Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1874 — A MARE'S BEST. [ARTICLE]

A MARE'S BEST.

To the Western News Company, Chicago, do we extend thanks for a Volume of the poems of Clint Park-1 hurst, of lowa. Some passages in the volume are strong, some start ling and others quite pretty. Editors of neighboring papers who have been pleased to express a good wish for the success of our candidacy, will accept our thanks therefor. It would hardly be fair * to publish their compliments, when our competitors have not similar advantages. It is thought there will be quite ' a large vote polled at the primary election on Saturday. All who participate should have the gener- I ai good at heart when they make up their decision, rather than mere personal preference. Nominate a ticket ol tiie best men, and leave the result to work out air an~tntelligent people shall decidem October. - ~ On Wednesday, June 17th, the Republican party of Indiana will hold a convention at Indianapolis for the purpose of nominating candidates for Secretary, Auditor and Treasurer of State, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction and one Judge of the Supreme Court. Jasper county is ■ entitled to ten representatives in i this convention. Mr. George C. Merrifield, of ' St. Joseph comity, feels called to | seek the Republican nomination for \ Congress in this district. So does ! Mr. Sims Major, editor of the' Lapbrte Herald, hence his paper sneers at the People’s Movement jin Jasper county. Brother Major j should recollect his adventures I among the buffalo chips in Nebras-j ka, and not turn up his nose at the people he may want to vote for him. The South Bend Tribune says “People who think the Grange Movement is dying out are badly mistaken. It is on .the increase.” ; That is exactly how" it' looks"bver this way, and it is well for politicians to beware! Its current where its tide begins to flow in the present political campaign will be mighty, irresistible, overwhelming. For Right is right, since God is God, j And Right tiie day will win ; To doubt would be disloyalty, - ; To falter would be sin.

According to the statement of Dr. Curry, editor of the New York Christian Advocate, Parson Brownlow imagines be has discovered an extensive mare’s nest in which there are several quite large eggs, llis theory of the Grange Movement is that it is the old slaveholder’s rebellion in disguise, “organizing powerfully for resuscitation and victory at every cost of principled- The old gentleman says this thing is perfectly under- I stood at Washington, where it is ' watched closely, but quietly. It is] seriously apprehended-this wicked Order will precipitate upon’ the next Presidential campaign a “fierce struggle to- preserve the • fruits of the “war,” hence, in his opinion, “the war closed two years too soon.” Such absurdity is laughable, and yet it excites pity, too. It is sad to see a political organization whose history is so brilliant and so ’ glorious as that of the Republican I party reduced to such barrenness of principles, that its leading spirits must resort to inventing old wives’ fables with which to —scare people into keeping it in power. Who but a conscienceless demagogue or a dotard would charge upon the pecple of the Northwest an intention of provoking civil war? What. section responded more promptly to the nation’s call for volunteers to suppress rebellion than this same Northwest, the Grange stronghold? Who were braver, more devoted or I better soldiers than many that are now Grangers? Who were more ! loyal? ’? . The issue today is not the conflict of ten, or even six, year# agq. Thea the question was whether free or slave labor should have supremaey in the United States—whether capital should own labor, or labor might be its own master. Thad problem and its attendant issues of repudiation and reconstruetion were settled, and penna-; nontly sottled, years ago, else ■ Republican orators and Republi- ■ can papers and Republican plat- * forms have misrepresented facts to the people. If the war of the i rebellion is not over and its issues' ■ 's. ' ' s .-O' t I are still unsettled, then is the Republican party a' stupendous fraud and a powerless imbecile. But the

party was not a band ; it did sueceod; the war is over ; itg>iirobleni's are settled. Anew isstiv is upon us. The .question now is not Shall capital, own labor? but it is Shall capital pay labor a fair compensation? I'pom this quest roil bangs the problem of cheap transportation. There m no question < f right to be discussed. It is not necessary to prove lli.it “tin 1-iuori r is worthy of his hire,” for tiie justice of‘tire proposition is self-evident. The result of this issue is phiiif to foresee. The struggle will be short and decisive, but there will be no ■ blood shed. It will not be necessary to appeal 'to arms. Justice can best be seemed by legislation, legislation is controlled by the ballot box, ami the ballot-boi is an engine wielded with irresistible force by an intelligent people. in a republican government the majority will rule, and the minority must submit. In this contest numbers lelU I’atieiree, perscreTCauce and time will work out a victory for the laboring mam No honest man, no just man need have tears for the future; this is the people’s cause, and they will take care of their liberties. Repub- j licans need not be afraid if they I will purify the party of its Butlers, its Sanborns, its Richardsons, its salary-grabbers, its monopolists and its thieves, and place the management of its machinery in the hands of its honest men. While TfitTpollcy of the Republican party was to benefit the nation, it could never be defeated. But when it j becomes plain that it is merely a I tool in the hands of knaves to aid them in plundering the public, good men will cease to vote the Republican ticket.