Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — ADVANCE. [ARTICLE]

ADVANCE.

At the recent election in Dakota between three and four times ns many votes were cast for one territorial delegate to Congress as the entire vote of Georgia for ten Representatives; and yet the democratic party and these same representatives of the solid South have persistently and viciously opposed every attempt that has been made to do justice to Dakota by having it admitted into the, sisterhood of States, It it is well sejd that high license and local option saved the Republican party in this state at the recent election, and the{ground thus taken cannot be safely abandoned AVhile the Legislature is under the control of the opponents of this policy, little, if anything can be done for its advancement, but the Republicans can stand by it and hope, wait and work for a better opportunity. It is the measure of temperance reform within our reach in Indiana, and is bound to prevail betore many Jea»£- have passed.—Lafayette ournal. \

When General Jackson was a practicing attorney in North Carolina he was at one time so hard ' pressed for funds that he decamped from cme of the courts without paying his bill. Soon after he removed to Tennessee, and the landlord’s only method of revenging himself for the failure to pay was ter write opposite fats name ~~rrpan the register of the inn the amount for which his guest had defaulted, with a pithy statement of his opinion of the conduct of his guest This reoord is still to be read in the register of the old inn; but underneath it some years after the . landlord wrote in characters, each one of which was indicative of a jubilation sufficiently intense to justify the local tradition that it required a stalwart friend upon each side to hold him upright while it was penned: “Paid in full by the glorious victory at New Orleans!” Old Hickery never received a better compliment than this, and the Republican party never had heartier quittance than the Bystander gives, while he trusts and prays thaj, its victory may be the prelude of even nobler achievements than the past has recorded of it When four years ago it was in the slough, of despond the Bystander was among the first to rally for attack upon the enemie’s works and in the hour of triumph he will not be the last to demand advance. The Republican party cau not stand still. The campaign has indeed been an education, not alone along the line of imposts, but in that broader realm of National economies which teaches that the general welfare independent upon the general attention to public question inland general performance of political duty by the American people. The Repnhiican party will find that it has something more than the tariff and the surplus to face in the next four years. The question of one free vote for every free man, a lair count and the suppression of the “bulldozer” and the corrupionist of the ballot, this remains as it was in 1860, and as it must be until it is settled—ths most important question of American politics—Judge Tourgee in Inter