Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1876 — NEN COPPERHEAD NEWSPAPERS. [ARTICLE]

NEN COPPERHEAD NEWSPAPERS.

Gauging them by their own favorite standard, the Indianapolis .Journal, the Logansport Journal, .the Chicago Journal and several others of like prominence not necessary here to catalogue, which have hitherto been considered among the strsightest sect of republicans, have become “vile copperhead concerns 7 ’ within the past ten days; and now abuse President Grant as roundly as ever the New York did in its palmiest days of vituperation. It is painful,, very painful, to observe these able newspapers going clear over to the enemies of the country just on the eve of a campaign when it behooves every loyal and honest citizen to act with the republican party. The conduct of the Logansport Journal is especially ungrateful and serpent like, to thus sting the bosom from which it has derived so much nourishment and comfort. And then the provocation is so contemptible, too. They are mad because a few favorites were removed from fat offices to make room for other hungry-bellied cormorants. These newspapers are miserable soreheads. Won’t the Kentland Gantt* and LaPorte CAronic/r crack the party lash at them once or twice jnst for luck ? Prod ’em up a little, Brothers Conner and Packard.

flap, I. C. B. Sum an has published a call to the survivors of th# sth recipient Indiana volunteers requesting them to assemble and hold a reunion at LaPorte, on Thursday, September 14th, “tor the purpose of reviving old memories, and bringing together again for the interchange of greetings, the officers and men of a regiment who shared together the trials and dangers of more than four years of active service in the late war. ft is hoped that every surviving member of ths regiment who can possibly join his comrades on that day will be present.” Every preparation will be made that is possible to render thia first reunion all that it sbpuld be in interest. Comrades who see this notice are requested to inform those in other localities. A newspaper st Fowler, called the Ptmoerat, asys that “the people's convention, which met in this place on Saturday last, unanimously endorsed the Hon. James commonly called ‘Blqa

Jeans*—the democratic nominee for governor of Indiana.” This would seem to indicate that the “people’s convention” was a democratic rose by another name. Is it not suspiciously singular when men go traveling about the country under an assumed name ? Does it not excite suspicion that they have at some former time in their lives done something of which they are ashamed ? If a man is a democrat, or a republican, or an independent, let him bang out his colors—if he think* proper. If a newspaper is a politic! nondescript, or a hermaphrodite, or an Ishmaelite, let it act as The Union does. With few notable exceptions, the republican press throughout the country condemn President Grant in strongest terms for his recent action in the removal of prominent public officials, among whom Mr. Jewell and Mr. Pratt are conspicuous. They have left little unsaid in this outburst of indignation that has not been often repeated for three years past by the independent press, whom they have so loudly condemned. They have rung the changes on Grantism with as much vigor as the bitterest democratic journals. Jpdeed, to measure them by their own standard, pine-tenths of all the newspapers of republican antecedents among our exchanges, besides several correspondents, have within two weeks been converted into viol ent copperheads, and disloyal, traitorous sheets; simply because a favorite has'been removed from the public teat to make room for other cormorants. Such is high-toned, disinterested and far-sighted statesmanship.

Mr. Sanborn, of Lake county, a local politician of the democratic faith, of some celebrity, was in town a few hours on Tuesday evening, trying to manufacture sentiment in favor of the nomination of Hon. John H. Winterbotham, of : Michigan City, for congress. He discovered a strong current in favor of that course among republicans, and.* correspondingly strong feeling |!or Dr. Haymond among tf>e independents and democrat*. If there in anything the republicans in this end of the district would be especially glad to have the democracy do, it is to throw Dr. Haymond overboard This would give them a grand opportunity to ring the changes about democratic hate of Übion soldiers, which they would be quick to embrace.

Next Saturday the fast mail train between New York and the West will be discontinued. A great inconvenience will be experienced by this result by the newspapers of both the East and West, as well as the public generally. Under the •fast mail arrangement New York papers reach us the day after publication, while under the old arrangement they will be several days on the way. We are sorry to see retrogression in this respect, and regret it all the more from the fact that in this centennial year of progress and improvement we had hoped for better things than the discontinuance of our fast mail train. The Journal thinks it “a clear case of a revolution going backwards.”

On the eighth page of The Uniox to-day will be found the premium list of the fifth annual fair of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association, which is to be held in Rensselaer, on the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th days of September next. The rules, regulations and list of premiums have been revised and corrected, and now stand as they will be enforced, pest fall. A few extra numbers of The Union have been issued this week to supply those who may desire to send a copy of the premium list tp acquaintances. Hon. John Coburn concluded that discretion wad the belter part of valor, and' at the eleventh hour and thirtieth minute withdrew from the candidacy for congress in the sixth or Indianapolis district; whereupon the republicans nominated Hon. John Hanna. VMr. Charles P. Newburg visited Rensselaer this week in the interest of the LaFsyette Journal office.