Tom may get these-yet.

Tn E North American Revtiic for January presents a table ©f contents possessing in the highest degree the character of contemporary human interest. First, the opposite sides of the question of “Ecclesiastical Control in I tah” are set forth by two representative men, whose competence for the of th* tes.kunder taken by them respectfully admits of no doubt, viz. t President John Taylor, the official head of the Mormon Church, and the Hon, Eli H- Murray, Governorof the Territory of Utah. Senator John L Mitchell writes of the “Tribulationsot the American Dollar/’ recounting the strenuous efforts of the people oft the United States to extinguish the national debts, and contending that it is ©ur imperative duty to-day to settle .definitely the question, whether we shall haye dollars of unequal commercial value in justments,” the Rev. Dr. J. H. Rylance insists upon the necessity of eliminating from the formularies of belief and from the current teachings of the churches, whether in the pulpit or in the Sunday-school, all doctoriness and all statements of supposed facts which have been discredited by the advance of exeeretical scholarship, and by the progress of naturafseience. Sena* tor Henry W. Blair, taking for his theme “Alcohol in Polities,” declares his belief that another irrepressible conflict is at hand, and advocates the subto the people of an amendment to the United States Constitution prohibiting the manufacture, sale and importation of intoxicating liquors. No one who read in the Decern ber Jicriete the first half ot “The Day of Judgement,” Gail Hamilton's incisive review of the domestic life of Thomas Carlyle, will forego the pleasure of perusing the latter half in the current number. “Evils Incident to Immigration”, by Edward Self, is a forcible statement of the mischiefs wrought by the importation into our social and political life of an enormous annual contingent from the lowest stratum of the population of Europe. Finally, the subject of “Bribery by Railway Passes' * is discussed by Übarles Aldrich and Judge N. M. Hubbard. Published at 30 Lafayette Place, stew York, and for sale by booksellers jpescrally- ■ . . ■