Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — INDIANAPOLIS LETTER. [ARTICLE]

INDIANAPOLIS LETTER.

Indianapolis, Sept. 27.—This has been State Fair week, and consequently a good week for the political gos sips. They have had a gay time talking over the prospects and Comparing notes one with the other. Republicans and Democrats, men of all parties and men of no party have been in the city during the week, and some of them have been charged with a vast amount of information, while others have been equally liberal in misinformation. The i things most talked Of. in a political way, were the declarations in the platforms of the two parties most interested in the coming election. I met one old soldier and asked him what he thought of the condition of affairs. Without a ■word he pulled from his pocket a card on which was pasted the following paragraph, quoted from one of Cleveland^veto messages: “Recent personal observation and experience constrain me to refer to -another result which-will eventually follow the passage of this bill. It is sad, but nevertheless true, that already, in the matter of procuring pensions, there exists a widespread disregard of truth and good faith, stimulated by those who, as agents, undertake to establish claims for pensions, heedlessly entered into by the expectant beneficiary, and encouraged, or, at least, not condemned, by those unwilling to obstruct a neighbor’s plans'-” , After I had read that he handed me another card on which was inscribed extracts from President Harrison’s leter of acceptance, inaugural address and message to Congress, and then gave me a copy of the last pension law. His comment, after I had exarriined them, was: “Democratic words, Republican wordsand Republican acts. Where do you suppose we stand?” It was enough. The old veteran had sized up the whole matter in his two cards and the copy of the disability law, I related this incident among the gossips around the hotel corridors, and they all agreed that, as against the words of the Democratic party through Mr. Cleveland, for when they nominated him after he had sent in his veto messages they endorsed his language and adopted it as that of the party; all that was needed was to set up the words of President Harrison, followed by the disability bill, against the passage of which qyery Democratic member of Congress voted. I find also that the free school book plank is a taking one. It wih secure uniformity in education, enable the poor as well as the rich to|getthe full benefits of our magnificent school system, and re- ■ move a heavy load from the shoulders l of parents of limited the edu- , cation of their offspring. * The more it is studied the more will : the-.financial plank of the Republican platform recommend itself to all i classes of the people. The Democratic declaration in favor of an increased ■ valuation of land for the purpose of taxation, coupled with the utterances of the Sentinel, declaring that all laws ' providing for the taxation of personal property should be repealed, is not meeting with favor anywhere. It was ■ originally drafted and adopted as a , dodge of the State debt question, its i supposing the Republicans would of n6cessity.be forced to declare in favor ot an increased rate of taxa•tion to meet the increased burdens placed on the people by Democratic incompetency and rascality, but the Republicans found another means of increasing the revenue, and declared in favor of that, and then of a rigid economy in all matters. During the week two meetings have been held, that may or may not be of importance. One was quasi political, and the other was in the interest of labor. The latJtet was very significant for several things. First, because it attended td its own matters and made no effort to mix up politics with them. It was a labor meeting to discuss ways and means for the benefit of the wage earners of the State, and it did not propose to be diverted from that object by playing at being a political party. Secund, it was significant because of what the delegated declared themselves to be in favor of. Scanning the declaration of what the workingmen want it will be found to be in all things just what the Republicans have, favored and do favor; Hence, if the membert of that convention are honest, and no one can doubt that they are, they naturally belong to the Republican party in sympathy, and ought to vote for its candidates as the only means whereby to bring about the reforms demanded. Tfee other was a meeting of the old Greeubackers. They have undertaken to resuscitate that old party, and have put a ticket in the field. Its platform of principles is also very closely allied, in many things, to that of the Republicans. Their agreeing with the Republicans in so many things the query is why do they not Vote with them instead of running a ticket of their own. They cannot hope to elect anybody, but might accomplish something by voting with those with whom they agree, but they have concluded to run a ticket of their own and no one ought to say them nay. But the fact is very significant that two different meetings, called for distinctly different purposes, and composed of separate classes of people, bat all intelligent and important factors in the State citizenship, should declare hostility to the Democrats and their agreement with the Republican doctrine. The Republicans at the capital are exceedingly well pleased over the work of the last ten days in making congressional nominations. The First, Second, Fourth, Fifth. Seventh. Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Districts have put their candidates in the field, and the selections made prove that the Republic: ms of those districts are in earnest hd 1 that they do not intend i .to yield thei i up to the Democrats without a Mruggl*. It is believed

here that the First, Fifth, Eighth and Eleventh Districts will surely go Republican while the Fourth, Twelfth and Thirteenth': give them more than an even fighting chanee. Even the Second is not regarded as dead sure for the Democracy. Holman, in the Fourth, already realizes he will have a hard pull this time and is growing uneasy. Bynum has left his seat in Congress and come home to look after his fences in this district, and it is time, for several panels have lately been knocked down. He says he will not return again until after the election. That fact shows how. badly the Democrats are seared. All the Republicans need now to scoie a grander success than they have had for years

is courage.

NICODEMUS.