Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — The Vote on Congressman. [ARTICLE]

The Vote on Congressman.

1 Cleveland, according to the figures, has a majority of the popular vote of the country, as well as the electoral. But a popular majority for a Democratic candidate, considering the means by which it is secured, has no moral value. The Democrats of the Solid So nthmake their majorities whatever is most convenient, and let them go at that. If, however, the Eresident was elected by a direct vote of the people, the Republican vote in those states would be practically nothing. But in the free, progressive and intelligent North, where elections are really, in most cases, a fair expression of the ■opinions of the people, the popular vote has a moral significance. Here is a little table of figures which shows what the people who have a fair chance to express their opinions, think of the relative claims to their confidence of the Republican and Democratic parties: FLCKALITIRS FOK BLAINE. California. .13,319! Nebraska2o.ooo ■Colorado :1.k»59 : Nevada 1.38(1 111in0i5.25.31W Xciv Hampshire 4.O«Hi lowa is.7i2io.hio 81.302’ -jiansr.s Ci.34o;O:’egoii 2,020 —-Maihre-r-.- . : . .20,awiTon'nsy lvsnTra ~SROtsr Massachusetts.. . 24.195] Rhode Island ... .'■>.(•>2o Michigan 4,007 Vermont 22,740 Minnesota4l,77n|WiscotiMti 15,000 T0ta1393,031 rU RALITIEe FOR CLEVELAND. Connecticut I.S2JNew York 1.07 S New Jersey4,sll,lndiana .5,70(1 Total ... . .. ............. 12,tw0 .Uiaine’s Northern majority3Bs,42s

The revised official table oi the votes -cast for Congressmen in this state, at the recent election, has been published, and for L the Tenth District is as follows. by counties: TENTH DISTRICT. Owen (K ) Wood (I) ) Lake 2.08 a 2,049 Porter 2,531 1,880 Newton 1.154 73:1 Jasper 1,305 927 Pulaski.. . . ............ 1.010 1,447 FHI ton .. 1,992 2.985 ■........... ::,«»7 4.0 ti r > Carroll . .. 2,m 2.427 White. 1,729 1.839 Benton I,till! 1.332 Total T.,„ .19,232 18,781 Plurality 303 Nelson J. Bozarth 47:1 Let it be recorded that the Republican party is a daisy This year it fought a conglomerated mass of Mugwumps, Pharisees, .Dudes, Independents, Stalwarts, the Democratic party, Prohibition party, Greenback party, Peeples’s party,. Belva Lackwood, Beecher, Rum, Rebellion, and all the remainder of the fools, cranks and kickers this side of the North Pole. It will come up smiling in ISBB regardless of the “official count.—[Michigan City Enterprise. The Democrats have so persistently howled about the fraud of 1876, until themselves and multi_jtudes o£lLe publican s real 1 y believa that Hayes stole the presidency that year. If there were Republican frauds in 1876,a point we do Pot just iiow propose to discuss, !he Democrats certainly can not consistently complain. At worst it was only fraud against force and fraud. If the Democrats had permitted an honest election m the South, Hayes would have been elected by a tremendous electoral majority, and Uncle Sammy Tilden would not have forever disgraced himself and the Democratic party by his attempt to buy the one electoral vote needed to give, him the presidency. The policy of fraud and repression which gave the Democracy so many states in 1876, and came eo near giving them the Nation, has gone on unchecked until, at last, it has prevailed in a national election. ‘The irepublicaus of the North have long looked upon this matter with a strange apathy, but we believe the time has now come for a general awakening and tlTut i the overshadowing issue of the j next political campaign will be the I question whether the methods of ] Bulldozers shall continue to pre- . in American politics.