Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1886 — A Remarkable Triumph. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Triumph.

From any point of view the election in Indiana on Tuesday last was one of the most remarkable political events of the country, and justly commands universal attention. Scarcely a person in or out of.the State belieVed Republican success possible. A state of Democrat- , tc tendencies, with all the offices in the hands of the Democracy, and being used for the behoof of that party with a scandalous recklessness never before known, it did not seem reasonably to expect the overturning of the more than seven thousand plurality by which the State Went lor Cleveland and Hendricks Then, upon the top of the accepted Democratic status of the State, was the infamous and fraudulent gerrymander which might leave well chilled the enthusiasm and broken the spirits of any party. The hope of capturing tne Legislature seemed altogether idle, and there were none outside the State, and but a rare few inside, who would complacently listen to talk of such a probability. Under these discouragements the Republicans went into the fight; but the contest had been largely organized for them long before the campaign opened. The ink with which the gerrymander had been written was scarceily dry before Senator Harrison, at whom it was specially aimed, began the work of attempting its rebuke. For. months he corresponded with Republicans everywhere, arranging to contest the fraud wherever the remotest possibility~oT success showed it-elf. With rare skill and consummate generalship the’lines of assault were laid out and the plan of battle agreed upon But few people, comparatively, could know of this part of the battle, and therefore, when the state convention was held, and the open canvass began, while hope for carrying the State for the general ticket naturally brightened the same thick cloud of doubt hung over Che Legislature. Senator Harris on was called to lead what the great majority of his own party deemed a forlorn hope. But. with indomitable courage and with high resolve, he made a Campaign which will ever be memorable in political history, • and though there appears on the face of the returns the slender Democratic legislative majority of twoon joint ballot, out of a. gerrymandered seventy and cjut of forty-six in the last General Assembly, there hot an man in the State of Indiana AVho does not believe that a majority of Republicans were rightfully and lawfully elected to the next Legislature. The fight was particularly Senator Harrison’s and the glory of the phenomenal triumph to him rightfully belongs. As to Ihe general canvass, the Republicans had the advantage from the first. The light was on living issues. The party >9n higher ground than it had ever occupied upon .current questions, and the co nscience and judgment of the party and of the people responded fully and freely. No agency in the campaign was more persistent and influential than the newspaper press of the State. In every county, city and town the newspapers of the party were at work, const nntly and intelligently hammering away-at the issues presented for consideration and determination. Intelligent, alert, vigilant management by State raid local committees would have been of little avail but for the powerful assistance rendered by the newspapers, which, day by day and week by week, reached the eyes and penetrated the judgment of the people. And, last but not the "east, it was a people's victory. The RepqjbTican party pitched its canvass on a popular key. .Tlajn. straightforward, aggressive, the light Avent forward, anti the people crowned it with signal victory. Despite the gerrymander, despite every opposition, the people have triumphed ’g.'oriottsiy; the horse and his rider have they cast into the sea.---Indianapolis Jcuroal. The only book store in town is at the post-office. Try some of our pure Gold Syrimfhe best in town'7 b jfefcßne Bros. ■ You can buy more groceries of Tiaßue Bros, for 81.00 than any place in town. Call anti fexainiue prices. We are happy to accommodate our customers, but we wish, each and all to remember font goods have to be paid for. Willey & Sigler. A Captain’s Fortunate DiscoveryCapt. !Coletn-m, sc hr. Weymouth plybetween Atlantic City aud N. > > hTs been troubled with a ough so that he was unable to sleep ■ and was iud ueed to try Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. It not only gave him instant reteif but aliaye I the extreme soreness in nistireast. His children were similarly affected and a single dose had the same happy effect. Dr King Discovery is now the standard rgm®dy in the Coleman household and on rd 'he schooner. , Tree Irirl Bottle of this standard rem-