Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1873 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

IST When men talk of the wickedness of the Republican party, the Buffalo (N. Y.) Exprets desires them to be bidden "to look on the one band at New England, the cradle and nursery of Republicanism, and on the other at Kentucky and Missouri, the consummate flowers of Democracy.” tSTSensible farmers recognize the Republican party as the true mend of their movement from its beginning, and it is a party which has the power to cany out its sympathies. They are willing to trust it, because it has never deceived them, nor has it any interest in so doing. —Rock Island (III.) Union. WEx-President Fillmore, in an interview, thinks that President Grant “appointed a Cabinet, with one exception, from men who were extremely obscure, unknown to the people, and not having any special fitness.” The Boston Journal adds: “He should not be too hard, for the people have sometimes been quite as careless about their Presidents.” |yThe editor of the Boonesboro (Iowa) Democrat attended a grange picnic the other day with several oat-straws behind his ear in place of a pencil, and his blue denim bifurcations beautifully ornamented with burs. The farmers looked him over carefully, declined his proffered copies of the Democrat, smiled 'blandly, and passed by. Golden Age thus ridicules the people who are indulging in the Csesarism bngaboo: There are people who, when they go to a vgedding and look upon the blushing bride and happy bridegroom, wonder how long the marriage will last; how soon one of the twain will die; whether the other will marry; what sort of a match the other will turn out to be, and whether there will be a third succeeding wedding, St. Louis (Mo.) Republican unkindly gays to its former friends: We have been waiting for some satisfactory and intelligible explanation of the faiinre of the “grand old Democratic party” to carry that once Democratic Btate, Maine, in the recent election; but it has not come to hand yet. There is not an organ of the party that seems equal to the task—a fact which is equally discreditable to the party and the organs. A party which cannot win victories, and whose organs cannot give consolations for defeats, ought to give up the business. £3J“The Monticello (Iowa) Express says of the Republican party: To-day it stands the grand embodiment and 'exponent of all that is elevating and worthy in our politics. It is the property, not of a league of audacious politicians, who would harness it to their personal fortunes, and make it the slave of their whims, their conceit, their animosity, their vengeance, as has been done with the Democratic party; but it is the property of the American people; their truest representative; their messenger and champion; their shield arid buckler. tyOne of the New York Herald’s Caesars recently interviewed Senator Morton, who said of President Grant: He is one of the people himself. In a fewyears he will mingle with them as a private citizen. If his ambition was of the kind that some people attribute to him, he has missed his opportuniiy for realizing it. He did not save the Republic to destroy it afterward. Did he harbor ambitious designs it would be readily felt and understood in the public mind. You find nothing of this sort. The people are thoroughly conscious the government is secure in the hands of Grant; that it is their own government stiiltand whatever evil befalls, it will be of their creation, not of the President’s. |3f"The Terre baute (Ind.) Journal indulges in the following caustic criticism on George W. Julian, impelled thereto by his late back-pay speech: Mr. Julian, as member of the Thirty-ninth Congress, re-ceived-$4,000 of what is now styled backpay, ana has kept it ever since. The increase of pay for that Congress took place in July, 1866, and was applied to the members of Congress making the increase. It amounted to $4,000 of “back pay” to each Senator and member, and they did not refund their mileage as the members of the last Congress aid. The average mileage from Indiana at that time was about $1,200 for a Congress. Mr. Julian, therefore, received $4,000 “back pay,” and kept his mileage, making an extra compensation over and above the salary on which he was elected of $5,200. This does very well for a reformer. ty The Springfield (Ill.) Journal says: The Republicans have from the beginning taken a deep and abiding interest in the success of the farmers’ cause. They have labored with them and labored for them against railway extortions and railway discriminations. They hive made the contest their own, They have, in all their conventions, wherever held, made the suoject of cheap transportation one of the distinctive and most important planks of the platform. They intend to fight it out on that line if it takes years to do it. Being the party of the people, and having the popular power to execute and do what they rrsolve, they have not deemed it necessary to abandon their organization and take up with any ephemeral movement. They have never flattered and cajoled the farmers with bland promises about “farmers’ parties” and “farmers’ tickets,” but they have thus far fought, and they propose to continue* to fight, the battle as Republicans. BT An admirable picture of twin demagogues from the St. raul (Minn.) Press: “Mr. George W. Julian is to Indiana what Mr. Ignatius Donnelly is to Minnesota. In fact, Mr. Julian appears to be a humble imitator of the Donnelly. Like the latter, Julian never saw any particular cause to find fault with bis party until the people of his district excluded him from Congress, since which time he has suddenly discovered that the Republican party has outlived its usefulness, and that the country, without the benefit of Ha official counsel, is going to the Old Harry at a fearfully rapid rate. While both of these arrant demagogues were kept in office aud paid good salaries from the public Treasury, the country contained no; such bitter partisans as they; but the moment ail hope of farther popular favors died out, partisanship became a disgrace, if not a crime, in their eyes. In farther imitation of his great prototype, Donnelly, Julian has reorganized himself into a farmers’ grange, and is retailing out good advice to the farmers as volubly gs Dbhnelly himself. It is the misfortune of the new movement that all the hungry leaders and vagabonds of all the political parties have fastened themselves upon it, and that they cannot be shaken off.” , Am Uotleababt Ration—Bothers t ion