Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1890 — It Lets us In. [ARTICLE]

It Lets us In.

There is a prospect that congress will pass a bill providing for the construction by the government at a great many of the small towns and. cities of the country of buildings for the post-offices. The House committee on post-of-fices and post-roads has authorized its chairman to .report sjich a measure. It authorizes the Post-master-general to construct, at his 1 discretion, buildings at any place i where the gross receipts for two 1 years or more preceeding, exceed $3,000, or $2,500 in county seats. This last provision will admit Rensselaer, “by a bare majority,” for the gross receipts of our postoffice last year were $2598.60 and for the year before $2512.35. This year they will continue to increase. The Indianapolis Journal publishes a list of some sixty of the towns of this state which will come in under this law but it unacountably leaves out Rensselaer, a mistake which we hope to see corrected. The only towns mentioned I by the Journal, situated in the Tenth congressional district, are Delphi, Hammond, Logansport, Rochester and Valparaiso. Tlie list of announcements of candidates continues to show a | healthy growth ;severalnev, names | being added this week. The new men as well as the old, are all good and deserving men, and we only wish that the nature of things were such that none of them mu&t lie” disapppiomfed in their aspirations. As that can not be, however, we can, at least, comfort ourselves with the reflection that, as we firmly believe, there is not a , .man. am o ng stor jiaffSTs to be among the un - lucky' majority of the defeated, know liow to accept the defeat m a manly, philosophical and sensible way. A man who does not possess that knowledge ought never, in fact, to seek a political office.