Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1873 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

Win hrec years the national debt of the United States has been reduced by $250,000,000. At this rate the debt will be wiped from existence within the lifetime of hundreds of thousands of men who fought in the armies that suppressed the rebellion. —Chicago Journal. While Democrats point to what they promise to do, Republicans point to what they have done. The people prefer that which is positive to that which is possible. The country is prosperous under Republican rule, ..No one can predict what it would be if the Democrats were in power. The people are strong in the logic of common sense. — St. Louis Democrat. JSf”Tlie “new party” is hard-up for a name. The name of “Democracy” it lias become afraid of for obvious reasons, and the name of “Liberals” last year failed to deceive the people. In lowa it now calls itself “Anti-Monopoly”; in Ohio, the “People's party”; in Illinois, the “AntiMonopoly Reform party”; and the Chicago Times, one of the “new party” oracles, wants it called the “Economists.” Anything you please, gentlemen—anything, you please; it’s of no consequence what you call the Democratic mule-team that’s jogging along on the other side of the road while the big Republican procession is passing.— Chicago Journal. I3P Whenever the peopleoftheeountry have the issue presented to them, there is no hesitancy or doubt in their judgment on the record or conduct of the party in power. The Republican party in the States or the nation never was' stronger witlr the masses of the people than it is to-day. Individual members of-the party-may have erred in their personal or official conduct, laws may have been enacted that were neither wise nor judicious, but the principles' of the party, its organization, its controlling men, have the confidence, and will have the full endorsement of a large majority of the people of this country.— Washington Chronicle. IW The* Ohio campaign possesses a sjiecial interest til is year, from the fact that it presents in sharpest outline the issues and tendencies of the times. The Democrats there were foremost in retracing their steps from the assumed progress of last year, and placing themselves on the old ground. The railway question and the farmers’ movement have an influence there which they have not have acquired further East. The speech of Senator Morton is a comprehensive review of all these questions, and demonstrates with unanswerable power the claims of the Republican party to the continued confidence of the people. Happily, there is no doubt of the result in Ohio,for even our adversaries concede that a Republican success is insured.—Jackson {Mich.) Citizen. UiT'Speaking of the transportation evil, the Buffalo (N. Y.) Commercial Advertiser says: “The only reasonable hope of correcting the evil of which the farmers complain is to be found in the action of a Republican Congress. In due time that body will grapple with the monstrous power which, like a hideous octopus, is seeking to throw its long arms around the producing industries of the country to hold them fast in a deadly embrace. A Republican Congress has already taken the initiatory step for the enfranchisement of the farmers. As Senator Morton remarked in his recent speech, a special ccupmittee was appointed at the last session of the Senate, invested with ample powers to examine and report upon the subject of transportation. The needs of increased means of transportation, . the abuses and extortions practiced by railway companies, and the remedies for these needs and abuses, are-within the direct scope of the inquiry which this committee is instructed to make.” ICSPNo party that has ever been in possession of the Government has managed the public finances with more prudence and careful forethought than the Republicans. They have maintained the revenues upon a scale sufficient to pay off a large floating debt, toreduee heavily the funded debt, to extinguish the compound interest notes, the temporary loan and the three per cents, standing on call; they have kept an ample stock of gold always in the Treasury, that has insured the regular payment of the gold interest without the necessity for sudden purchases; they have reduced the rate of interest on the debt, raised American credit everywhere, given the nation the largest and strongest hanking system in the world, and brought us within sight of a favorable balance of trade. And under their guidance the National Mint is now coining and putting into use an American trade dollar that will make our coinage the preferred element in the commerce of Asia, where it has never had such a, standing Ix'lbre.—Philadelphia North American. the, result/of a' comprehensive survey of the field, now that the lines of battle aye forming with ..sufficient distinctness to admit of safe conclusions, we find that the Republican party is still in an ' advantageous position. It has donirnotlu ing to forfeit public confidence. It is not responsible for the errors or crimes, of individuals when it denounces them’ as it has in its official utterances. It is possessed of the progressive spirit that enables it to deal with the questions of the future as it has done with those of the past for the public benefit. The people know that it can be trusted, and will trust it. In Wisconsin. and Mississippi, as in Ohio and other States where it has spoken, it has pointed With pride to its achievements, and spoken firmly but not rashly of what it must yet accomplish. These declarations are before the people; and against them are only the feeble platitudes of the Ohio platform, repeated in all the States where the Democrats have held conventions. To doubt the result is to doubt the good sense of the American people.—A. Y. Times.