Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1890 — Objects of Organization. [ARTICLE]

Objects of Organization.

The officicl reports of what is being done towards building up > good modern navy with guns and other armaments to match, is g od reading for all truly patriotic eyes, although even now not half enough is beingTclone in that line. The abjectly defenseless condition of die United States during the last fifteen or twenty years, as compared with the condition of other nations, has been the monumental shame of the century.

The Logansport Journal pub lishes a list of forty-nine business houses whose proprietors declare that goods in general will not be raised in price by them oh account of the new tarjff law. Some o f them name a few lines of goods which they expect will show a rise. One firm names seal skin eacques, silk, Brussels carpets and fine table linen. It is also expected that French olives and sauces will rise a little. Also silk underwear, English neck ties and fine hats. Bay rum and French co-

lognes will rise some. Now please look over that list and see how much the poor are going to suffer by the higher price of Bay rum, and French olives and seal skin sacques, and silk underwear. One firm, carpet dealers, say that carpets of all the common and cheaper grades are cheaper than ever befo e.

The movement now going on for Republican organization or reorganization, is hopeful aid encourage ring,Tut it should aim at definite and distinct objects. An organization that merely brings Republicans together from time to time to hear a .speech, or talk politics will add little or nothing to the party strength. What is needed is a propagandist moremeat —a fnovement. that will reach new elements bring in back-sliders, revive the luke-warm and make new Republican voters..... To do, this some means must be adopted ’ of diseemiating Republican literaim e, putting it exactly wheie it will do good, instructing voters in egard to Republican principles measures and to vote a straight ticket under the new law. These are the p into an organization should aim at To carry them out will require money, time and effort It follows that some means

must be adopted of raising a permanent fund or working capital, and some machinery for utilizing it. Organizations that stop short of this will not amount to much. As far as practicable, also, they should be made attractive to young men, giving them the places of honor and the working oars. Men who have been voting the Republican ticket for twenty’ or twentyfive years can afford to take back seats. They are.just as comfoitable, and somebody must occupy them. Give the young man a chance. An important feature of the educational campaign of the next two years will be instructing Republicans how to vote right, under the new law. In this regard the Democrats beat us in the last, campaign. They did more aud better educational work on this line than we did, the result Being that their voters were better instructed, turned out in greater numbers and voted straighter. "With this advantage and the control of most of the election boards which, by ( preconcerted action, they used dishonestly, they first outvoted us and then counted us out They will do the same thing again unless Republicans are web organized and well instructed to prevent it. In the next election they will have a large majority of township trustees and inspectors, who will probably have secret instructions, as they did in the last

election, to throw out every Republican ballot 1 that shows the slightest informality. To guard againt this, every Republican voter in the State shouldbe personal ly instructed how to vote correctly. This must be done by placing instructions and sample ballots in the hands every voter. There must also be a much larger distribution of Republican newspapers and gco(| tariff literature than ever before, and this must .not be be put off till the campaign opens in 1892. That part us the campaign should open immediately. These are some of the points to be aimed at by organization, aud they should not be ana polis Journal.