Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1884 — He Knows Them. [ARTICLE]

He Knows Them.

A New Ybrk publisher of Bibles recently received an extensive ofder from the proprietor of one of Chicago’s largest hofelsT for “fine, showy Bibles, with handsome covers. ” Surprised at the order he asked the hotel man: “What Jo you intend to do with them ?” “Place them in the guests’ rooms. You see I have made arrangement to keep a lot of Democratic delegates to the convention, and I want to give them everything new and novel and what they are unaccustomed to.” “But would you not like to have the hotel’s name stamped on the cover ? It will cost but little and prevent their being stolen,” said the publisher. “Oh, no,” replied the other. “It is unnecessary. They won’t steal them." —Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. The Democratic party has followed the Bepublican party to Chicago. It has utterly failed to agree upon any scheme of tax reduction. If it cannot agree upon any legislative reform in Congress, it cannot in convention. It has flung aside the Ohio Senator wao made an effort to collect the millions which the Pacific railroads owe. It has crushed another Ohio Senator who dared to advocate civil-service reform. Now it is proposed that its nomination shall be tossed about from one millionaire to another till one is found willing to lead it in a mere offic-seeking raid, with nothing inscribed on its banner except “Turn the rascals out.” As a party, it has survived some terrible tests of its vitality, and it may not die of the doses with which its nurses are now cramming its nauseated stomach.— 67. Louis Post-Dispatch {Dem.) The same weapon which Kelly holds over the Democracy of the State he holds over the Democracy of the nation. No general account or plan of action can be made up without Kelly. And this is the party which depends mainly on the cry of purification in high places for its campaign material. There is a law of compensation in politics as well as in other things, and this apparently unavoidable bargain with Tammany, though it may bring into the Democracy a large number of votes in New York City, will enlarge the Bepublican majority in Other parts of the State sufficient to offset it. And Tammany is certainly an is expensive to the Democracy in the country at large.— St. Louis GlobeAll the facts of history are against the “old fraud” of Gramercy Park, and yet he has the mendacity to claim that he suffered wrong in 1876, a wrong which it is now all too s late to rectify. This stuff and fustian cannot bo imposed upon the American people. The court? were open to Tilden at any time after Mr. Hayes had been declared the lawfully elected President of the United States, but the Democratic pretender did not dare to submit the validity of bis title to the scrutiny of an incorruptible judiciary His own party discarded the idea of his having suffered wrong in 1876 by refusing to nomtiate hhn in 1880, and the L'emocrats dare not place themselves in position to try conclusions on this matter next fall.—Cleveland Leader. . Gen. Chalmers, of Mississippi, has addressed an able and eloquent letter to the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Independent party in his State, in which he advises his political adherents to co-operate with the Republicans in favor of' free elections, free schools, and the protection of American industries. <He vigorously denounces the methods of the Democratic party in his State, and charges them with resorting to fraud and force to prevent the honest expression of the people of Mississippi. They have, be says, violated the national and State law to prevent the majority of the voters from pronouncing upon questions of public policy. — Chicago Tribune. The Republican tariff idea boiled down is: ■ American patronage for the mechanic who eats American broad and pays American taxes.