Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1874 — The State Convention and Its Work. [ARTICLE]

The State Convention and Its Work.

The proceedings of the Independent State Convention, which met in this city Wednesday, August 12th, arc fully reported elsewhere in this paper. The number in attendance was gratifying, and. the spirit manifested in the highest degree encouraging. The Independents lack the "co- | liesive influence of public'plunder,” | which eharacterizes the political ! conventions of the other parties, I and may it, always lack such.— Ninety-nine persons in every hund-j, red who assembled at the 1-fepublF can and Democratic State conventions were either office holders, or office seekgrs—persons who subsist upon official patronage and plunder. The preservation of the party i machinery is a matter of Life and 1 death with cverv Such individualI * ’ C-..

and of course there is a scramble between those wlioliave their hands in the public crib, and want to keep -them there, and the “outs’' who thirst for the fat things. The Independents have no long roll of officials and office mongers' to call in assembling a State convention, and if the Independents were in office, that is not the way they propose to have their public servants selected. The people propose to say who shall serve them in office, and not the office holders. When the people need a man to administer a public office they send for him. The State convention of the 10th of June adopted the following as an expression of a principle by which the Independent party would be governed: Resolved, That we are in favor of the office seeking the man, and not the man the office It being a notorious fact that Mr. Ebenezer Henderson, the Independent candidate for Auditor of State, nominated by the State convention of June 10th, had subsequently sought by all the means known to the political charlatan the nomination fov the same office at the bands of the Democratic "paHryTalidtliathc was person ally present in the Democratic convention and publicly accepted such nomination, and pledged himself to secure the triumph of the Democratic ticket, but one course was left for the Independents, and that was to supply his place on their ticket with a mail fully and wholly identified with their cause. To ; have done otherwise would have ! been to stultify themselves and to give the Fre to thcir Mr. Henderson had disregarded both the letter and spirit of the resolution referred to, and in seeking and accepting a nomination at. the hands of the Democrats, had espoused another platform and another cause. Mr. Henderson had never formally accepted the nomination of the Independents, although he evidently desired to be retained on thiSticket. His remarks when nominimj& on the 10th of June were understood by many to imply at least an acceptance, but he himself- gives them a different, construction. The j convention adopted his yiety of the matter, as will be seen by the language of the resolution declaring the vacancy. There was ro disposition to hold Mr. Henderson to account for tlic action of any individual or party except himself. lie sought the nomination in person ; he pledged his support to the Democratic party and platform in person; he has since worked for that party in person ; and lie hns thus personally and not by proxy nor by trie intervention of over-zealous friends disregarded and trampled under foot the principles he was selected to represent. With regard to Mr. Mitchell, the candidate for Attorney General, nominated by the 10th of June convention, he had never signified his acceptance of the nomination. He was personally present in the Democratic State convention soliciting a nomination. This he had a perfect right to do, as he gate no evidence of an intention to accept the nomination tendered by the Independents, and exhibited no had faith in the matter. It was noticeable that not a single member of the convention who was formerly a Republican took part in the discussion with regard to Mr. Henderson’s case. The men who urged the- re solution declaring the vacancy, were all personal friends of Mr. Henderson, and formerly political associates wtyh him in the same party; but they were men who prized principles higher than men—honesty better than expediency, , 1 ———- The reasons for this action in - Mr. Henderson’s case had no force with regard to Judge Biddle, the candidate for Supreme Judge.— Mr. Biddle never sought a nomination at the hands of either thoIndependent or Democratic parties. He has never left his “Island Home” to solicit tho support of any individual or any party. The convention, made a wide and a just distinction,. — lndianapolis- Sun. Persons frequently have a boii-. quet of clioioe flowers which they would like to preserve; this is » simple way to do it; take a deep plate and place the flowers in, a. vase upon it, fill the plate with water, and over the yase set a bellglass with its rim in the \vate¥. : — The air in the glass beebmes moist, which will cause the flowers to re main fresh "and beautiful for a long time. The may bo tried on a smaller scale by inverting a tumbler over a rosc-lmd in a saucer of water .-little Corpqral.