Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1874 — Page 4

THE RENSSELAER UNION-

Thursday November 26. 1874.

In the Laporte Chronicle of the 13th instant, Massachusetts is pot down in a hat of States where ‘“the fall elections show that the Republicans have a majority.” If that is no, why did they not elect their Governor and their candidates for Congress? Is it possible that Senator Thurman's hypothesis that the Ku-klux frightened them from the polls, is correct? President Grant should send troops there at once, and have Mr. Talbot promptly inaugurated Governor when the time comes. It is true that the election returns show that Mr. Gaston received most votes, but then it must have been brought about by “fraud and intimidation f” Besides, what rights have Democrats that Republicans are bound to respect in the State of Massac!)usetfs?

We have never bad much confidence in the veracity of the so-called Independent press, and now we have less than ever.— Laporte Chronicle. “Du tell!” Well, Mr Packard belongs to a school of so-called Christian statesmen in whose veracity and honesty the aforesaid “so-called Independent press” not only never had much con deuce, but whatever suspicion of veracity anyoithem may have entertained lor the individual hiuiselt is being rapidly dispelled with each successive issue of his uutair, illiberal, dogmatic, bigoted, in tolerant, untruthful, intense ly partisan newspaper, it seems to be as difficult for that man to speak the truth about, act fairly with, or be just to, those of opposite or different political Views, as it was lor a class of Jews in the days of Jesus Christ to believe that any good thing could come out of Nazareth. He is a party toady.

An astute newspaper at Chicago has discovered that if people had not “beendeceived bv the Independent folly and thrown their votes j away” Indiana would not “have i elected Democratic officers this tall.! Did it never think that those who voted the Independent ticket had become disgusted with the Republican party for its failure to perform tbe promises made two years ago? It was either vote tbe Independent or the Democratic ticket with these men. Had they voted the latter, would the Republican tirket been elected? Would ft have been de seated by a smaller majority? If it was wrong to elect the Democratic ticket, the Republicans are to blame for that w rong First because they deceived the people two years ago, aud secondly because they did not vote tbe Independent ticket. Our conveution was held first and our candidates were already lathe field when the Republicans nominated their ticket. Had the Republican party c and more to defeat the j Democracy t ban they did to strangle independent action amoDg voters they would have united with us. I The Republican party is responsible; for the Democratic victories this tall in a two-fold sense, and itisthe sublimity of impudence and cowardice for them to try to shirk- the odium of that responsibility—if it is odious—upon ns who had so little to do with it.

Muzzling newspapers as our municipal authorities muzzle stray canines during dog-days,ean only be intended to stifle the spirit of progress, and if patiently submitted to in any country proves that her jwHiple are unfit for any system of government but absolute despotism. —Chicago Specimen. And, it may be safely added, that whenever Congress passes a law, afYthe present one did, which is designed to curtail the liberty of the press, the step was suggested by some evil g ;nius who is stealthily paving the way to overturn our republican form of govern- \ meet and substitute a monarchy in its stead. No one will claim that newspapers should have license to circulate slander, or that because a

man chooses the editorial profession he shall have immunity from the penalties for libel or the violation of any other law of general applu ■cation made to protect the rights of individuals. Bat Congress has no right to make such a law. That power belongs to the several State legislatures. . If Congress is to establish a censorship and a system of espionage over the press, and publishers mny be dragged to

Washington and imprisoned and their 1 usinesa interrupted at the instance of any public robber whose rascality has been exposed, there is no safety either for individuals in the newspaper profession or for the public service. One of the first acts of the next Congress should be to repeal the Polandgag law; and Mr. Dennison, who was elected to succeed Mr. Poland, is:, the proper man to prepare and in- ’ troduce a bill to that effect.

The Rensselaer Union which caught the political blind staggers sometime since, and plunged over to the Democracy, has been enlarged from a seven-column folio to a six-col-umn quarto, and otherwise improved. * * * The Union is a live, crisp paper, and we hope when It has sufficiently cut itself on the Democratic tombs, and scratched itself on the Independent briars, to see it back with us “clothed and in its right (Republican) ra\n& u .--Laportc Herald. The Union appreciates tbe compliihints and evidently kindly-meant i wishes of the Herald the more as it has always admired the gentilty! and eminent respectability of that truly excellent local paper. But as yet we have not ventured into the Democratic cemetery. Our sensitive olfactories had become so irritated by'the effluvium of Credit Mobilier and Salary Grabbing transactions, of broken pledges, of the offensive odors aiising from innumerable investigating committees in the churnal house where a thousand fair babes of political promise have been foully murdered that we had no curiosity to explore the cemetery of putrid reminiscences! Be tween the charnal house and cemetery is a beautiful vista where the air is free from taint of corruption, where the flowers of hope bloom in splendor, where the sun of prom*ise diffuses his fructifying beauts, I utiobscured by clouds of falsehood or fogs of partizan misrepresentation, where the “briars’* have no thorns to prick tender consciences and are. loaded with luscious fruit, and where one is not compelled to apologise for scoundrels or wink at | dishonorable practices. We prefer ito roam where we are, unfettered |by party trammels, for the present) and must decline to go back to you until the Indianapolis Journal , Kentland Gazette, Rensselaer Republican and kindred laborers have completed the Herculean task of party purification, which they have so bravely undertaken, and for which there is such crying need.

Supporting the Party

Now that the Republican party enters upon a new epoch, it is well to understand distinctly what is meant by supporting the party.— Mr. Coukliug, 1u his Brooklyn speech, said: “What is the sense of belonging to a party a little belonging to it oft’ aud on*? If if is not fit to belong to.uoone should belong to it at all. liitisfit —if, despite the unworthy members and flaws and short-comings which inhere in all human associations, it is the better

of tiie two parties—then why not go for it, go with it, and make the I best of it?” And Mr. Dawes, in | Massachusetts, weut into Butler’s i district and urged his election not ; that he approved his conduct or his opinions upon many important subjects, but that the party line of the Massachusetts representation in Congress might be unbroken. Are these gentlemen aware that this policy is just what has defeated tbe party ? if standing by tbe party means standing by tne unworthy members and flaws and short-com ings—if going for it, and going with it, and making the best of it, | means going for thu salary grab, and i tbe moieties, and Sanborn, Jayne <fc ■ Co, and Gov. Shepherd and judge Durell, and Butler’s tactics and moralities, and ifominations like those ot Mr. Charles S. Spencer and Mr. Bernard Bigiin and Mr. James G'Brten—-how can any Self-respect-ing man come to any other conclusion than that such a party iu v enator Conkling’s phrase, is not fit to belong to ?

It is the men who belong to a , party a little and belong to it off and on, who make it successful, because they insist upon good men and good measures. It is those who “go for it,” always and under ail circumstances, who defeat it, because as Mr. John Cochran 6aid, they support the devil ts he is oulv regularly nominated. These are the people upon whom knaves count to setihre their schemes. The argument urged by Mr Dawes in support of Butler was used two years ago in South Carolina for the i ! support of Moses. It ends m elect- S ing rascals to give us honest government. Mr Dawes said that he differed with Butler on many questions. But. they are fundamental questions. What, then, even from bis own point of view, was to be

gained by sending an nnbroken Republican Massachusetts line to Congress if it was to be broken the moment it arrived ? With the present machinery of both parties to insist upon sustaining the party, which means merely tbe regular nominated candidates and the declarations of regnlar conventions, is to insist upon the surrendering of the government to a clique of intriguers and traders. Every Democrat who supports tbe regular city ticket in New York knows that he is voting only as Mr. John Kelly and Mr. John Morrissey choose; but he goes for it, Mr. Jimmy Hayes and all, because, in Seuator Conklin’s phrase, he thinks it the better of the two parties.— Now the way to sustain and strengthen and perpetuate a great party is to oppose and scratch and defeat all its unworthy candidates. And why? Because if it is found that “regularity” and “the party” can not pull a bad man through, only good men will be nominated. For what is a party? It is a means and not a master. It is a convenience which'patriotic men use to serve the public welfare But such men know that the public welfare cannot be served by dishonest and incompetent men, whatever they call themselves. And therefore it is no argument to tell them that if one of the rascals is not elected the other will be. There is no choice between rascals. To belong to a party is not to accept and defend everything that maybe done in its name, and to support all candidates who may contrive to secure its nomination; it is to support its measures and its men when, and when only, they are worthy of support. — Harper's Weekly.

Should any subscriber to The Union desire to take Godey's Ladies' Book, for 1875 —it is without exception the best ladies’magazine published in America, and a subscription for a year would be one of the most acceptable presents that could be given a lady—we have made arrangments with the publishers by which two publications, the Ladies Book and The Union, together with an elegant cliromo called “The Rescue,” a beautiful sea scene, will be furnished, postage free, for $4.25. Among all tbe ebrotnos sent out by publishers we have not seen a handsomer one than “The Rescue” sentbyGodey.

Somebod}’ has said, takepotatoes away from Ireland and starvation comes. Famine recently had its hold on Bengal on account of the failure of the rice crop. Bread fruit is to the inhabitants of some of tbe Pacific islands both food and clothing. Were (he br-lllW? to perish suddenly from off the earth it would be the destruction of the Chinese Empire. But people here are not dependent on either otthese contingencies so long as they can buy what they need at Leopold’s new store.

We consider The Nursery the best magazine published, for children under twelve years old. Price $1.50 a year, postage prepaid. A subscription would be one of the best aud most appropriate holiday presents that could be secured for a child. Address John L. Shorey. 36 Broomfield St. Boston, Mass. When a soldier throws himself into the breach he should have a breech-loader—or buy his breeches at Leopold’s.

Does Advertising Pay !

Does advertising pay? has been asked many thousand times, and some busiuess men have failed to solve the question to their entire satisfaction, even at this late age. But Mr. A. Leopold has great confidence in the virtue of printer’s ink, and newspaper advertising This week Ue occupies by special contract, one whole page of this paper to announce the opening of anew store. All who are acquainted with the gentleman know that it is very seldom he invests in any business enterprise that proves unsuccess, ful —that does not pay. The correct theory of advertising is to have something that you want to sell and that somebody wants to buy, and then tell people of it. There are many ways of doing this. It may be done by painting fences and dead wails, by means of circulars distributed through the mails, by posters, by cards, by sending out a cryer with a bell, or by publishing it in the columns of a newspaper that is read by a great many people. All of these means are good, but probably the latter M cheapest and most effective. Before Sunday night not less than three thousand people will have learnt through the medium of The Rensselaer Union that Mr. A. Leopold has opened a brand new slock of dry goods, Clothing, notions, etc., iu the “Jew Corner,” which he will sell atexceedingiy low prices. Go and look at his etoek.

Real Estate Transfers.

The toHbwing transfers of real estate were filed with the Recorder of Jasper county during the week ending November 25th, 1874. John to. Campbell to William W. Parker, s | ew 14, 30, 7-*-80 acres, $l5O. Delphi Wolfe to Theodore F Harrison. n i nw, sw nw 23, 30, o—ll 6 acres, for $1,200. Ernest Broquet to Jasper A Wm Kenton, ne se 22, 30, 7 —40 acres, for $240. James Hammond to Sylvester Barnard, e J nw 32, 32, 7—Bo acres, for SI,OOO, Patrick Murphy to Bartley Lyons, s J se 34, 80, 7—Bo acres, for SI,OOO. Joseph A. Hutchings to James Shaffer, «1 n 15, 29, 7 —160 acres, for SSOO. Elisabeth Wilcox to Michael D. Kreraer, part sjnw ne 25,32, 7—lß acres, for SBOO. Alfred Thompson to Patrick Murphy, e J nw 31,82,5 —80 acres, for S4OO. Much creed, little faith; much ore, littlegold; many words,little work; aud much value for little money, at Leopold’s.

BUSINESS CARDS. DR. G. A. MOSS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ItenMxeluer, Indiana. Office between tbe Bank and Kannal’s Drag Store.- r - — DR. J. H. LOUGHRIDGE, PHYSICIAN AND S« RGEON, Washington Street, below Austin’s Hotel, Rensaelaer, ... Indiana. DR. MOSES It. ALTER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Rensselaer, Indiana. Office in Harding & Cbesnnt’s Drug Store. DR. R. Y. MARTIN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Washington street, opposite post office, Rensselaer, ... Indiana M. F. CHILCOTE. Attorney and Counselor at Law. Office opposite Court Honse Square, on Washington Street, Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana. 5 2fi,*ly THOS.J.SPITLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Heniseiaer, Indiana. Office in the Brick Building north side ot the Vublic Square. Especial attention to Beal Estate and Fire Insurance business. SB,OOO to Loan on Real Estate security, on reasonable terms, hirst class paper bought on reasonable terms, including mortgages and bonds. SISSON P. THOMPSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW? Pros. Atty. soth circuit, Will practice in tbe Courts of PulaiKi, /■*] 4l, NeWtofi and Heutcn counties. THOMPSON At into.'* LAW AND REAL ESTATE OF FOE. Rensselaer*. Indiunn. wm.h. martin,; t joshua healey. Kentland, Ind. ( \ Rensselaer, Ind. MARTIN a HEALEY, ATTORNEYS AT I. ANY, Rensselaer, lmimua. JSsr*WjJl practice in the courts, us Jtup*, aud adjoining counties. IRA W, YKQMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Notary Public. BEAL ESTATE ARB COLLECTION AGENT, Rensselaer, Indiana, A complete Abstract of Title to all lands in Jasper County, Indiana. Office in tbe Conn House. 8.31

ALFKKD M’COT. XLrRKD THOMPSON A. IdcCOY * THOMPSON, R A TETTERS. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. Bo* and tall Crin and Domcatic Vxcbang make Collectloae on all available points, pay Interest on specified time depotitea, and transact all bailnese in their line with dispatch. Ifi'Offlce hours.from 9 • in tot p m JT. B. SPANGLE Would respect fall- announce to the citizens of Jasper county and vicinity, that ne is still to be found at his old stand on the eas t side of the public square in Rensselaer, and ia now prepared to do all kinds of work in iha line of TAILORING in tbe latest styles, and with neatnesa and dispatch. N B.—Cutting done on short notice, st reduced prioes. and warranted to fit 39-ts

L Se im, DUVALL’S BLACKSMITH SHOI la in operation one door above Expreea Office, RENSSKLABB All kinds of-blscksmithing donetoorder * New Blacksmith Shop. The public is notified that I have bought the Blacksmith Shop southwest side of Front street, near tbe old saw mill, and repaired it in receive customers. WOOD SHOP 1m connection where wagon making and repairing will be done by skillfal mechanics. Patrons Ot Husbandry and other cash customers will find it to their advantage to give me their patronage. &AKBON ERWIN.

JDTTV-A.IjII’S DAILY HACK LINE AND LIVERY STABLE, RimisiAßß. xm>. United States Mail Hacks ran daily, except Sunday*, between RENSSELAER, AND PRANCESVJLLR! Making connection at the- latter place with ] trains on the Loaisville, New-Albany and Chicago Railroad, and conveying passengers and freight each way. Extra teams sent at soy time on application. Goods or money shipped byaxpreae to any part of the United \ states. I«lw«ry Teams, With or without drivers, famished on application. Stock boarded by tbe day or week. Office and stable on Front streeL above Washington, Benaselaei. Indiana, J, W. DUVALL, i

EXCELLENT LANDS Cheap Homes FOR THE INDUSTRIOUS In Jasper County. Ho! Every One who Desires to Make Profitable Ivestments in Land! •The Land* of the Indiana fit Illinois Central Railway Company In Jasper county, Indiana, are now put npon the market for aale, for the iirat time. They were Selected with Great Care some twenty years ago, and many of them comprise the — ————■ Beat Farming and Ctrazing Lands in Our County. They consist of about 10,000 ▲ORSW PART PRAIRIE AND PART TIMBER! well located as to roads and school houses, and will make desirable Fa rIF for parties wishing to secure permanent hemes. Lands generally in this county are rapidly increasing in value, and are being readily taken by actual settlers at the prices asked for them. So tbose who want to secure Good Investments better attend to the matter at once. Propositions to purchase auy or all of these lands, In LA- rye or Small Quantities, will be received by the undersigned at the Clerk’s office in Rensselaer, Jasper county. Indiana, who a ill at alt times take great pleasure in showing the lands and furnishing all necessary in forma - ion as to quality, price and terms of sale. Title perfect. BEABZON L. BFZTLBB, Agent for Trustee of Ind.* 111. C. B. W.Co. WINTER IS COMING ant will be npon us directly with its frosts, its sdow, its ice, its bleak winds, and its cold, stormy, dreary weather. A wise statesman -has said In time of peace prepare for war. In the spring you plant corn and get ready for harvest; now prepare for winter and BUY YOUR STOVES At Warner’s Hardware Store. All kinds of house and farm hardware kept in slock. Nails by the pound or keg, shelf goods, such as buts, hinges, tacks, etc., carpenter’s tools, saws, hammers, augurs chisels, planes, files, brace-bits, smoothing irons, axes, table and pocket cutlery, etc., etc. At WARNER'S NEW TfNSHOP over the Hardware Store we employ good mechanics, who will manufacture all kinds of tinware to order. A large stock kept on hand, including pails, strainers, pans, cups, wash basins, Iruit can?, and many othbt goods of tliis class. Tinware Repaired to order. Agency lor the justly celebrated COftTOIAftD FARM WAGOSS, ‘ Which ImVe a national reputation, and are considered eqdal to, or a little better fhatt, any in the market We also make farm Wagons and fine carriages to order, together With wheelba rroW», sleds, fine sleighs, and every description of vehicle. All kinds of Wood-work aud wood worn repairing doue ut Our shops. SiLALK&.tfiTiii.YiG, . in its several department* of horse-shoeing, wagon and carriage ironing, ti.re-8?Ul0g general job Work, flow* by IBMtM WWffißfigSv Nf iWterbM 1 werfcwww employed, T«k* y«wr g« to w«ii«S Wete vMpre. Tiuahqp, VYajjoiidiqp or Black-: swithshop, if yoq wo.ulj h*ye )(« lull yal«c iu what ym buy. KQRMAN W4BNESH, IrQ-3iwo, Rensselaer, (utUaua. 3NT©*W Firm! IN’eVO’ Goods! Low Prices! * . '• . THE OLD RELIABLE Cheap Cash Store IN THK STONE BUILDING,

' IS STILL THE PLACE FOR BARGAINS! ...Of'-. A I hare jnst returned from Chioago with a large and well selected stock of DR7ST GOODS which were bought with special reference to the Fall trade of Jasper coanty. In dditioa thereto I purchased a heavy bill of Ready Made Clothing, sad beat Custom Made Boots and Shoes. We have the latest styles and lest Quality e t Prints far 10 Cents a Yard. A splendid lot of Winter Shawls, ladies’ and misses Skirts in large assortment, ladies Furnishing Goods, Ac.. *c. Do not forget the place—the old, reliable, STONE STORE, formerly by the firm of Leopold A Fendig. Bep. 1,1874. - R. FENDIG.

X. T. HASPING. TBOS. S WILLS* HARDiNG * WILLEY, DRUGS, REIVMELAER, CTO., Would announce to the public that the* ere Still carrying on tb* DRUG BUSINESS —„ * AT TBS CLD STAND where they keep constantly on hand a large, full and freah stock of . DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OHS, DYJQ ffiTtfFFß, A Iso, an assortment of such dckoel Keeks as are need in all the scbvolaof Jasper county, STATIONERY, Toilet Articles, Patent Medicines, Anything and everything from a battle of Kail’s Balsam to a bottle of Vinegar Bitter*, or s box of cstnartle pllll. PHYSICIANS' PRESCR t * TIOXS OAREPVIIY COMPOUNDS# And We m alwgf* ready to Wilt 6* Itukmieri at any hour of the day ot nigkL HARDING A WILLEY. NEW GOODS. AT TBS PIONEER STORE. FJ.sMKs&ea FORMERLY J. I. PURCUPILE & CO, ■ J. ’ : -V * - AT THE NEW BRICK STORE, Would respectfully cell public sttaatioa to the fact of their having refitted their atora room and bnilt an addition thertto, making it the best a tore room in the county. Tb* old firm of J. 1. Purcupile A Co. have admitted to partnership with them Mr. F. J. Basra, a gentleman of EXTENSIVE Mercantile Experience, and changed onr business name to that of F. J. Bears A Co. We are now receiving and opening tbe largest and finest stock of goods ever brought to the eonaty, which wo preuosa to soil at PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITIONS Onr faeilitlaa for buying goods art ao| enjoyed by any other Ira In the county, sad they enable us to soil at exceedingly law prices. We shall pay strict attention to the details of onr business, and expect to ho ahio to render satisfaction to all who favor ft with patronage. Call and see ns; no treahi* - to show goods. September L UT4. W. Jf. Sears B Co,