Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — Call for a Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call for a Convention.

In accordance with an order issued by the Indiana Republican State central committee, a mass convention of the Republican voters of Jasper county is hereby called to meet at the court house, in Rehsselaer, at one o’clock p. m., on Saturday, January 30th, 1886, at which time the following business will be transacted: VI. There shall be elected one delegate for each voting precinct in the county, and one alternate, who shall be delegates and alternates to a district convention to be held at Logansport on Thursday, February 11th.'1886. 2. There shall be elected the Republican county committee, to succeed the present county committee. „ 3. There shall be transacted such other county political bush ness as may be properly brought before the convention. By order, of the Republican County central committee of Jas per county. Cl. E. Marshall Sec’y, The Republican District Convention which meets at Logansport on Feb., 13, is for the purpose of electing the member of the State Republican committee for the district.

Neither false statements in regard to wltat individual leaders of 1 the northern Copperhead conspiri atois of war times have done since ! the war, nor senseless arguments I founded—upon the comparative strength of the Republican and Democratic vote in war times and | iu ISS4, can alter the indisputable facts of history. The Democratic party, acting as a party, utterly failed to support the Union soldiers, when they most needed support, and not a single effective legislative war measure Can be brought forward that does not prove this statement; while, on the other hand, all tlle-efficial declarations of the party, during the war, were calculated more to encourage the rebels than the Union men. These facts, we repeat; are firmly established in the impregnable pages of history, and no amount of frantic personal abuse, nor of shallow, sophistical argument, can alter the damning facts of that imj perishable record the Democratic party built up for itself, during the trying years of the civil war.

The Hon. Fred Hoover, the In- ] dian Agent, seems to be a specimen j “Reformer” of the first water, if the accuracy of a multiplicity of reports which h *Ve come up from j the community in which lie formerly resided, are to be trusted. According to their tenor, and they seem to us to bo well authenticated, he has not only all the members of , liis own family, but several of his son’s wife’s family, drawing good fat salaries from the government, Mrs. Hoover, it is stated, draws a good salary as “Matron” of the school attached to the agency: Mr. > Hoover’s daughter, an inexperinced young girl, who could not probably have gut a six months teacher’s license in Jasper county, ? | gets good pay as a teacher in flie Aforesaid school. Young Hoover, - the “son of his father,” it is said, * is also enjoying the emoluments of , a good appointment at the agency, and drawing tlie salary regularly, it is reported, although he has . not left the vicinity of Remington i —by whieh it may, perhaps, bejin- ■ ferred that he considers that *he * is doing just as much retil serv ice to the Indians, and to the govern-' * meat, while attending to his pri-

Rite business in as he would be were he at the Agency—a view of the case which nitty not be so very far wrongi As before stated, some of Mr. Hoover,s son’s wife’s relations ape also holding positions under him, b*ut just what their duties are supposed to be, we are unable to state;. In addition to these,, several of Mr. Hoover’s near friends and a few of his most faithful political supporters, are also holding positions under him at the agency; but as for the great mass of those gudgeons who wore their shoes out in Hoover’s service, on the strength of his promises of positions, they are still among the ranks of the lean and hungry outs, —and likely to remain there. Mr. James’ term of office as postmaster in Rensselaer will expire in about six weeks, and the question of a successor has been a subject of discord among the Democratic, bretliern of the county, ever since the election in 1884. There are three candidates in the field, namely: J. W. McEwen, editor of the Democratic Sentinel, N. S. Bates and E. P. Honan. McEwen has done much for the party, and nothing for the Union. Bates has done considerable for the Union, and but mighty little for the party. Honan is too young to have a “war record” but he is supposed to have liad a large influence in keeping the Irish Democrats in the county straight, at the last campaign. McEwen is probably more confident of success than either of his competitors. The old mossbacks and borlrbons of the party cleave to him as of one flesh with themselves, and are enthusiastic in his favor. There is also no question but that he has some very powerful friends among the state leaders of Democracy, and in fact, rather seems to have “the bulge”, in the contest for the place. His appointment, however, will be gall and wormwood, to the Democratic soldiers and their friends, as well as to the small, but demonstrative, clean shirt wing of the party, generally. Mr. Bates has the support of tile soldiers and their friends, and a considerable following besides, on account of general fitness for the position. His appointment would be about as distasteful to the bourbons and mossbacks, as that- of McEwen would be to the soldiers.

Honan is supported by some who dont like Bates because he was a soldier and are down on McEwen because of his supposed unbusinesslike methods and old mossback, bourbon unpTogTessivencss. and also by many or the “fine -workers,” and policy men of the party. These tiling it would be a fine thing for their party to compliment the Catholic Irish of the county by making one of their number postmaster. Messrs Loughrfdge,,Nowels and Doutliit, three of the most prominent workers of the party, have been pronounced in support of Mr. Honan—mainly through reasons of party policy—as before stated. His appointment would be a bitter dose for the bourbons, for although they are ready enough to get the votes of the Irish, it is quite a different matter when it is proposed to squander a good office on one of them. ’ * A* - ’ * I ** .* l Dr. Wm. S. Raymond, formerly of Monticello, and in 1872 President of the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago By. Co., and in 1871 elected to Congress from this district, died at Indianapolis on the 25th ultv His age Was 62 years-