Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1874 — THE PEOPLE, ANE NOT THE PARTY, DID IT. [ARTICLE]

THE PEOPLE , ANE NOT THE PARTY , DID IT.

We want 25 or SO genuine Hubbard squashes, ami will nay a good priee for them. —Plymouth Mail Magnet. Now look out for racv editorials. . —, | Some girls wont marry in the full of the moon, believing that if they did they would have ill luck through life; but a Remington girl would not let forty full moons stop her ten seconds. —Remington Guard. Why in the name of Guttenberg does Brother 1). Babcock sleep alone this cold weather, if that is a true statement ? The Head Devil of the Grangers, in his address to his fellow-conspira-tors, let up on the Middle Man long enough to recognize the Grasshopper. Rut that, we presume, will be the end of it. The infamous middle men, the infernal hankers, and the dastardly railroad men of the cities, will have I to relieve the necessities of the grass- ! hopper sufferers of The West, while the sniveling G ranger holds his wheat from year to year, waiting for higher prices, and in the mean time allows his merchant and grocer to whistle unavailingly for their little bills.-- : Indianapolis Ifr.raid. The Herald worked might and main for the success of the Republican ticket this fall. Of course if the Republican party cannot capture them the Grangers are a mean sniveling set of conspirators and devils!

Elsewhere may be seen the pro. spectus of the Inter- Ocean, It is one of the first in the rank of good papers. Published at . Chicago, the commercial center of the Northwest, it is especially interesting to farmers, stock dealers, and business men generally of this region. In politics it is Republican—firm, unyielding, radical, and we think a little bigoted and unscrupulous. It believes in the Republican party absolutely, as the rule of political faith and guide oi governmental action. So absorbing is this belief that it frequently r auvocates measures which do not harmonize with the fundamental doctrines of the party, simply because they are promulgated by some prominent member of the organization. Still, while it is a blind partisan, it seldom if ever indulges in personal vituperation, though at times it may 'misrepresent the motives of individ- j uals and place them before the public ! in a false position. While it may be faulty in some particulars and occasionally “slop over” in its polities! discussions, t e Inter-Ocean is 6iuart, ambitious, and ably edited ; and it is recommended to our fricuds as a high-toned, first-class family newspaper. Arrangements have been made with the proprietors by which patrons of Thk Union may obtain either the weekly, triweekly, or daily editions ol the Inter- Ocean at special reduced rates. Specimen copies of either of these editions may be seen at this office.

Quite a number of Republican papers are claiming the defeat of Hon. Benjamin F. Butler in Massachusetts for Congress as a Republican victory. They say he was detested by the votes of Republicans, hence it was a fiatty triumph. Mr. Butler has -been a prominent, influential Republican for many years; he was regularly nominated by a large majority of delegate votes in the only Republican convention held iu his district to nominate a candidate for Congress; be stumped the district as a Republican, advocating the election of the Republican candidates for Governor and minor offices; -there was no other Republican contesting the race with (running against) him; iiis nomination was endorsed, and his election was urged by the Republican press of Massachusetts and elsewhere, upon the ground that he was a stanch advocate and able representative of ultra, unalloyed Republican doctrines and Mr. Dawes, himself a member of Congress, and a Republican, went over to - assist Mr. J3utler make the canvass, and surged the people to vote for him (Butler) in order that might leave an unbroken line of Republican representation in Congress / But for all tlm—notwithstanding his prominence, his acknowledge -ability. his regular nomination, the endorsement of his party press and eompeers, and the powerful influence of government patronage

brought to bear in his favor—Mr. Butler was defeated by 1000 majority ill a district that had previously given lam 4000 to (1000 majority. And by whom, a Republican? No Republican rat) against him. By an Independent? No, sir; but he was beaten by a regularly nominated candidate of t|ie Democratic party —a simon pure, hard money, down-east Democrat, whose election was urged by Democratic orators and the Democratic press because he represented Democratic ideas and Democratic principles, which Mr. Butler did not and does not. i The position of those papers that claim a victory for the Republican party in the defeat of the Essex statesman is similar to that of the New Jersey bully who was describing to a listening crowd a lrstic encounter with a rival. Said he: “The first pasa I hit liis left fist with my right, eye and struck his right foot square with the pit of my stomach; then t laid down and let him rest, so as not to take any unfair advantage of him. Then I got up and struck him with the side of my head, just below my left ear, on his right fist; tangled my hair around his left hand, laid down and pulled him oil toj> of'nre; then, to prevent his getting away, I put my nose between his teeth and held him fast while I gouged off his right thumb with my left eye. It was a terrible fight, gentleman, I tell yon! I lost my left eye, half an inch of my nose, a saddle-flap off flne ear, hair enough to stuff a chair cushion, and was carried home on a shutter. But, gentlemen, I licked him; 1 licked him like the d— 1; I licked him till he couldn’t speak, and I had to call the by-standers to take him off so that I shouldn't hill him! It was a magnificent victory! ” The truth of the matter is this, the Republican party organization in the Essex district nominated Mr. Butler for Congress and adopted a platform of principles. The Democratic district Organization held their convention, adopted resolutions, -and nominated Mr. Thompson. Having joined issue, they appealed for a decision, not to any parti/ hut to the people. The decision was made by a tribunal whose authority'was higher than cliques, caucuses, conventions, or parties. The People—not the Republicanparty nor the Democratic party — decided that they preferred Mr. Thompson with Democratic principles to Republican principles with Mr. Butler. It would be equally as truthful to claim The result. Lh New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana or Kentucky as favorable to the Republican party as it is to claim a triumph for it in Massachusetts. And it would be no more absurd for newspapers to claim the defeat of Major Calk in sJn this district as a Republican victory, than it dr for them to claim it in Mr. Butler’s case. Tli 3 party suffered defeat in both instances by the people, and not by itself in either for in both the party machinery seemed to I work without jar. The credit for | J j defeating Mr. Butler belongs to the people, and the Republican party has no share in it; to them belongs the„ odium of having nominated him in convention, worked for him during the canvass, and voted for i him at the polls.