Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1874 — Mr. Colfax Declines. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Colfax Declines.

Colfax, elsewhere in this issue of the Vulette , will deeply regret the per- j emptory refusal of Mr. Colfax to | allow his name to be used as a can- ! didate lor representative in congress from this district. Many of; the btst citizens of all parties have | cherished a hope that Mr. Colfax 1 would have overcome his re pug- j nance to public life, and that he 1 would listen to the request of the ! people and make the race this fall, i but he utterly declines. The course is now clear and the ambitions gentlemen of the district may | begin to count noses as soon as they I Tike. It our friends, the Grangers,’l will take the lead in this’ mailer we think they will find the masses of the Republican party in full sympathy with them. Mr. Colfax’s I name would have been a tower of strength to the Republican party • in this district, but any good man can be elected, and if the farmers 1 have a choice of men we think their choice should be entitled to a fair consideration, and other things being equal, should be acquiesced in by the entire party. — Valparaiso Videtie.