Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1877 — The Trade-and-Diacker Party. [ARTICLE]

The Trade-and-Diacker Party.

<b* /ems'J has repeatedly that the managers of the independent movement ia this state, and in thi« oky partieularly, were Vine It limply to advance their own interests and thos* of the daywwretU party- We have said there wae >o political principle among the leader* of the movement, and that those who constituted its rank and Ila. the followers, were ■imply Awing used to trade upot. If swe are still left in the state any honest and deluded greenback .rapablicans wo appeal to them to say -jnthelight of current events if these charges are not true. W e ask thorn to oast their minds back over the history of the independent movement and *ae if it has not been characterised, on the part of its leaders, by an utter lack of manly principle and a readiness at all times to strike hands with the democracy ia order to advance the personal fortunes of a few noisy professors of honesty and reform. Wo have warned greenback repult* licano over and over again that they were being misled in this matter, and a plaything of by the independent *nd democratic leaders. We have told them that the movement was not sincere, that it was not founded on any enduring principle, and that it was merely being used by a few selfish tricksters to injure the republican party and advance their own political fortunes. Again we ask in the light of curpent event* if thia is not true! There has not been an election in this state during the last two years, either legislative or popular, tbqt the leader* of the independent pavement have not played it just a gambler plays a tramp cardio jyip stake*, At no time have they given the slightest evidence pf possessing political convictions, principles or honor. Ou the contrary, at all times and under all circumstances, they have evinced not only a readiness but an eagerness to barter the worthless trumppry which they called their “principles'* for money or for place. Sometimes the demand came in the shape of impport lor a sinking paperj sometimes for funds to disseminate “the principles of the cause;" sometimes tor the empty honor of a nomination or an appointment for one of the managing cabal; but in whatever shape it came it has always been characterised by th* same lack of political convictions, ths same readiness to betray ail professions, and the same controlling grep4 on the part of those who ran the machine. They were always in the market, ostensibly for yale to the highest bidder, but always making their own advancement an indispensable condition of the trade. In order to increase their trading facilities and exaggerate their own importance they paye *t >ll times greatly exaggerated the estent of their following and have boasted in the' most open and shameless manner of their ability to transfer the whole party to whoever would pay their price. Two years ago this price was the election of the head of the central junto to th* United States senate, and was insisted upon with a pertinacity which, at thia distance of (time appear* supremely ridiculous. sf he peyt year the leaders fbnped > coalition with the democrats to nominate Frank Landers for governor, with the understanding that the Big Cliief waa to be sent to congress. And pojr they sell out the poor rem pant of the party, a “job lot” as if were, with their principle* tbyowp ip, for a piddling office in the ptate sepate for the orother of the Big Chief And thus the independent party fr pulled and hauled about like a mple by it* baiter, or a bull wjtb A riiig in its nose, and c M ried off to highest bidder as the whims or necessities pf the self-assumed leader* require. Jf there pre puy honest men left in the party of those who followed its ill-starred fortunes in October and November, W e ask them )iow they like this thing of being constantly sold outbya little clique pf greedy tricksters, and if they do pot feel exceedingly mean when they contemplate the paltry consideration of th* trad* just now consummated!—ltdianopolit Journal.