Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — Republican County Ticket. [ARTICLE]

Republican County Ticket.

For County Clerk, ——? —wlifrllr-fiTmsrKi:. Of Carpcntov'Tow nsh ip. For County Auditor, JIAUIIV 15. MURRAY. Of Barkley Township. For County Truasuror, MARK if. HEMFJUI.L, Of Marion Township. For County Sheriff, FnfY.IPISI.FF, Of Marion Township. For County Surveyor, .) AMES C. THRAWI.9, Of Marion Townsiiip. For County Coroner, UIAI. F. BKX.JAMIX, . Of Marion Township. * For Commissioner First District TISKSTOX M. OFKKUV. Of Giilntii I’OwDsiiip, For County Commissioner Third District. OLIVER P. TABER, Of Carpenter Township.

A j :ioi urcf quo and honored old figure passed off tire "earthly stage last Sunday, when John C. Fremoni died in. New lork City. He was a ni.-in vvliot:elite lias .been oFgrent s* r whose career will he rein ©mitered *ud honored for hi any gen*-i&l ion s. Last year there was such an enoat crop that iL» \ rn-ep weye oo'vn to. next to not titng, and according to the .on’* •'unity tie Tiers the Republican* were blame ? > Tor 1 it. Void year, Uy all itppearu?!<;ee, the prices of oat* will be very high, but the farmers wont have any to soil ami-the calamity pro-! phets will screech about Unit. Tli' n;. i ' ' uht ■e' • Delphi, is . by! our Exchanges, as ’r. good man for: the Repul licßns to nominate this ; fall, as their candidate for Judge! of the Sn[>reiiie Court, from the ■ sth district, -The judge has a; splendid record both as a soldier,! as a jurist ami ns a citizen and would make a remarkably strong candidate for the place. The admission qf Idaho andj Wyoming into the Union as full; fledged states, raises the total! number of states to lorty-four. i .Arizona New Mexico and Utah are still in outer the darkness of territorial gdvwromeat but are not likely to remain in that condition for many years. Their admission will raise the number of stars in the flag to forty-seven, and lo in tike the eveu fifty Alaska Oklahoma, and the Indian Territory are in reserve. The new rules in the lower to'.'so of Congress have worked admirably in expediting the public business and in preventing a factious minority from obstructing ;r ' .

- -• ••• - ' ; - -j-- —■ A-- - - .-*?*• legislation, and although the Democrats never originate anything usbful themselves,.they sometimes have sense enough to adopt the good things originated by the Republicans* and there i,*y no question but that if they ever get control of the House, they will continue the rules, essentially as they are at present; and this in spite of the limitless abuse they heaped upon Speaker Reed and the Republican -majority for enforcing their original adoption. In one considerable element in the Tenth District, there is a surprising unanimity in working against the re-nomination of Congressman Owen. It is the Democratic papers of the district. The Valparaiso Messenger don’t want, the and the Delphi Tiriies, the Rochester Sentinel, the Winamac Journal, the Monticello Democrat, are all “dead agin” him, and lose no opportunity to point' out how unavailable a candidate he will be; and there is no question of the great disappointment they will experience when he is re-nominated. But Republicans can not alwaj's choose their candidates with a regard to the feelings and wishes of their Democratic opponents, and it looks very much as though their efforts in this case would be entirely without the result they wish. * • -

Another feature of the unconstitutional registration feature of the new election law, is that it is designed to catch and disfranchise all Methodist preachers who, according to the workings of their itinerant system, are obliged to change their residence during the three months preceding the election, as a very large portion of them do. Under the provisions of this, law any Methodist preacher who is assigned and removes to, a new location, at any time after the first Tuesday after ihe first Monday of August of any year, will lose the privilege of voting in the following November. It is a well known fact that by far the largest proportion of Methodist preachers are Republicans in polities, and it is another well-known fact that thrir corifereuee'Theetings aie generally held in the fall of the year. That the astute hut unprincipled Democrats whe tacked the villianous registration feature upon our new election law deliberately intended- it to disfranchise the Methodist- preachers as w£lLaaAhg_enipkiv a3.-DL.ihaJLl.fL'. government, there is no good reason to doubt.

The new met bed of voting was tried, for the first time in tins ns Vincennes, one day last we k, at a special election held to eject. A member or the town conn*j cil. The count showed that a good many voter* had failed to fully master the details of the method j of voting, before attempting to] vote, and their votes were there*-, fore thrown oat. This result; shows how nttvssivry it Is tli at the j new method of voting should be thoroughly wall studied up by the voters, "before the next: electioa,. Republicans, especially, should take every precaution h> prevent the loss of any of their votiEg, strength, through lack of knowledge of the method. The registration features of the- law have been especially designed to hud; the republicans, by disfranchising government officials, commercial travelers nnct Methodist preachers, and as the party is to be chiseled out of many votes in that way, and being already enormously handicapped by the Gerrymanders, it should be mfcde a special point, everywhere ever the state; to see that we sailer no losa through lack of a full understanding of the requirements of the new law. In pursuit of this object Thk Republican has done, and will continue to do, its full share—as witness the three column exposition of the new method, on page, And wlych has been prepared at the cost of a great deal of careful labor. We hope

' that such of our Republican voters : a s are uot already well informed . in tn this matter, will avail ! Htpmsp|y<v 1 of this and all future j opportunities* for information.