Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1874 — TENTH OF JUNE CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

TENTH OF JUNE CONVENTION.

Partisan papers that have been making themselves ridiculous by their denunciations of what they were pleased to term a ‘ fraudulent call” for a convention ot tanners and other 1 shoring classes to be held at Indianapolis on the 10th day of June next, for the purpose of consultation about the propriety of nominating a ticket for State officer? independent of existing party organizations, are likely to have ah estoppel put uuon forth er remarks in that strain by the appended announcement, which was published in the Indianapolis Journal of May 16th. A meeting of the friends of the proposed convention was held last Friday in that city, and the secretary furnished the following notice thereof to the Journal for publication : “After a full discussion it was decided -that all reform organizations should be cordially invited to take part in the deliberations of the convention. Delegates from counties where no conventions were held, will be received by producing proper guarantees of sympathy and earnestness in the purposes of the movement. The aporlionmcnt for delegates will be one vote for every five hundred voters of the county, basing their population on the census of 1870. The convention will be called to order at 10 o’clock on the morning of June 10th, for preliminary organization, the selection of committees, and such other work as may be necessary. “Jiy order of the committee. “Thomas W. Reese, Sec.’ In another placq will be found the action of a committee in Marshall county, acting in a manner similar to that adopted by the people in Jasper county. Marshall county has heretofore been Democratic by about 600 majority, and we believe that no person of a different political faith has ever received a majority of the popular vote in that county, except, perhaps, President Grant did at the last Presidential election by pressure of circumstances which prevented a full attendance of the people at the polls. The call for a State convention may be taken as an indication of wide spread dissatisfaction among the people, over the' conduct ot these who have shaped legislation for a few years past, and also of a desire on their part to obliterate present party lines. The press of Indiana so far as it is controled by men who aspire to be considered mouth pieces of the party whose principles they espouse, does not appear to comprehend the true condition of feeling upon political subjects now pervading the great mass of non-office seeking voters They say where an independent movement is organized in a county that has hitherto given lie public an majorities, that] it is a scheme to place the Democracy in power, while in counties where Democratic majorities have been the rule, they call it a movement in .the interest of the Republican party. But neither of these theories is correct. It would be much nearer truth to s?y that people everywhere have become disgusted with wire-workers, who control existingpartymganizations, and are now determined to I take the management of primaries into their own hands for a while.— If they should do as they were ad-! vised by Republican., and Demo-: cratic papers, and hold themselves aloof from both organizations, as a sort of. threatening third party possibility of course they might i exercise something of a restraint npon predisposition to corruption ; 1 but their influence then would be i indirect only, with a constant ten- ! deney to disintegration among themselves, and after all the power ! which now controls parties would not be overthrown. It is a notorious fact, patent to good men in each of the present political organizations, that the tendency of leaders in both parties is not to look i after tbe welfare of the masses so touch as it is to serve individual! interest. There is scarcely an intelligent man in either party who does not acknowledge and regret that prominent individuals of bis ; party have proven themselves uii-] worthy of the confidence of the people. Not one single obnoxious law has been passed by Congress or the Legislature of Indiana in the last eight years, but might' have been defeated had either party been a unit against it This being the ease, is it not the best policy for the people to act independent of them, if they desire • reform Jn these directions *