Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1876 — POLITICAL ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL ITEMS.

Mr. John B. Norton, one of the best known Democrats of Maine, has refused to longer support a party which indorses murder in the South and favors repudiation of the National debt. He will vote for Hayes and Wheeler. fy The Tennessee Democrats have selected Ishsrn G. Harris as one of tlie Tilden electors. Harris was Governor of Tennessee in 1800-61, and forced the State into rebellion. He was amoug the first to leave Nashville ufter the capture of Fort Donelson. It is safe to say he doesn’t represent the loyal sentiment of the State. But neither do the Democrats. i3T The long-metered poet of the Des Moines Register offers the following as an answer to an old conundrum, with the recommendation that it lie sung as a doxology at Democratic meetings: What's tbs different, o you can lee ’Twlxt Tweedledum and Tweedledeet About the name »» ’twlxt the men, Tammany Tweed and Bern Tflden. tST The Golden Buie draws these sharp-ly-outlined contrasts between the two Presidential candidates: “ Hayes was a soldier; Tilden was a copperhead• Hayes is frank and outspoken; Tilden is tricky and cunning: Hayes Is a patriot who seeks the good of his counter; Tilden is an unprincipled politician who seeks his own advancement. The reform of the one is honest and sincere; that of tlie other is a pretense.” * ]jy “Let us take the wind out of the Republican sails by pretending,, between now and the election, to be greater reformers and greater loyalists than they are—in fact, nop over on their side and gobble up their principles—anything, everything to carry Northern States and elect Tilden.” These are the words privately reported to us by a gentleman who is on the inside of the Democratic circle in Washington, as having been urged by a prominent New York Democratic Congressman, who is the special friend of Tilden, at a recent private party caucus. The “Southern outrages” resolution passed to-day by the Confederate House confirms every word our private correspondent wrote us. Let'people beware about now of political confidence-games. —Chicago Joumal. ty As another sample of Southern politics we clip the following item from a recent number of the Montgomery (Ala.) State Journal: “About half-past nine o’clock last night, while the Republican mass-meeting was in progress at the United States Court room, and while a colored man by the name of Charles Pope was speaking, Robert H. Knox, Esq., County Solicitor, came into the room accompanied by twenty-five or thirty white boys, and at once proceeded to break up the meeting by creating a scene of confusion and disorder selaom witnessed in a civilized community. The boys were armed with clubs and sticks, and kept up an incessant banging upon the floor and benches, attended by whoops, yells and shrieks of such a discordant nature that the meeting was at once precipitated into hopeless confusion and disorder. The peace officer of the county thus demonstrated his respect for those who differ from him, and set an example to the young boys who did his work of disorder which may lead them into the Penitentiary.”