Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1877 — Farewell, and If Forever. [ARTICLE]

Farewell, and If Forever.

When the lower house rtf congress voted that Tilden was fairly entitled to the presidential seat by eleven electoral votes, Hon. Win. .waa-.Lke. jjyly. dampin the house who voted against it and by his action cuthimself loose from all claims which placed hint there. Had the question at issue been one- in which filibustering constituted a larger part, then the Hon. Doctor would have been excusable. Butin an hour when the voice of every honest man should have been raised against fraud and cussedness generally, to lend bjs. ballot and influence la favor 6f the originator* of it, aud cast them against liia constituents and principles, was butsighiifg a qhletimoh his future usefulness.— Monticello Democrat. r „„„ ■ A fneeliflg of tho-dircctors of me Indianapolis, Delphi' and Chicagb roftd was held at Delphi on Thursday of last week. The new ..president'John Lee, pr< sided. Iu an address to the board Mr. Lee assured them that if, after a c.ose examination of "the subsidies and trineliises lie found i!>cin to be as represented he mould thencejbith devote Ms-nndivided atieriiuni W the enterprise, and that he would aim toiiudd the division' between Frankf<ul aud Rensselaer Ujis -season. Mr. Lee is a man of known energy and'capacity, and hub been uniformly successful in all his 'p reviomsVentgre*. Tills, added to the fact that the construction of this link is of prime importance to Mr. Lee iij eorunwiion with .itthar/rajlroad enterprise* which lie has in hand, leads to the belief that the, speedy constfrucrtioii df tlr& new ■ road may be depended upon. —/a- I dHtnvjio(i» eouMii. • >» «-, |