Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1877 — KICK THEM OUT. [ARTICLE]

KICK THEM OUT.

He [Representative Calkins] is now chtlmea -by two-thirds of the Democratic press of tbs district. They are welcome to him.—South Bend Register. That Ib right. Thnt’e the doctrine. That’s the wajr to build up your Awn party, and weaken the opposition. Set yourself up to dictate how othere shall think, act nnd speak, and ir they show any disposition to be independent of your dogmatic standard kick them over to the Democracy. This is a very good time, too, to drive people out of the Repubiioau party. It is so powful in numbers and so popular with the people that it elects Presidents by one-quarter of a million minority assisted by an extra-constitutional Bx 7 court of chancery; in Indiana it lias barely strength enough to come within G,OOO votes of electing a governor ; iu this congressional district, by pursuing the policy of tho South Bend Register , it can, in October 1878, elect the great Unblackmailed Martyr of Michigan City to Congress by 500 to 1,000 majority; in St. Joseph county if it comes within 50 votes of electing a single man on its county ticket it will do remarkably well and be entitled to the heartiest congratulations. After a careful survey of the field from an independent position we must be allowed to express the most profound admiration for the intrepidity of the Republican press which is everlastingly finding fault with tlie president and other prominent members of the Republican party. Wbeu these party popes have got through issuing bulls of excommunication and pronouncing anathemas against ail those who have incurred their personal displeasure, if all of them are displeased with the men who have independence and spirit to pull out of the narrow ruts that have been worn by less independent men, their party will not have left in it virtue enough to save it from the catastrophe which befell the ancient Cities of the Plain. If the present rate of foolishness is indulged by tlie Republican party press until next spring, all the labor necessary for Democratic editors to contribute to the success of their can' didutes next year will be to resolve their own publications into eclectic journals and reproduce the testimony which the editors of Republican organs are so swift to volunteer against their party associates. For the last six or eight years the very orguns that are now most vigorously denouncing President Hayes and Representative Calkins for their advocacy of party reform measures have be*u among the shrillest shriekers to promise these reforms, if the people \yould not seek them through any channel other than the Republican party. “Don’t go over to the Democratic “party, don’t organize a new party,” they plead with drippiug eyes, “but “give us the opportunity and we will “perform all you demand and purify “the party ln conclusion perhaps it may not be impertinent to remind those who seem not to realize it, that Major Calkins has not yet made any public record, he has done nothing iu an official capacity; what has been said or done by him was said and done in tlie capacity of a private citizen of tne United States; when he shall have made an official record there will still be left time enough to test the effects of his public ucts upon the welfare of the public, and measure his wisdom by the result. It is not always tlie just decision that is made before both sides of a cause are heard. Major Calkins’ personal and political adversaries are preferring their accusations now with a great flourish of tongues; but it is possible they may not be abie to make out much of a case in the end. Still, perhaps it may he a good thing to banish him to the Democratic party, just for luck, as the boys say, if for no other reason because he was elected by the largest majority ever given a representative in the district since its present organization, He was elected by a majority of 1,148, is it any wonder the Democracy respect him and would gladly open their doors to his entrance?

Tho radical papers are now advocating an increase of the United States army for the purpose of bayoneting the working men and compelling them to submit and lo work for such wages as cntployors may dictate.—Knox Ledger. Buch falsehoods bring contempt ou tho press. They are weak and silly. It is not probable that tho Ledger can sustain its statement with a single quotation of that tenor from a single newspaper in America. It must presume a great deal ou the ignorance and credulity of its Democratic patrons, when it publishes such stuff with the expectation that it will be believed unsupported by positive testimony. All such statements are tho ougrowth of ignorance and bigotry, and are very reprobenslble. It grieves us to find them marring the columns of a respectable and progressive journal, which the Ledger aims to be. Of the Indiana delegation In Congress Morton C. Hunter, Thomas M. Browne, John H. Baker, Milton EL Robinson, Michael D. White, John Hanna and William H. Calkins, all Republicans, are in fhvor of remonetizing the old Bilver dollar. We presume others are In favor of this, too ; but of these the statement if mode authoritatively.