Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1884 — WILL the Democratic House of Rep [ARTICLE]

WILL the Democratic House of Rep

resentatives dare order an investigation into the election of 1880 ? Democratic newspapers are blowing themselves red in the face about the matter, but thus far no Democratic representative has had the hardihood to make a movement in the House to secure an inquiry. The Journal has frequently invited the most searching scrutiny. Doubtless the scope of the investigation would be enlarged so as to include the campaign of 1876. Our Democratic friends should not allow a single day to elapse before they put this investigation on foot. —lndianapolis Journal. If there had been no ex-Confedera"tes among the Mexican soldiers, the Democratic House of Representatives would not have reached the Mexican pension bill as it did. This is one of the cold facts, the bearing of which lies in the application. It is a straw. — Indianapolis Journal. A Democratic exchange asks the question, “Why should the Democratic party wish to dodge the tariff question There are two reasons. One because it is afraid of it, and the other because it is so used to dodging that it cannot well help it. —Chicago Tribune. A wistaria planted in front of a house in New York fifty years ago still flourishes, and its huge branches envelop the bouse like the arms of an octopus. When in leaf it covers one side of the house and forms thick arbors over an area and the Btoop. No signs of decay are manifest, and every spring a wealth of blossoms relieves the dullness of red brick along the street. The London Telegraph thinks the time is not far distant when eve -y nightfarer will carry his own ray or electricity abont him, inclosed within the compass of a machine not larger .than the watch now ticking in his pocket