Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1890 — HOW TO VOTE. [ARTICLE]

HOW TO VOTE.

If you want to vote a straight ticket, stamptotfte square to the left of tin- name nf the party for wi.usee : did '--. > on h isb to vot-: fl at ; :ld -tamp the Fipinrj-: >•' tl.r- ' ; -n- -the' words “.> pnhiici- !■> ■<■ ir>--’ul about illisf to:-. - th t tiny -h< >ni<i fdtSq ’J t ■ left of th" :v of t!.e Sect -tary -of State- Ip order to vote, thestraighttick.4: but a ticket stamp- < 1 that way y,ouhl beacon n ted for - urtolTirtL tmly. ii.-n’t ; to t imtxthe way to ' v r<i <;:ji' Tiekt' 7 is to sta m p i ..' .< ■ c'■ '' .'. 11.. •- . f Los tile I'o'K. . .'.toiifet.; 7.. . vote a-mixed 1 " ii: I two ways. 1. i can jdi>’ it by .-tamping the • ar-' to ‘ho left of the name of •i c ‘i. i'tovb ior whom you want ■rote g:. yii-.: ’.er list of candi- ■.. .-I-: i.. .to\ ■?,. Or you can tfl. ‘i o il.o' left ‘>f the .' .me of «ito party, and aiso the .-quart: to the k-!‘; of th? person on' any it th r ticket l.u whom you wish torvotc.

Old soldiers, did Dr. Patton vote te Harrison. the soldier, in 1883. or for Cleveland. the brutal reviler of soldiers and vetoer of t heir pensions? If all Bepublicau voters will take pains to full} 7 inform themselves as to the correct manner of voting under the new method, and will turn out next Tuesday and put that knowledge into practical effect, the state will go Itopublicau.

All Republican old soldiers who are requested to Vote for Patton on the grounds ’hit lie too was a soldier, should answer the request as did the old soldier at Goodland, by enquiring whether Dr. Patton himself voted in 1888 for Harrison the soldier, or for Cleveland the vetder of soldiers’ and soldiers’ widows’ pensions. The free trade falsehood that American manufacturers ship their goods to Europe and sell them for less prices that they sell- the same articles for in this country, has been so persistently repeated that some Republicans have been led to „ believe tit. The falsehood 3 has been refuted again and again and this week, on one of our inside pages, we prese.nLA_sxateau>ntwhich shows not only the perfect falsity of the claim, but also the wholly dishonest method the freetraders have adopted to ' give it plausibility; If there are any Republican soldiers over about -Remington who think of complying with Dr. Patton’s modest request to* vote for him because he, too, was a soldier, we suggest that they call around at the Doctor’s residence and propound to him the following polite interrogatories: Did you, Doctor, vote for Harrison the soldier, or for Cleveland the Copperhead vetoer in 1888? Would you. Doctor, had you got into 8. P, Thompson’s stolen senatorial seat, as you expected, have voted for the Republican soldier for United Stat cs Senator, or for the Democratic Copperhead candidate? Do not tarry too long for a reply, however, for Kentucky blood is proverbially hot.

Further information regarding the intention to issue slanderous circulars against Mr. Owen, on the eve of election, has been received. Look out forthem. Charges put qut out at such a time and in such a manner are always false.

. I Everywhere the Democratic payers at ? lying that the ?«fcKiniey 'j | bill is advancing th a prices of cer-4 tam goth..-, nnt: -ver•'where th(| i merchants are advertising in these ! t, •>i ing J n ese s.am e goods at the old prices, or even less- in no ease do they they quote higher prices, llead the totoa-Hy parallel” colums ■ in refv-rence to this matter, on one j of on-;..-i.lo pages. ry i-t— —f . A a Tyler and Howard Burr- : the nominees of the Democratic ■ Ito originated, pretended Alliance and sp-qalhwl--peoples’. Party __ebnven- ; tion, f-r county c;'.'ii’ra.-,i' nois, haV'ybp; iy ; t qrndiht-d iLu action of ; ,the . CQtov- ulion in putting tiieir i ' ii-t.. J ; .' 7 : .... '. yttoltoh i state met: is in. this issue, to that; lefito.t a. to 'todh-Wsdn i i'ii.r d . .; f‘w rak : : • Democratic ch.- stnu-t-a out of :h<fire. -j— ' cnr.wwn-'i iv ■»jwygw.wmhOiW* Dr. Patton wrote a letter to a. is. ’dier at Go Aland, asking his i v>‘e tor Pirn he. was a ;■■ i lir-r. - The old veteran returned with- dhis note < n the back: “Dear-Doc: Las:, year Harrison ’ the .- - '’dier and ! ’levehmd the vetoer- of soldier pensions wqre candidates. ,Did you vote for the: soldier or for tii-- vetoer of his perns tons?” Tl>" Doctor has not replied y.p to date. j

'.JJJJI Thousand Republican voters in the state of Indiana have THREE congressmen and no senator. •2GO Thousand Democratic voters in the atoto of Indiana have TEN congressmen and TWO senators.

Every Republican who votes for Patton for Congress; Culp for Senator; • Glazebrook for Representative Justifies, endorses, encourages, perpetuates and participates, in this outrageous political robbery.

Remember, voters, the place to put down your little star shaped stamp next Tuesday, when you want to vote the straight Republican ticket, is,on the highest square on the ticket, the one at the left of the title and immediately under the picture of the eagle: • Rep. ; REPUBLICAN TICKET. This shows th'e place for the stamp on the dotted square surrounding th 6 letters, Rep. Instantaneous photographs were ’taken~of the 'Natibijal House of Representatives, on several occasions during the last session, and they showed overy Republican member in his seat, ready to do his sworn duty in the discharge of the public business; and they show also, on the Democratic side of the house only an array of empty benches. One solitary Democrat left there to interpose as many obstructions as his engenuity can invent, while all the rest of the Democratic members are out of the room. Do we want the Tenth district to be represented hereafter by an empty seat on the Democratic side on by a faithful member on the Republican side ? There is no county office so responsible and at the same time so thankless as that of county commissioner; and none in which a man is so certain to cause disappointments and make enemies. No man, however conscientious and- discreet he may be, can discharge the duties of that position without finding himself, time and again, in a position where he must cross somebody’s wishes or opinions. and thereby cause dissatisfaction and enmities. • Our present county commissioners are all men of unquestioned and unquestionable probity of character and careful, conscientious guardians of the people’s interests. They have made some enemies, without doubt, and that too when they have acted not only for what they thought was

for the best, but what actually was for the best. Moreover, being possessed of only human judgement, they probably have made some mistakes —but none we firmly believe which have been injurious to the interests of the people—and have thus made other enemies, but these cases are few fn number comparatively. The people in general know that their commissioners have deserved well in their opinions, and will so decide at the polls next Tuesday. — agem !■ ■ iiinnnw— — . Dr. Patton, the Democratic candidate for Congress, is undoubtedly a good-enough village doctor and also a pleasant and accommodating neighbor; but the same or similar things might be said of thousands of Democrats in this congressional district, and they constitute no valid reason why any Republicans should give him their votes, and in so doing vote against all the political principles which they hold to be right. And what- other reasons can be urged why Republicans should give him their support? No man could scarcely be conceived of as showing less qualifications for the position than he has. He is no speaker, no writer, no parliamentarian —has never given any proof, in any way, that he is a man of wide general information, that he knows the political or economic needs of the country, or would know how to give that knowledge practical effect in legislation. On the other hand there is not the slightest reason to suppose that if elected to Congress he could or would do anything other than sit in his place and vote as his. party bosses dictated, or to follow theit lead.when pandemonium was to be raised or a quorum broken. He is an,ultra Democrat and would not, if he could, do otherwise, in any particular, than follow the behests of his party. Come out r and try the new method of voting, next Tuesday. It will not be nearly so difficult au operation as it looks.

That “tide in the affairs of men which, taken at its flood, leads to fortune ,” came to John Nichols last summer when he just missed being nominated on the Republican ticket for county treasurer. Had Mr. Nichols accepted his defeat in a manly, honorably way, and gone to work for the success of the whole Republican ticket, then no man in the county would have had a stronger place than he in the good will of the Republicans, and no power on earth could .have prevented his nomination the next time he asked for it. He announced himself as a candidate subject to the decision of the convention, the conditions of which, were known of all men, and to no one bettet than himself. He was fairly and honorably defeated, and his only fair and honorable course was to have manfully accepted the result .Had he done this, then the people of Jasper county would have honored and rewarded him accordingly. Instead of this he has publicly renounced hie party and his lif e-1 ong prose ssions of principle, and now the people of the county know that his Republicanism was only for office or. boodle. He has forever blighted his prospects for political advancement in Jasper county.» 1 Democrats now see and admit the truth of what tne Republicans claimed when the new election law was forced through the legislature by Democratic gag rule, without opportunity for debate or amendment: Namely, that the law is unnecessarily complicated, and cumbersome; unnecessarily expensive and what is still worse, is unnecessarily severe on the restrictions it places upon self-re-spectipg American citizenship. If the Republicans in the last legislature bad been listened to, all the good features in the election law would have been secured, with few if any of the present bad features. Knives and forks at cost, at J. H. Willey A Sods’.

•Charges circulated on the eve of election, when too late for correction, are not only always false, but- always cowardly. Look out for slanderous circulars in Dr. Patton’s, interest, during the next few days. How much truth there is in John Nichols’ claim that he was defeated by the “Marion township ring” is ahown by the fact that he received within 6 of as many votes in Marion township at the primary convention as did Mr. Hemphill himself; ,and among those who voted for him were two members of that other “Ring” he complains so much about: Namely I. B. Washburn and J as. F. Irwin, njcumbents of county offices and members of the “Court House Ring,” which, according to Mr. Nichols was one of the chief agencies in his defeat. Mr. Nichols claims in these particulars are utterly groundless, and in his heart he knows th at they are. By virtue of the Democratic Gerrymander THREE Indiana Democrats are equal in the National Congress to TWELVE Indiana Republicans. If the Republicans of the Tenth District commit the unspeakable folly of throwning away their Congressman from the district than the ratio will stand. Two Democrats equal to Thirteen Republicans. The prospect for an old time Republican clean sweep in Jasper county were never better. AU that is needed is plenty of vigilant work in getting out the Republican vote. To votQ on election days is not only a privilege, but it is a duty—and a duty which no good citizen should neglect. Above all no good Republican should neglect it, for whats the use of knowing how to vote right and not doing it? *• The largest assortment of boots and shoes in Jasper county.

J. H. WILLEY & SON.