Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1875 — HE IS RIGHT. [ARTICLE]

HE IS RIGHT.

To satisfy an idle curiosity, we would like to know whether Jasper Packard got SIOO, SBOO or SSOO for votiug and talking in favor of the Pacific Mail Subsidy, or if he did it for nothiug when others received tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars for similar services? - Notwithstanding the Kellogg government is admitted to be a “gigantic fraud” it is supported by the Administration, aftd kept m authority by the strong arm of military force. If usurpation and gigantic frauds are to be upheld by the interference of the army in Louisiana, why not in Indiana, Ohio, or any other State? What more than a pretext is lackitig to‘enforce such a policy everywhere? - We see it announced that,Congress voted to appropriate $25,000 to pay the expenses of the mulatto King, Kalakaua, while in this country. If this be true, it is an outrage equal to the salary grab, aud those who voted for the measure should be denounced by every American from Maine to California, as men unfit to represent freemen. If the mulatto Cuunitml King has not money enough to defray his traveling expenses, let him remain at home, and feast upon the flesh of his subjects.— Kcntland Gazette. Only the present Congress would he guilty of such extravagance while t.he people of vast districts are perishing from cold and hunger. The watch-word of the Garfield stripe of Christian Statesmen is, Thousands to entertain the petty king of a semi-civilized people; not a cent to relieve our perishing kindred on the frontier. Administration papers charge that Mr. Speaker Blaine is becoming tainted with Copperheadism, and that Vice President Wilson also shows signs of a tendency to that malady. They base their opinion upon the fact that neither Mr. Wilson nor Air. Blaine favors the upholding of Kellogg’s usurpation in Louisiana by Congress. Judging by this standard it seems that nearly two-thirds of the people over the United Stales were rapidly —becoming Copperheads. Among the prominent newspapers in the Republican ranks whose editors are afflicted with the same disease, may be named the New York Times , the Chicago Tribune, and the Indianapolis Journal. Hurrah for the new “Copperhead” party, with Blaine for candidate for President in 1876!

Laporte papers say that about S4OO of tlie school fund of Laporte couuty has been missing and unaccounted for since Hon. Jaspei Packard was auditor of that county. Mr. Packard says if they cau not find it he will pay the principal out of his own pocket after a lapse of sir years. Laporte county may be considered fortunate in having had Mr. Packard represent the district in Congress during a period when he could participate in a retroactiug 6alary-grab, and while such fat jobs ap the Pacific Mail subsidy were being lobbied through, else it might not have been so»easy for a hard-worked, illy-paid public servant to have saved enough from the miserable pittance allowed as salary to make restitution for losses thatoccurred while he was guarding county finances. ' • •- - A Washington dispatch in our last issue intimates that Attorney-General Field, of Louisiana, lias telegraphed to Washington that the members of the Investigating Committee. Messrs. Hoar, Frye, Wheeler, and Marshall, are already as "prejudiced against the action of the Returning Board” as were the Sub-Committee. Messrs. Foster, Phelps, and Potter, whose report upbn this matter was at first condemned by the, former.— Chicago Tribune. According to the logic of the newspapers which endorse and defend everything done by the supporters of President Grant’s Administration, all who do not uphold the acts of the Kellogg faction in Louisiana are Copperheads and Rebel-Sympathizers. If their position is true it will be well not to send any more Republican members of Congress down there to investigate political matters, unless it is desifed to make Copperheads of tfcp whole batch.

Indianapolis, Indiana, January Mth, 1875. Editors Union: I have been, informed that some of my constituents think that I have not carried out the wishes of the j>eople in my District in casting my vote for James Buchanan for United States Senator. I wish to say through the columns of The Union that I still retain my Independent principles. I was nominated by the Independent party with a platform favoring greenback currency, and was indorsed by the Democrats with a like plank in their platform. The people were dissatisfied with the contraction policy of the Republican party, and it was upon the greenback platform that the Democrats came into power. Looking at the facts from my standpoint it, seems to me that the election of Joseph II McDonald to the United States Senate is a repudiation of principle on the part of the Democratic party. Respectfully, G. 11. Brovin. Mr. Brown’s position with relation to his own course is right. He was elected as the candidate of the Independent party, and could not have voted for eitherML McDonald or Mr. Pratt and been consistent with the platform of those who" elected him. Itispossiblethatsome would-be partizan leader who believes that platforms are only made to deceive people and catch votes has condemned the course of Representative Brown and Senator Major in voting as they did for Mr. Buchanan for the United States Senate, but it is not probable that the disappointment is shared by any great number of their constituents who voted for them, their Democratic friends being satisfied that their support was not given to a Republican candidate, and their Republican iriends being content that they did not stultify themselves by votiug for Mr. Pratt or a DeinoTSratlc salary -gr at)her. Ts Mes s r is. Major and Brown do nothing worse for the State than was compassed by their votes for United States Senator they will prove rfemarkably good legislators, and will be entitled to a full measure of praise for sound judgment, and for having the welfare 'of the people at heart. Thus far the official acts of these gentlemen have been consistent with their pledges to thd people before election. They are doing well; let them be encouraged.