Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1876 — THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

Ou th« Bth day jof next .month the democracy of Indiana will hold a special convention at Indianapolis, to go into a committee ot the whole upon the condition of the ► country. George W. Julian, Esq., will be present, as spokesman-in-chief to relate his experience with the “negro wenches” in Lousiana on behalf of “reform” and for a “change.” It is presumed that resolutions will be adopted declaring the election of Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks, and their steadfast determination to see them inaugurated as president and vice president, even at the bloody sacrifice of all their wives’ male relatives, or the cost of a royal jotiriaey to Canada. They will probably make a great many very unpretty faces at President Grant becaSee of his sending troops to v xrioti» parts of the country, inobedience to an act or resolution of the present democratic con. greas, to enforce the observance of iaw and to prevent bloodshed. It ia anticipated that they will denounce ■•riteffiMffi<bßSlSliiiiirihiiii of South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida, which were sanctioned by the laws and precedents of those states, and applaud the act of Gov. Grover of Oregon in refusing a certificate of election to a gentleman who had received an unquestioned majority of the lawful votes cast at a lawful and peaceful election, and giving said certificate to the man who was defeated at the polls. In brief the democracy of Indiana are called together at the suggestion of Mr. Julian to condemn things that have been done under the sanction of law, and to endorse those which are revolutionary and' in flagrant violation not only of law but also of the essence ot a government of the people. It remains to be seen whether such pestilent demagogues who are seen conspicuously in the front rank of whichever party is for the time apparently in public favor are to dictate the policy of the democratic party, or whether it will be governed by the wiser counsel of the conservative, conscientious and steadfast element. In the democratic party are many good, honest, patriotic, men, who are democrats from a sincere conviction that its principles if honestly applied iu the administration of the government would result in a greater measure of national and individual prosperity; there is no danger to be feared from these men, and no serious calamity to the body politic need be anticipated while their counsel prevails. Bat it is when the unscra. puloas elements direct popular sentiment that existing forms of government and the peace of society are threatened.

Mr. Hewitt’s recently promulgated announcement that Mr. Tilden was elected president strikingly illustrates the fact that ignorance of passing events is not confined to those who dwell in obscurity. Mr. Hewitt is a member of the lower bouse of congress, and for this reason ought to be better informed on matters that interest the country. Had he but asked Mr. Chandler, whom no doubt he meets nearly •very day, or had he employed a news-boy tp read a republican

ntffiepaper to him, be might have sjftred his party friends a vast deal oMbumiliation. Mr. Hayes wee elilted president, having received • of the electoral voles. Kiny of the naughty partisan newspapers are telling that Mr. Tdden.one of the two distinguished New York gentlemen who were defeated for the presidency at the last election, has taken to hard drinking, and begins to show alarming evidences of insanity. These reports are cruel. It ought to be victory enough to defeat a man’s political aspirations, without fol* kfjring up his disaster with reports about his personal habits and confit that are calculated to add to the poignancy of his disappointment. Mr. Donnelly did not, appear before the grand jury to sustain bis published statement that a certain rdM|blican of Rensselaer had corrflked “needy and, thirsty demoto vote for Hayes and “Wheeler.” It is firir to presume -fIK this venerable gentleman in nfijking his charge sacrificed honor Mg veracity to zeal tor **a change” “reform.” ■ .no zealous did the democracy of become in their efforts to promote the cherished cause of pombal reformation, that they even the throat of a year-old negro bgby, as it lay in its mother’s arms, its father was a republican. good way to come out even you bet on elections and find tgat the other candidate has been sgtaessfal, is to declare all bets ofi. This is a new rale introduced for a change in the interest of reform. Monday is Christmaffi The tJinojf extends greetings to all its jgtrons and wishes them a merry