Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1879 — November Report of the Rensselaer Graded Schools. [ARTICLE]

November Report of the Rensselaer Graded Schools.

General Grant will go by special car tt> Key West, Florida, on the 26th or 2Tth, and from thence he will sail for Ilavsna. 4 Congreramaii I*y, of Missoari, died of paralyrt*, in Washington, on the morning of *tie Bth instant. He had been in ftcUe health for no ate time. Monticello Herald: An effort is being made to resurrect the greenback party in Jasper county. It will prove a huge undertaking with puny results. It is now likely that congress will not meddle with the currency question. Sensible, if true. The best wsy to treat that question is to let it alone. It -is fully able to take care of haelf. Among the many suitable names men ■ tioned in connection with the republican nomination for governor are the follow iog: Gen. John Coburn, of Indianapolis, Col. Billy Williams, of Warsaw, General Shackelford and Hon. Morton C. Hunter. All of these gentlemen are republican to the core, and well qualified for the position. With such timber to -select from, republicans need have do fears of the . result.

The Delphi Journal this week entered upon its thirtieth year. The Journal, like good wine, improves with age, aDd under its present management is a paper that the people of Delphi and Carroll county may well feel proud of. It js one of the permaneut institutions of the land, and is doing a noble work for the republican party. Here’s to your health, neighbor. May your lamp continue to burn until the vilot sinner returns and repents of voting the democratic ticket. The Indianapolis Journal, together with a number of other representative republican journals ot the state, think the state ceutral committee made a mistake in fixing the time 'for holding the state non.inating convention so early, and urge the cumwiuee to change the date to sopie time iu June or July. We fail to see why an early convention should necessarily prove detrimental or disastrous to the cause. In a campaign of so great importance as the one approaching will be, we think it wise for the repp alicana of Indiana to put their platform and ticket in the field early. The task to be pcrformediby them is one which will require all the energy that it is possible to put forth to insure success. Republicans can ill afford to let the golden moments pas* unimproved. The work must begin,' and that at ODce. The tbiindatiou must be laid upon which to build the grand superstructure. The material necessary for the foundation must be a platform of principles broad enough for every man in the state to stand on without being crowded. Place upon tbat platform a ticket composed of the best men in the ranks, then set the- ball in motion and keep it rolling until the morning of the election. Such a course would surely redound to the , success of the party, while delay would undoubtedly result in disaster and defeat. To the unbiased observer the coming caiupaigu is pow presenting a curious phase. Whether ,one be a republican . or dewociat, he cannot help but notice * the drift of political as fairs at the preseut day; thatour country is almost in the identical position it wis iu 1857, except, thanks be to the good north, a republican president is at the helm of state instead of a James Buchanan. The facts may as well be viewed as the late Zachariah Chandler viewed them. They may as well be looked squarely in the face. There is no use shirking the real issues through a weak , pity for some northern democrat’s feel logs The people of Jasper county may ■" as well understand now that the only real true question uext year will be that of state suverignty, that is, s»atesovereignty in the common acceptance of the meaning. Under our Constitution, states un douhtedly* have some absolute rights which congress and everybody else are bound to respect. Bat the modern exponent of this doctrine goes further, and not only claims those rights which ar« directly guaranteed by the Constitution, but also those rights which are exactly to the spirit of the same, name ly: thq right of seceding from the Union and of nullifying congressional legislatien. In other words, that the Constitution provided for a mere league of independent states and is bindiug no longer than the good will of each. How any one with a sound mind can consistently maintain this doctrine, when it is plainly contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution, we do not know. The confederation, properly so called, tn force before the adoption of the Const it at ion, was defective froin|the very fact that the government had no rights which the states were bound to respect; that it could eoeroe the latter under no circumstatnces to obey ita enactments; that it was a government of theory, not of. fact; it could plan, but not execute, and ou this very account it was found necessary to form a more perfect union to endow the government with ample powers, and in fact to form a Nation. The Constitution, according to democratic construction, would be no more effies cions than were the old articles of cun federation Democrats of to day argue ts they did in ’6O, tbat as the powers of

government were derived from the states lattes; that the creature cannot assume powers not expressly defeated to it by its creator. Their reaaoabg and inference is logical on this point but they argue from a false premise which, of course, renders their conclusion falee. The powers of the government am not derived flora the states but plainly from the people in their individual sovereign capacity. Not as people of the states but as the people of America, r It is “we the people of the United States” who bind ourselves together in a perpetual insoluble Uuton, and in doing so the states do nothing h> their oapaeities as sueh. The national government then, is not subordinate to the state gov ere men ts. It is subordinate to the people,its creators, and nothing dee. We emraot aee what object the democrats have in clinging to the theory of state rights since the abolition of da very. They certainly can see tbat it would be as disadvantageous to them ss to the north to have this Union destroyed at tb<* present time. The fact is, democrats hardly know what they do want at the present advanced state of civilisation. They have an innate hatred of the anion, or rather of the* north and have no convenient chance to give vent to that hatred except under the convenient cloak of the supposed de funct state sovereignty doctrine. Like their leader, General Tombs, they mean ‘‘death to to the Unioo,” whether that Union be good or bad. advantageous or not. Time alone can make us oue in feeling as well an in name. A.

Whole number enrolled for the month, at A verage daily attendance ......I 300 Percent of attendance.. ,J 90 ** ** conduct 4..... 97 “ punctuality L............ 998 “ ** study ...... i i 100 Number of excuses received by teachers 85 ** “ •• principal ...11 Total iX! ... .77 Names Ot pupils whose record for the month is 8. PRIMARY A. Con Catt. Maliel Hopkins. Alice -Webber, Nellie HaUoran, Annie Webber, Silly Piatt Ttliie Warner, Linnie Keelly, .Miry T,Cliiloote, Maud IL vlor, Hattie Clark. Lucj Noweln, Ella Davisson, Alpha Hopkins, Samuel Fendig, Willie Hammond. <fav Zimmerman, Charles Rhoades, Warren Washburn and Uussie Phillips.— 20. PRIMARY B. Cora Adams. Sfarv Mlams, Amzie Beek, Lee Catt. Gertie Clark. Eddie Duvall, Rebecca Fendig, Eva Harding. Crillr Hutson, Hurdle Hammond. Louie Hopkins, Nellie Keelly, Blanche Longhridge, George Moss, Chari v Rhoades, Hattie Rhoades. Birdie Spitler. Dallas Warren, -VaUie Wardeu. Bion Zi in merman, Nellie Hopkins, Mary Spitler.— 22. INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT. Hattie Blankenbnker, Gay lard Chileote. Ida Clark, Katie Green, Horn ’ Hopkins, George Hollingsworth, Lucy Htsoly, Mary HaUoran, Allien Hopkins, Frank Keeanur, Simon Leopold. Frankie McEwen, Albertie Morris, Minnie Norris, Lorenu Peacock, Charley Spitler, -sarali Tuteur. Harry Zimmerman, Qiiez Hutson, Mary Dunn, Lottie Peacock, Eugene Sayler.—43. GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Tillie Fendig. Myrta Hinkle, Hattie Hopkins. Louesa Platt, Eugene Spiller, Mary Wasbburu, Mary Healy, Bertie Duvall, Anna Schweitzer. -9. HIGH SCHOOL. Belle Alter, Arilla Cotton, Elmer Dwiggins, lam is Hollingsworth, Ora Thompson, Delos Thompson, Victor Lbughridge, Uaitie B. Coen, Celia Childers, James Erwin, Alice Rhoades, Clara Reeves. Nellie Spitler, Nettie Everson, Edith A. Miller. Henry Smith, Frank Weathers, Emma Washburn.—lß.