Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1877 — HIS TITLE TO ORTHODOXY. [ARTICLE]

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.

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.”