Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1878 — TO ONE THAT GOT LEFT. [ARTICLE]

TO ONE THAT GOT LEFT.

The Renss-laer Union ought to read up a little on tlio doctrines of latter day deinoiracy. It will tind the latest authoritutivea democratic doctrine laid down in the St. Louis national platlorni, and a little study of the doctrines there enumerated will convince it that the Argun represents the very latest version of national democratic faith. —La Porte Argus, Since the foregoing was published The Union hns read up—just a littleon tiie doctrines of latter day democracy. To see what is not to he seen; and if tiie Aryan can discover in that" “latest authoritative” code of ‘‘democratic doctrine,” “the St. Louis national platform,” a word or sentence committing the democratic party to the advocacy of a single standard currency such as the Argus has been advocating, or a double standard currency such ns congress has recently enacted, ora triple standard currency such as the “howling idiotic Voorhees” appears to favor, then tiie discovery lias been due to its multiplicity of iliamondrpoiuteii optics. Hut if the Argus is a hard money, gold standard, advocate because that is tiie doctrine taught by the St. Louis national platform, and if the Arf/ui is tiie true exponent of democracy, does it not follow ttiat those who differ from tiie Angus in their opinion of this subject are not democrats? In other words, can oue be a true democrat without professing democratic faith, believing democratic dogmas, and teacliiug democratic doctrine? If tiie first form of tiie question receives an affirmative answer, nnd the second form a negative one, then how- in tiie name of consistency will tiie Argus harmonize with itself and national democracy that state convention which declared at ln (,i a nn P<>lis last xyeek in favor of issuing government “treasury notes with full legal tender quality;” of making “greenbacks a full legal tender In payment of all debts, public and private;” lind that “paper money as well as coin should be Issued in such amounts as tiie sound business interests of tiie country may, from time to tlipe, require?” The Uj+ion will not say a harsh word of the Argus because it believes the Argus to have been honest and right iu ita advocacy of a gold standard of values; but as the result of tiie course of reading which it so kindly recommended the conclusion is irreslstable tiial the Argus must feel its position in the democratic party of Indiana quite like that of tiie gentleman who found himself in a jufy-box with eleven very obstinate men. Now a spirit of naughtiness touches THe Union causing it to remark that, wi£h the Argus and all other truly democratic newspapers, learning to eat crow la much like learning tocliew tobaccoi quite nauseating at first but directly becoming a habit affording a wonderful deal of comfort-