Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1876 — TO REPUBLICAN INDEPENDENTS. [ARTICLE]

TO REPUBLICAN INDEPENDENTS.

The democracy of this county are no fools. They understand the political aitnation just an well as their republican neighbors and a trifle better than their independent dupes. They recognize that the issue to be decided by the Atneri can people is that which agitated them as the throes of an earthquake from 1860 to 1865, and many boldly affirm it. It has been no unfre quent occurrence for the more out spoken, frank and manly of these Jasper county democrats to say since the campaign waxed warm, that this was a struggle for the supremacy of the doctrine of state sovereignty. Not more than three weeks have passed since an intelligent thinking democrat remarked that the republican party deserved defeat upon the first proposition of their platform, which is as follows: The United States of America is a nation, not a league. By the combined workings of the national and state governments, under tbur respective constitutions, the rights of ev< ry citizen are secured at home and protected abroad, and the common welfare promoted. “No bolder announcemerU of this “infamous doctrine,” said he, “has “been made since the day of John “Hancock.”

Not only do they speak with frankness that is sweetly refreshing regarding the cardinal dogmas of their partv, but they also publicly and notoriously assign to their proper position in the democratic zanks the dupes whom their false pretenses of reform have seduced from the republican fold. To illustrate this fact we cal,l the attention of the independent-greenback voters of Jasper county to- the position that has been assigned litem. Look at the ticket and see hoW you are represented. Vote for a democrat for congress, a democrat for the legislature, and you are complimented with the honor of a representation upon a. county ticket which every intelligent and moderately informed democrat concedes will be disastrously beaten. They assign to these greenback dupes whom their sham pretentions of relorin have seduced from the party of their early love, a place in the public demonstrations and on their show bills according to their rank. Take for an illustration of this the bills advertising the meeting of Hon. Geo. W. Julian and others which is to be held at this place to-day. It reads “Democratic and independent grand rally,” and is illustrated with a spread eagle bearing a streamer in its beak on which is inscribed the names of Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks; and flanking the eagle on either side are the portraits of the democratic candidates for president and vice president, over which shadow the eagle's wings as in a benediction. It is perfectly proper that the independents should have a place on these posters as the tail piece of thb democratic dog; and it is also proper that Mr. Tilden and Mr. Hendricks are represented as the independents' candidates; because the dog is master of hie tail, and wags it to suit his own dear interest. Every man who has been a republican because he sincerely party which preserved the nation from destruction were better calculated to promote the welfare of mankind than the principles of the party which sought to compass the destraction of our government —the government of the people—who is how persuaded to vote for Cooper, practically gives half a vote to undo that which was accomplished by the mighty struggle of four long years of bloody strife wherein more than tour hundred thousand patriots yielded up their lives as a sacrifice to their lore of country. Republican independents Can you afford to hazard the results which were bought at so dear a cost for the questionable honor of a back seat in the sseemi blies of the party of Ujeason, strajr agem and spoil?