Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1876 — MAOR WILLIAM H. CALKINS. [ARTICLE]

MAOR WILLIAM H. CALKINS.

-fire district which was once repJ 2 m tj-ltitirun a Sun m *SL*lanuws wMNMruMru 111 COl»x«vfs vj * ajvwuyrur iCnltax nnd which furnished the «K>UII«A| BUM W* MBBJsa twi'winuvu vecv (nation with a republican vice 'tof'esi&nC'Aa now 1 represented by «. a democrat. Hundreds of republic an voters assisted io compact the defeat of the party of their choice and early love. We •awoorrupt men had crept into pevrer and honorable position, and ftk they should be rebuked. The pasty deserved a lesson from the people. It needed to bo reminded that it could be the exponent of wirtue only while it was pure. <Grevtous was the provocation, swift. Its punishment. But not more swift was the humbling of its pride before the censure of the people. Salary-grabbing was made odious, and the grand old party which had boldly defended the nation's honor and preserved its existcnee when assaulted by the grimvisiged giant of dvtl war, which had triumphantly borne down and crushed out armed rebellion, which had destroyed chaos and set order in crowned glory upon the vacant throne—this great party bumbled itself in the duet, an a weeping penitent, before the censures of a wirtuons and indignant people. Not a word of justification nor a syllable in palliation has the republican party even spoken for wrong or fraud. Never did a republican convention adopt a resolution that endorsed a wrong act of one of its members; but many have been the reproaches and resolutions of condemnation that its conventions have spoken. Where revenue frauds have been discovered, the official guilty of their perpetration has been promptly removed and summarily punished. Was a whiskey ring discovered its members were relentlessly prosecuted, and, when found guilty, fined and imprisoned.' Where, in tho history of this or any other government, has there existed an administration which so vigorously prosecuted professors of its own political ereed, or so severely punished them when detected in crime, aa tho administration of President Grant prosecuted and 'punished counterfeiters, dofaulting paymasters and manufacturers of crooked whiskey? Go ■to the Missouri penitentiary and ask Gen. McDonald, CoL Joyce and Chief Clerk Avery how many parallel instances they have found in all their reading. The republican party is the great reform party of the age. It ’■efornaed the condition of the country when convulsed with civil strife, and restored peace where there was war.Jjt reformed ten millions of rebels and compelled their obedience to rightfol government. It reformed four millions of slaves and made freemen of them. It reformed the constitutions of sixteen slave states and gave them a republican form of government. It reformed the vast uninhabited -wilds of the for West, by fostering the building of immense lines of railroad, put them in a eonditioa to be inhabited by civilised people, and compelled those unproductive

•ncres to contribute to the prosperity of the nation, and bear tbeir proper* Item of its hardens. The republican patty has reformed the democratic parly by keeping it out of power until in a national convention it published to the world its acceptance and hearty endorsement of ail that it had opposed in legislation for the elevation of the slave. The republican psriy has reformed the democratic party by keeping it out of power until in a national, eon ventinn it published to the world its acceptance in sincerity and hear|y endorsement of the amendments to die constitution which establish the equal civil and political rights of all men of whatever race, odor or previous social condition, in thia government. Tito republican party has reformed thefnancial theory of this government and provided a paper currency which is sound, whicit is Stable, which is convenient, and which is of nearly equal value with gold and of greater purchasing power than silver. The republican party hai reformed itself and presents hot eat men arid capable w its candidates for official position. ilajor .William JI. Paljtips, of

La Porte, should be elected to repcause he is a member of this party. Ho should be elected because he is its candidate. He should boelected because he is an exponent of its fundamental doctrines. He should be elected because he is in foil sympathy with them. He should be elected because he gallantly fought to preserve the integrity, the honor, and the life of thia great nation. Ho should be elected because he holds no political connection with those who have attempted to destroy the nation. He should bo elected because he is the poor man's friend. He should be elected because he is in favor of civil service reform. He should be elected because he is opposed to the payment of the claims of those who were rebels for property destroyed by Union armies while engaged in suppressing armed rebellion. He should be elected because he is in favor of an economical public policy. He should be elected because he is in favor of the rigid reduction of national expenses. He should be elected because he is a friend of the free school system. He should be elected because he is opposed to refunding the cotton tax, in whole or in part, levied and collected from 1863 to 1868, and amounting to $68,072,388. He should be elected because he is in favor of the faithful payment of the public debt. He should be elected because he is in favor of the payment of the public debt at the earliest practicable hour. He should be elected because he is the friend of citizens of foreign birth. He should be elected because he is in favor of protecting the rights of these eitisens in foreign lands the same as though they were natives of the United States. He shonld be elected because be is opposed to land grants to companies or monopolies. He should be elected because he is in favor of exterminating the barbarous custom of polygamy in the territories of the United States. He should be elected because he is in favor of affording sufficient safeguards for the protection of our frontiersmen from depredations by Indians and armed bodies of thieving Mexicans. He shonld be elected because ho is opposed to the late disloyal people of the South ‘gaining at the ballot box what they risked on the battlefield and lost. He should be elected because he is a capable man. He should be elected because he is an honorable man. He should be elected because he believes that the United States of America is a nation, and not a league. Every republican should vote for him because he is a republican. Every democrat should vote for him because be is a patriot. Every man who was a Union soldier should vote for him because he was a soldier too. Every independent-green-back advocate should vote for him because he is in favor of the repeal of the resumption act, and the remonetisation of silver. Everybody should vote for him because be is competent, honest, trustworthy and safe. Let no republican scratch his name from the ticket on election day, drat vote tor him, work for him, and give him not only the full party vote in Jasper county but strive to Increase it to a larger majority than was ever oast here for a congressional candidate.