Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1877 — The Golden Opportunity. [ARTICLE]

The Golden Opportunity.

If the Democratic party all over the United States will take a bold stand, and demand a repeal of the infamous resumption and demonetisation acts, and demand that there shall be no more issuing of bonds, and that all bauk paper issued by the government to the banks shad ha a legal tender, then the Democratic party will become the great party ofthr country. —Knox Ledger. Ex-Governor Willson Shannon, who died at Lawrence, Kan., en Thursday nigbt, was a native of Ohio, end eerred two twin* ns Governor cf that State. He preceded Toth Corwin as Governor (1888 to 7 40>, and Mioseeied that gentleman ia 1842. He waa appointed Minister to Mexico in 1844, and wha elected to Congress in 1852. He was appointed Territorial Governor of Kansas in 1855, serving until July, 1850. lie hail since that dete resided at' Lawrence,—lop®. Ocean,