Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1876 — The Independent Greenbacks. [ARTICLE]

The Independent Greenbacks.

The President has ordered a consolidation of the collection districts of Indiana and other states. The changes in this state are considerable, the collectors retained being Gen. J. C. Yeatch, Gen. Frank White, Hon. Will Cumbaok and Frederick Baggs.

Col. Russ, late chairman of the independent state central committee is announced as having gone over to tho support of Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks; and also that he wilt vote for Gen. Harrison for governor, believing him to be better qualified than Mj\ Williams.

Arrangements are being made to secure an enumeration of the voters in this state, beginning in January and to be completed and on file with the auditor of state next July. It is required to make an enumeration every six years. It is thought the canvass will show that Indiana is entitled to one more member iu congress than she now has.

The Jasper county greenbackers and dmnocats hare nominated 0. U. Mulntire, of Remington, as their candidate for the legislature. We learn that Mr. Mclntire, is a banker and loatu money at 2| percent, a month. A gushing exponent of the laborer and a fair exnmple of democratic reform. —Fowler Era. That sort of electioneering will do no good to the republicans. Mr. Mclntire is a gentleman, honest, upright, and bears an excellent reputation amolig those who best know him. He is the peer, in all that makes a good citizen or a good member of society, of his republican competitor, and fully as popular with ‘‘the laborer.”

Our very pleasant and astute democratic contemporary at LaPort, the Argus , intimatesthat Union has returned to the republican party and pronounced for Hayes and Wheeler because in Jasper county republicans are more numerous than democrats and have more money. If sycii a consideration is so powerful ought have prevented The Union from leaving the party two years ago? Is the .dnjws willing to be measured by its own gauge ? Does it advocate democracy because tlieie are more democrats than republicans in LaPorto county and because they are wealthier? “For “with what judgement ye judge, ye “shall be judged; and with what “measure ye mete it shall be meas“tired to you again.”

On the 17th instant the independ-ent-greenback party of Indiana met in mass convention at Indianapolis to shore up their platform and patch up their ticket, which they did as follows: Resolved.: That we indorse and reaffirm the platform of the independent party, slate and national. Resolved: That while we recognize in the recent widening of the values of gold and silver, caused by the advance in one and the decline in the other, an added evidence of the imperfections of both metals as standards of value, and one of the strongest arguments yet advanced for the greenback system of finance advocated by the indejtendent party, we denounce the act of 1873, by which the legal-tender silver dollar was dropped from our list of coins, and wo demand its restoration, and thyl its freu coinage should be encouraged to make the government pay its coin obligations, it* silver, us it has the light to under the original contracts, and that the conspiracy of the money kings of the world to increase the value of all bank notes, bonds, mortgages and credits by making thorn payable in gold alone; may be overthrown. This conspiracy adds between three and four hundred millions to the sum of out national debt and $2,500,000,(MX) to the ageregate of all the public and pri-vate-indebtedness of the country—an unbearable burden upon the productive industries of: the land. Resolved: That all values should be taxed equally, including government bonds and greenbacks. Resolved: That we have no faith in the professions of reform which come on the one hand from th* corporation thief and railroad wrecker, representing the old Tammany regime of New York, and on the other hand from the organization which in tho national convention has indorsed tbo entire administration of President{lrani, not excepting ihe stealings, and that no confidence can be placed ip the oh} political parties which have been steeped In corruption and complicated with dishonesty. —*— The nominations were ae follows: Elector at large—T.B. Buchanan, of Marion county. Elector for Hull district.—Wm. J. Howe, of Wayne county.

Elector for'sixth district.—Samuel Orr, of Delaware county. Elector for eleventh district.—S. B. Martindale, «of Tipton county. Secretary of state. —Allen W. Monroe* of Floyd county. Beporter of the supreme court. In regard to the vacancies iu the supreme court they passed the following resolution: Resolved: That the ticket for judge of the supreme court for the first and fourth districts l>e filled by tho state central committee, and that they bo authorized to fill any vacancies that may occur between now nnd the election.