Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1874 — Why We Were Whipped. [ARTICLE]

Why We Were Whipped.

We have been worsted, whipped, most outrageously whaled. There is no useydeiiying it. Figures won’t lie. They [speak Tor themselves, and their voice in the table of election returns is so soulharrowing thwould fain stop our ears. The comparison between the Republican situation as it was and the Republican situation as it is, made in parallel columns of funner majorities and present minorities is enough to turn the strongest stomach. But what is the cause of the dreadful disaster? What upset our coach, kicked over, our dish, and spilled our milk ? Thereby hangs a tail or a bunch of tails, each one a weighty moral dangling at the end. We could give a long string of reason*, each perfectly

satisfactory, but it might he unpleasant to some, and give rise to acrimonious and unprofitable discussion. We. therefore give only one reasop, and that one we believe, nobody will dispute—too many votes went to the other side.— That’s why we were whipped. —South Bend Trilune,