Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1876 — CAMPAIGN NOTES. [ARTICLE]

CAMPAIGN NOTES.

XST One term of Tilden would transfer Tammany to Washington City.—Chicago Tribune. jgg- Gov. Tilden is an anti-monopolist. He made war on the railroads as the stork did on the frogs—by eating them up.— Albany (N. T.) Journal. tag” Senator Morton said truly at Indianapolis : “ The Democratic party made the rebellion, and the rebellion made the debt, heavy taxes, greenbacks, and National banks a necessity.” HT A young man named Powers, living in Lucas County, bit himself with a rattlesnake one day last week. The doctor treated the young man by filling him up to the eyes with whisky. It saved his life, but it made the worst Democrat out of him you ever saw. —Burlington HawkEye. 52?' The Albany Journal says New York is a Republican State on a full vote, and produces the figures to prove it. Tilden’s vote when he was elected Governor was 416,391, the largest ever polled for any Democratic ticket in that State. At the same time it was over 30,000 less than the Republican vote for Governor in 1812, when Gen. Dix was elected, and then the full strength of the Republican party was brought out by the excitement and importance of the National campaign. 52T" How Not To Do It. When enemies threaten With musket or list. The way to resist them Is-not to resist. Sound Copperhead doctrine! And so they assume The way to resumption Is—not to resume. As Hendricks and Tilden These doctrines affect. The way to elect them Is—not to elect. —N. V. Tribune.

tg* The London (England) Times says of the Hamburg massacre: “If such an atrocity had been committed in Turkey there would have been cause for indignation rather than surprise. It would have been said that the Mohammedans had been degraded by license, that the Christians had been cowed by servitude, and that the murderers had but practiced inherited precepts of contempt and hatred for a subject people. But the whites of South Carolina are men of our own race and religion, inheriting English laws, and belonging to a nation which, in the main, is as full of respect for life as any community in the world. Yet, unless they have been grossly maligned, they have done a deed as detestable in its atrocity as many of the murders committed by the half-savage Turkish soldiery.” tST The Alabama State Journal explains how Democratic majorities were manufactured in that State at the recent election: “ The policy was, in all the precincts where the Republican vote is overwhelming, not to open the polling places. The Republican voters, by thousands, repaired to the polls on Monday to cast their ballots. Hour after hour passed away, and still the Democratic managers failed to put in an appearance. The returning officers, who had the keys to the boxes, also remained hidden away. Democrats owning houses at the places of polling closed them up and left the scene to prevent such Republicans as understood how to conduct elections from opening any polls. Thus these thousands of humble, peaceable, law-abiding and industrious Republican citizens, they who have tilled this soil and made our bountiful crops, were robbed of the right of casting their ballots in an important State election. And thus were overwhelming Republican majorities overthrown ana Democratic majorities returned therefor."

—The Kentucky meat shower has been rendered thoroughly insignificant by a shower in Dutchess County, N. Y., where it rained wild geese for several minutes. One man—name, unhappily not givenpicked up on his farm all tlie geese that a horse could haul, and is going into the feather bed business. Tbe fall was not quite as mysterious as the Kentucky affair, for the geese were seen when the storm struck &em; but it was much more profitable.

The Boston Advertiter has been figuring up the cost of the Hoosac Tunnel and the Troy and Greenfield Railroad, and makes the total $ 16,732,7W.©4.