Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1877 — Not a Wide Difference of Opinion. [ARTICLE]

Not a Wide Difference of Opinion.

•l_ Major Calkins, our worthy congressman from this district has taken an advanced position on political questions, heading Calkins now we ean’t tell whether he has become * good, square democrat or we a rer publican; the thoughts of great minds runuing so nearly in !he same channel. The Major endorses Hayes' southern policy. We did our best to beat Calkins on tlie southern question and it does make us feei happy in defeat to know that, after all, Calkius believes just as we do. lie endorses the president’s efforts to reform himself and the oivil service. So do we. He is opposed to new schemes of subsidies for railways; There’s where we stand. Wa don’t know how our conttressman stands on finances, the most important political question just how, but presume there js nut a wide difference of opinion.-—South Bond Herald. it does Thk Union ever so much good to see these Democratic newspapers coming around all right. It is next thing to,being in a campmeeting or at a temperance revival. There is truly more joy over one of these rspentant sinners than over a full hundred Republicans that went not astray. Oh, tr they will only atick, now, there will be no more tueb imbecile geVertrora as Undo Jimmy Williams in Indian*.—Ed. Union.