Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1873 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

I®“The Democracy professes peculiar friendship for the farmers. It is but a few years since prominent Democrats were denouncing Northern farmers as “mudsills.”— Columbus (Ohio) Journal. H®”The liberal Republicans afford a curious instance of a party living everywhere throughout the country on the strength they are supposed to have somewhere else.— N. Y. Nation. ESpAs a final answer to the Democratic resolutions, the farmers will remember that a Republican Senate has appointed a committee to gather all available knowledge on the subject. While the Democrats are making vague promises, this committee, having on it such Republicans as Senators Conkling and Windom, is hard at work, and will be ready in December to give the farmers a mass of information concerning the transportation question which will be invaluable in helping them out of their troubles.—New York Times. Eg?” A majority of the Republicans in Congress voted against the salary steal, while a large majority of the Democrats voted for it. When the last vote had been called in the House, the bill was defeated, but before it was announced, five members jumped to their feet to change their votes. Four of these were Democrats. Of those who refused the back-pay, fourfifths are Republicans, and one-fifth Democrats.: We do not think it would be prudent to depend upon the Deriiocratic party for.yeform.—CLici'a/Wt (Azz«i7«. (Lg-'-The Democratic platform of Ohio says that “the Democratic party insists upon equal and exact justice to all men,” while the Democratic leaders oFVirginia cry for “a white man’s government.” The nominee f< r Governor in Ohio was an anti-war Copperhead of the vilest stamp, while the nominee in Virginia led the Confederates in person in the field. Twist it or turn it as you may, it is the same old prayer of disunion arrayed against progress and republicanism.— Washington Chronicle. The following, taken from a speech delivered by Mr. Allen, of Ohio, in September, 1863, shows the valiant “fire in the rear” delivered against our soldiers by the present Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio: “We put down South Carolina nullification, and how? By calling out 75,000 men? No! By murdering 700,000 or 800,000 men! By making a million and a half of orphans in this country! That’s not the work that Democrats have done. These bloody scenes were reserved for the Abolitionists to produce.” UggT To those who know the facts in the case, it is amusing to see the Anti-Mo-nopoly Convention of last week referred to in Eastern papers as the “lowa Farmer’s Convention.” There has scarcely ever been a State Convention with which the farmers of the State had so little to do. The convention was called by Polk County politicians. Only about one-third of the counties were even nominally represented in the Convention. It was manipulated and Controlled, its nominations dictated, and its platform drawn by professional politicians. To call it an “lowa Farmer’s Convention” is not only false, but libelous.— Dubuque (Iowa) Times. This is a bad year for new parties. Nobody but the office-seekers will take any stock in them. The whole country feels that the Republican party is sufficient. It is not afraid of investigation. It probes corruptions. It expels defaulters. It punishes knaves and thieves. It is sensitive to every public want. It keeps step to the march of progress, and walks under the,banner of reform. There is no other party in the country that has a particle of vitality in its veins, and this great party is not likely to commit suicide at the behest of demagogues. It will live and thrive and bless the land through the whole of the next generation.—Jftnneapolis (Minn.) Tribune. I®’” The Boston (Mass.) Advertiser says of Democracy: “The work of the party is all done. There is left for it only a garrulous, dismal, and spiteful decline to dust and monuments. The nation bears its scoldings, but heeds not the timorous warnings of dotage. The country has taken a new departure and left the Democratic party groping on in the footsteps of Pierce and Buchanan. Whether it goes forward in its path, or stands in its tracks irresolute, or attempts to follow after, avails nothing. It can never again get to the front. The people will see to that. They have no confidence in it, and will take’good care that it never gets a position of leadership.” US’” It is apparent that the danger of Csesarism is not confined to the Conservative and Democratic patriots. That sterling old battle-stained pirate, ex-Confed-erate Admiral Semmes, who has given evidence of his love for the country, and his high-toned honor, by deserting the flag under which he had been educated, and which he had sworn to defend in the time of danger and peril, left his laborious duties of manufacturing trunks in Baltimore to tell the Southern Historical Society how his suffering heart bled for fear tlie country of his choice should be afflicted With Csesarism. To hear him warn the country of the danger of the continued control of this government by the man who led the armies of the Republic to victory, and drove traitors and pirates to disgrace and shame, is refreshing.—lFa«A--ington Chronicle. Albany (N. Y.) Evening Journal says of the Democratic party : “ Its old hatred of the negro looms up on all fitting and unfitting occasions, in Democratic conventions and in the Democratic press as well as in midnight Ku-Klux conclaves. The virus of negrophobia is still coursing through the veins of the Democratic party, and with its restoration to power would find such emphatic expression as would speedily indicate the old animosity and the old desire for a new recognition of the legal supremacy of the white over the colored race, and a new reassertion of the old Democratic concession that slavery -was & - divine institution,’ too sacred to be imperiled by 1 agitation,’ and too holy to be disturbed in its repose by the sacri'ligeous aggressions of fanaticism. If tlie Democratic party of to day has no other ‘ vitality ’ than what it derives from its ‘ identity ’ with the principles more recently embodied in the Constitution under the patriotic impulse of a regenerated public sentiment, it is dead already, and needs only the services of the political undertaker to give it sepulture in the tomb of oblivion.” —A Californian has invented a machine to assist in starting street bars. It utilizes the weight of the car in descending a grade, accumulates and stores the power generated by gravitation, and applies the same when needed to assist in ascending a hill,