Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1876 — WHICH THE SICK MAN, OR HIS PHYSICIAN [ARTICLE]

WHI CH THE SICK MAN, OR HIS PHYSICIAN

Every day men are heard to aay that political parties, in the coarse of time, after many triumphs and long periods of anpremaey, become corrupt. In a measure this may be true—lt tras. They alao say that no party ever purifies itself; wbioh may l»e true or may bo false; owing a great deal ho its oompoaition. But Buppete the proposition is admitted aa a truthful fact. "Not one of the gentlemen who use it pretends to olaim that the democratic party waa pure when overthrown by the people through the means of the republican party. If it haabeen purified einoe, itfollowa that purification was performed by the republican party, because only the two parties have existed in this country since 1860, when democracy was deposed from power. Tljit conclusion is inevitablethe logic is irresiatable; the argument unanswerable. If, then, the republican party has reformed the corrupt old democratic party, does it not establish the reputation of the first as the great reform parly of the age ? Take democratic testimony alone on the subject—the St Louis platform, which says they accept as a complete settlemen of the questions upon whiob the two parties joined issue, measures which they fought withtODgue, pen and shot—does it not prove that the republican party is a skillful physician in doctoring political ills? While in courtesy it may be admitted that the democratic is a reform party, because it says so, should it not also be believed when it says it has been reformed? and by the republican party? Whiob, then, is it wiser and safer to trust: The party that needed reformation and was reformed, or the party that reformed it? When sick would you consult the patient who was cured, or th« physician who healed him f V -<

It is our honest conviction tkaJ the republicans of this congressional district will not spare money to elect their fiian at the coming election. —Remington Record. It is our honest conviction that our neighbor is correct. Why not? The democracy, for whom the Record labors, is spending money like water to carry it. Not only will they “circulate the Record in the “remotest parts of this county be“fore another month,” bnt they have Shriner, of Pennsylvania, Stoll, ex-senator Turpie, and the devil knows who else of the regular forces engaged to canvass this district thoroughly. Mr. Wolcott j major general of the volunteer troops, boasts that Peter Cooper, Moses W. Field, Samuel F. Cary and Richard Trevelleck will arm, equip and provision ten or a dozen bushwhackers to operate where they can do the most injury to the republican party. It takes money to send the Record to the remotest parts of our county and to mantain this horde of public speakers who firmly believe that the liberty of individual conduct should be uhvexed by sumptuary lawfi. And of coursiß if the republicans would carry tbe district, as they surely will, they must have speakers to canvass it.

Rensselaer, Ind., Aug. 15.— The editor of The Rensselaer Union has been converted back to the republican party. He left the party four years ago, because they wouldn’t-give him a post office, and went to the independents. At the last election hie Mends failed to give him the nomination for clerk of the county; so be went to the mourners’ bench, last Saturday night, and was converted back. —Special Correspondence to the Chicago Timet. That sounds familiar. It is the same old rebel yell that was heard at Shiloh, at Stone River, atCbicamanga, at Atlanta and hundreds of other places a dozen years ago. The issues of this campaign are identical with those during the war. Now if the Times ’ correspondent will shoot a few negroes, shout “reform” until hoarse, and drink a few more gallons of whiskey he will be perfectly qualified to have a postoffice or other similar appointment should Hr; Tilden be elected president.

I Hon. Geo. H. Brown baa no ocwasion to feel especially flattered n|y the treatment which waa accorded to him by the Jasper ooanty delegation in tbe Bradford convention. Not only did they omit to endorse his record in the legislature by a resolution, bnt when White oounty insisted upon tbe candidate being taken from Jasper, and oast their undivided vote for Mr. Brown, the Jasper delegation with a solitary exception voted against him, and finally won this delegate over to Mr. Molntire, who was nominated by Jasper county alone. It has been said in democratic circles tor more than a year past that Mr. Brown’s public oarter was ended. They assign two reasons for their opposition to him: sirst, because he did not vote for Hon. Joseph E. McDonald for United States senator; and second because he brought home with b}m cefcain Reports which he did not for with his own money. Whatever opinion the democratic-green-bkek-independent party of Jasper Cjgnnty may entertain for Mr. Sown, his republican neighbors cmnsider him one of the most honorable, upright and conscientious men of the county. His official Ojjreer was straightforward and consistent; and he was entitled to more respectful consideration from tparty associates, whether he a soliciting candidate ’before r convention or not. As it is, Brown stands before the public a man who has been criticised, condemned, and most insultingly snubbed.

Tinder the head of "politic*! advertisements” Thk Rkmbsx.au Umion publishes tke republican ticket. —Remington Record. For which it is paid regular advertising rates, cash in advance. It also publishes all announcements of jpolitical meetings on the fame twwifii And why net? It it not a party organ, bat belongs entirely to its published proprietor*, who conduct it solely for the selfish purpose of making a living. As long as they must pay rent on the house they occupy, as long as they mast pay for what they eat and wear, and as long as they mast pay taxes, is it not proper for them to receive pay for their labor? When merchants cease to take pay for their goods, lawyers for their advice, doctors for their professional services, farmers for their prodUots, ministers for their preaching, and laborers for their work, it will be time for newspaper men to publish their journals for gratuitous circulation, and advertise quack doctors, mountebank shows and political parties free of oharge. Business is business, and must be conducted according to established laws of business if those who engage in it would not fail.

So universal is the impression in this connty that an independent newspaper is a democratic organ in disgnise, that our democratic frienda accuse TnaUitioN of “going back” on democracy when it pronounced for Hayes and Wheeler, and even our pretended “independent” eon* temporary at Remington cavils at it. Oness they nnderstand the true inwardness of the independ-ent-greenback movement in Jasper connty. Bat is not this attempting to accomplish “reform” undei- false pretenses ? Somebody is being deceived in this independent political business. Either the independents are deceiving the democracy, or they attempt to deceive the people; deception is practiced among them somewhere, and this fact proves them unworthy of confidence.

Dr. Haymond, the democratic candidate for congress in this district, is a hard money mao— Mishawaka Enterprise. Well, that may be subjeot to some modification. It is possible he is a bard money man in Washington City and while with bard money sdyaoates, but all the lode* pendent-greenback people who support bim think be is in favor of

Had Mr. Tilden, Mr. Hendricks and the men wbo nominated them at St Louis been as ardent advocates of the vigorous proseontioa of the war to orash out a wicked rebellion in 1861, aa they now pretend to be of reform, not one dollar of the public debt, of tbe bnrdens of whiob they oomplain, would have been contracted. Tbe Feckless men who attempted to destroy this government, or who did nothing to prevent iu destruction, are not men into wlioee bands it would be prudent to plaoe such an important trust as the welfare of a groat nation. It is true they aay they will reform the public service, but when did they reform themselves?

Every day gentlemen who left tbe republican party two years ago and voted the independent tioket, tell ns that this year they have determined to vote with (be grand old party whioh preserved the Union from destruction when attacked by southern traitors. They recognize the great issue of this political campaign to be identical with that which agitated the country in 1860 and preoipttated the cruel, wicked war that entailed such dreadfhl calamity upon the people.

Jasper connty was never so thoroughly canvassed by public meetings as it will be by tbe republicans this campaign. They are working with industry, harmony and skill, and indications point to a certainty that the people Will reward their labor with a complete victory and large majorities.

There is talk on the etreeta of inducing some democrat of mean# to commence tbe publication of a newspaper in Rensselaer. It has been about sixteen yeari sinoe one died in the plaoe from starvation.