Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1870 — The Fall Elections. [ARTICLE]

The Fall Elections.

[From th# Fort Wayne Gazette ]

The more avc think of the eoming election, tho more impossible, it seems to us, is it that the people of the State of Indiana will submit to a change,.af rulers. The method in which our finances have been managed has draAvn forth cnconiuins from leading journals outside the State; not that we need them at all as campaign documents we say it, for we have the facts right before us. The prosperity of the State is a hard nut for democrats to crack.— It is a sad stumbling block iu the way of their stump speakers, who hardly know just Avhere to strike, aud Avho, in default of anything neAV, fall back on jJxc, .negro question. They might as wolf full back on the Missouri comprorafse, so far as any relevancy to the present time is concerned. We should think they had had enough of the negro question. They Averc fairly beaten on it once, and avo cannot see that they are any stronger today than they Avere then. If there is any one thing which goes to show the Aveakuess of the democratic cause it is this continuous clinging to the negro. If there is anything to blioav the principles which animate some..pf its leaders, it is the willingness to take advantage of the prejudices of the ignorant. There are some democrats Avho are above it. Such men as Hendricks, Hoffman, of New York, John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, etc., recognize the situation, and have stopped this kind of business, leaving it to the one' horse men and journals, which we .are sorry to say, are greatly in the majority in the party. The result is that the attacks which are made upon the republican party are ambiguous generally ties, and not very glittering ones either. The administration, for instance, Is inflicted by a paper not very far from here with the serious charge of being a “government on wheels.” Among the intelligent attaches of the democratic party lvlio abound iu Allen county, this, ofreourse, carries conviction with it. Another general charge is that the republican party has “imperialism” as its secret object, but no trouble is taken to give any evidence that this is the case. The whole line of action seems to be to pay no regard to logic or anything else demanding thought, but simply to hammer into the ears of the shallow miuded, dogmas which will not bear even the shadow of investigation. It is well-knowu that no investigation will bo attempted by the class for which they are intended; and so long as "votes ate obtained, or rather retained by this Sroeesa, the “shame which would ush a nobler cheek” goes for naught. It must be apparent that the party which rests its strength on suoh practices as these has no stable foundation. Ever since the beginning of the republican party it nas drugged democracy after it. It comes creeping alpng behind inoorporating those slow minds whom the world moves fas It

originates nothirrjr, and accomplishes nothing. It is simply a dead weight on the wheels of legislation; but thank fortune there is strength enough in the country fit) carry it along. It has among its leaders Fernando Wood, a convic~tcd felon, who escaped from the penitentiary by a technicality in a statute of limitations, John Morrissey formerly a professional prize fighter, and now' the greatest professional gambler of the country; Benjamin Wood, the lottery dealer, aud numerous lesser lights in rascality. It represents principles which came very nearly destroying the Union, or else it represents po principles at all. In saying this we will admit that it contains also many worthy men. With all its black record behind it. it comes forward to claim the suffrages of the people. It comes forward to say that it can manage affairs of State better than those incu Avho have preserved the Union, who arc upholding the national credit und paying off the national debt, and who in this State have paid the home indebtedness almost entirely, if not entirely oft. Can it be supposed that it has prestige enough to be successful? We think not.