Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1873 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

tS'-Some one was displeased -with the late Treasurer of Florida, and charged him with dishonesty. Whereupon a thorough investigation was had, and the result showed that the State owed him nineteen, cents. jggcThe New York Herald has a remedy lor the financial panic: it is a declaration of President Grant that he will not be a candidate for a third term. The terrible Uncertainty of the country on that pnint. argues the 2/< r«ZrZ, is the cause of the trouble. The Wall street craze is raging worsVinThe office., Cgr-The Albany (N. Y.) Evening Journal thinks the Democratic papers hard to please. 11 says: They have abused the • Government for occasionally checking i gold speculations by throwing a few mil- ! lious of its surplus accumulations of that : coveted metal upon the market; and now they are quite as displeased because it does not empty the Treasury to stop the panic. Their ruleof criticism is as shifting as the wind. Do what the Government may, they will growl. sar- Three-fourths of the farmers of 11l r'tiois,” says the Rock Island “have always affiliated with the Republican party, and there fe where their party sympathies and affections Jte to so close a degree that the efforts of 'a whipped, defunct and irresponsibie body of~Democruts and Liberals to carry them in antagonism must signally fail. They do not propose to assist in destroying their own party, that played dut 'Democratic politicians may kick up their heels over its ruins.”

tSTThe St. Louis (Mo.) Democrat rubs its .contemporary and the Liberal disorganizers of its State: The Republican is enthusiastic in its praise of the “Alcorn "Bbl P' i n AHssTssippT, and says “it rs the best and most promising one ti.e country has seen sincaHTratz Brown arid Ids followers walked out of the Slate House at Jeflersoq, taking with them forever the scalp of Missouri Radicalism.” There is no accounting for tastes, but there are many good people who look upon the tomahawking and scalping of the Democratic party by “Gratz Brown arid his followers,” in the late Presidential canvass, as a better andmorenzeritorious performance than the bolt at Jefferson. jffiTThe Democrats have one important advantage in the Ohio canvass. Their candidate for Governor has been out of public life so long that his political record is as undiseoverable as the lost books of Tacitus. His opponent, Noyes, has been in active political life ever since he lost his leg on the battle-field, and the Democrats are busily at work inventing and circulating all sorts of lies about his manner of administering the office of Probate Judge, to which he was elected five or six years ago, and they keep him busy refuting their slanders. Allen, who is a statesman after the. order of Melchisedeck, having neither beginning of years nor end of days, has performed no public service within the memory of men now living.— St. Louis Democrat.

|3g”The Democratic party has lost the faculty of attracting attention to itself. Its platforms drop like lumps of lead to the ground, though these same platforms, when prod dined by some other party, become an inspiring war cry against Republican ism. It no longer''possesses the capacity fa present living issues to the country, and is constantly mortified to find its claims eclipsed by issues presented by. others—as in Massachusetts, California, Mississippi, and lowa. There is but one disposition to be made of such a paity; it must be retired to the hospital of veteran invalids, that a more vigorous fighter may take its place.— St. Louis liepublican. .... .......... ' It is not surprising the Democracy all over the country profess a wish to “raise no dead issue’s.” They would like tp have tlierrAniamous recoid on these dead issues buried out of sight and forgotteh forever. They would like to have people forget what tiny have been, that thereby no means might exist of farming correct j udgment <>f what they would be. Like the man who has been twice find thrice in a State’s prison, they would be much obliged if the record would be forgotten or scratched out. Thank you; that is not the course people take.—Cincinnati Cazetle. t Madison (Wis.) .State' Journal says of the Democratic party in that State.: We have again the ancient enemy to confend withr-awL-to beat, once more. It matters not with what plausible language the platform is eoHsir.ueted; it matters not "how nearly the principles of the 'Republican plat term are it'l<>pte<l,-flfe people will discover that it is the same old party that opposed the Republican party during the warthat is trying to creep into power under a false skin. No skin cun cover the remembrances of the conduct of the Democratic party, s<»< as to deceive the. people into its support. Its old adherents will cling to it; but the masses will stand by the party that carried the country safely through the war; that was organized as a true reform party; that has progressed with the real wants of the*country, and now leads in all the reforms demanded for the prosperity of the people—the Republican party.