Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1886 — The Best Offer Yet. [ARTICLE]

The Best Offer Yet.

Till Jan. Ist for Seventy-five . ~ ... Cents- - With a view of placing the Republican into as many families as possible, both as, a campaign measure, and as a means of introducing the paper upon its merits as a county paper, we have concluded to make the following exceedingly liberal offer: To any resident of the county we will semi The ReLTBLICAN, until the first of January, 1887, FOB SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS, iii advance. This exceedingly low vate scarcely more than pays the cost of the white paper, and is only open to residents of the. county-, and must lie paid in advance, <nd, of course, only applies to new subscribers, and not to persons already taking the paper.

General Jasper Packard, of La Porte, seems to be in a fair way of being made the Republican candidate for Congressman, in liis district, the thirteenth. The Republicans of that district cab not easily pitch on a better man The Sentinel lias not corrected iis mistatement regarding the result of the Spring election in Indiana. We again remind the able and conscientious editor of that Journal that the. Republicans, now have a majority of the Township Trustees of the state. The returns from Remington -Jow Chat the Republicans of that town have, at last, got their eyes +H>ened to the feme meaning of the --non partizan” cry by which the Democrats of that town have so long hoodwinked the Republicans. The latter have elected everything except Town Marshal. - - a —

So much of our space this week has been devoted to the reports of the ‘doings of the political Conventions that we have not been able to speak of the excellent ticket just placed in the field by the Republicans of this county, in detail. We shall endeavor to supply the unavoidable omission, next week. Simon P. Thompson will probably be a candidate for State Senator, Mr, Thompson is able and ’worthy to fill any office in the gift of the people of this State. If nominated, he will undoubtedly be elected and would thereby greatly honor the district. —Oxford Tribune. We believe the Tribune states the truth in saying that Mr. Thompson will probably l>e a candidate for the position named; and we know that it is correct in all other particulars. No abler for the position can,be found in the district tlian S. P. Thompson and, if nominated he will be triumphantly elected and make a most useful and influential member of the State Senate.

The whole South has gone wild in laudation of the unholy cause of Secession, and of lasting hatred of the North, as personated in the person of the unrepentant archtraitor, Jefferson Davis. That the extraordinary demonstrations that have greeted Davis all over that section are*in honor of the cause and not the man, is unquestionable. There were men among the leaders of the South whose qualities and characteristics entitle them to the honor of their countrymen, but Jeff Davis was notone of them. He is a cold-hearted, conscienceless conspirator, who knowingly led his people into a bloody war, purely for the gratification oLJhis own ambition. A selfish schemer, a braggart, a coward and a convicted liar, and yet, purely as the repre-. sentative of the sentiment of persistent disloyalty the whole south rises up, as one man, to do him honor. It lauds the Secession cause above the struggle for Independence, and ranks Davis above IKeaugus^Washington himself. But if this great and earnest exhibition of the true state of the Southern feeling in regard to the secession movement will have the effect of opening the eyes of the people of the North to the niter falsity of Democratic representations regarding the loyalty and reconciliation of theUonfederates, and to,-their unfitness to beeiitrusted with the administration of the Ygev^mnenir^iny-^till-Jiate—and-despise, then it will, unintentionally, have served a good purpose.