Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1874 — INSDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INSDIANA GOSSIP.

It ia mighty encouraging to hear Republicans congratulating one another over the defeat of the Packard element at the Valparaiso convention. With “a glowing tint of sunset in his hair,” is how they describe the new red headed editor of the Indianapolis Sentinal, and his name it is O’Connor,, bejabers. Rev. George C. Harding, of the Indianapolis Herald, affirms that the milk of human kindness in Jane Swisshelni’s breast, turns sour with age. Skim it, George, if you want the cream—butter is worth 20 cents a pound in Rensselaer. Women participated in the re cent election in Utah to select a Congressional Delegate, and a very large majority of them voted for Cannon, the polygamist. The purity and morality party did not receive much encouragement from them. , , According to his home “organ” the Republican candidate lor ;Congress in this District will run this campaign a good deal on “personal magnetism.” Beware! That is how they used to account for Rev. Mr. Beecher’s popularity. “Personal magnetism” may be a good thing in Brooklyn, but out on these prairies some may object to having the thing run that way. In his Terre Haute speech Senator Morton said that there was but two parties in the country, “and between them there is no room for a thiid party.” The Senator was nearly correct—there is the rich man’s party and the poor man’s party, and Mr. Morton is the tri end of the latter. He favors strengthening the poor man’s party numerically, and would impoverish the whole country except railroad companies, bankers, and office holders. The Akron, (O.) Beaan says of Mr. Morton’s recent speech : “It may be said to be the best that could be made under the circumI stances. The issues, instead of being strongly self defined as here tofore since the war, now await defining by the most skillful politicians in the Republican ranks, and while they are clear and satisfactory to all who are strong in the Republican faith, they w ill be considered unimportant by the mass of doubting voters who vacilate between the parties and owe special fealty to neither.” Oh! Ho! Those blarsted Imlependents have broken loose in that stronghold of Democracy and high local taxes, old Allen comity. — They have called a mass convention of all who are in favor of retrenchment and reform, and opposed to all cliques and rings whose corrupt influence is seen in manipulating conventions in the nomination of men who will do their bidding to the detriment of taxpayers, to meet in Fort Wayne August 15th and nominate a countyticket. This movement has the sanction of the Republican party, and all good men hope it will prove successful.

The Rake is the somewhat equivocal name of a paper that has recently come under our notice.— It is not published at Brooklyn, nor in the interest of Plymouth Church, as possibly some might infer from its title, but it is a Grange journal, issued at New Orleans. The number before us is dated August Ist, and among other advice to its patrons is this : “Rutabagas, turnips, earrots, parsnips, beet®, strap leaved turnips, cabbages, salsify, spinach, lettuce, radishes abd snap beans, should be planted this week. Do not fail to plant Irish potatoes as soon as possible this month—the quicker the better.” The Laporte Hervdd grants it true that the Republican choice for Congressman from this District “for the past six years has operated as a ‘discouragement of talent?”— That is what Tag Union has been called a “nasty Democrat” for intimating all along. Bat the Herald. ought to be ashamed to punch poor Packard now he is down. Wasn’t Jasper sufficiently humbled at Valparaiso when be made that little speech pledging his cordial support to the man who sat by and consented while one of his friends offered Mr. Packard a gross personal indignity ? Let him up I And don’t crow until yon are out of the woods.

“For (Oiu-e in tfie history >■?. American polities,” says the Akron Beacon, a prominent'Ohio paper of Republican proclivities, “the two contending par4.ies__ are divided against themselves. There is ndt only no harmony in their ranks, but they, are not< : 1 r;i: To mention a national question is ( to disagree. The net r. suit of all . this will be an increased di.-. .dection after the thv'.i- :: ami the almost total dii-.olutibn < f buh organizations preparatory to a complete renovation ami re.crgaHi-zaiion tor the l’r. v.'ilia- a..- -§ i -7-.." This is dri a 11 A, d read f uT,GIr cm I - full What a horrid. th’mg it will be, if tleosc ebulemlmg parties are compelled -u renovate 1 What a departure from -‘tlnredroirOTed priid ciples” on the one fiaml, and an ignoring of “history and past record” on the other ! And, worse than all el.-w, to th ink th e ludepen tents cmiipclled. UyniLla...do.il. “No G ran.?i r need aiph.” .may now be cmisidern'l th - b i-’tl cry of the Republican party of the Indian a Ten th —Cmrigresm 'muFDtstrict. As was anticipated, the ring masters had it set up to .strike the Grangers a stunning blow in their | faces at the Valparaiso convention. All but fourteen of the one hnmlred and fifty-six vote.-, cast in t 1... t convention were given to candidates whose personal friends have been saying the most scandalous things about the Order of Patrons of .Husbandry. Not one- word of encouragement, not an expression of sympathy, and not a promise of relief from the oneruuK burdens imposed upon laboring classes, is there iir the platform that was adopted! Indeed all the platform contains is a resolution, endorsing that medley of inconsistencies promulgated at Indianapolis on the 17th of June, and a cordial promise to assist their candidate in getting office. So far as can be learned, only one commendable act was done by the convention (besides nominating their candi late,) and that was to snub .last'"; Packard, th-.' sitbiry grabber ami the anti-Packard element in tire District. The overwhelming defeat of Mr. Merrifield, of Mishawaka, was a merited rebuke to Mr. Packard and his myrmidons.

• Resolved, that we cordially endorse. "theVelection uCMajur \V. U./'aliUns flk Tlio ■.-(iinilal ibeWJ; Congressional District, and we '-.will triumphantly elect him. Thus’ saith one Imif of the Valparaiso platform, Not a- word -about adjusting the currency Xi, relieve the financial einiiarrassnient of the country, no plan prop 6: to rti’-iiv adequate trau'-pm-t'.it-i m between the granaries ami pas-tun ■- .of the West and Na rn • i R.i-: ... . ,•] .-i "indie ated“lTi pfeTTlTTwlre ex 11 irtTcnTS" of .railroads <>r other im>m>p..lit silent as the-tomb fibpot the “oppressive tariff system which irruining the iridustfqiT VaffscS of Wr country, driving umnignv.ion froth our shores awT ui±:rrirrgwnwyay -t us a contemptible money aristuer:u-v, not a breath is raised against giving away public domain ‘to railroad companies or other swindling rings, i not a denuiieiatioii of any. of the j -charged and prove:, corruptions of i Congressmen dr the Administra-? tion,not a promise of reform, not a : rebuke torascality, not a pledge of economy, nut. a principle of states- | manship enunciated—absolutely ■ barren of anything to nc.-mim-ml.. it to;an intelligent voter. . The liepublican party -of the haiian-a Tenth Congressional District is ! simply pledged to. a scramble . fur. office— only promises to elect a 1 man to strut through the streets of Washington-f itv and draw $5,000 1 “aqyear salary .. ■- ■ . ■

If the VtUpraiso Fidu'le is not misunderstood it advocates the- reduction of official .-Varies to a fair compensation fur the quantity and quality of work done. On i<ts face this proposition, looks reasonable. Why the public should be compelled to p£y for services of a specific kind than men engaged in private business do, is difficult to answer. The duties of our county officers, for instance, are .almost identical with those of an accountant; good pefimansh<p,rapid calculation, and a knowledge of book-, keeping, being chief requisites.— The salaries, fees quid perquisites o‘s public officers in Jasper county run from $2,000 to $2,400 and $3,000 per,annum, or $lO7, 82JO and $250 a month; yet they have no trouble to find men .equally as. competent as themselves lu„ do one half of their work for S4O and sso.a mouth. Everybody is talking about reform in public service and economy in public expenditures; parties, always put a plank of .this kind in, their platform's; p-ilitiqal mcctiug.s ul-

ways bass rm >■ luti<mtr'embodying 1 - these doctrines ; but all treat the subject as an abstract theory that ■sounds well ami looks nice in priqt, lut which is not susceptible of being redliceiPto practice. Individuals reduce it to practice,howevir, and why not the public. Itj is not right to. compel the taxpayers to give an officer.. three or four prices i>>r the work of/his deputy.

Hi i.ry : .mnty Ir.is an Independent ticket i.i Im- inf !. Grant county Independents have a ticket in th<? fiyhl. A tree was twice struck by lightning during a recent storm in Laporte county. Grape,vines in St., Joseph county are full of healthy bunches, of delicious fruit. Michigan City-sulphur water outselts’afl other mineral water in the ■GhicagpTUiLiku L -' The Independents of Carroll county t:> d<l a convention toil ay to nominate a focal ticket. A. 870 tb.ree-ye.ir-old at Edinburg, j that has been driven only three weeks, trots a mile in 2:30. Clay county oilers a *25 premium for the handsomest pair of twin children exhibited at their Fair. Over six million feet of lumber and slk-uiillion • shingles were received at Michigan City- during July. Kosciusko county Ind Open dents recently nominated a full ticket, including a candidate for Repre- ' One hundred bushels of Lawton blackberries is the crop that Mr. Green’s people had to pick this season in Putnam county. Twenty-two persons were recently baptized by Rev. J. 11. Cissel, pastor of one <pf the South Bend Methodist Episcopal churches. A company was organized at 11, un ting ft fn, rec cn t Iyy - for draih in g the wet prairie west of Fort Wayne. It is estimated that the work will cost ' , At, Princeton the In lepen dents have started a paper called the AWzf ,-l.re, which proposesto make th .- chips flf as it ’lews its Avay'info" the old corrupt political parties. A recent Ji:.dr pen dent convention . WvGffTebl N(dJcsviiKyMF:niiilton county, at which every township j was rei re>e-n'ted. They nominated a full c<mjy,y. ticket, and a candidate for Representative. ' A railroad mortgage to secure j §7,500,000 was recently filed at Indian:ip.vlis. It w<s given on. property and franchises of the Cleveland, Ccfumtim, Ciimin.nati & lii■d urn apo jis Rail -a ay company. Dnwii-in i! •iidricks county the.; Tn -It p enTbcrrt a are wife onrake.— Tlrt-y dtttd a big c.o:iv cn tion afTJ.nnville a short time since, and , .nominated a full ticket, including * TV candidate -for Representative and 2 Joint Repiesentati-ve. . 'Die In dependents had a huge rally at Harr Gsbutg last Saturday, ami special 1 trains loaded j with farmers and their wives w.ut down from <>. <p >rt and Bedford. They hii*. a', full county ticket nominated -and a candidate for Representative. Say-s the V.fparaiso Jfesem/er, (Democratic,) “the -leveii tor an Tndt'pvrrTrtrt comity convention will sooiK'ci.ilininate in the calling of~a conventrcn, and the nomination of a ticket in Pouter county. I’eoplc have grown heartily tired of party, and ar*e thinking and acting for,themselves.'’

k— A small aerolite fell at Knightsi town oil the 3d, and its fragments ; were picked up by two gentlemen : who saw it fall. It is a dark copqwr color, with a specific gravity, about-double that of oak wood.— Philosophers think aerolites are meteors or shooting stars that have penetrated through the earth’s atI Biosphere. When found the one at Knightstown was so hot that it could not be held in the hand for several minutes. , Nearly every county in the State is running an Independent, county ticket, and there can be no doubt that party chains are being rapidly broken. In fact, in many counties the old organizations are entirely swept out of existence-, and the court house rings are being broken into a thousand pieces.This will be goodnews for the people, but bad news Tor those who have hud a hand in the fat things dished out by the rings. This new , phase of people’s.'taking hold qf county “affairs and setting politicians to one side is a good one, and will show much good done.— Muncie Granger. , • .. • : I