Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1877 — Page 1

• tw»— a. IAXM M**v o. HORACE E. J4.MEO A CO. Publishers and Proprietor* of THE RENSSELAER UNION, KKXBBBLAEH, J AHPKR COVXTT, ISO. One eopv one veer, *1; six months, to cento; three months, (thirteen weeks).Mounts, ulmy caoh lit adniHM. Single copy,« eento; two collie*, 5 cents; more than two ooplea, 2 cents cueh. -ZEa.'O-ortlßlM.g- BciM»a-u.l«--S<M! <)1<1»aito corner oC-thta-iMKO fur twin* mid price of Advertising In this m)"*i>n|>cr. Tots A large assortment of t»ne and other material for moder, pamphlet, circular and kindred work. Prices low.

RENSSELAER BUSINESS CARDS. Dr. g. a. moss, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Spitler'* brick building, op posit* Court House. DR. J. H. LOUGHRIDGE. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Washington street, below Austin's hotel. DR. MOSES B. ALIER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office iu Harding & Wlllcv’s drug store. r. r. y. martin; ———— PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office on Washington street, one door above Stone Building. DB. A. I- HAMAH Announce* that he designs to make Rensselaer his permanent home. Ills professional services arc offered the public with a lm|>e that no years experience may render him idde to give satisfaction to all who favor him witli patronage. Special attention given toclironie.dlseas*‘s. Is permitted to refer to all who nre iicqinilntcd with'hiin. Resilience with Mrs. Crockett, near Judge Hammond's. Oilier opposite court house. MF. CHILCOTE? . ATTORNEY, AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Office ou Washington street, opposite the Court House square. 81M0N P. THOMPHOX, HAVtli J. THOMPSON. Attorney nt Law. Notary Public. Thompson a bro., rensselaer, Indiana. Practice in all the Courts. We pay particular attention to paying taxes, selling and leasing lands. Makion L. Spitlkk, Collector and Abstracter. 11. a. Dwiooixa. zi.mbi pwiggins. RS. 4 Z. D WIGGINS, « ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND LOAN BROKERS. “ SIOO,OOO to loan on first mortgage, on live years time at U per cent, intereat, iu sums of £lo<) or over. I'ivBANK W? BABtxicKT 1 ATTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Publie, Real Estate Broker and Insurance Agent, Rensselaer. Indiana. Lands examlueo. Abstracts of Title prepared and Taxes paid. Collections a specialty. Office in Spitler’s brick building, opposite Court House. 8-4l>-ly. XOTAHm'BUC. COLLECTOR. Daniel b. miller, » ATTORNEY AT LAW. Ditch aud road petitions and reports careful iy prepaced; titles examined; abstracts prepared; nil collections promptly attended 10. Office in Bed font A Jackson’s building, up-stairs. 9-47 A' McCOY & THOMPSON, • BANKERS. Buy and sell domestic exchange, make col lection* on all available points, pay inter- I •st on tpecifiad time deposits, etc. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p. 111. Austin house, A. W. CLEVELAND, PnoraiETOß. Is centrally located, large and conveniently arranged, and no pains will lie spared to make guests comfortable and happy. The table will always be supplied with the'best the market all'ords. Charges reasonable. 9-42-ly. Hopkins house. ~~ r.j.hofkins, proprietor. Excellent tuble, convenient location, careful attention to wants of guests, and experienced management are its reemmeudutious to popular favor. NR. BOWMAN. . TAILOR. Cutting done to order in latest styles, '('barges reasonable. Shop north side of Washington street. In Leo]>old’s Stone Building. CT ZIMMERMAN, d • FASHIONABLE TAILOR. Garments made in latest styles. Cutting a specialty, and satisfaction gu'arantced. Shop on Washington street, one door below bank. C~IIABLES I’. HO>’KlNS~bcgs leave tofnform the piililic that he is now prepared to do house painting, paper hanging, caleimining, ' etc., at prices beyond competition, tan be found at his place, on Front street, known Its the Freeman property. 9-29-ly. WELLS.— ARTESIAN AND DRIVEN.. JAMES W. POUTER. The only water wizzard who insures living ■Water and backs up ids insurance by work. No water no pay. Insures an ample supply of water In all his wells for one year. #‘-21. SAMP ERWIN, BLACKSMITH. New brick shop. Front street, above the old saw mill. Also, in connection, a VI/OOD SHOP “I where all kind* of wood work repairing will be done to order. Pi ices below competition. S~HIF DLER ROBERTS, BLACKSMITHS. At Warner’s old ttaad on Front street. Horseshoeing, machine repairing, carriage ironing, etc., done usatly and cheaply. ESLIE GRANT, BLACKSMITH. Shop ou Front street, next door above the ntage office, at Duvall & Goft ’s old *luud. Patronage solicited.

Pitfcft M & St Louis R’y. rovte." Condensed Time Card-Columbus and State Line Division. May 13t±L, IS7S. GOING EAST. No. 1. "No. 5. . Lve. State Line + 4.40 p. in. + (1.80 a. iu. Ait. Logansport ... 5.25 “ «.1£ “ Lve. “ *12.55 a. in. f 9.25 “ Arr. M irion. 2.83 “ 11.37 “ “ Hurt font 3.17 “ 11.30 “ Ridgeville 4.10 “ 12.40 p.m. “ Union Citv. 5.05 “ 1.10 “ “ Bradford‘Junction 0.00 “ 2.00 “ “ Piqua 0.25 “ 2.51 “ “ Urbana 10.33 “ 4.02 “ “ Columbus . 12.35 p. in. U. 10 “ GOING WEST. No. 0. No. 8. Lve. Columbus * 0.80 a. in. + 5.40 p. in. Arr. Urbana 8.04 “ 7.40 “ “ Piqua 0.02 “ 0.02 “ “ Bradford Junction.* 0.25 “ f 0.30 “ “ Union Citv 10.25 “ 10.43 “ “ Ridgeville 10.68 “ 11.20 “ “ Hartford 11.50 “ 12.85 a. m. “ Marion 12.40 p. in. 1.20 “ “ Logansport 2.30 “ 8.00 . “ “ State Line... 10.40 “ 0.00 “ Richmond and Chicago Division. GOING NOBTU. . No. 2. No. 10. Lve. Cincinnati + 7.30 a. in “ Richmond .F,:. fIO.BO “ Arr. Hagerstown 11.33 r“ “ Newcastle 12.05 p. ni. “ Anderson. 1.20 “ ... F ' “ Kokomo 3.00 “ *2.15n. ni. “ Logansport 4.00 “ 8.05 “ “ Chicago. 8.30 “ 7.50 “ GOING sOI'TU. No. 1. No. 7. I.ve. Clilcugo • 8.20p.m. + 0.00 a. in. cArr. Logansport 12.45a.in. 1.40 p.qp. “ Kokom.V ! 1.50 “ 3.00. “ “ Anderson 4.37 “ “ New Castle 5.35 “ “ Hagerstown 0.06 “ “ Richmond 0.55 4 ‘ u Cincinnati 11.50 “ *l>ully. +Dnilv except Sunday. Trains do not atop where tfmc is omitted. W. L. O’BRIEN, Cea'l Puna. & Ticket Agent, “ Columbus, Ohio

ArtWWj’ md easily earned in those times, but V 1 // ’’ n in dein three niofiWO by any will <mo '** oitiier sex, in anv part of the T " " • country who is willing to work steadily at the employment that we furnish. *«oa week in your own town. You need not be »wav from home over night. You oan give vour Whole Mme to the. work, or only vour apnre moments. Wo have agents who lire making over 420 per day. . AU who engage at once cun make money fast. At the present time money rnnnot be made ho easily and rapidly nt anv other kiwi of busincsH. It coats nothing to tr’v Uie business. Terma ami |5 Outfit free. Address at once, H. Hallett & Co., Portland. .iMnlue. ; 9-44-y

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

VOLUME 9.

bl NTT A LKER BOOTS” are best; the best m e vv cheapest; Leopold sells the Ik's! mid the cheapest boot offered in this market; for lie sells the genuine, no humbug, “Walker Boots.” INSPECT the “Walker Boots;” they will bear inspection and stand service. They nuiy be seen and ismght at Ixinpold's, in Rensselaer. NONE better than the ‘■Wai.kkk Boot,” is the Invariable verdict of those who apply the test of use. A. Leopold sells this Justly popular boot. Call and examine them. A good Ixuit is cheaper In the end than n poor one, oven though the cost at llrst is more; the ‘’Walker Boot”!* not only a good boot, but it is also a cheap boot. A. Leopold sells the genuine, llrst-clas* Walker Boot. 0-48-am DON’T be deceived; the “Walker Boot” is not excelled in quality of stock,perfection of finish, duralrtlity, or cheapness, by any make offered in this nmrkot. Leopold sells tlie genuine tlrst-cluss “Walker Boot.” 9-4»->hn VTOU want n pair of good boots, ch? Tlicbpit I lire tiie “Walker Boots.” Leopold Sfllli ttiom in Rensselaer. 1-eopotd keeps tlie Brown Stone Store. The “Walker” is a cheap boot. For the Fall Trade of 1377. A. LEOPOLD ■Utt> - > Leads Competitors As Usual, with the LARGEST, BEST AND CHEAPEST STOCK W DRY GOODS. Hats,Caps,Boots, Shoes. OLOTKIITG-, Men’s and Womeu’sFimiisflingGooflSj TAILORS’ PIECE COODS, CJLKFETS, ZEVCTG-S, Blankets, Coverlids, &c., &c. Everything considered this is probhbly the most attractive stuck ever offered to tlie inspection of tlie ptople who trade in Rensselaer. It is largo, it is choice, it was carefully selected, there are no culls or refuse articles, but all is first-class, and each the best of its kind, and will bear the tests of closest scrutiny, tlie strongest light, and actual use. Ladies are probaldy the most careful examiners of dry goods of'a merchant's patrons, mid tlie quickest to detect a Haw; we extend special invitation to the ladies to call and inspect our <■ $■ t DRESS GOODS, ? $ * which are ii of excelled bv the stock of any other house in the county, either in variety, quality, beauty of patterns' or cheapness. As a .specimen of our prices in this department, we announce .7 221 Prints for 7 cents a Yard! Probably we keep the most extensive stock of Iswits ami shoes in the county. They run through many grades from tine to coarse, and include those'worn by men, women, Ixiys. misses, children and infants. As a specialty it gives.us pleasure to call attention to the * WALKER BOOT, Than which there is not a better offered to the American public. It has a national; reputation. and justly, too, because it is an holiest boot. None but the very best stock is used in its make, great care is taken with its manufacture, amt it lias no superiors. Those who buy the “Walker Boot’’ always get the full worth of their money. They got the best, and the lK‘st is always the most economical, always the most durable, alwa\s the cbmqwsU ■ I CLOTHING. ’“T Wo have the largest stock of goods in Ibis department to be found in tlie county, our long experience in handling tills line of goods enables us to select with prudence, gives uu great advantages in the markets, and guarantees us in making all our warrants. None can compete with our men's and boys’ ready-made clothing. The stock wo carry is’ very lin go for country merchants. In it'nmy be'foumi something to suit tlie taste of almost every person, old or young, rich or poor. Call and'inspect it and learn prices of articles before buviug elsewhere. TAILORS’ SUPPLIES, Including n superior selection of Cloths. Cassinieres. Leavers, and tlie finest uualitv of Trimmings to match. Jtr. N. K. BOWMIN. a Cutter mid 'l'ailor of many years’ experience, will be present io take orders for cutting if desired, and guaranty perfect tlttiifg suits. HATS AND CAPS. The stock of these gooi * i s also large, and is wmnsniitly cheap: ■Ttw.'se.«nieles were probable bought for niucli less money than those of au’v oilier house iu tlie county, lieing a portion of tlie stock of a firm that lias recently gone into bankruptcy and was sold for what it would bring, for tlie be’.iclit of their creditors. We are thus able to sell them for about 25 per cent, under regular prices. Furnishing Goods For Ladies mid Gentlemen. Hosiery in great assortment. Fine Pocket liiiiidkcreluefs. Neck Ties. Underclothing. Tlie celebritte'.H’William Penn" and “Quaker City" FINE BXXXXY*X*SI, The best custom made goods known to tliC trade. Attention is also called in an especial manner to our large stock of Blankets of most excellent quality; to our Linen and Listing CARPETS A>B COVERED STOOLS. * During the prevalence of hard times every person, especially all who linvc to provide fora nousi'liold, is interested in getting ills supplies for tlie lowest possible prices There is not a jjreat margin made on • Choice Family Groceries ~yct people must live, and for the necoinmodation of our customers we keen as good as there is in tlie market, which we sell ns cheap lor the readv cash as a reasonalde profit will permit. Thankful for favors reeciveil in tlie past, and hoping to merit them in tiio future by strictiittunlion to tlie interest of patrons, Wc lire, most respectful! v, A. LEOPOLD, 0-*B-8m Proprietor of THE STONE STORE. BUY THE WALKER BOOT. It Is the laist. Leopold kfteptrtf. IMS-itin. rpilE WALKER BOOT is best. A. Leopojii A sells it at Rensselaer. 9-W-9n,. WALKER BOOT.— A. Leopold sells it. It W iatlreTitag h-toCin GET the best. The “IValker Boot" lithe best. AVXeopotd sells tlie “Wnlkcr Boot.” BOOTS.— the best tire the "Walker Boots." A. Leopold sells them. ft-4S-3m IF you need foot-wear, go to I.eopold’s Stone Store and get the “Walker Boot.” There are none better made. 9-ls-SnY SON EKT workmanslilp and the best material have promoted the"WALXK« Boot" to tlie head of the column of goods in their line. They ure In the superlative* degree of conjugation—the best, Iqrqiuld sells the "W Jt.KKtt ItooTS,"

RENSSELAER, JASPER OOWWWDIANA, AUGUST 23,1877.

IS HAYES A FRAUDULENT PRESIDENT!

Complaint is made by the Kentland Gazette that The Union misrepresented its attitude towards President Hayes' administrative policy towards the people of the Southern states, by garbling an article which appeared In its editorial columns recently. Ist. In order to do the Gazette justice we will stats that tw nearly as we recollect it unqualifiedly condemned the President’s withdrawal of the Federal soldiery frojn the state capitals of South Carolina and Louisiana; which action resulted: in the former staWjlh the establishment as governor of Mr. Hampton.’who was undoubtedly elected by a majority of the lawful votes lawfully cast, as shown by the returns regularly and lawfully made; in tlie latter state In the establishment as governor of Mr. Nicholls bj' the action of the legislature acting under authority of existingstate laws. Aud the ad captandum is the peaceable solution in a constitutional, just and common sense manner of a question which threatened the serious aud violent disturbance of the uation; In other words, the greatest good to the greatest number. This was the only question that the President had to decide, and believe he decided It in accordance with the facts, with the law, and with a true interpretation of his official oath to perform the functions of Chief Magistrate of this nation. If, as argued by the Gazette and others, including some of tlie most plausible sophists of the Democratic party, but which neither The Union nor tlie Gazette, believes,.tlie right of Mr. Hayes’ tenure of office is determined by the same principles that determined the gubernatorial successions in South Carolina and Louisiana, it is sufficient to answer that that question was not before tlie President; Mr. Hayes’ right to tlie presidential office was not then at issue, for this question was determined before he was made Dresident, by a tribunal having full jurisdiction. Nor is it necessary to ask whether tlie tribunal whicli adjudicated the question of tlie presidential succession was ever contemplated by the Constitution ; it was a lawful body and had jurisdiction of the cause submitted for its decision, because it was created in regular form by an Act of Congress (which also gave it jurisdiction), which Act became a law with tlie Executive approval, which approval derives its potency from tlie Constitution itself. In this connection it ought not to be forgotten that tlie Act of Congress creating the tribunal whose decision coniirmed tlie right of Mr. Hayes to the presidency could never have become a law without tlie active support and concurrence of a majority of the representatives of the political party whose candidate for tlie presidency he was not, acting in tlieir ity as representatives of the whole people, and being bound by a solemn oatli voluntarily taken to support tlie Constitution of the United States. The record shows that a large majority of tlie Senators and of tlie Members of tlie House of Representatives, irrespective of tlieir party affiliations, voted for the law. This is material as proving : Ist. The recognized necessity for creating tlie tribunal. 2d. Tlie legality of its creation. 3d. The liigh source from which it derived authority. 4th. The impossibility of the law by which it was created being tlie creature, either otlntrigue. corrupt diplomacy, unlawful conspiracy, or violent revolution. Finally, tlie action of Congress was at tlie time and probably is now approved by an overwhelming majority of tlie people; and the subsequent finding of this tribunal lias been irrevocably confirmed by tlie peaceful acquiescence of the people everywhere. Mr. Hayes’ title to the presidential office was established before his inauguration into it, and no man has since filed a notice of the lawful contest of iris claim. But neither Mr, Chamberlain nor Mr, Packard had such a clear title, nor could either of them sustain his pretensions before tlie courts or tribunals that had jurisdiction to hear and determine them. If tlie records are truthful (and no body outside of those states lias the power to question those records) Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Packard were both usurpers, and it was a subversion of authority, if the action <Nd not deserve a harsher term, every day they were protected in that usurpation by the presence of government troops. 2d. We have said above thnt neitlier The Union nor the Gazette believes the sophistry, invented by tlie Democracy find repeated by Mr. Blaine, Mr. Wade, tlie Inter-Ocean newspaper, Ct id omnas genus, that Hie .President bolds liis office by virtue of tlie operation of principles that determined, 01 ought to have determined, tlie gubernatorial controversy iu the states of South Carolina and Louisiposition will not stand under careful scru tmy, or if JLiToesTn.; will prove fatal to those who take it.In South Carolina tlie election returns as received from the hands of tlie election officers showed tlie Republican electoral ticket and tlie Democratic state ticket to have each received a majority of Hie votes east, and a case parallel is also seen in tin*

election returns of Florida; the action of the returning boards of these two states did not effbet Mr. Hayes* claim injuriously. Thus it becomes plain that if the rule that gave the electoral vote of South Carolina to Mr. Hayes Is also applied to ascertain who was elected governor of that state, Mr. Chamberlain, together with all his apologists and sympathisers, including our respected contemporary at Kentland, must inevitably suffer. In Louisiana it was different. Here the Democracy and the Gazette find firmer ground upon which to base their premise. The electoral vote of this state was determined by tlie decision of a returning board which was the creature of a state law; but whether u good creature or a bad one is a question foreign to our present discussion, but that it is very well liked by the people whom it most immediately effects seems plausible enough when it is considered tliut no effort lias been made to repeal it. The returning board also has the right to revise tlie vote returneji as east for state officers. But the authority of the returning board in tlie classes of votes is not equal. In the former, its decision is final; from it there lies no appeal; but its action with regard to the vqte east for any or all state officers may be reviewed by the legislature when it is effected, or by tlie supreme court of the state when other state officers are effected ; and either body has power to reverse the decision of the returning board, if in its judgment tlie facts warrant such reversal. From tlie fact tliatjCongress to determine the qualifications of those admitted to seats in that body, it would not hesitate to of the returning board of Louisiana or any other state with regard to those claiming such seats; but Congress would have no right to interfere with tlie decision of a returning board respecting presidential electors or state officers, for the reason that this power lias been left wholly witli tlie stales themselves; or to be more precise, because iu the state resides the right to determine tlie qualifications of those wlxo may vote, modified only by tlie expressed and plain provisions of the Constitution of tlie United States for tlie protection of tlie equal rights of all citizens; and also to determine the manner of holding elections and making returns thereof. In short because nearly all the details and quite all the machinery of holding elections are rights that belong wholly to the states in their separate individual capacity. It is because Mr. Blaine, the Inter-Ocean newspaper aud certain Democrats persistently Ignore the facts that actually exist with regard to the jurisdiction of tlie returning board of Louisiana, scmingly for tlie purpose of misleading the public and weakening the efforts of President Hayes to promote a more fraternal feeling between the North and South, by raising a cloud of doubt over his title to tlie presidential office and consequently as to the legitimacy of his official acts, that we blame them witli demagogueism. Nothing can be said tliat is based upon the record or tlie facts that will strengllien the cause of Mr. Chamberlain and of Mr. Packard in the estimation of the American people, who, as a class, care very little for them to-day. If argument in their behalf lias any effect at all it is to weaken tlie President, not to help them. No power short of bloody rev-olution-armed treason against the United States government—can restorer them to tlie positions they voluntarily abdicated when left to maintain themselves by peaceful means. Neither is it desirable that they be restored to authority; for the present governments of South Carolina and Louisiana, if no more than de facto, give better satisfaction and enforce the laws which bring peace to society more thoroughly than did their predecessors, though it be afimitted that they were governments de jure as well as de facto. Tlie argument made use of by the Gazette is fatal to its own integrity; and fo)i this reason we say that it don’t believe it. A stream can not run higher than its fountain, nor is tlie receiver of stolen goods better than tlie thief who shares with him. So iong as the editor of that or any other newspaper holds an appointment under President Hayes common decency and propriety ougiit to suggest that they treat him as an honest man. Tliat Mr. Hayes lias a clear title to the presidential office has been declared by the highest authority on earth ; this decision was (is) affirined by forty millions of people by their peaceful acquiescent; there cau be neither appeal from this decision nor reopening of the case. Witli MessrsChamberlain and Packard the situation is, has been, and ever was, the reverse of that of Mr. Hayes ; for neither was elected in the first place; neither one was declared elected by -aDy-?iWuninznLJsom_gtent”jui'lßdic-tion; both usurja-d -ptowew to which neither had more than the figment of a title; neither was recognized by the 'people.as a rightful officer or even an officer in fact. 3d. Now, if tlie Gazette really does believe tliat Mr. Hayes has no betier title to the presidency these | wo

gentlemen had to the offices they laid claim to, its editor will forward his resignation of the commission he holds from a fraud and usurper; liecause tiie editor is an honest, conscientious gentleman who would not wittingly be guilty of saying one thing to the public through the columns of liis pai>er while acting another thipg for the sake of a pitiful, paltry SI,OOO a year. On the other hand, if, like The Union, the rejects tlie puerile, childish, factious sophistries of Mr. Blaine, Mr, Wade, the Inter- Ocean newspaper and the sinioter cloven-hoofed Democrats and disappointed demagogues tluit echo the discordant chorus, it will be profoundly grateful tliat The Union was so kiud, so charitable, so truly neighborly as to hide its imbecility aud shame from the vulgar gaze of a jeering world; indeed it will, or ought to, wisli that the whole edition which contained the article that The Union generously and artistically pruned and polished until it was fitted for critical inspection, had been thrown into the fire and burnt to ashes instead of having been sent broadcast over the land to lend its influence to tlie Democratic party in its efforts to destroy the party whose history is the history of unswerving loyalty to the government iu its days of peril; of devotion to the cause of human liberty and equal political and civil rights; of fostering friendship for tiie common schools through whose portals tlie children of poverty and obscurity puss to affluence, to influence and to honorable fame;, tlie Republican party which compelled capital to relinquish its claim of owncrsliip of labor, and made tlie industrious man respectable and respected in every part of the country. We do not believe that the Gazette intends to turn back and mar its own grand record against the party that apologised for treason and sympathised with revolutionists and their efforts to destroy the government; the party that never repented a crime nor pun- 1 islied a corruptor criminal official; tlie party to which tlie ignorant, the depraved and tlie vicious ciasses naturally gravitate and where they find a welcome and a sympathetic asylum for tlieir vices and degradatioir; the party that makes friendship with the rumseller; the party that disgraced the nation with an imbecile Buchanan, and tlie state of Indiana witli an ignorant, cunning, avaricious, cowardly demagogue Williams; the party that would not hesitate to array labor and capital as enemies, first by granting the claims of capital to ownership of human flesli, next by volunteering sympathy for communism and justifying mobs in destroying projierty and interrupting commerce; the party of insincerity, that pleads to harmonize tlie jealousies of the sections and heal the animosities transmitted from the deplorable past, and then repulses with scorn and contumely every effort of President Hayes to compass tills desirable end; tlie party of hatreds, of negations, of vice, of ignorance, of bigotry, of treason, of inconsistency, of violence, of calumny and wrong. And until convinced tliat it lias actually, deliberately and wilfully determined to adopt this course the Gazette will please pardon us if we are careful not to reproduce such jxirtions <ff its usually able articles as would place it in a false position. 4th. The Kentland Gazette is not a Democratic newspaper, nor does it believe that Hayes’ title to the presidency of the United StaleOfid Packard’s claim to. the governorship of Louisiana rest on the same foundation; for if the former it would advocate the Democratic party, which it does not mean to do; while if it believed the latter it could not consistently participate iu the fruits of usurpation.

THE GLORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

Ignorant people believe lies. It is difficult for them to comprehend tlie truth. This is one reason why a larger per cent, of ignorant people are found voting with the Democratic p irty than with the Republican party. —Rensselaer Union. Then the same mode of reasoning explains why it is thnt the colored man aud brother votes the Republican ticket: it’s nil because of his superior intelligence and great intellectual development! A deal of perplexity might have been saved the people if this explanation had been made long ago.— Plymoutli Democrat. There it is exactly as we anticipated it would be. We would have taken an oath that it would come alxiut from some such source. A Democratic newspaper can no more discuss a political proposition or a problem of social science without lugging the negro into prominence Ilian a monkey can climb a pole without dlsphiy-' ing its axility. We wanted to allude >to certain conditions in the Soutliern states and growing developments elsewhere, and put out that paragraph about the notorious fact of tlie larger per centage of ignorance in tlie Democratic party thau iu the Republican for the express purpose of obtaining Tortbe subject a Democratic introdnetlon and consequent Democratic utteii-' teutiou. Since the better, conservative and more intelligent Democrats of this part of the count ry have with remarkable unanimity declared their hearty approval of President Hayes’ sensible Republican reform policy in civil service matters and towards the

NUMBER 49.

Sooth, mid since they have so cor- ' dlally endorsed the manly and sensible and statesman-like utterances of Representative Calkins, we feel greatly encouraged that they may Inaugurate much needed reforms in their own party. One of the first reforms they should undertake Is to. eradicate the pitiful ignorance that abounds to such a deplorable extent in the Democratic parly. This briiigs us back again to the negro that the Plymouth Democrat introduced and the subject we intended to talk about. The Democratic party is the natural home of the ignorant negro, debased and brutalized as he is by centuries of oppression. It is just as natural for the negro as a'class to gravitate to and become absorbed by the Democratic party as it is for the ignorant and depraved classes which have flocked to our shores from the Old World to go to that party. While the inventive tongue of the carpet-bagger could flatter the negro's credulity with the hope of forty acres of land and a mule, or other like absurdity, he would vote with the party that emancipated him from slavery. But he cannot comprehend the great truth of his emancipation, and as soon as the lies of carpetbaggers which attracted him to the Republican party explode, the laws of natural affinity and the towering falsehoods of Democracy operate with a power that seems irresistible. That the negro voter is rapidly traveling in that direction is as the public records. It is only a few months since the Plymouth Democrat was glorifying over the fact that the only negro living Jit that city voted ths DeinocratTc ticket. Democratic negroes are found everywhere in the South and their number is constantly increasing, and especially in those districts and localities where the densest ignorance prevails. South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana have each a Jaige preponderance of negro voters, yet each one of them is goverened by Democratic officers. If the whole negro element would unite with the Republican whites in North Carolina and Florida those states would be giving Republican majorities ; and so would Alabama, if al) the negroes voted the Republican ticket There.' Fol ly thousand of lire Democratic majority in Georgia is probably the votes of negroes. At least thirty thousand of the Democratic majority in Mississippi is the same color. There is one congressional district in the sta'e of Mississippi numbeting nearly thirty-five thousand voters, scarcely ten thousand of whom are whites; yet this district io represented in Congress bv a white Democrat who was elected over a negro Republican. Either the bulldozer has murdered tens of thousands of negroes or else more than one hundred thousand negro voters have joined the Democratic party si nee 1872. We are glad the Democrat directed attention to its negro brethren. They are another illustration proving the proposition that it is dfficult for ignorant people to comprehend the truth, hence one reason why such a large per cent, of them is fotmd in the Democratic party.

HIS TITLE TO ORTHODOXY.

This from as standi a Republican Journal as the St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat ought open the eyes of the implacables to the drift of public opinion : The people of Oregon wore under the delusion that the war was over, until Murton opened their eyes. It must .have wakened them up considerably to bear the toi-sia sounded, and see the ensanguined garment Waved again. Were it not for corroborative evidence of most positive and overwhelming character in the affirmative, a few little squibs of corresponding tenor with theonejivt quoted, appearing from tithe to time in prominent place in its editorial columns, might create serious doubts in the minds of some people as to the orthodoxy of the Globe-Democrat’s Repubhcanism. But should this ever occur all that will be needed to restore confidence is to publish the record showing the indictment, trial, conviction, imprisonment, pardon, and civil action to recover, found against, had by, suffered by, inflicted ui«on, granted to, and instituted against its principal stock-owner, Uncle Billy’ McKee, for conspiring to defraud the government of a portion of its revenue from the manufacture of whiskey. Its orthodoxy will never be questioned by any who learn the story of the trials and sufferings endured by its old boss for the sake of his principles. .. ... ‘ * Without exception the Kuox Ledger of some fifty papers on our exchange list, has made the most improvement in Journalism within the past six months. It is now one of the must neatly printed, and mast interesting, country papers in the state. While its .mechanical appearance lias been bettered, and greater enterprise is apparent in its collection and pfeparationofncu’sbothoflocnlandgeueial. charaeter, it has not stopped at th lap but it has also improved in the tone of its politics. Without having abated anything of its principles, which are radically and essentially Democratic, yet it exhibits far less bigotry . and much more liberality ih its advocacy of them.

One rolmnn, <me year, .A ... IBM Hull column, •• . IW Fractional parts of • year, nt <squltebie Business eanta nut one Inrti spare, C> n year, pl for si * months, for threew*l>l hs. All legal notleue anil adyorttaementa, at Mr 4 tnbll-lxsi statute prise. ■ / ’ I Ueu.llng notice*. Drat publication 10 cents • line, each pabtteaMMS S-ltS*. Yearly adrertisemetita are subject tt> ttirwi change* (one chnnau in throo month*}, option of thositvertistf, frSeof extra ehiivn. Advertisemouta for peraens not residents of J.lsiier oouuty luiist be paid for in n<l»nnee Of Itrsl pniatrtintaHCwfMtrrtaaa than one-quarter column in slue; and quarterly io advance when larger. ;

The South Bead Herald thinW that Thk Vnion “la greatly improved” ' with It* Deduction of state, "that Is our opinion, too. It h like Mark Twain’s drama or a head of cabbage: The more it Is cut away the better it Is; and had we strength to cut it all away there is no doubt It would be the best newspaper in -the slate. Another Republican lie nailed: Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks did not go to Cork to he inaugurated President and Vice President of the Democratic party. Indeed they have not yet visited the great capital of Democracy, and may not at all. Wit, in Imitation of th& Burlington Hawkeye: Sj cxzkpml rvn tph rascontinwouqbd kakekokikuky introvu bucq umvriltsoftas muckymush. It is, summed up, less than brevity, 0. There is Just about naughtiness enough in the South Bend Herald to make It “awful nice.”

LAILA, AN OPERETTA.

To bo Performed in the Christian Church Hext Wednesday Hight. Laila is a beautiful little three-part operetta, performed entirety by females, it represents a baud of children collected Je spend n cummer dny pienieing on the mountain, beside purling streams, under ihndy groves, where flowers bloom, birds sing and litlppincss abounds. They feast and sing and gather flowers. After a season of mirth and gaiety, some of them are annoyed by the approach of three tramps in Uttered garments that contrast most unpleasantly with the beautiful surroundings, on whose features squalor and sorrow an£ want are written in vivit characters. They arc * beggar woman and her two young daughters. At first a part of Hie children repulse the strangers with words ot chiding and disdainful frowns; but Laila, tenderhearted, gentle and kind, steps from among the group, rebukes them for their unkindness to those in misfortune, speaks words of sympathy to the poor mother and children and bids them tell their wants. Soon I/ula's playnntes follow her beautiful example, und alter listening to the wandere rs’ tale of sorrow, invite them to partake of the feast and join in the games. After a time Laila goes wandering away for berries and flowers, becomes bewildered and is lost in a lonesome wood. Her pleasant society is missed by her playmates who search in vain for her, and the afternoon of the day so pleasantly begun is passed in anxiety nnd fear. The beggar folks soon tire of this trouble and leave the saddened children to themselves. Laila, wearied and frightened, as the shades of closing day deepen in the forest, kneels to pray for angelic protection. Suddenly the queeu of fairies appears to the astenished and timid girl, surrounded with a retinue of attendants attired in glittering robes, und at her piteous entreaty conduct her out of the gloom to her anxious and sorrowing playmates. Then the fairy queen and her two favorite attendants, after the congratulations are over, announce that they are the same beggar people who came around in the morning to prove the generosity of their hearts. The queen tells them never in future to hesitate to give to the needy, for virtue is sure of her reword. Then a happy sotg and Laila is crowed queen of the joyful group. Solos, duetsand choruses are introduced in appropriate places. The company of about twenty*performers will appear en euztuine. The operetta will bo brought out under . the direction of Miss Julia McArthur who also has charge of the instrumental music. See programmes, which will bo distributed about the first of next week, for other particulars. Do not forget that the perfotintuice will be had in the Christian church next Wednesday evening.

SECOND REGIMENTAL RLUNION.

Th* Minth Regiment Indiana Infantry. LaPcßtk, Ind , August 17. 1877.— The second Reunion of the surviving members of the Ninth Regiment,lndiana Volunteers will be held in the city of Valparaiso, Indiana, Wednesday, September I'Jth, 1877. All the survivjng members of the organisation are invited to be present. Newspapers throughout the State are respectfully asked to give notice of this mooting. L. A. Hole, Chairman Committee of Arrangements.

Mr Gilpen’s Ideas of Reform.

Our old neighbor William Gilpen says times are terribly out of joint. The ls--t part of his life has been spent advocating Republican doctrine, but thtyr having denied the faith' and gone after strange gods, he wants to be tho nucleus around which a great party mny ari-e and. in their might hurl the present office-holding miscreants from place and put in men who will pay off the government debt with greenbacks, thus giving a poor man a chance. Such are Mr. Gilpen's ideas of reform —Fowler Era. » •

A Healthy Ramble.

Two boys, probably about 17 years old, passed through this city Tuesday on their way to Chicago. They bad walked from Waterbury, Connecticut,, on a wager of SIOO, and the terms were that they should get to Chicago in 35 days. They had five days in which to reach Chicago and were in good condition and sure of winning their •bet. They carried a blanket slung on their shoulders so that they ceuld lie down and rest comfortably, and wept along on their big walk in a cheerful frame of mind. —LaPorte Argus.

Don’t Envy Oar District Her Congresaman.

Hon. W, Hr Calkins, member of C«ngressfor the 10th district, with his family is visiting old friends in Beaton. ’A hile the people of Benton county donot *uvy their neighboring congressonal district because of their able representative oe would .not disguise the fact that the Major is held in high esteem by them, and they ar* proml that he has attained political eminence.— Fowler Era. .

Ought to Be in Every Family in Jaspar County

The Rensselaer I’xtox has been changed from a (l-coluiun quarto to a 7-adumn folio, is set in smaller type, and the subscription pi ice reduced' to $1 per year. The Union is a live paper and able edited, but w* douH believe Bro. James & will either save make any money by thcchapgo. Tukl’xmin at it s present price ought.ip be in every law* ily in Jasper county.-sHi uiturnc Ucpvbiiet.tfe, - ■ * A... a .'TJMHetfcBfo.vPWIMI