Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1870 — POLITICAL ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL ITEMS.

tST In nix towns in Vermont not a Democratic .oie was cast. Hr The New York Stato Council of Temperance men have recommended the cordial support of the Republican ticket. IST The Ropnblican majority in Vermont is 2,0C0 greater than last year, a fact which enables the New York World to figure up large Democratic gains. CST Ho-ace Greeley expresses the assurance that the Republicans cannot be cheated this year out of the majority by miscounting and repeating; and ihat they will carry thetr ticket. t2T The Statement that at the recent city election in Wilmington, Del., the whole Democratic ticket was elected, is corrected hr later returns. The Republicans elected the city treasurer, and carried live wards out of nine. C2T Tbe NtW York World thinks that, in constructing Democratic platforms, ‘ the tunc should he pitched on a low key.” The Cincinnati Enquirer insists that, “on the contrary, it should be pitched ou a high key.” In the midst of this conflictin? advice (says the Detroit Tribune) the D.mccracy will pitch into whiskey. CSTThrco suocesrive D mocratic County 'treasurers in Hancock County, Ohio, have proved defaulters,khe last one having just absconded, his accounts showing a defalcation of over SBO,OOO. In the same county the last Democratic Sheriff wap a defaulter in the amount of SB,OOO. Doubtless, the Democrats of Hancock County affect to be jccenscd at the alleged corruption of the Republican party. * * CfT” The "Republicans of the Territory oi Wyoming have achieved a victory in the election of William T. Jones a» Delegate to Congress by about 200 majority over Warless, Democrat. The first election in this Territory took place in 1839, when S. F. Nuckolls, Democrat, was elected J>(Jugate by 1,436 majority in an aggregate prttl of 5,360 voles. The aggregate vote of Cheyenne, the capital ol the Territory, was 776—171 of the voters bt ing women. E2T A Washington dispatch of Sepj temter 15 says: “The receipts from inttrial revenue and customs during this month have been so heavy as to justly the- boaef at the Treasury Department that the public debt statement for September will show another large reduction in the amount (f tho debt. The receipts from internal revenue will be something over $15,000,000, while the custom receipts are estimated at something over $50,000,000.” IW lowa, under Republican rule, has paid off all her public debt, and has a largo surplus; Indiana has paid the last doilsf she owed, and her bonds are no longer the sport of Wall street stock job* bera; Illinois has steadily reduced her indebtedness, and has at easy command the meansto extinguish it; and now comes Michigan, which has reduced her indebtedness about two millions in the past eighteen months. In the same time, President Grant’s administration has paid about $150,000,000 of the National debt, and reduced taxation about eighty milliocs. These Republicans may be terrible fellows in Democratic estimation, but they have a'grer.t faculty for getting the people' out of debt, and cutting off the burdens of taxation. If left in charge ot affairs tho years are few when any public debt will exist.