Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — Foor Cardinal Republican Principles. [ARTICLE]

Foor Cardinal Republican Principles.

First— with the whole world Second—Conypexcial extension in every practicable directionThird—Encouragement of every form of American industry. Fourth—Protection to every citizen, native or naturalized, at home or abroad. —James G. Blaise, at Rochester, N.Y., Sept. 20, 1884.

Turn out and work. Americans profess to reverence, wovnanhood- They give the lie to their profession who vote to put one who 7>ebascs it into their proudest office. Turn out and vote for the straight JRepublican ticket. Mrs. Belva Lockwood says that all the Presidential candidates are married except G rover Cleveland, and all are fathers except herself. The Anurican home, is the basis oj American institutions and the glory oj our land. Their perpetuity and real prosperity depend upon its unity and the vigor of its life. These depend up on the purity of society, and the. work of the lecher is directed to undermining this. Not a single prominent religious paper in the whole country supports Grover Cleveland, except -one Catholic paper, the Boston Pilot.

Read the three extracts from Voorhees’ Greencastle speech before you decide to give your votes to a man who will help to retain that eloquent prince of demagogues, Copperheads and Fire-in-1 he - rear traitors, in the United States senate. The people have a right to know the character of the men who ask a chance to pass into history as those whom Americans delighted to honor. It />■ the dirty of the press to inform them. Those Democrats who can not conscientiously vote for the ignorant, incapable and immoral Grover Cleveland and design voting for the greatest American of his day, James G. Blaine, should be sure that they vote for all the Republican electors, and that their names are properly printed. Voters of Jasper county should not forget that Isaac P. Gray, the coward in war, the swindler in peace, has been proven, by irrefutable and overwhelming evidence.' to have been chief of a Know-; nothing lodge, at New Darke county, Ohio, and no denials from his lying tongue can alter the truth of the charge. Those who counted’on 20,000 Republican plurality in Ohio were not so far out of the way. The tote on Congressmen was the fairest test of the real strength o* the parties, and the aggregate Republican pluralities on Congressmen exceeds the Democratic pluralities by considerably more than 19,000.

Durbin Ward thanks Heaven for a “Solid South,” and wishes that the North may be. solid too. He will have his wish. A solid North is the proper answer to a sol id South. But there is this great and irreconcilable difference ba-, tween the two sections. The South 1 .1 • # ' is made solid by the power of fraud, persecution, shot-guns and tissue ballots. The North is made solid by the power of persuasion, appeals to reason, and to the peoples' setose of right and justice.

Torn out and vote. r This is the declaration of the plat- ■ form of the Independents: “I he par amount issue of the presidential election of this year is moral rather than political." ' e ■ - ..--..h1; E- 'L'L ." . . i The Republican pronounced Judge Ward a success at the close of his first term of court in Jasper county, and has never seen cause to retract that verdict. He has the confidence of the people, and deserved, what he will recej ve, a triumphant re-election. A big Republican meeting is to be held at Remington, next Moik day afternoon. Hon W. C. Wilson, ■ the Republican candidate for Attorney General, is to be the principle orator of the occasion, and he is a good one, as the people of Rensselaer well know. Durbin Ward has been to New York lately and he promised his hearers, last Tuesday, that the Democratic majority in that state, ;his fall, should not be less than 50,000 or 75,000. Tom Hendricks was In Ohio the very day before he late election, and, saying tjiat he had been over the state too much to be greatly deceived in his estimates, he said that the Democrats would carry the State by about 12,000 majority. As political prophets Ward and Hendricks are off the same piece.

Turn out early and for all day. Work anti watch, take warning and give warning. Be on your guard against fraud in the most subtle shapes, and falsehood in the most plausible forms. Guard especially against fraudulent tickets. Be sure that the ticket you vote was printed and sent out. by the proper persons. Be sure that all the 15 Presidential Electors’ names are upon the ticket, the right men and their names properly spelled.

Mr. John Makeever is going about contradicting a statement made by Mr. Owen regarding the price of salt under the free trade tariff of 1846. Dr. Thus. Antrim, the venerable and respected Recorder of Jasper county, is, to state it very mildly, at least as good authority as Mr. Makeever, and he says that he remembers well the time -when his father gave a good cow for a barrel of salt. There was, it is true, a brief period during which English salt was sold very cheap, but as soon as the American salt manufacturers were crushed, the price was raised to a point which more than justified Mr. Owen’s statement. The only ministers of any prominence in the whole country who are supporting Grover Cleveland are James Freeman Clark, of Boston, Beecher, of Brooklyn, Kalloch of San Francisco and Black, of Illinois. All of these except Clark have good reasons for a fellowfeeling with Cleveland, having all been, at some period of their lives, involved in scandals fatal to their : reputations. As for Clark, by his* own statement, he decided in favor of Cleveland upon no other evidence whatever except the latter's own statement that he was all right morally.

Last Tuesday, just one week before the election, the democratic* Supreme Court, of Ohio, for the purpose of gaining the favor of the liquor interest, decided the Scott® law unconstitutional.. A more flagrant prostitution of judicial power to political purposes, was never witnessed, except when the democratic Supreme Court of Indiana overtin ew the constitui tioual amendments in 1876. How long, Oh I.ord how long! will such countless thousands of well meaning peoplo-Te beguiled into believing that a party that can do such things as these is fit to wield the destinies of a great nation.