Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — A “Good One” on Price and * The Democratic Party. [ARTICLE]

A “Good One” on Price and * The Democratic Party.

Ex-Senator Hoover also has been down to Washington, looking for that Indian Agency. He has not •got the place yet but the Remington News thinks his prospects are so. good that it congratul ates hi m in anticipation for his good luck. Mr Hoover is by far the most 'astute Democratic pol itician in the county, and it is not at all unlikely that he will be successful in his efforts to secure a good appointment.

The last number of the Highmore, Dakota. Vox Populi, (C. H. Price's paper.) is red-hot Republican in politics. The explanation for its brief, but able, advocacy of right political principles will, be found in the first of the extracts given below, s We quote, from the Vox: "The editor being absent this week the Vox will be Republican pro tem, and our reason for the change may be deducted from the following brief statement: In order for an editor to deal but Democratic medicine that will go dbwn a sensible dog, (without killing the dog) requires long democratic experience, and a mind educated in all the various branches of corruption. So we at once conclude that the undertaking woul d be fruitless and inoperative . We hope, however, to give the Democratic party such a goingover in this issue, as to cause it to shrink from its flimsy foundation, and in case- there is enough of it left to rally from its fall, that the rotten timber that survives may be consumed in the Republican bon-fires of 1888. It will not be at all surprising if Commissioner Black suspends the payment of pensions—at any rate, in Dakota. The present administration seems to be digging among the ruins of a past age for "rare specimens’' to till the offices. A Bourbon sheet in its Batur iay issue advises "old soldiers” to get itsSunday issue and read it. Jhey will doubtless be curious to hear whether another Jeff Thompson is dead, or a rebel prison-keeper appointed office. That class of things are interesting old Union soldiers to some extent these day. \ . ■- Among the blunders of the administration are the appointments of Higgins, the torturer of Union prisoners; “Mead, bead ' ‘remover” of "offensive partisans:” Keiley, Lawton, Montgomery. Blackburn, Hanna, et al., who were notoriously conspibious enemies of the Union armyj and did their best to destroy the Republic!