Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1890 — Bear These Bates in Mind. [ARTICLE]

Bear These Bates in Mind.

To the Republicans of Indiana: Any voter who moves from one ] County to another, or from one Township to mother, after Sept. 5, or who moves fr< m one precinct to another after October 5 th, will thereby lose his vote. The election will be held Tuesday, Nov-' ember -1 We request the Republicans of Indiana to keep these dates in mind, to see ttrat all any friends who contemplate moving are fully advised before moving, aiid to notify the local committeemen of all changes of re-id.-:..■ which may be made by members of other Parties after either of the dates first mentioned. L. T. Michener, Chairman. F. M. Millikan, Secretary. The Democrats sometimes nominate Union soldiers in cases where they are in a minority and can only hope to elect their men by winning Republican votes —as in Jasper county, for’instance, and the Tenth congressional district. But few indeed are the cases w-here they nominate soldiers, where they have a probable chance of electing their men without Republican help, and still less frequent are such cases where they have sure majorities. The attitudes of the two parties towards the soldiers is well illustrated by their present

state Five of th<i nine Candidates on the Republican ticket served with distinction in the Union army during .the late war. Ont- a single one of the nine Democratic <• nididstes was in that arinx. . f . • J '

Speaking of the fifrt ‘year of President Harrison’slinin’stration, the I2v-nnsville Jownal makes these pu.iineut roniarksj "On the whole it has been a success, yet not wholly so. No mortal man can give satisfaction to everybody. As Lincoln, in his homely way, said: .‘There are ‘more pegs than holes to put them in.’ In other words there are more applicants than there are, offices. In the narqrp of things, somebody must be disappointed. Everybody can not be supplied with public ‘pap.’ Sow -b dy must go hungry. It is the part of good citizenship* to be satisfied with what comes. No good Republican will make a row because he does not get all that he desires. This year, especially, we need unity and harmony. Every Republican worthy the name will strive for these conditions. A w anh and close contest is impending, which will have afar reaching effect on the party, for good dr —,

We doubt if a more conspicuous illustration was ever offered to an admiring community of the ingenioiiri jiarty rascality to defy justice and nullity laws and constitutions than appears at this moment in the relation of the Democratic delegation in Congress to thepopular majority.—lndianapolis News, Dec. 10 1888. This vyas in relation to the last congressional election. The party rascality was, indeed, ingenious and unique which could carry ten out of thirteen congressional districts with a Republican majority of 2,300 in the State. As a result of this ingenious party rascality 263,361 Republicans were able to elect theree Congressmen while 261,013 Democrats were able to elect ten. The practical effect is that it takes 87,787 Republicans votes to secure a Representative in < Jon gress and only 26,101 Democratic votes. That further effect is to make every Democratic vote in the State weigh considerably more than three times as much as ji Republican vote in the election of members of Congress. Practically, therefore, 261,013 Democrats in Indiana can outvote 263, 361 Republicans in this State, and twice as many more in othe States. No wonder an Indiana Democrat feels big when he realizes that his vote for Congressman counts more than those of any three Republicans. It is a wonderfully ingenious piece of" party rascality, and one that every honest man in this Sude ouglrt to assist in smashing into smithereens.