Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1876 — FALSE PRETENSES. [ARTICLE]

FALSE PRETENSES.

If there ia one matter of a political nature more firmly fixed than knottier in unr mind it ia that- the real, aimon pure independentgreenback advocate ia honettin hia ideas and endeavors. He wants to see Mr. Peter Cooper electtd because he is an honeat, benevolent old gentleman, who acorns to be actuated by the purest, moat unself ish, and patriotic motives. These gentlemen desire a change in the administration of the government because they hope such a change will relieve the country of the financial depression everywhere

felt by the industrial classes. This is a worthy motive and a praiseworthy desire. It is not our purpose to enter upon a discussion of the merits of their system—neither to point oat its weakness or its impracticability. But this is what they should bear in mind, when the Voorheeses, and Buskirks, and other democratic orators and office-seekers come about the coun try claiming their friendship for the democracy because of the St. Louis resolution demanding the repeal of the resumption act, viz: It denounces ouly one clause of the act—the one fixing the time for resumption —thus by implication, at least, leaving all the rest to stand as unquestionable. What is the natural construction to be placed upon this? Mr. Cary, who is the greenback candidate for vice president, answers that “the democratic “party wants resumption earlier “than 1879.” Mr. Cary further charges that this resolution “palters “with the question of which it “treats. It commits the party to “reduction of greenbacks and per“petlisten the national bank system, “leaves the secretary of the treasury perhaps with the power to “issue gold interest-bearing bonds, “and lock up gold awaiting the day “of resumption, a policy to which “the Western democracy are almost “unanimously opposed.” In this, as well as in all other subjects ot which they treat, the democracy is a party of false pretenses. They neither favor soft currency nor reform. Ail they are struggling for is ofhee, place, and power; and the only real issue between them and republicans is based upon the first plank in the republican platform—whether this is a government of the people, or a confederation of states. It is the same question which laid at the foundation in 1860-4; and which the high priest of rebellion prophesied would ultimately be secured at the ballot-box though lost to them on the battlefield.

Two years ago M:tjor Calkins received 115 majority in Jasper county as the republican candidate for congress. The prospect now indicates that his majority will be more than doubled this year; and nobody need be surprised if it should be even three times as great. The fact i* that we. do not know of a single person in the county who voted for him two yea rS ago that does not intend to vote for him in October, while in Marion township alone not less than fifty persons who voted against him then have declared to us their intention of reversing their action of two years ago alt the coming election. If Major Calkins does as well proportionately in other counties as there is now reasonable prospect of his doing in Jasper he will be elected to represent the 10th district in congress hy at least 2,000 majority. 1

Mr. J. Q. A. Newsome, candidate for state auditor on the independ-ent-greenback ticket, was posted to speak in the court house on Monday evening of this week, but did not come. The Indianapolis Sun, state organ of that party, complains that the non-fulfillment of appointments has become a general habit of these independent speakers, and criticises them unsparingly for it; but there is not mad),incentive for men to spend money traveling and weary themselves with the arduous labor of public speaking when they hare no possible chanee of success. It is tbonglit by gentlemen competent to estimate that the third party rote in Indiana this year will not

amount to an average of 100 per oounty. There is not likely to be 10,000 votes polled for their state tioket. V The eleotion in Maine on Monday last resulted in a splendid viotory for the republicans. They made a clean sweep of congressmen, electing a solid delegation, and also electing their governor, by a mamajority of at least 12,000; a net gain over their majority last year of over 8,000.