Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1874 — THE SAME OLD STORY! [ARTICLE]

THE SAME OLD STORY!

A correspondent writing from Rensselaer to the Iventland Gazette under date of June 2d, furnishes tlie following precious information, which should be known by all the voters in Jasper county: -“Our primary election for nominations passed off here on Saturday. * * * * The vote was not full by any means, but full enough to slaughter the two office-seeking politicians who got up the movement. The huge part of the joke is that Horace E. James, candidate for Clerk, and John G. Culp, candidate for Auditor, who uere prime movers, as mentioned above, were both handsomely beaten,* and there is a general amen! among the people at the defcatrof these two demagogues. James bargained the Republican vote to Culp, and Culp bargained the Democratic vote to James, but neither were able to make the delivery. The movement was James’ and Culp’s eminently—not the peoplcs’-and both demagogues got beaten. Good enough. .“Independent.” Brother Culp will— now please rise up and join with us in singing Oh! ever thus from childhood’s hour I’ve seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But ’twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die. After singing, iriends will getlicr around to take a last, fond, lingering look at tlie still, yet beautiful, forms of the loved and lost! •Willi three compctlloni in Uu own town Ship, Mr. James was beaten by a geutieSluu from another part o f the county 18 rotes in a poll of 788.