Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1872 — FOR President. ULYSSESS. GRANT. FOR VICE PRESIDENT. HENRY WILLSON. [ARTICLE]

FOR President. ULYSSESS. GRANT. FOR VICE PRESIDENT. HENRY WILLSON.

FIECTCKS FOR STATE AT LARGE. JONATHAN W. GORDON. JOSKl'il S. IH’CKI.KS. Jobs i< w.ABTfe *t ISAAC S. MOOKK. DISTRICT ELECTORS. Ist I)iat. HAMEL it. KUIIi.EU === Sd “ i viu s r. xrxox. till “ JAMRS V. M.I.JSOX. ■ith “ .totix it. coonwix. Otii “ liKOKiiK \V. (iKUUiiS. Otll “ JAMES T. JOHNSTON. 7tll “ BENJAMIN V. UUEUOKY. Bth “ CALVIN < OWU ILL. ‘ oth ROBERT K TAVI.OU. 10th “ ERASTIXS V 11. KJ.LIS. 11th “ Sidney kkltu. Hon. Billy Williams is tilling engagements Tor "campaign sperffritig ip OotMiectieat and Nov York. Vice President Colfax makes one speech in Wisconsin, two in Michb ghu and four in Indiana before the campaign closes. Dr. Hatch's official majority loir Representative in the Legislature from the counties of Pulaski, Jasper and Newton,, is 372. The nia« jority in this district two years ago was 150.

The notorious Will C. Moreau, who figured so prominently in the O'Conor Louisville convention, has superceded Mr. Mussehnan in the editorial management of the Logansport Sun. The Legislature of Indiana will stand, politically, as follows; Senators, Republicans, 27, Democrats, 23; Representatives, Republicans, 51, Detnoerals, 4G; licpublicanjna- - jority on joint ballot, 12. The official majorities for State officers ami Congressmen at Large are as follows; Governor, Hendricks, Democrat... . 1,148 Lt. Governor, Sexton, Republican.. 430 Secretary St. re, Gurrv, 3_ 184 Auditor "State, VVfjduwn, “ 275 Treaiuirer State, Glover, “ 782 Attorney Gent-’i, Denny, *• 644 Sup. Pub. Inst., Hopkins, Democrat, 957 Clk.Sup. Court,Scholl, Republican, 1,503 Rep. Sup. Court, Black, “ 427 r , .' tOrlh " 162 Cong n at large | w . ||jamß <( 25g The total vote polled for Governor was, 377,700. The Republican votes for Secretary of'State number 183,852; the Democratic, 188,068. — The official vote for Congressman y m the eleventh district is as follows. PACKARD. IIE.NRICKS. White 1,295 _ 1,281 Newton. SIS 634 ‘Jasper 989 i -563 Pulaski. 652 956 Fulton 1,310 1.447 Marshall. 1,852 2,317 Starke 393 474 St, Joseph 3,279 2,802 Laporte SJt ... 3,065 3.149 Porter 1,688 1,285 -Lake., ..... 1,532 920 Total ...16,813 15.828 15,828

Taekard’s majority. 985 Two years ago Mi*. Packard’s majority was 1,407. The Cincinnati platform was in favor of relegating to the people of tiie several congressional districts the subject of tariff, because threequarters of the convention were advocates of free-trade while thencandidate for President was a high protectionist. The polfcv of the Republican party is to regulate the tariff in such a manlier as to derive a revenue therefrom" aiid afford incidental * protection to American manufacturing interests;' win n it will not conflict with the interests of a great number of people.;— These went, to the people for discussion and-'their decision. The result is, in Indiana the Republicans gain four members of Congress, in Pennsylvania they gain six members, aud in Nebraska they elect a legislature which will send a Republican to succeed- Mr. TipUm, th« Greeley renegade.

• There are two foolish newspapers at South Rend ivhic 1 1 are-.striving to sCe which will strike the fatal blow to Mr. Colfax’s political career? Last season the editor of-the; /kCyfotcr licvcr rtrt 3it OppOTtllTl It V pass without striking at him with an inSErOtoent funilar to that used, by Sampson in his warfare upon the Philistines; now the jaw bone is being wielded by the Tribune proprietor. Gentlemen, out this way people still have considerable respect for the Vice President, but there is no telling how soon this feeling may be substituted by one of disgust if you persevere in making such out of time suggestions about the Presidential' cahdldates for 1876. No man, however great his genius or popularity, can long ’-sUrfive such persistent attacks as the South Rend papers have been making upon Mr, Colfax for twoor three years past. Let him up!

Netirly all the leading newspapers throughout kite country having put into circipatioh the. report -th'atrVtgff wo assume control of their editorial columns at the expiration of his term of office, we feel it may be "due to the of the Rensselaer Uniox to state that all' such tit i s naner-artr without foundation. The present proprietors and editors will eofi-' tiiuie-to conduct the Union with the same, ability tlurt haS made their paper conspicuous for the last four years, until other announcement appears in these therefore there need be no hesitancy on the part of those whose subscriptions have nearly expired about renewing them and paying in advance. In October oflßtiS Pennsylvania gave a Republican majority of only 9,077. At the Presidential election, month later the majority for Grant wa5"38,839. In Ohio, at the October election, the State was carried for the Republicans by 7,501 majority. At the Presidential election Gen. Grant’s majority was4l,190. In Indiana that year, Gov. Baker was elected by less than 1,000 majority and Grant carried the State in November by about 10,000. In 1872, in October the Republicans carry Pennsylvania by over 31,000, Ohio by 13,500, but in Indiana we lose the Governor by 1,100. Judging from .the ratios of the vote of 1858, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana are morally certain to east their electoral votes for Gen. Grant.

Let no Republican thiuk for a moment that Indiana is so sure for Grant and Wilson that lie can absent Jlimself from the polls on tho--sth day of November. The party that polls the fullest- vote m proportion to* its strength will elect their electoral ticket. Then we say to the Republicans of Jasper county be not over sanguine of success. Victory is within otir grasp if we use ordinary exertion to attain it, but the least faltering on any part, of the line and we may experience a disastrous defeat. Let us, then, who have said and believe that the administration of Grant is tie best the country has ever had, who believe that the general welfare of the country, the interests of rich and poor, high and low, one and all, will be promoted by the re-elec-tion of Grant, be at tiie polls and vote at we talk, and work as* we vote. And remember that on that day which is to decide so much, that you are your brother’s keeper, and you are to see that lie is not asleep, hunting cattle, or off visiting his friends, and then when you have done your work you can sit down at evening Vyitlj the proud consciousness that you have done your whole duty to your country and be assured that you have a government that will protect you from traitors within or foes without, and that for four years more peace and prosperity is secured to us.

If every Republican will do bis duty and vote on the sth of November, Jasper county will give 500 majority for Grant. Recause we won a good and substantial victory in Indiana on. the Bth of this month will be no excuse for idleness or indifference. Each man should be vigilant, active and untiring until the jfoils close on the evening ol the electionf‘ ! flfefl*%& may li»o down on well earned laurels and rest in peace, for four years more. The Democracy is "disheartened and all the efforts of their active men fail to inspire enthusiasm among the rank and tile. As a party they have abandoned principle and name; they have adopted Republican.-doc-trines and admit that on main issues of the pasjt twelve years we have been right; they have not even a Democratic candidate for President <jf *Vice"President, but are endorsing the most radical of Republicans. After abandoning principles and ideas, adopting a new name and even going outside of their own ranks for candidates to place on their national ticket, what claims have the leaders of the old DeinocratiO party upon the votes of its members t|iat they should longer dictatg; to them? There were many good, reasons why Democrats should desire the election of Thos. A. Hendricks and liis ticket in Indiana, but there is no reason for their desiring the election of Horace Greeley to the Presidency of the United States. No old tijupe "Democrat is willing to admit there is; and certainly no Republican need want to change off Gen. Grant for Mr. Greeley. Then let every man be at his post ready for the work that presents itself and do with his might what his hands find to do,

1 ' '~73 r ’."V”~7 ~ thus..will we be able to s<?eur* the electoral vote of our State for one of the best executives the nation In history President Grant will stand prominent 'among the foremost statesmen yet produced by the ,world. A single act has made his name as enduring as civil izatloim That act was , the substitution 'among nations of peaceful arbitration for tile hotrowj of war in the settlement of disputes. Eighteen and three quarters centuries had passed since the shepherds of Patestiho heard the doctrine of peace on earth and good will among men proclaimed as a theory. Philosophers, statesmen and teachers, thousands in number, had spent their days and many became martyrs, trying to reduce the grand theory to practical operation; but the solution of the glorious problem was left for the genius of a little soldier of the nineteenth century—after the world had been puzzled over it lor nearly two thousand years. We who live cotemporaneous with General Grant can never fully comprehend the magnitude of the influence of the Geneva Arbitration upon the world’s civilization, neither canwe clearly see the grandeur of the mind which conceived that mighty idea, for its brilliance partially blinds us like a great and sudden light; but generations w-hicli-shall- oorne after us and read the history of the present "times will comprehend the fullness of its glory and properly class the genius of General Grant as bordering upon the sublime.