Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1890 — INDIANAPOLIS LETTER. [ARTICLE]

INDIANAPOLIS LETTER.

JXDIANAPOT.TS. Oct. 27—The work of education, so far as this campa gn is concerned, is about over except as to how to vote, and now the final work of each individual Republican doing his remains It is one of the singularities of American nature to %oast to. foreigners of the glorious privileges enjoyed in this country, and. that here the people are sovereign, choosing their officials for Themselves, and yet when election day comes "around to value tnese priviliges so lightly as to let a little rain or a little busjness keep them away from the polls. Charge a man with neglecting hie duty to his family’, his church, his neighbors, his country, and he will get angry and deny it with vehemence, yet every Republican who remains wilfully away from the polls this year will be neglecting all those duties. It !■ his duty tp his family, his church, bis neighbors and his country to do all in his poKerttPrescue the Slate from the inefficient and criminal mismanagement under wEI ch it has been laboring. It is always his duty to do what hecan to select the best pf officials in ev.ery official capa ity. Let him not remain away from the polls, then, on next Tuesday.

What can tho Republicans accomi plish oy going to the polls? Muchvery much!' The victory is in their hands if they will but do tbelrduty on that day. —’1 here is a revolt among the people against Democratic misrule, and with a full vote next Tuesday the victory can be won. The vote of every Republican is needed. • • • No Republican in Indiana need be ashamed to vote this year. In National matters he votes to sustain and endorse the purest, wisest and busiest administration the country has known tor a long time. He votes to endorse a Congress that has settled the Vexed and long agitation of the tariff and thereby given the country new prosperity; a Congress thaThas passed the" most liberal pension measures ever given by any government on the face of the globe; a Congress that has done more for the benefit of the people than any Congress since the beginning of the Government; more for labor, more for the agriculturists, more to revive our merchant marine, more to widen and extend our trade with foreign countries, mpre to build up our own home markets. He need not be ashamed to vote for tbe State ticket. It is made up of old soldiers, farmers and business men, all men of intelligence. purity of life and spotless integrity. He need not be ashamed of the State platform. There is not a plank in it that does not declare in favor of some wise and prudent measure. A vote for the Republican ticket this yearwill be a vote in favor of rig.d economy, an end to the increase of the State debt, a fair and honest listing of personal property for taxation, taxing corporations so as to require them to pay for the valued favors and privileges they seek. • • Why should any citizen complain of the burden of taxation, tbe annual,increase of the State debt, the freedom of corporations from paying for their franchises, and then remain away from the polls, or going to the polls vote anything but the Republican ticket? If he is a Republic an and remains away frojn the polls he has no right to complain. If he belongs to any other Darty. and if he really desires these reform he will vote the Republican ticket. The Democrats will.not bring them about, and no other ticket stands a ghost of a chance of ever having the opportunity to do so, but the Republican. Why then should a vote at this time be wasted on any other ticket? The State Government must be in the hands either of the Democrats or Republicans, and if any voter desires to see these reforms brought about, if he desires to see the benevolent institutions put under honest and non-partisan control, if he desires to see economyin the administration of affairs and a reduction of the burden of taxation, be must choose between the Republican and the Democratic ticket, for one of those two will be elected, history proves that no reforms have ever been accomplished when the Democrats have had power. What reason has anyone then to believe reforms*will ever be brought about by that party? If you want reform, the only thing left to do is to vote the Republican ticket. • • • The new system of voting is likely to result in the throwing out of a large number of ballots because of informality. No Republican ought to neglect thorough 1 y posting himself on how to prepare his ballot To vote a straight ticket he must be careful to stamp the square to the left of the words, “R?1 publican ticket ” and ho must be care- ; ful to see that the stamp is plain and distinct and on the square, not above ar below it or on either side. He should be careful to see that his ballot conta ns the initials of the poll clerks on the lower left hand corner of the' ! back of the ticket He Joust be care- | ful in folding his ballot to hand to the ; inspector, that it is so folded as to expose to view the initials of the clerks, and not expose any part of the face of the ticket. this yeas and the State will be rescued from Democratic misrule. Let him gc to the polls himself and see,that his neighbor goes. Let him stay there until his vote l» oast. Let us have a toll vote and an honest count.

NICODEMUS.