Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1884 — REPUBLICAN TICKET. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN TICKET.

FOR PRESIDENT. JAMES (L BLAINE, of Maine. FOP. Vlt F.-I’REsI PENT. /OHN A. LOGAN, of Illinois. TOK GOVERNOR. WILLIAM 11. CALKINS. .. .. — Of LaPorte Co. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, EUGENE BUNDY. Of Henry <o. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE. ROBERT MITCHELL, Cff Gibson C o.“ FOR AUDITOR OF STATE. BRUCE CaRR-, -- 7 O f Oran ge Col JOR TREASURER OF STATE. ROGER R. SHI EL, Of Marion Co, FOR ATTORNEY GENEgAL, WILLIAM C. WILSON. Of Tippecanoe Co. i'OR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT. EDWTN P. HAMMOND, Of Jasper Co. FOR REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT, WILLIAM M. HOGGATT, Of Warrick Co. FORSUPT. OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, BARNABAS U. HOBBS, Of Parke Co. .FOR CONGRESSMAN. TENTH DISTRICT. WILLIAM D. OWEN, of Cass county. FOR JUDGE, noth JUDICt-Al. CiRCUIt; PETER H. WARD, of Newton county. For Prosecuting, Att'y. fflith. Judicial Circuit. MATTHEW 11. WALKER, of Benton Co.

Out of the sixteen prominent Irish Catholic Journals in the United States, eleven are earnestly supporting Blaine and logan; two refuse to support Cleveland and Hendricks, and give the Republican ticket a -quasi support, and only three support the Democratic ticket.

There is no longer room for a reasonable doubt but. that Grover Cleveland is a selfish libertine and debauchee of the grossest and beastliest description. What course his party managers will take in the premises yet remains to be seen, but we believe that they will soon be forced to reraovp him from their ticket; but should they persist in retaining him as their candidate, w 6 doubt not but that the decent, virtue loving democrats of the country will repudiate him in such vast numbers that his defeat will be more universal and overwhelming than any candidate of his party has ever sustained.

Last week some of the democratic papers of this district sent out a supplement containing what was alleged to be the speech Thomas J. <x>d made at Rensselaer, upon accepting the nomination for Congressman. The speech as printed is a labored document, full of long tables and dull arguments, and bears little resemblance, indeed, to the demagogic, ungrammatical and §elf laudatory harangue the honorable Thomas really delivered in the Rensselaer Opera House, on tire occasion above referred to. An abler and wiser hand than his has evidently 7 Been at work upon it and pruned it of its most glaring egoisms and corrected his faulty grammar. Of such sentences as the ones given below, and in which his original speech abounded, we find but few in the revised speech. We quote Mr. Wood’s exact language: *‘l made a speech on the tariff question which I suppose you have all read.” “I made a reputation on the tariff question in the last Congress that extended far outside of my vwu district.”

The Democratic county convention is called for next Saturday, at the court house. It will be quite contrary to established demociatic policy to nominate a ticket before the Republicans nominate theirs, and no one need be greatly surprised should they find some pretext for adjourning their contention until after the Republic an primary election.

The democratic papers of the East are publishing the statement Ohio not one is for Blaine and that of the seventeen German papers of Logan. The Toledo Blade, corrects this palpable falsehood and gives the nanw±jgf_ thirteen German papers of Ohio that are giving a hearty support to BlaineThe Blade’s article concludes with these words: Ibis gives thirteen German papers supporting Blaine. Not' ofc German Republican paper has refused to support him, and theToledo Express supports the Republican ticket for the first time in several year's. The German, Republicans are all in line, active and full of enthusiasm.”

Before and during the war Harper’s Weekly maligned and insult_ed_Abraham Lincoln and his administration as bitterly and as wickedly as it now maligns and insults Mr. Blaine. Even as late as 1863 it published some of the most brutal and libelous cartoons of himself and members of his cabinet, and it was only -when it became certain that the Union cause would succeed that it, at last, gave a reluctant support to that side. Its present course against Blaine is fully as base as its war record. The cause for its enmity has just been clearly explained: About the time that Mr. Blaine was preparing to publish his history, 3. W. Harper, the head of the house of Harper & Brothers, wrote ft letter to a near friend of Blaine’s full of the most fulsome compliments to the latter, and solicting the job of publishing his book; Mr. Blaine looked elsewhere for a publisher and since that day Harper’s Weekly has JyeenJhis unrelenting enemy.'