Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1874 — A FEW MALCONTENTS. [ARTICLE]

A FEW MALCONTENTS.

| We have It from a source altogether i intelligent and reliable, that the I “People’s movement” in Jasper counity consists almost exclusively of the • Democrats of the county, headed by Cols. Healey and James, and a few other malcontents. The Republicans as a body, take no stock in the concern.—Laporte Herald.* The Herald's intelligent snd reli. able source of political information in Jasper county % is certainly not a very well posted person. Like those

| intelligent contrabands that were jso numerous along (be Potomac I during the war, and so ready to ; r impart reliable information conI cerning military operations to I newspaper correspondents the 1 Iroquois contraband is not mfal- | lible, and bis (or her) statements i should be taken with trifling allow* I ance for prejudice and want of knowledge. Just at present the Herald seems to be trying to make amends for its lukewarm treatment of the Republican -party- during last Presidential campaign, and is also the warm advocate of a gentleman who aspires to be nominated for Congress by the Republicans of this district, and hence all that can be said by anybody not in full harmony, with that effete organization will probably have little effect upon its preformed opinion of the political situation in this or other portions of our Congressional district. Still for the benefit ot others who are interested in these matters the following facts may be suggestive: At the last genfival election in Jasper county the total vote polled was 1,556; for Secretary of State ' the Republican candidate received 995, and the Democratic .candidate 561, votes. At the People’s primary election on the 30th of last month 788 votes were polled—227 more than the entire Democratic vote, and a majority of all the votes in the county. Of these Hanging Grove township, which had a Republican majority of 15 arid a Democratic vote of 30, polled 46; Gillam, with a Republican majority of 09 and a Democratic vote of 25, polled 57; Walker with a Democratic majority of 3, and Democratic vote of 34. polled only 11; Barkley, with a Republican majority of 28, and a Democratic vote of 75, polled 111; Marion, with a Republican majority of 151, and a Demoocratic vote of 117, polled 193; Jordan, with a Republican majority of 13, and a Democratic vote of 34, polled 40; Newton, with a Republican majority of 16, and a Democratic vote of 42, polled 27; Keener, with a Republican majority of 19 and a Democratic vote of 7, polled 27j Kankakee, with a Republican majority of 4, and a Democratic vote of 27, polled 13; Wheatfield, with a Republican majority of 3, and aDemocratic vote of 17, polled 14; Carpenter, with a Republican majority of 100, and a Democratic vote of 117, polled 244; Milroy, with a. Democratic majority of 7 and a Democratic vote of 19, polled 27; Union, with a Republican majority of IS, and a Democratic vote of 18, polled 33. It will be seen that those townships which have the largest Democratic votes in nearly every instance polled the smallest proportion at the primary election. It is pos-siblc that “the Republicans, as a body, take no stock in the concern,” if by that term is meant the cabal kiiown here as \ : “the Court House ring” arid those with whom they are connected by church relations, ties of consanguinity, or in a rr ago. But it is true that many good, substantial men who have heretofore acted with the Republican \ party do not act with it now, and | will not this campaign, so far as county affairs arc concerned; and the names on tjje the poll books kept at the primary election disclose the fact that nearly two-thirds of all who participated in it, have heretofore vofed the Republican ticket.