Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1879 — THEIR OCCPPATION IS GONE. [ARTICLE]

THEIR OCCPPATION IS GONE.

For several years past “bard times’’ baa been the constant campaign cry of the Democratic party. Politicaßy speaking it has liked oa hard times, the argumeat being that the Republican party was responsible for thisktate of affairs arid that there could be no improvement till thk Democracy got in power. For a while a good many foolish people listened to this argument and were induced to vote with the Democracy in the hope of bringing better times. Now, however, they see that better times are coming through the reanmption of specie payments and other things which the Democratic party Ims persistently opposed. They see that if the Democrats had snooeeded, instead of better times there would have been worse. They see that the Republican policy has brought the country the -financial crisis, has restored confidence, aud is bringing back prosperity. Therefore, the Democratic occupation of prating about hard times is gone. The bottom is knocked out of that argument, and the Democratic statesmen of the Voorhees school, who, in the last campaign, piled up bogus statistics and quoted “The Song of the Shirt,” to move their audiences, wfll have to invent some lie# device.—[lndianapolis Journal. The dempcrats made great promisee relative to favoring the Union soldiers officially. But they are poor performers. Whenever they cun strike down a crippled soldier they do it. The latest sample was given by us last week, in the case of 8. S. Wilson of N. Y., who was an employe in the senate. He was retained until adjournment and then summarily dropped. His case is an aggravating one. He was a faithful officer, and is a cripple, having lost both legs at Gettysburg. Ho is the kind of hero the brigadiers don’t like.—[Crown Point Register. The Democratic party regards the United States election law as a grievance. ■Criminals and those who prosper by violating law regard all laws as grievances. A Congress composed of counterfeiters and mail robbers would have gone much farther than the Democrats did in nullifying the' statutes, though they could not have shown a worse spirit. “No thief e’er felt the halter draw with good opinion of the law.” r[Stark County Enterprise. When Phil.-Sheridan-rode from Winchester to victory he shouted to the boyg, “we’ve got*a twist on them.” And he had, as Eaily found. The brigadiers in Congress have been bringing back the Union forces this winter and spring, but we are rallying now, and in the autumn election the Republicans will get a ‘‘twist” on the rebels that will make their hair stand on end.—[lndianapolis Journal. * The heirs of the devotedly reconstructed Southern woman who died recently and left Jeff Davis a fortune, have brought suit to set aside the will, and Jeff has a fight'over a woman’s shoe on his hands. If it were only a cloak and hoop-skirt, Iww gracefully Jeff’, could win and wear them.—[Logansport Journal. -• Since we last figured In the newspaper business, a new paper, the Svahb-abd, is coming forth each week at Ren-selaer, Ind., to cheer up the citizens and those of the surrounding swamps, with its bright and spicy pages. Merviu O. Cissel sits at the helm. —[Brookston Reporter. The two spans of the narrow gauge railroad bridge over the Wabash lately washed away, were captured about ten mists below Lafayette. They are in good conditon, but it is said new timbers can'be bought, cheaper than to have the wreck returned.—[Monticello Democrat. The talk of an alliance between Joseph E. McDonald and uncle Sam Tilden is gathering volume and firmness. In this alliance Senator Joseph Will Like the second pluco refused by Mr. Hendricks, and do his best to carry Indiana for Tilden.—[Logansport Journal. ' V I *V If resumption be a failure arid a curse to labor,-as the Democratic-ftiflrition newspap-. era claim, why is it that there is more work and greater prosperity tlii' year than there has been in any year since the panic?— [Cleveland Leader. The Gay Brothers, near Springborough, harvested and threshed 1879 bushels of wheat in the year oFout Lord 1879, from 70 acres of land.—[Brookston Reporter.