Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1886 — Republican County Ticket. [ARTICLE]

Republican County Ticket.

- y\}H CLKRK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT* JAMES F. tit WIN, of Carpenter Towuship. FOK AL'OITOK. 4 george m. Robinson, of Marion Township. KO It TREASIKEK, - ISRAEL B. WASHBURN, of Marion Township. F)OK SHERIFF* SAMUEL E. VEOMAN, of Newton Township, for uEcoumyt. THOMAS ANTRIM, of Keener Township. KOIt SOKVEROR, JAMES C. THRAWLS, of Marion Towuship. "~~FOR qoboXbb, RlllLir BLUE, oi Marion Township. FOR COMMISSIONER 2nU. fHSTKICT. JAMES F. WATSON, of Marion Township

The llepublicans ot Newton comity will hold their county convention at Mount Airy, on Thursday, June 17th. It will he a straight out delegate convention. The ex-consul is opposed to SP. Thompson’s candidacy for the State Senate, The consul will never forgive Mr. T. for interfering with h:s lofty aspirations to the Secretaryship of State.- Demo, eratic Sentinel, S. P. Thompson is not seeking the nomination for State Senator, hut we are informed that he is willing to make the race if the Republican convention considers hinj.the right man. If Mr. Thompson receives the nomination he will make a strong race; and will represent this district with ability that will reflect credit upon himself and constituents.-* K( ntland Gazette* ;.H.h—■ ■’ wmmmmmmmmmmm Mßaaauaaa 7';w-;-q- , It is many years since the people of Rensselaer have forgotten to pay due respect to the departed soldiers, and the noble cause for which they fought, on the day set for that holy purpose This year -the 30th of May comeson Sunday, and the day following, Monday, May 31st, will he observed in its .stead. The announcement of the committee of the Grand Army Pust. having the matter in charge, will be found in this issue. Reckless and lying self; persistent and slanderous misrepresentation of competitors; fulsome end insincere flattery of everyone from whom favors are hoped for; open venality in political „ pr i - handed attempts to gain advantages oyer competitors.—These methods may, at first, obtain a delusive" success, but so sure as there is justice in earth and heaven they will fail in the end—and fail miserably.

There is all over the country- an obvious sad mosih-enceuraging growth of public sentiment in favor of restricting and repressing the liquor traffic. In Indiana the growing strength of this sentiment is especially noticeable, as shown by the tone of the public press ..of the state, ij. The liquor dealers recognize these facts very clearly, • Hud are organizing to oppose probable temperance legislation. They are especially fearful the people of the state will unite in favor pf a strong movement for local option and high tax; and in temperance reform .as well as in war and politics, to do what your enemies most fear you will .do, is “generally the wisest course. Local option and high license are , the sorest available remedies for the evils of intemperance in the hands of the temperance people of Indiana, at the present time; and •we believe that the present year |s an excellent time for a general movement for securing those rem-

"It [fAe Message] belietes in the nobility of humanity; * • believes in living and lotting live.”-r-Thc Message. And the very day after these canting, hypocritical words were, published the author of them sneakingly endeavored to entice away' into his wretched den the only assistant then left with this paper./ Ilis principal object .being, of course, great trouble and ! embarrassment - in issuing our paper this week. The act was especially reprehensible for the reason that he knew the loss of our only assistant; without warning, would certainly cause us great trouble and perhaps cripple and delay the paper for some time, \V hat doOs any honorabledmsiuess man in Rensselaer, or any farmer in this county, and, above all, what does any honorable newspapei editor among our exchanges, think of a man who can get down to such base and underhanded methods as the above, to gain an advantage over a business competitor?

I “One thousand “copies of the Message were printed last Wednesday, and all of them were taken before night.”— The Message. This statement, if it means anything at all, means that h thousand copies of the paper were in the hahds of readers before the night of the day they were printed; and this is certainly the meaning which its author expects people will attach to it. It is worthy of notice only as it presents a fair sample of the ways and moans whereby this unprincipled, man expects to build up a business in .this community. In the. first place hundreds of those alleged thousand copies were sent away on the mails on the day when printed, or the day following, and the editor of the- paper knew perfectly well that the. greater portion of them would be several davs in '.caching the hands of their readers. What is pmre we know, from the word of a reputable citizen, that, so late as Saturday of the same.week, a large pile, fifty or a hundred, probably of the first number of the paper which “were • all taken before night” were still lying in the room •where they were printed, and many of them are probably there yet, unless they have been sold for. old papers. —

.. S/ P. Thompson gives formal notice, in this issue of the R EPUBlican of his willingness to accept the Republican nomination for candidate for State Senator, from this senatorial district. There is jjo man to whom the Republicans of Jasper county are more indebted for the present triumn hant and harmonious condition of the party\thau to Mr. Thompson; no manwho has done more to defend the party from the assaults of its open foes and the treachery of its • pretended friends. Tltere is no man 4a-the county, nor - indeed in the district, better fitted by education and by natural abilities to take a leading and.au honored position in a legislative body, nor One who would reflect more honor and credit upon the people whose representative he was. Neither is there any man in the district who better Understands the present condition

'f the ..statute laws of the state, nor what changes and additions those laws require to adapt them to the present needs .of the people. Neither is there a single mau in the district who could make so able, vigorous and effective a canvass, as could Mr. Thompson. He is a brilliant am! persuasive political orator and is-possessed of a tireless'.energy and capacity Tor work that is truly marvellous. There seems to be a general disposition among the Republicans of the other counties of the district to concede the nomination this year to a Jasper county man, and their eyes seem naturally to turn towards Mr. Thompson as the man they desire. Ever}’ Republican paper in the district lias voluntarily made favorable mention of his probable candidacy, and of his great availability as a Candidate.

The hypocritical and ridiculously extravagent cant in the first number of the new paper of this place, in regard to’Fred Hoover, was, of course, intended to curry favor with Democrats and those of Remington especially, Mr. Mcintire, owner aud director of the Remington Xeirs, jumps at the bait, and reprints a portipn of the Hoover cant, and editorially gives it sir im 1 ireet- indorse menß.-Mr. Mcintire is one of that quartette" of astute democratic politicians,, of Remington and vicinity, of which Mr. Hoover wAs chief, and it is to be expected that he would be ready to endorse and side with anv abuse of the Republican for having criticized Mr. Hoover and exposed something of the real reason of his resignation of his Indian Agency. ,We submit, however, that if Mr. Mcintire, who lays a more intimate knowledge of the history of Mr. Hoover, both political and private, than almost any other man that could be named, knows of any particulars in which the Republican has been unjust to Mr. Hoover, his more manly as tfell as vastly more effective course would have been to have made Oh open defease of his old coadjutor instead of adopting and endorsing the slanderous and insincere cant of a self-seeking and unprincipled political Ishrmelite. .Now Mr. Mcintire, although he has trained with sum e rat her doubtful company; politically speaking, is an honorable, upriglit citizen, and a man of truth and veracity, and we intend to treat..him wilii candor aud frankness in this matter. In this spirit we propose to

ask him a few straight-forward questions, and in such terms as will enable him, in few words, -.to controvert, if he .can, every unfavorable statement regarding Mr. Ik .over that ever appeared in this paper: —VpkN— 7 - --- Ist. Did or did n<st Mr, Hoover, while a member of the .'State Senate, first condemn the iniquitous gerrymander bills, and express his intention to vote ifgainst them, and then suddenly, (probably at the request of Senator Voorhees) change front and vote for the bills? 2nd. Was it not owing to remarks made by Mr. Hoover, himself, or by members of his family, that it came to - be generally believed that a large number of iris relatives were to be appointed to lucrative positions, under him, at the Indian agency ? _

3rd. Is it not true that just before Mr.“ Hoover resigned his -Agency, “to engage in cattle raising” that Mr. Treat Durand, who had gone to “Washington in Hoovers company, game back alone, and caused a strong effort to be made, by petitions and otherwise, to strengthen Mu Hoover’s prospects for confirmation? Itk. Did not some of the charges filed against Mr, Hoover, in opposition to his confirmation, reflect strongly upon his character for tegrity as a business/ man and a qirmtte citizen? . sth• 'Was not one-of the charges (backed by the sworu affidavit of a reputable man ) to the effect of charging Mr, Hoover with saying that he was going out to the agency to make money and that lie did not care a d—n how lie made it? Now if Mr. Mcintire through the Neivs will* frankly answer these questions and show in what particulars The Republican has unjustly’accused Mr. Hoover, or in what respect it has too severly critized any of his acts, we will gladly make any amends thatrmay be in our power.