Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1876 — POLITICAL ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL ITEMS.

£ir Our advices from New York are that Hayes will carry the Stato by a sweeping majority. Tilden is losing ground steadily.— Cincinnati Gazette. tST “ Hayes is dry—he needs rain,” exclaims an exchange. Yes, and he will have it. It will be a reign of peace and prosperity for four years. — Washing - ton IlepubUean. Hf' The Bt. Louis platform commences every resolution with the declaration that “ Reform is necessary” for this, that and the other tiling. We submit to the indorsers of that platform fhatßeform” is especially “ necessary” on the part of the Democratic candidate for President in the matter of making an honest return of his income for taxation, and Reform is very necessary in his ideas of the wrongfulness of perjury and the sanctity of an oath. —Chicago Tribune. ts~ The Hartford Courant, in noticing the Democratic glorification over the announcement that Gen. McClellan has published a card declaring his devotion to the Democracy and Tilden, says: “This will hardly be surprising, as the little General has been acting with the party ever since he allowed himself to lead it to disastrous defeat in 1864, upon a platform pronouncing the war a failure. The General calls on his old comrades to stand with him once more, and they will respond just as enthusiastically as they did twelve years ago.” CS'The Democrats are vigorously denying that Tilden refused to sign the call for the great Union meeting in New York in 1861. Gen. Dix satisfactorily settles the point in the following letter: Seafield, Fort Hampton, N. Y., July, 1878.—Dear Sir: Yours is received, _ and I hasten to reply to it. Mr. Tidlen did not unite in the call for the great Union meeting in New York after the attack and surrender of Fort Sumter. But he reiused to attend it, though urgently solicited to by one of his own political friends. The meeting was called for the purpose of sustaining the Government, and to provide for sendivg troops to Washington, which was thought to be In danger of an atta k by the Confedcrates. This fact was publicly stated when Mr. Tilden was a candidate for Governor in 1874. I am, dear sir, truly yours, John A. Dix. W. E. Webster, Esq. In response to the call of Abraham Lincoln for volunteers to put down the slaveholders’ rebellion Gov. Hayes enrolled his name, and said: 1 would prefer to go Into the war, if I knew I was to die or be killed in the course of it, rather than live through and after it without taking any pari in it. In the midst of the struggle against treason and rebellion Samuel J. Tilden was applied to by a young man of high character for a recommendation to certain State officers with a view to raising a regiment of volunteer Union soldiers. Mr. Tilden replied: Youne man, you need not come to for any such letter or recommendation. This wa is outrage and I will lend no assistance whatever to its prosecution. There is no equivocation about this reply to the young man who wanted to serve his country. Mr Tilden said flatly: I will render no assistance whatever to the cause of the Union against the Confederacy—not even to the extent of writing a letter. — lnter-Ocean. **' ■'