Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1874 — SDAKE THEM OFF. [ARTICLE]

SDAKE THEM OFF.

Wlicn it rs too late. Republicans of Jasper county will learn that it is useless to nurse their w rath over their late defeat to keep it hot lor next campaign. So lar as tve can learn the people are generally very well satisfied at the discomfiture of the County Seat Ring, and if the contest was to be done over again to-morrow the verdict would be even more pronounced than it was two weeks ago. The policy recommended by the Republican last week, to shake off its dead weights, as it is now customary to call people who exercise their inherited right to think and act autj vote independently of party trammels or the dictates of cut-and-dried conventions, is an excellent cue for a political organization to adopt in tiie day that its glory begins to fade away. Rings and cliques have no use for thinking voters, and when the machinery of a party has been captured by selfish office-seekers, hungry parasites, ana corrupt rings they at once apply the lash and begin to drive out those who will not slavishly obey their arrogant commands. The American people, especially those who inhabit the Northwestern States, admire coercive measures, and ,: love with a peculiar affection those who would domineer and be dogmatic. The laige vote given Mr. Hatch and one or two other Republicans of the same stripe, shows how tamely the people of this county submit to attempted party coercion. The shaking off, and kicking out,' and browbeating policy is undoubtedly the wisest one for Republicans to putfsue in Jasper county, or, for that throughout the State. Now, while the party is flushed with vie-

jtoryy strong in youthful vigor, and !counting its immense majorities, is l an excellent time to shake off its superfluous members. Horticulturists recommend ns the best method of treating grape vines that'they be severely pruned in the tall, and buried, if a plentiful crop is desired the next season. Fail pruning is preferred to spring pruning for several reasons, and among them is because they do not ’Sreep so much, and the shock is not so great to the parent vine. It is possible that such treatment would also be good for a political party. Everybody admits that something inust be done for the patient, and that speedily, too. lest lie sink beyond the power of recovery; who knows but what if the ring-masters shake off two or three hundred more dead weights in Jasper county they will be able to carry any salary or fee giabber they shall nominate for office two years hence? And if th is in cans of grace is vigorously applied to a proportionate extent in every one of the ninety-two comities of Indiana, may it not be possible even to carry the State for Mr. Grant for a third term?