Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1874 — Independent Candidates. [ARTICLE]

Independent Candidates.

If any One had doubts as to the Independent party meaning what it says, their action should have the effect of removing them. Success for candidates at the expense of principle is not to be charged to their account. Self-purification is the only thing the Republican party claims, as an answer' to confessed corruption. The claim would amount to something if their statement was backed up with their works. They took Richardson from the Treasury and put him into a Judgeship, and this they call self-purification. They changed the form of government in the District of Columbia, and the new management put the same useless herd of robbers in place again, and the party acquiesces. No protest in the great dailies of the party, or weeklies either. This they call self purification. The Independents make quick work at the first appearance of trickery and doubledeuling in a candidate. The ax is brought into requisition. It gives assurance to the world that when offices are filled by men upon their ticket, the officer will walk uprightly. No preaching of one doctrine and practicing another. Neither the Republican or Democratic parties would have attempted the task of removing a candidate because lie violates a rule laid down for their government. Principles with these two parties are nothing. The holding of the office and gathering of its spoils arc everything. They would regard it as a successful stroke of political strategy to get “their candidates upon othertrekets, no matter how rules pointed. Nothing was more certain than the election of Henderson, if he had been continued upon the Independent ticket; but success at the sacrifice of principle is not what they are after. They mean success, and will obtain it; but with that success will come righteous rule. Tricks, frauds, oppiession and misrule will come to an end. The Democratic party never exposes fraud in its officeholders, at any time. Neither docs the Republican, c-xeept where il ls forced to hv pressure of public sentiment, and then only when it thinks it will lose less by investigation than it can by whitewashing. In reference to the Republican claim of self-purification, we ask why Mr. Holbrook’s charges against Mr. Creswell, Postmaster General, ‘wore not investigated? Holbrook was in the Postal Deptrlmeut at Washing ton, tinder Mr. C'resw ell, until Creswell resigned, and lie dared Creswell to remove him..— He was before the Postal Committee of the House, laid before them the facts, showing that Creswell was party to as foul frauds upon the people’s treasury as w ere ever perpetrated. Tiie last Congress, however, may he excusable, upon the grounds that there was not members enough to form any more investigating committees. They had thirteen running, each digging into foul stench. Wc are of the opinion, however, that the prevention of fraud and corruption is the point to be arrived at. Put none but correct men in office, and at the first crook they make, call a halt upon them. The Independents intend that an election by them shall be a guarantee that honest administration shall follow.—lndianapolis Sun.