Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1873 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

EgFThe New York Tribune has no love for the Republican party, but gives it a dab whenever it can get a chance. Yet it is constrained to say “the back-pay bill was not a party measure at all, and the Democrats did rather more than their share in sustaining - it.” That is the plain truth, and no Democratic paper ventures ' to face it. are to be sent from New Orleans to Kentucky, as the urgent entreaty of the Democratic citizens of that State, to assist in the arrest of their gangs of thieves and murderers known as KuKlux Klans. Now let us see what astute Democratic paper 'of the North will be first to howl about “military despotism.” —Chicago Journal. K3T' The last and most funny political joke of the season is that perpetrated by the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention. It is embodied in the following resolution: Respired, That the Republican party is responsible for tile seduction of the Democratic members of Congress to the corrupt schemes of the Republican parly to rob the people of their money. The joke part of this resolution is apparent. It needs not to be pointed out to cause it to be appreciated. We shall next hear of Boss Tweed and his partners in the Tammany ring holding the Republican party of New York “responsible” for having “seduced” them into “robbing the people of their money.” — Chicago Journal. (gpThis morning we have the usual debt statement, showing a decrease of the public debt during the month of $6,752,829 29, and a total decrease since March 1, 1869, of $381,767,894 68. When an Administration makes such a showing as this, in the face-of a largely reduced taxation, the people are not likely to believe that it is so black as it is painted. The President, according to the great Democratic statesman, Mr. Allen, is guilty of the heinous crime of taking delight in the “whiffs of his- cigar by the ocean breeze,” but so long as he keeps the Government moving along in its present fashion, it is possible the people Will like him as -w-ell as if he went about the countryspouting rubbish at all the cross-roads.— New York Times. Cg'Brick Pomeroy, while making a speech in Teyas, was asked by a listener: “What has the Northern man dose for Texas?” To which he replied: “Taken Hie weeds out of your fence corners, raised vegetables, planted fruit trees, built your largest and best houses, imported your finest breeds of horses and cattle, erected nearly every machine shop, foundry and mill that you have among you. They have minded their own business, and have not disturbed a large audience by asking foolish questions. They have striven by honest industry 7 to keep out of the sheriff's hands, and thirty feet ahead of the tax collector.” Too true, Brick, and “better late than never.” During the„war you_to 1 d the Southern people an entirely different tale about Northern men.— Washington (D.C.) Chronicle. ESFSpeaking of a charge that the Republicans were attempting to “revive dead issues,” the Albany (N. Y.) Evening Journal says: ‘lt is the Democracy and not we who are reviving them. When they proclaim themselves the same old party they challenge a review of their record. When they declare that they have not changed they tell us that their future must be judged by their past. It is fifty, not we, who provoke the discussion of war questions. Nothing short of madness itself, or such desperate straits aspermitted no other alternative, could ever have led a party into so arrant a piece of effrontery and so gross a blunder. The unpatriotic Democracy have been scourged and blistered for a dozen years, and when, after that experience, they present themselves in the same in changed character, they must continue to receive the same unaiqunished stripes.” "'TA recent Associated Press dispatch from Washington saysx “Smiator Thurman, in his speecft at Waverly on the 3d inst...conveys a Wrong impression Tnregard to the votes of Senator Morton on the salary bill. The printed journal of the Senate shows that when the bill increasing the salaries of Congressmen came back from the House, Senator Morton voted in favor of Edmunds’ motion to strike from the bill all relating to increasing the salaries of Senators, members and delegates. There was another motion by Mr. Edmunds, preceding the one just referred to, to strike out all except what related to the President. This involved a refusaTto increase the number of salaries, which, by common consent, were to small, and upon this foim of the proposition Mr. Morton voted ho; but as soon as Mr. Edmunds followed this with the test proposition to strike out all authorizing any increase for Congressmen, Mr. Morton voted in favor of striking out” .