Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1870 — A New Key. [ARTICLE]

A New Key.

Tho SoutV Bend Union, the Winamac Democrat and the Stark county Ledger, all democratic papers, speak favorably of Gen. Packard as the proper man for the Republicans of this District to nominate for Congress. We have heard several of the influential Democrats of this county speak in the same mam ner.— Rensselaer Union. By mere accident w*e have come in possession of the “key” to»tha foregoing species of warfare on Gen. Packard. —For a few weeks it has been indulged in by three papers in the District Orders tfent out from a certain quarter to have it appear that the Democracy were In favor of the renomination of Gen. Packard, and thus it was hoped to greatly injure him. This species of guerilla warfare, begun at Laporte, has extended as far as three newspapers in the District, whose editors are disappointed post office applicants, had circulation, and no farther. A correspondent . from Jasper county, givetf our readers this week the reason the Rensselaer Union opposes Gen. Packaid. Let the friends of. fair play cry aloud and spare not. It is simply an outrage to attempt to thus ruin a man because just three men failed to get a post office apiece. — Kentland Gazette. We publish below*, the “key” so feelingly alluded to by our friend Conner. We didn’t eome into possession of it by accident, it was given to us by a good republican who thought it was such a valuable communication, that it should be made public.

- - THE “KEY.” 11. R. Washington, April —l-8.70. Esq. My Dear Sir:—l write you very hastily to say that it has leaked out here, that there is a deep laid plot among the Democrats to defeat for renomination all the Republican delegation in Congress. 'l’heir idea is that this will most surely distract and demoralize our party and secure Democratic success at the coining election. Jhhan was beaten day before yesterday, and every effort is being made to defeat Shanks. In my Dist. they are cunningly setting Republicans after me, while their papers seem to defend me, only to injure me among Republicans. Already the Herald of Laporte is using this against me, precisely as .they intended should be done. The movement is especially directed against those of us who were in the army during the war. They think and very correctly that the surest -way to drive the soldiers from us is to slaughter their candidates. If the plan succeeds the State is lost to us beyond redemption. Don’t fail to look to this, “forewarned is forearmed.” Yours Very Truly, Jasper Packard.

“Here is richness.” No one but the man who could so ruthlessly stab the farmer’s barn with lightning, could have made the astonishing discovery of the deep laid and damnable plot of the Democracy. We had innocently supposed from hearing democrats talk, that they were organized to tell us whether laws and constitutional amendments were constitutional. We can’t believe it, it is too preposterous. The idea of Julian,..being a soldier is good, but is not quite so cheeky as .his claim to be the candidate. We have heard enough of this frtllhy talk about soldiers from ainan who will in looking for men to fill the petty

offices at his disposal remove private soldiers and appoint men who if they were in the army nt all were under good pay or went out when the war was almost over. Realy now does anyone but Con.nor, (having the post office under Packard lie feels, poor fellow, that he must open his mouth like a young -.robin ami it don’t make any difference whether Packard drops in tilth or a worm) believe a cock-and-bull xitory «(ike that published above. If the Democratic press of the District have been hired by any one, it is by the party who now cries “stop thief.” In Mr. Julian’s district, the Democracy did not want a softer thing than his renomination. In this district they want nothing better than to have Mr. Packard again put on the track, and they manifest their glee in anticipation of this event, their papers all assuring them that the General is a good man, but the day of their triumph is drawing near. As for the covert threat that he will defeat the State ticket if he is not renominated, we take it to be little else than the ravings of a man half demented with greed for office. It is the dernier argument of a candidate who feels his pros-* poets rapidly declining. ——— ——«te-W W Kentland, Ind., ) April 15th, 1870. j Editors Union: A communication from your place m the Kentland Gazette, over the signature of “Justice,” strikes an entirely new key. The opposition you arc making to Gen. Packard’s renomination, is not confined in your locality. Whether or not “Justice” tells facts, of course wc are unable to say, and it is little difficult to understand what busincss it TS to us if they are true. — Uc may state the cause of your opposition, but Mr. Packard is opposed here on entirely different grounds. If the statements of “Justice” fairly represent your case, we can only think it reasonaable that, those having a postoffice shopld work dilligently for him, and from the defense lie is receiving in the Gazette we are inclind to think its fussy editor is carning the fees of his post office. Fair Play.

Tho Chicago Tribune has the following dispatch: “Rochester, Ind., April 19. The election for appropriating $60,000 in aid of the Fort Wayne & Pacific Railroad through Fulton county was carried by a majority of 350. The counties along the line through this State will undoubtedly vote their local aid, and the work will begin by the Ist of June. When completed this will be one of the best roads nF the country, being the most direct route from New York to Omaha.”