Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1873 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

H3f”The Ohio Democratic State Central Committee are in financial trouble. The men who have heretofore responded promptly to all assessments are not furnishing the accustomed “material aid,” on the principle that it goes hard to pay for a dead horse. old cry of the Confederates of last fall is revived in Mississippi. The Brandon Republican says that it “hates Alcorn, but would vote for the devil rather than for Ames.’’ The “anything to beat,” etc., lesson of 1872 should have taught the Democracy something. tSTThe Indianapolis (Ind.) Journal calls attention to certain peculiar actions of the opposition editors: “When Senator Morton makes a speech the Democratic editors all over the land spring to their — feet and swear they are not hurt, but immediately clap their hands to their persons in a way to indicate they have received a dreadful kick, and then break out against him in the most dismal howl of abuse and calumny, which is continued without intermission for weeks ” tyThe Boston (Mass.) Globe says of the latest solution of the transportation problem : “Senator Morton states that he has in his possession a proposition from eminent capitalists in Holland to build a four-track railway from the Atlantic coast to some point in the West, perhaps Indianapolis or Chicago, the whole to be accomplished by private capital, and without asking for a dollar of State, national, or individual aid, and he vouches for the entire responsibility of the parties. This is a most interesting announcement. We know of nothing that would solve the farmers’ problem so quickly and permanently as the carrying out of such a scheme.” •—.— . ——

t3F~The Cincinnati (Ohio) Timet sees a rainbow of promise in the political skies of Ohio, and says: “The signs are unmistakable that the people, confiding in Republican promises and abhorring the idea of again intrusting power to the “spoiled” Democracy, so long and so justly repudiated, will give, a decisive verdict in favor of the Republican party at the coming election in Ohio. All real friends of reform should help to render the coming defeat of Alien and Thurman as overwhelming as possible. Then, should there be a failure of the effective reforms demanded, let the issue come betweeil whatever is good ’ and bad, right and wrong, in the several branches of the Government.” ESS” The Syracuse (N. Y.) Journal says: “ All of our Republican exchanges spfiak hopefully, and indeed confidently, in anticipation of another splendid Republican success in this State this fall. The basis of this universal confidence is a sound one. The demoralization of the Democratic party is so well known and publicly recognized that a concealment of it is no longer possible, even bv the legerdemain of those experienced thimble-riggers who were, in former days, wont to deceive their followers into the belief that the Democratic party was to be henceforth invincible. The rank and the file are disheartened by defeat; they have lost confidence in the old-time watchwords which once acted like magic upon their spirits; they doubt the efficacy of the Democratic name, and, in fact, they doubt themselves.” C2TThe majority of the Democratic party is as determined as ever to reduce the blacks to subjection, and constitutions would be found to have abundant loopholes if they should gain the control of trLO aalnto iin (l ... M utlADttl Ul AvofTvixvosviutiic DUttc «nu it atlUual UOf cl ulUcllw, Yet we see foolish colored men, intoxi cated with the notion that they are the balance of power, resolving that they owe nothing to the Republican party, and proposing to take themselves to a market with the demand for the share of the offices in proportion to the need parties may have of them. They compel us to say that they are not a marketable commodity, and that only a party which has secured the hearts of the people by its identity with the safety of the Republic could afford to do what the Republicans have done for thb colored. —Cincinnati Gazette.

CUT The Lafayette (Ind.) Journal remarks of “Balloon Journalism:” “The Graphic is not the only, nor the least, nor ret the most successful specimen of baloon journalism. It is amusing to see the antics of other balloon journals, of which we may mention the Chicago Tribune and the Indianapolis Sentinel., both near home, and the New York Tribune. About a year or more since several newspaper men conceived the idea of making capital out of a mammoth political balloon, and it is from them the Graphic got its hint. They met and caucused ana consulted, and finally concluded to send up a great Lib-eral-Democratic balloon in tire ensuing November. That experiment was a most disgracefulfailure, and these newspapers which we have mentioned, with many others, are still in the upper air somewhere, floating about on fragments of that great political balloon of 1872, with no guiding power, but seemingly at the mercy of the currents and counter-cur-rents!!? ' Manx of the mill girls at Chicopee, Mass., are becoming inveterate snuff-dip* pers, and on any pleasant “nooning” groups of girls can. be seen on the canal bridges, each supplied with a box of snuff and a bunch of cotton waste, rub* bing their gums with infinite satisfaction. The mill girls at Lowell have long been addicted to this habit, but its advent in Chicopee is quite recent CorFEK-onocNDe—Braxil plantations.