Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1870 — Judge Test's Nomination. [ARTICLE]

Judge Test's Nomination.

Wo are pained to see the course pursued by our contemporaries of tbe Lafayette press, iu regard to the late convention held at Kcutland for the nomination ofjmlgeforthiscireuit. Whefi conventions are held in accordance with party usages their action is usually regarded as binding upon the press advocating the principles of the party calling them. Any other course must soon end in overthrowing the republican party, and the cherished principles for which thev have'so long and successfully contended. The Lafayette press has indulged in a system of abuse and misrepresentation of tbe late Kentl&ud convention, and the members of that body, wholly unworthy of honorable men. The low ribaldry of Tullis, of the Courier, and his vulgar allusions to Col. Hammond and the members generally composing tbe convention, snows that he is either dnink or crazy. One would think the Lafayette press had enough on its hands to battle against the opposition in Tippecanoe couuty, without waging warfare against the men of our own party, and particularly republicans, whose honesty and fidelity to our principles has never been (juestlored; yet, to read Tulips’ diatribe on tbe convention, one would conclude there was not an honest man participating in its proceedings excepting himself and two or three other delegates from Tippecanoe. The convention at Kentland was held in pursuance of a call of tbe central judicial committee of the circuit, and ft wn« provided in that call thnt

lisach candidate should receive hia pro rata vote from the aeVerul counties composing the circuit. Till* mm. mni<UU4f was Inserted at the request of Jodm VlnlM, and Assented to by Judge Teat it received the ammibKtiou dHpl the parties Interested Id its proWWiiijfH up to the day convention met. Upon thia basis Judge Test received 37J votes, amt Judge Vinton Sop The principieenL 1 bodied in the call was just and proper, I and no man was ever more fairly iiom- . inated than Judge Test. Theatteippt >to deprive him of the votes to which be was entitled In TipjJeeanoe county, if successful, would have been an unmitigated fraud, and so regarded by every honest minded republican iu the circuit. In Tippecanoe county they resolved to hold a primary election; in the other counties they called their regular conventions and appointed delegates to the judicial meeting at Kentland. Neither Judge Test or any other candidate ran compel the people tohold primary elections. The manner in which candidates shall be put into the field is usually confided to the central committee of the several counties. If Tippecanoe choose to hold u primary election for the nomination of her candidates, it is none of our business. Wc mukc- our nominations in general convention, and it is there We take the sense of our people. The judicial central committee did not think proper to demund that primary elections should be held in tlie several counties for tlie selection of a candidate for judge and prosecutor of this circuit. They made It a delegate convention, ami left it to tho counties to determine the mode of choosing their delegates. If Judge Vinton has friends in this or the other northern counties of the circuit, they should have attended the conventions of the party, and made known their wishes. If they failed to do this, it is not probable they would have attended a primary election. If there are those in our beetiou of the circuit who prefer Judge Vinton to Judge Test, we are not able to find them. Test is the almost universal clioioe of the jteople and the bar in the northern portion of the circuit, without distinction of party.— Among tho latter, with whom the Judge lias been iu close Intimacy and daily intercourse for the last twelve years, his honesty and impartiality has won him the esteem and support of all, both republican ami democrat. It is indeed surprising, that in the hundreds of eases decided by Judge Test iu bis long judiciul career, and some of them attended with great excitement, lie should have made so few enemies.

Tlie Lafayette Journal says that “thecounty convention which ordered the primary election, instructed the delegates to the judicial convention to cast tlie vote of the county as a unit.” We beg leave to say that there is no foundation for this assertion. It is not true. Wc have file proceedings of that convention before us, and we iicre copy the only resolution passed in their county convention on that subject. “Resolved, That nil the township, county and district officers to be elected during the current year, shall be nominated by a primary to be held on the first Monday in April, 1870, at which time we will instruct, by ballot, our delegates who is the choice of Tippecanoeacounty for the coining race for congress.” They resolved to instruct their delegates by ballot, as to their choice for congress, and perhaps that their choice should be voted for as a unit in the congressional convention; but not one word is said in that resolution relative to voting as a unit in the judicial convention forjudge and prosecutor. Nor did llie editors of the Journal ever dream of such until their favorite was beaten in the late convention. According to their position, Judge Vinton was nominated for judge of this circuit two months ago. Why not have claimed his nomination immediately, that tlie result of the primary election was known? Why have waited until the Kentland convention, to have declared that which they liail already done? It was a useless waste of time and trouble to hold a convention when, with the assumption of the Journal, they had already nominated the circuit judge and prosecutor (Scarcely a week be‘ore the meeting of the Kentland convention, tlie editor of the Gazette, of that place, hinted that Judge Viuton’s friends would decline to abide by the terms of tlie call for the judicial convention, unless they were likely to secure his nomination. Tho Journal repelled the idea with great indignation, that Tippecanoe would be guilty of such business, and abused the editor in the most scurrilous manner for even intimating tiiat they could act in such bad faith. The four or live delegates from Tippecanoe county did act just as hinted. They came to *tlie convention, counted noses and found on the fair basis adopted on suggestion of Judge Vinton, by the central committee, that he would l»e defeated. — They then attempted to break up tho convention; and failing in this, four of them attempted to cast the vote of county as a unit fdr Judge Vinton.— One of the five, however, more honest than tlie others, admitted that Judge Test was entitled, under call of tlie convention, to 9j votes from Tippecanoe, which, with the votes he received from the other counties, gave him the nomination, and by the president of the convention he was declared its nominee. We, with all the other republican papers iu the circuit, (six in all) excepting those published iu Lafayette, have hoisted the name of Judge Test as our candidate, and shall do battle for him until the October election.

The Wiiiamac Republican is, respectfully, iniormed that Hon. Anson Wolcott has never written a coimnnication to the Rensselaer Union “defaming the character of Gen. Packard’s friends,” nor upon any other subject. W T c do not remember of having published a word written or suggested by him respecting political matters, during the year. Jdr. Reiser is at fault in this matter and bis statement is without foundation in fact. + —-UThe convention to nominate a democratic candidate for Slate senator, in this district, will be held at Remington, Jasper county, on Wednesday, July 20th, 1870. Pulaski county will be represented at thccouvention.— Winamac Democrat. The man who will be elected from this district will be nominated at Reynolds to-day (July Ist). The democracy of Porter county talk of starting a paper in the interest of their party at Valparaiso

Wheat is coming into the La* porte market lively. lleesra. Rowan Jk Kelley, of Wioatnac, filletl an order foF 2,000 tin pans for one honae last week The receipts of tho Northern Indiana prison for the quartor ending May 31st were $1,350.05 in excess of the expenditures.