Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1884 — REPUBLICAN TICKET. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN TICKET.

FOR PRESIDENT. JAMES G. BLAINE, of Maine. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. JOHN A. LOGAN, of Illinois.

Did you hear the news from Maine? The Hon. - XV. H. Calkins will speak at Goodland, on Sept. 24th, .•at 2 o’clock p. m. Senator Hoar, Seator Sherman, Senator Edmunds, Gov. Porter, Petroleum X. Nasby and even Jeff I’a vis, all have something to say, our inside pages this week. “What is one man’s meat is another man's poison,” —when the ”bne man’’ is "a republican and the "‘other man” is a democrat, and the revs from Maine is to be digested. Our political supplement and our inside pages are both full of valuable and suggestive campaign literature. The letter from Senator Hoar, on one of our inside pages, is especially deserving of attention.

A prominent citizen remaiKed, a few days ago that the Hon. J. M. Butler was the only Indiana orator whom he preferred ,to the Hon. W. IV. Curry. Mr. Butler, is, indeed, a “mighty .man of words” and the political supplement, which accompanies this issue of The Republican is of more than ordinary value from the fact that in it is publisher in full one of the best speeches Mr. Butler ever made.

Us all the states which presented candidates before the last National Republican Convention. Vermont was the most bitterly disappointed. The people of that state were terribly in earnest in lheir desire for Mr. lEdmunds’ nomination; as well they might be for. he is a man well worthy o all honor. Under such circumstances, it Would not have been a matter for much surprise had there been a sufficient falling of in the Republican majority in tha state, at the recceut state election, to have justified, iu some degree, the false assertions of the democrats that the state has been earned, “by greatly reduced majorities.” We repeat t hat -under the circumstances, it would not have been surprising had there really lieen a serious falling off in the republican vote; but the facts really are that the majority is only two or three thousand less than it was four years ago, and is many Giousands greater than it was in ’BB2. It is mighty cold comfort the democrats extract from the result in V-drmont.

It is quite ttee common practice for democrats, Y’hen in conversation with temperance republicans, to profess to have great respect for iuen who vote for their principles, and to declare tSiat if they lieved in prohibition t&ey should vote for that palty; but no one ever hears them advancing such arguments in the heaYing of such men, sot instance, as the chairman of their county central ■committee, ft gentleman who has done mole talking in kfavor of prohibition than dny man in the county, as we Mlieve, yet who does not allow prohibition princi■l- interftr- in ihe len-* . kgi-pr-nHMhe zeal with which lit supparty which is the' of prohibition in B platform A ■■ bit ■ « fcmocrats who are so temper;.. the prose.

urn their attentions towards prolibition democrats, occasionally. They ought to remember that so long as they devote all their attenions of this kind to Republicans ex- clusively, that the sincerity of their motives will be quite certain to be called in question. Another and, perhaps, stronger reason why these very di democrats should try to induce Jthe professed prohibitionists, of their own political persuasion, to vote the prohibition ticket, is because the democratic party of the state-is •the avowed enemy of prohibition, and the prohibitionist who votes for the democatic party, stultifies his moral convictions; while, upon the other hand, there is no reason why a prohibitionist republican can uotconsistently and conscientiously vote for the state ticket of his party. It is true the Republican party of Indiana has not taken sides upon the .prohibition question, in either way, but it has declared that if it secures legislative and executive control of the state, it will give the people a chance to form a new constitution, and surely the prohibitionists can ask for no better opportunity for securing a vote of the people upon the question of constitutional prohibition, than will be offered at a constitutional convention.

Hon. W. W. Curry had s splendid meeting at Monticello last Saturday night. There was a'fine torch-light procession, and a "Crowd too large-to get within doorsand the meeting was accordingly held in the open air. Mr. Curry went from this place to Hammond, where he had an appointment for Tuesday night.