Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1886 — The Best Offer Yet. [ARTICLE]

The Best Offer Yet.

nine wontlis for Seventy-five i teutn With a view of placing the RervBLTCAX into as many families as possible, both as a campaign measure,'and as a means of introducing the paper upon f it&4Uexite as a county paper, we have concluded to make the following exceedingly liberal offer: To any resident of the county wo will send The Rethe first of April, I SbG, to the first of January, 1887, a period of u iue months. FOR SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS,

in advance. This exceedingly low rate scarcely more than pays the cost of the white paper, and is only open to residents of the couutv, and mu 't To paid in advance. We send out a large number of .-ample copi' S this week, an TUiie icctpienfs of which are espemrnly" invited to avail themselves of this off.-r. As an added inducement} ■ will say that'l » all new subWribefs, "whether at the reduced rate* or otherwise, we will, if requested, send Dr. B. J. Kendall s little book entitled, “A Treatise on The Hor»e and his Diseases”A book full of valuable information for all farmers Vnd horse owners. Our “Campaign ofler” for this year, is the best we have ever made. Nine months for seventyfive cents is at the rate of only —one dollar a month. The Republicans of the various townships aretobv most heartilycongratulated for the great wisdom with which they have chosen their candidates for the township offices. They are good men, .. all of them, nd well deserving <^=thepositions for which they are candidates. Elzer A. Griswold, Republican candidate for trustee of Marion township, has filled the office for • one term with unquestionable ability and success, and with a strict fidelity to his public trusts I hat was above reproach. Let thfc Republicans of the township show 1 their appreciation of such a record by giving him their hearty and united support at the elec*ion next Monday.

In Indiana since the Democrats? - have had charge of the government thirty-three presidential" post-office’s that had been held by Union soldiers have been vacated, either by femc-valsr- resignations' or expirations of terin.', and of| those who have 1: ken their places, nly ten were Union soldiers. Id * In the whole state 361 soldiers an J.: : 1 even soldiers*widows hayr'guhy : .•ut,-taukniuely soldiers and *one ; soldier’s widow have come in. .. j .How the democrats do love the soldiers.’

Li Ins ’ate speech Senator Ingalls thus forestalls the verdict •iLiistory, in reg nd to the. inf aiuous “secret” circular issued by Postmaster-General Vilas on the 2b:h of April, 188-5: “I do not propose to my observations by reading 'hat document. I allude to it for the pur—pose of saying that a more thd£i oughly degraded, loathsome, execrable and . detestable utterance never was ma ( de by nyy public ~:nffi&al of adv pektical petsuasio n in any country, or in any- age. It was an invitation to every libeler, . very aqoiiymous. slanderer, every scurrilous defainer, to sluice the : feculent sewage of communities through the Post-office Depart- ’ meat, with the assurance that, without any intimation or information to the person aspersed, incumbents should be removed End Peuiocratic partizaas appointed.” ' "■

After shuffling ahd as long as he possibly could, Petition Commissioner Bl lick has at last been got before the senatorial committee appointed "W investigate the ch arges made by Black Against his predecessors. In every instance that has peen investigated the result has been to convict Black of the niost reckless 1 t ~ - xJ * <-I and untruthful partisan malice and to show conclusively that he is a than so utterly undeserving of the high position he now holds, that his presence there jp a jierpetual insult to every loyal soldier in the country. Read what some of our contemporaries have to say about the Commissioner, as republished in this issue of the Republican.

Ths Governor of Indiana, the Treasurer and Auditor of Hip State, a Supreme Court Judge, or two, and other prominent Democratic officials, lately indorsed the application foi" an appointment to’an office of one Barney Conroy, a. resident of Indianapolis. They all certified that they had known’him long, and that he was “an honest man and a good Deniociat,” “al. ways at the polls early and late” and a “hard-working and honest citizen.” Now in truth, the man was a.twice convicted felon, —and yet who shall say that these assertions do not contain as large a percentage" of truth as the. average Democratic panegyric? AlltheaniendI meat required to make it exactly 1 truthful is to strike out the words “honest” and “hard-working,” which leaves him still a “Good Democrat, always at the polls, early and late."

The unregenerated- and unrepentant Copperhead organ of the Pemoera'cy of Jasper county has tlie unmitigated gall to sneer at H. AV. Porter, the Republican canAlidate for Assessor tfi' Marion township, as a “sfay-at-honie”, during the war. Now we propose to set Mr. Porter’s war record before our readers, in its true light, and then we shall challenge any truly loyal man to say that ihere is anything in that tebord which ought to deprive him of the good opinion on the suffrages of any’ loyal men, whether soldiers or civilians: In the summer of 1891 i Mr. Porter, then but sixteen years old, was living with his widowed mother on a farm in Ohio. Two brothers older than himself join-' ed tlie Union army, and although Afcardently desired to follow their.

example/they exacted from him a solemn -promise that he would remain at home to take care of his’ mother, and her home. Than himself there was no one else to do This., as the only other male member of the family was a 1 mere child of six or seven years. Young Wiis was a born patriot, and all through the war was anxious to take a« share in the lighting but he followed tlTe clear line of duty ii-. this case, ’and remained at home with his widowed mother, True, Mhen Morgan made his famous raid through Indiana and Ohio, he could no lodger <sertrai.ii his zeal, and did throe montys ofUiarcb and efficient service in pursuit of the "brave guerilla chieftain ami his lawless hand. /- And now we ask the Repul4:cans of Marion township, and especially the - Union soldiers, whether they ought to follow .the line indicated by the sSeers-of the old fire-in-the-rear trajior of the Sentinel, and vote agains't Mr., Porter on account of his war record, or ought they more fairly and more justly to say to him by their votes, that they recognize the fact that; under such circumstances, he but followed in the clear line of the highest duty and f r that shall have honor ami not' condemnation? We know fliat the great majority of Republican soldiers in the township will answer this question in the affimative. Is there even one who will, after reflection, answer in the negative ? We thi:ik t not - ’ -d-’

This weather is not to be taken in earnest It is just a big Aprilfool jiJke by the weather clerk. John T. Brown, Esq., of the Fowler bar, will probably be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the office of ProsecutTngTXHorney.

Th« Hoh. Fred Hoover went down to Washington last week, and the next thing heard from him he had resigned his office' of Indian Agent. ThA ostensible reason for the resignation was for the purpose of engaging in the cAttle business. Something is also 'said about the conduct of the traders at the agency, and the absolute power of the Secretary of the * Interior, over the Agents. There is something rather gauzy about this exj lanation, for the resignation was certainly not expectecTby Hoover’s appointees, who went to the agency from this county, nor does it seem reasonable that a man wild travel 1,590 miles to resign an olhceT’wLeu he could do it just as well by letter. 2

Every county sheriff in Indiana lias a greater or less amount of legal printing to dispose of, in the form of advertiseiuents-of sheriffs-’ sales. The prices of such notices, as of all other legal printing, is established by law, but in the sheriff alone is the power of choosing the paper in which they shall be published. It is tiro general, almost universal custom, founded upon one of the plainest princibles of party policy, for sheriffs to give this patronage, to their own party' papers. 'AH Deindcratic sheriffs and nearfy all Republican sheriffs observe this rule. And it is no more than right that they should do so. The party papers fight the battles of the party, (as did the Republican in the last campaign, for instance) and give the free use of their columns, without money and witlidtit price, for week after week and for month after inofith, to tlieTXCtusion of other matters from which they might derive a revenue, and it is but just and proper that the men whom they thus help into. office should give their patronage to them rather than to the opposite party’s papers. To adopt any other course than this is simpl y to weaken and punish your friends and to reward and strengthen your enemies. Democratic officials, especially, recognize the justice and the wisdom of standing by their own party

respect, and we never knew of a single one who gave to a Republican paper any favors whieh could be given to a Democratic paper. The history of our own county .shows Riis/ and so. will any of our neighboring counties in which are democratic officers. In White and Pulaski counties, for instance, in either of which the legal prin ting in. time?-months is jhUTSF in value than liTThe whole year in Jasper county, it all goes to the and the'Re-piiMn-tm vie, to use a commob. “never gei a smell.” ‘ J