Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1876 — BULLDOSING IN JASPER COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

BULLDOSING IN JASPER COUNTY.

Mr. F., &. Donoelly occupies nearly two-thirds of a column in the Remington Record of last week with a complaint of the “political intotteranoe” of th* patrons of school district number 3 of Carpenter township. He chAges that Daniel B.Miller and John C. Miller, of Rensselaer, together with Mr-. Wm. Hubbard who .lives in the district, stirred Up the patrons to hdld an indignation meeting and protest fgainst the employment of a democrat to teach their school. Uhole Felix also further complains that said eohool meeting protested against the action of the township trustee who hid already contracted with him to teach the school, and recommended the employment of

the aforesaid John C. Miller. “The “real objection to me was that I “-am a democrat;” gays Mr. Don* fietty by Way of explanation. This is a serious, political complication which ought to reeeive the immediate attention of Governor Hendricks. Here are three of the most intense and unyielding democrats in Jasper county—Felix 1L Donnelly, Hauiel B. Miller and John C. Miller—engaged in buttdosing one another 1 Three bine-jeans democrats engaged in stirring up the “political intolerance” of a rural school district against each Qf|i*rl The trustee ©ji Carpenter township should telegraph Governor Hendricks at once to detail General Japes B. Ryap y ii)i a regimes of State militia and a battery of Gatling guns lo preserve the cojnity pf these three bulldqsers and prcvffit them inaugurating a system pf “political intolerance,” whatever that term may mean, when competing for employment in thp public sphools pf Jreper pounty,

Before demooratio newspapers hi Indiana commit themselves too far in regard to technical and eleriosi defects In the election returns of states that give republican majorities it would be well for them to ascertain beyond doubt that the demooratio electoral ticket of their own state would be safe in oase it was measured by the gauge they wofeld apply to others. The tally sheets we have seen were far from reaching the standard of perfection established by courts; but we have yet to hear of a republican who is scoundrel enough to attempt to make any trouble by taking Jjttle sneaking advantage of these trifles. In our opinion no man is fit to occupy the presidential office who wonld consent to be chanted in by such means. J --

There is a great deal of breath spent by democratic journals in comments about the length of time it is taking to canvass the election returns of South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. Wonld it not be well for them to devote a little of their surplus energy to urging np the democratic officers of Indiana to make their repoits? and to burry Gen. Lieb, democratic clerk of Cook county, IH.; to publish the returns of the election held in Chicago? and to suggest to the election board-bf New York City that it is about time to close their polls?. It seems to us that it would be well enough, while titey have commenced interfering with the sovereign rights of states, for them to hurry along the returns from the democratic counties of western Florida. .»di' --sail "ir: t niwagßis-aa. The Argus exultingly states that several colored ciUzens voted the democratic ticket in Laporte county at the recent election. When attending the demooratio congressional convention at Michigan City, lust summer, at the invitatjon of the gentlemanly editor of the Argus who ft one of the inspectors of tho northern penitentiary, we visited that penal institution and saw quite a number of colored men in striped uniform who looked aa though they might vote that way. . ... '

Is not the spectacle of prominent democrats rushing down to Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida to interfere with the canvass of emotion returns somewhat anomalous when it is considered what sticklers they pretend to be for the independent sovereignty of the states? What, business 4s it to a democrat of Indiana or Illinois how the people of Louisiana manage their election matters? 0 * tv.r«rg-"VJ»Ji Mr. Tildea voted the democratic ticket, national and state, uascratched; Mr. Cooper voted the democratic state ticket and substituted the names of three democratio electors for three electors on the independent greenback notional ticket; Mr. Hayes did not vote at all. These reports appear to be authentic. ■jj' -i'.. '■■-■jff.' " It was figured out by the democratic managers and newspapers in die early part of the recent presidential campaign, that a president might be elected without the votes of New York and Indiana; but they are terrible 'Wad when they see their prognostications fulfilled-

rui hi, i| .hi i- . 1 »-, ■* Democrats nearly all over the country have ‘jollified over the re* suit of tl;o election. Sgch liberality of feeling If pv.wmendable. We are »f the that Mr, Hayes’ administration will tie supb as to pajisp ihepl no regrets for their joyous demonstrations. Aarou Burr andv Samuel Jopei Tilden are the Cni* men,who have vet attempted to slide into the presidential chair upon tesUpM^ ***** ~u - Show up a m*u who threatene civil war in ease hia candidate is defeated sud we will show you p democrat;

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