Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1874 — SENATORMORTON ON CHEAP TRANSPORTATION. [ARTICLE]

SENATORMORTON ON CHEAP TRANSPORTATION.

“Throw party to the dogs vote for die best men,” is sound advice, and comes from the’Valparaiso Messenger. Some of the Republican papers call the Independent State convention a “blue mass” convention. — It begins to operate already and some of those fellows will be badly salivated by it, yet. Salarygrab Centennial Packard trains with the Republicans in Laporte county just as though he was the purest man in America; and the Republicans of that county, like those in the balance of the State, condone his official acts, by consorting with him without a chide. The Warsaw Indiauian, although in lull harmony every other way with the Republican party (except that it has said that salary grabbing is naughty,) does not consider the Baxter law productive of good results. It says : “Alaw that permits beer and whiskey guzzling ' ‘off the premises’ in any quantity, but on the public streets in full view of the rising generation, and is powerless to prevent it, is about the loosest law. that has ever been on the statute books of Indiana to our knowledge/.’,. ■ - ■ . ■-

As The Union intimated last week was likely to be, the Indianapolis Sun has been designated the State organ of the Independent party. Il is a large, ably conducted paper, issued weekly. Messrs. Olieman and Buchanan are managing editors and promise to make their part of the campaign quite interesting to th e firm o f Republic an. I) ern - ocrat & Co., peculators, salary grabbers, and general public swindlers. The Sun should have a large circulation in Jasper and Newton counties. Samuel T. Hanna and a number of other bondholders of the Plymouth, Kankakee & Pacific railroad company, have filed a bill in the United States Circuit Court at Chicago, - in behalf of themselves and any others who might join against said company, to foreclose a mortgage, given in 1871, bn the whole road, to secure bonds to the amount of §3.606,600 with 10 per cent, interest, payable in gold.— The bill alledges that none of the interest for the years 1872 and 1873 has been paid; that P. M. Kent has been appointed receiver of the road for Indiana, by authority of a Circuit Court of that State; that the road is unfinished; and that it has been practically abandoned. 7 “Look to the record of our party,” howl Republican fanatics, forgetting that looking back petrified Lot’s wife with appalling horror! Credit Mobilier, salary grabbing, land stealing, District of Columbia rings, Sanborn contracts, class legislation for rail road monopolies, bank corporations, ocean steam ship companies, and iron mongers’ combinations, wanton attacks upon the public press, high State and local taxes are only a few of the “glittering generalities” in a long list of misdeeds with which the once glorious party is chargable, for wffiich it is accountable, upon whictf its platforms, its press and its public men are silent, and about which Senator Morton does not like to hear, to think or to talk. A “bummer” is What the Laporte Herald calls The Union. Only a few years ago Southern Rebels and Northern Copperheads called its editors “Sherman’s bummers.”— , At tlraUthne capital was endeavoring to maintain ownership in labor; now it is attempting to compel labor to render it service without sufficient compensation. Then, labor demanded freedom; nosy, it asks for equal rights. Capital despises labor, is aggressive, powerful, tyrannical., A moneyed aristocracy treats scornfully those whose bread is moistened with sweat, whose clothing is coarse, whose hands are caloused, and whose faces are tanned. Those who are blinded by the glitter of gold are often more contemptible thamthe supercilious priests of the god they worship.— Desiring personal favors, and lacking wit or address th propitiate those priests, these sycophants, in order to attract notice, invent venomous terms of reproach for people who despise their god arid his worshippers, which they loudly Jiowl on every occasion ; -hence the frethat such expressions are htffird as “mudsills of society,” '‘greasy mechanics,’’ “am all-sis ted, farmers,” “bummers,” “dirty faced grangers,” etc., etc.

Senator Morton enjoys the reputation of possessing a great mind, of being a statesman with broad and comprehensive' views, ami is cpunteddiMirej\ r d - politician. Lliif oratorical powers are of no mean 'orddr, and his speeches are usually oloar, -a rgtHuetrla live -und—-fore ibkhThc Republican party of Indiana have a reverence for him that is akin to devotiuii, and-listen to him with awe ami wmrdeF Komething like that .which the Children of Israel must have felt when the presence of Jehoyah dwelt upon Mount Sinai. Their, confidence in Mr. Morton’s opinions is child like in its, simplicity,-and as implicit as that which ancient devotees had for the or acles of their gods... Mr. Morton is as conscious of this as a blushing maiden of her beauty, and no doubt the sense of it is as grateful to bis soul as a Jeveifs praises are to ; his mis tress. Although so great and so conscious of power the Sena tor is not-uni ike olh er mortals in some respects, and enjoys the pleasures, recreations and amusements of life as intensely as people in lower ranks ot society. Formerly _to recuperate lost energies and to recover from the wearisome duties of public life that bad nearly broken down bis physical system, our, noble Senator traveled in Europe, andreve led in the society of persons of highest scientific attainments, but inflate years his transatlan tic'visits h avebeen discon tinned, and his weary_care worn mind and body are treated only to such luxuries as may be found in the United States.

Last week our eminent statesman concluded to visit the warm springs of Arkansas, and for a time bask in the society found there during Congressional and business vacations, while partaking waters of reputed medicinal virtue. At once the. anticipation of coming pleasure diffused itself through his frame, and awoke his brain to powerful activity. The fire and fervoi--of political warfare was rekindled in the smouldering furnace, ■his sowFs.tirred-witlmq-afid-flLe-wtfl I *-- cano of his mind became p.ctive like unto Vesuvius. He was at Terre Haute when th is phenomenon occurred, and upon the luckless Terrehautentots was belched an ! inundating flood of political scoria,while smoke and appalling darkness hung aloft, incandescent lightnings flashed, growling thunder reverbrated and sulphureous fumes sickened the atmosphere.— For an hqpr or more did the Titan rage, then pity -took possession of his soul, and the great statesman .had. compassion upon his audience, and did what he could to prevent nightmares of Democracy in power appearing to terrify t heir siumb e rs, by rehearsing liis views upon the subject of Cheap Transportation, For perspicuity, this part of his speech reminds one forcibly of Max Adder’s reply to a correspondent who wanted to know whether the Cubans or Spaniards will be whipped in the present, struggle in Cuba. Adder says.: “After a careful survey of the situation in Cuba, I feel certain that if victory finally perches upon the banners of the Cubans the Spaniards will not bring the conflict to a successful confclusion, while if the Spaniard scrlj s h t heenemy in to th edu s t life ’Cubans can hardly; befoxpectedr to reach such an issue as will justify their indulgence in triumphant exultation. At the same time if the Cubans should happen to acquire the supremacy and to exter’minate the Castilian hordes completely, it is more than likely that the Spaniards will not achieve a permanent suppression- of the rebellion. Of course in the event of the complete subjugation of the Cubans the efforts of Spain would be .crowned with success; and the rebels would probably not obtain the ascendency; But we cannot close our eyes to the unquestionable fact that the Cubans have but to vanquish their foes in order to surmount every obstacle to victory; while if this should be the case the Spaniards could hardly obtain the mastery- as readily as if the .contest should result in the subjugation of the Cubans. In either event the party that secured its object would be most likely to overpower.its antagonists, while the party that suffered repulse would find the efid' to be disastrous. ’ But to be serious, Senator Morton is understood to advance the proposition that this question is one in which the rights of individuals, State authority and thq constitutional power of the general govern 4 merit to regulate commerce are so intricately blended that the solution

of it is fraught with grave difficulty; that at least ten years_will be required decide it; and that the Republican party, only, has brains enough to master its difficulties, although even they' are puzzled for a definite plan and arc wholly beyond their depths in its mysteries. The most charitable view that can be taken of this portion of Mr. Morton’s speech is-thaChcw as laboring under mental exhaustion, resulting from the depressing influence of hot weather and a weak-cause.