Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1877 — Sublime Indifference. [ARTICLE]

Sublime Indifference.

February 24th gold ranged in the New York market at 105 and 1051. Major Calkins, representative elect of thia district to the noxt congress, is in Washington spectating the course of events. Twelve states have adopted laws making education compulsory. . That is the death knell of the democratic party in those states. Democrats are not famous for the dttucation of their masses, but most all of them have probably learned that eight is one more than seven. Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio will be inaugurated president of the United States on next Monday. He will be the nineteenth one on the roll. All is fish that comes to Hayes’ net, nnd One hundred and eighty-five to one hundred and eighty.four, or eight (o seven, gives the same result. One majority elects in either case. Senator Major not long since introduced a bill in the state senate reconfa mending an appropriation to build a state house. The legislature refused to do anything about it this session. If the rate of taxation is increased iu Indiana this Winter letit be remembered that Mr. Henderson the democratic auditor of state, has rec&mniended it and that Hon.. James D. Williams is governor. According to the democratic theory all persons yiho remove from the places of their birth and accept public office whether elective or appointed are carpetbaggers, mid all carpet-baggers are thieves or scoundrels, or both. Representative Haymond of«our dittrict, and Carr of one of the Indiana southern districts, were two democratic members' of congress who rose above partisanship and voted against filibustering to delay the counting of presidential votes. All honor to them, for this course. At the joint session of the state legislature last week to elect officers for the several penal and benevolent institutions of Indiana, Senator Major and Representative Claypool voted altogether fora ticket of their own nomination. Of course none of their candidates were elected. If the law which established the board of arbitration to decide disputes arising from the counting of the electoral votes was right and good enough for republicans to submit to while the result was uncertain, it is right and good enough for democrats to submit to now that its decisions are known.

What ails the democracy just now is that the/ dug a pit fur their republican brethren and then tried to jump over it by two leaps which had-been called Louisiana and Oregon. Perhaps when they recover from the effects of the fall they may be a great deal wiser, but their clothes will never be so handsome again. It is remarked by y>e Prairie Farmer, which is a non-political journal, that “there is considerable talk and some writing done which has at least a treasonable or revolutionary tinge” over the counting of the electoral vote. This observation has no allusion to anything that has been said or written by republicans. People of Rensselaer wilt remember Marvin 11. Bovee as one of a trio of gentlemen who made public speeches here one day last fall iu the interests of Tilden and reform. Most Of them have probably heard of him in connection with the auti-capital punishment movement. tie has recently been lecturing in Laporte, Elkhart and other counties iu the northern part of this state, and acting very inconsistently for a reformer. Letters published iu the daily press show him to be a dead beat of the first water —borrowing money on fake pretenses of every one who was foolish enough to be deceived by him. About the only imp region he made on people: over here last that of disgust j

Hon. W. S. Haymortd, representative in congress from this district, recently delivered & speech in that body urging the iuiporthnco of the Chicago and South Atlantic railroad route as a measure of internal improvement worthy of national consideration and aid. There is no prospect of congress making any kind of an appropriation to assist it. From the manner of David Dudley Field, Speaker Randall, and other democratic members of congress, iu attempting to filibuster and prevent the counting of the electoral votes that remain unopened it is evident that they have fallen in love with Mr. Tildente ofl-set-up plea of the statute of limitation. But Uncle Samuel can’t steal the presidency by any such process however successful it may have been to rob railroad corporations poor. It is an axiom of law that no person shall benefit by his own wrong; yet the democratic party feel terribly mad because the wrong attempted by JJr- Tildeu in Oregon did not inure to his advantage. Mr. Tilden attempted to cheat the people of Oregon out of an electoral vote and throw the election of president into the house of representatives where he would be sure of a majority, and seven members of the arbitrating commission two of whom were justices of the supreme court, voted to violate the axiom of justice as well as |he laws of a state.' This is the narrowest kind of partisan bigotry. Scribners Magazine for March contains the following sensible suggestions to parents in regard to providing amusements for their boys: The young who are brimming with animal life, and who fail to exhaust it in study, call for active amusements, and they must have them. And here the parent is in danger of making a great mistake, Unless a boy is a milksop he must do something or die. If he cannot do something in his homC.xir lit tire houses of his companions, iiefa ill do something elsewhere. Ibis only within a few years that parents have begaw to be sensible upon the matter. The-bill-iard table, which a few years ago was only associated with dissipation, now has an honored place and the largest room, in every rich man’s house. The .eard-tuble. that once was a synonym of wickedness, is a part of the rich man’s furniture which his children may use at wiij, In the pursuit of a harmless game. A good many manufactured sins have been dethroned from their fictitious life and eminence, and put to beneficient family service on behalf of the young. Athleticsports, such as skating, boatings shooting, ball-playing, running and leaping, have sprung into great prominence within the past few years —amusements of just the character for working off the excessive vitality of young men, and developing their physical powpr. This is .all well—-a reform in the right direction. Much of this is done before the public eye, and in the presence of young women, which helps to restrain all tendencies to excesses and to dissipation.

Thank God it is not our funeral this time I We followed Old Peter to the political cemetery last November when the mourners were so few that we had to do more than onr share of the weeping. So while the republicans are celebrating an apotheosis of fraud, and the democrats are mourning oyer the defeat of two hundred and thirtyeight thousand majority of the pooular vote by a minority, we propose io keep as serene as a summer morning, and Let the mad world wag as-it will, We'll be gay ahd happy still. —Kentland Frees. The Oiegon decision brings more than defeat to the > unsuccessful candidate for the presidency; it brings disgrace as web. By a unanimous vine the tribunal set the aeal of its condemnation upon the infamous attempt to subvert the popular will, and by means of bribery and fraud to seour»> an electoral vote to which Mr. Tilden well knew he was not entitled. By a unanimous vote the five justices and ten senators and representatives decided to reject the vote of the democratic pretender whose election was falsely and fraudulently certified to by a democratic governor pursuant to instructions from democratic headquarters, and by ther aid ol the corruption fond contributed, as is very generally believed, out of the coffers of the democratic candidate for the presidency.— Chicago Tribune. I n ■■■■ .in io i ■"* ■■■■4 Eight will now supersede seven as the numerical favorite of fate.—• N.Y.QrofiM.