Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1874 — RING STRENGTH. [ARTICLE]

RING STRENGTH.

After riding Jasper county all over, and sending their emissaries into every neighborhood, the Court House King succeeded in persuading 260 persons to subscribe for their “organ,” as they call the new that will be born m Rensselaer next week. When this report was made there were thirty localities still to bear from, which would probably swell the number to 300; the other 100 copies necessary to fill the contract with Mr. Johnson, will probably be guarantied by individual members of the Riner and their ardent personal friends. The King calls itself Republican —but by what process of reasoning it is difficult to determine, unless it in ay be that high local taxation is a cardinal principle of that party, Snd the endorsement of salarygfabbe/s is afi other—and as Kepublicans they labored earnestly to convince the people that it was necessary to establish another paper at this place, to reflect Republican sentiments. When it is considered that last election returns Htotted 3 Republican vote of 995 in the Cotftrtff one of three things forces itself Upon Astbiased minds ; Ist. The party has been seriously decimated; 2d, The people are not fully persuaded by the Ring; or 3d. Tht^people do not see the necessity for “crushing out” men who labor earnestly and singly for public interests, even though al times they may be in error. Our opinion of the situation is, that there are not five hundred voters in Jasper county who will deposit ballots for the Ring ticket in October. We confidently expect that, with perhaps one or two exceptions, the whole ticket nomi" Bated last Saturday will be defeated.