Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1888 — The Very Latest. [ARTICLE]

The Very Latest.

Indiana Safely Republican. What little doubt remained as to the result in Indiana was removed at three o’clock, this afternoon, by a telegram from State Supt. Lafollette, stating that the state has gone for Harrison oner that the entire Republican Stute ticket is elected. Harrison will have 233 electoral Voles, The next House is Republican by 17 majority. “Lcf'rr roll! Let’er RooElI! IET’ERRR ROOOOLL!II Blue’s majority for sheriff isooO. Dr. Waphburn’s majority for 'id easarer is upwards of 600. He fun ahead of the ticket • ■ ’ ■ L "“ / Billy Owen will lead his ticket by at least twenty votes in Jasper county. ’‘Good-by Old Grover; Goodby,” is no longer poetry, but a very apparent fact Another Democratic still-hunt fine-work boodle campaign in Jasper county has resulted disastrously b- ~ Even Milroy township has gone Republican, for the first time in its history- All honor to the hardworking Republican of Milroy. Was there ever an election in this county when there was such ~an almost total abs ence of ing of the local candidates?. ' Even Carroll county has given its electoral vote to Harrison and Morton and elected an entire Republican ticket from beginning to end. « Hon. W. D. Owen will ably represent the Tenth District in the (J next Congress. He is re-elected, but by what majority, we have not exactly learned, it is about 1000. Republicans say that if the Democrats had had one more Voorhees rally, with Bro. James at the head of the procession, that the majority would have been 100 larger. Cleveland will have no more pension vetoes to write after next Msh*ch,.and consequently can go .fishing every day in the year. Decoration Day and all. ■■■■■■■■■■■■"■■■■■■■■■■a Mr. V. Zimmerman is an undertaker, by vocation. He can now prepare his own political corpse for burial, and had better be quick about it, for it is very, very dead. Once more has a glorious Republican victory in Jasper county exemplified the wisdom of a brave, open, daylight campaign as against the methods of the still-hunt and the “fine-workers.” In J asper county the Democrats bent all their energies to the attempt to get votes away from Billy Owen. The result is that

Billy is 15 or 20 votes ahead of his ticket, ii. tho connty. ... ’ The new state of Dakota will add five or six electoral votes to the Buio~Ttupahlinan colamn, in 1892, and don't you forget it. "Two more Republican Senators and three or four Congressmen, from the* same state, is also an item worthy oT doiigfatulation. About the happiest and proudest' men in the epunty are the Barkley township Republicans. Their immense majority of 79, an increase of 77 oyer 1881 and of 75, over 1880 is the cause of their joy and pride. They earned their victory though, by long, Ualxl and faithful work. Mr. J no. W. Sickles, nominal editor of the Rensselae.r Democrat, has been absent from town for a month or more, excepting a visit of only a few hour.s duration, on the evening of the Voorhees rally. His absence made no perceptible difference in the appearance er the editorial the paper. In fact we violate no confidences nor divulge any very profound secret when we say that Mr. Sickles was never editor of the Democrat in any but a very limited, Pickwicklan sense.

Vast quantities of presidential and state'ticket stickers were sent out by the Democratic StateAjential Commmittee, and with them went a circular letter from Chairman Jewett, in which he stated that the committee expected that every Democrat in the state would succeed in inducing at least one Republican, Prohibitionist or Laborite to use the stickers on his ticket. The returns make it evh dent that at least a few of the faithful, some-how failed to comply with Ms, Jewett’s instructions. The election in Rensselaer Tuesday was animated but entirely orderly and peaceful. In fact does anyone remember any elections in strongly Republican comm uni ties, that were otherwise than orderly and peaceful? It is a noteworthy fact, showing the intense earnestness of the people in the great struggle just ended, that every legal voter in the township except two, came to the polls and voted Tuesday, and of these two, one was very sink, and could not be moved without great danger, and the other was out in the woods hunting woodchucks, and coukl not be found. ‘ Perhaps he was out of meataqditwasanother“ground hog” case. The Democrat claims that the cffer of ten dollars reward for the conviction of the person or persons who took the rope from the Democratic pole, was only a piece of bluff, holding that no crime was committed in taking the rope. The offer was made in good faith, and still holds good, although in one view of Bro. James’ statement that no punishable crime was committed, there is some force. If, as we firmly beliqye, the persons who put the rope up, or some one authorized by them, took it down, then perhaps the law can not reach them. But if some-daqauthorized person took the rope, whether Democrat or Republican, then it was a clear case of stealing, and as such can be punished.

The history of the Prohibition party is already written. Its tide is in the ebb and never will rise again. The attempt to found a party, not upon the temperance question, but upon a single view of the temperance question, is and must continue to be, a most ignominious failure, It is probable that the party organization will be kept up for a few campaigns longer, by a little band of impracticable zealots, and that the Democratic fine workers will still continue to use the organization as a weapon against the Republican party, but it has passed its best day, and the lingering death which has befallen the Greenback party, and every other political side-is-sue in this country, is now all that awaits the party of political prohibition.