Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1879 — ADVICE TO INDIANA REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

ADVICE TO INDIANA REPUBLICANS.

We with to impress os the Republicans of Indiana the importance of avoiding mere local and side man between now and the geoeral election next year. It is true that this is included in the general policy of preserving harmony rathe party, but we wish to make a particular impression on this point. We wilj state some of the reasons for bringing this matter to the attention of republicans at this time. It is hardly necessary to remind our readers that the election next year will be oos of great importance to the state and nation. Besides a Governor, State officers and Legislature, there will be members of Congress and President and Vice president to be elected. The interests of the state and, to a certain extent, of the nation will be Involved in the election. • The oontrol of the national Congress and executive, in other words, of the national government itself! will be in issue. The great question whether the policy of the government shall be shaped for years to come by the republican or the democratic party, by northern or by southern influences, by progressive or by reactionary ideas, by liberalism or by bourbonism, will be decided next year. But the election will not only be one of great import tance —it will also be exceedingly close It requires no gift of prophecy to foresee this. It is hardly possible to conceive of any change in political circumstances which will materially alter this condition. The national a election is bound to be close. As matters now look it may turn, and is likely to turn, on new York and Indiana. There is no probability that the democrats can succeed without carrying both of these states, aud the loss of either will be the loss of the election. In other words, the prospect isithat New York and Indiana wilt be the battleground next year, and the latter state as much as the former. The democratic managers recognise this state of facts and are ready to meet it. In all their plans and calculations they concede the necessity of currying New York and Indiana, This is the touch stoDe which is applied to every ticket presented, and will be the one used in the democratic convention. Moreover, we have information that they have already commenced a quiet plan of operations. in this state, by which they hope to weaken the republican ranks in particular localities, and by breaking our lines here and there materially lessen our aggressive strength. One of the means by which they hope to accomplish this is by drawing republicans into small local and side issues. This policy has already been commenced in some places, and will be continued. It is a shrewd game, and if Republicans are an wary enough to be entrapped, it may lose us the State and the Nation. We believe the Republicans can carry Indiana next year if they make a united and determined effort. We have got the “bulge” ou the democracy now, and if nothing occurs to change the drift of public sentiment between this and the election, we can carry it, provided there is harmony and unity in our owu ranks. To this end, however, it is 61 the first importance that republicans everywhere throughout the State avoid being drawn into small side issues of any kind. The national issues and interests involved are tod important for mere local ones to find any place irr next year’s election. Let them be postponed till another year. If they are of any importance they will keep, and if they won’t keep a year lpnger they had better die anyhow. The main thing, the point of first and last importance which we would impress as strongly as possible on republicans throughout the State, is to work towards absolute harmony in the party, and to this end to keep constantly in view the great interests involved in next year’s election, and under no circumstances to be drawn into mere local, personal or side issues. In this connection we will offer a word of advice on another point akin to the foregoing. We advise Republicans everywhere to nominate by conventions and not by primary elections. The latter mode of nominating candidates is objectionable on many accounts, but it is enough to say that R has proved a great injury to the party io localities where it has been tried for a succession of years. There are counties in this st-tte where large republican majorities have been gradually frittered away thro’ the undermining influence of primary elections. As a rule, tickets made in this way are not as good as those made io convention, and the after results are always bad. Tbe convention system may not be perfect, but it is decidedly better than primary elections, which ought to be and we trust will be doee away with everywhere hereafter.—[lndianapolis Journal.

Warsaw Republican: There is no difficulty in assigning a few enterprising editors to their true position in the journalistic field, when they manifest their ability to do dirty work by easting dirt at the memory>of the late Senator Chandler. With att their slurs and libels his record will be none the less bright; for people are apt to remember that it is only the most worthless eowardly cur that yelps at a dead lion. A manly man respects the memory of a dead enemy, for the manly qualities he possessed, while the glare hidss his faults.

From ‘Tm Metsowc Showu,’ a paper read before the Literary Society at its anniversary Thursday evening, we make the following selection: