Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1878 — THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRATIC TICKET. [ARTICLE]

THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

The ticket noniiiintcdjin Slarr’H hall last Saturday, by the national greenbackers is the county ticket} of the Jasper democracy. It is the only local ticket that will bo in the Hehl against the republican ticket. It was ostensibly nominated by u handful of men who call themselves a national greenback party organization,• but it was partially dictated by the shnon pure democracy, and will bo endorsed by the democratic convention on the 13 of July. On the morning the convention met tlie democrats made a proposition to tlie nationals that If the latter would permit them to suggest the candidate for auditor and candidate fhr sheriff on the ticket they were to nominate, they might HU up tlie rest with whom they pleased and the dcnioeracy would endorse All nnd make no nominations. With this understanding the secretary of tlie county democratic central committee dra’fted a declaration of principles for two aspirants to the nomination for auditor, either of whom the democracy would accept, and for an aspirant to lite nomination for sheriff. The nationals met and nominated for clerk a gentleman whose democratic

sympathies are too well know n bj tlie ' public to be called in question or disjrated. While for auditor they did not select either man that had been suggested, they took the chairman of the democratic committee for Marion township, who was just as well, if not better, calculated to please democratic tastesand allay any feeling that might have arisen between the friends of the other gentlemen. They chose for treasurer a gentleman whose defection toward tlie republican party was. engendered in 18<J0, when they preferred to nominate somebody- else for county clerk, whose sore grew more painful when some other' man was preferred for dotmty trwwtMLTr in 1808, and whose tit warted personal ambition lias intensified his hostility until it has become almost a mania. His name was proposed by tlie chairman of the national county central committee, who, it is understood will take control of the office in the event his favorite is elected. For recorder they nominated a gentleman who lost his fot’((me during tlie late rebellion by tlie operation of the emancipation proclamation, and, as a matter of course, cultivates feelings of perennial, intensified hostility to even tlie name republican. They would placate “the Hopkins family” after sitting down on one of them by forcing upon another mem her- the honor of a nomination for surveyor, as there was no democratic claimant for lite position. For .coroner another .democrat came out ahead of one who had lepub-

lican antecedents. In the first district a candidate for commissioner was elected who vtited the republican ticket half a dozen years ago; and the same was done in the third district. To recapitulate: The clerk, auditor, treasurer, sheriff, recorder, cosoner and commissioners for the third district may be counted with the democratic party whenever choice has to be made between it and the republican party; leaving asbona fide nationals the candidates for- surveyor and commissioner for the first district. It will thus be seen that the democracy lias in this ticket, as in all coalitions that it has ever inadd, decidedly the advantage. The delegates to the democratic county convention assembled in another hall and patiently waited to hear the result of the nationals’ incubation. Having looked into the nest and recognized a stiflleient number of buzzards among the young owls, they considerately adjourned to meet again on the 13th day of July, at which time they will reassemble, resolve that it is inexpedient to make any democratic county nominations this campaign, and recommend democrats to support the nominees of the Jasper county national greenback convention. Of course a few of the more independent and honester nationals, who want « straight ticket, may squeal a little just at present because the democrats have outwitted them again as usual; but the old foxes whose stump tails have healed over and lifetime caloused will persuade the youngsters that docked tail’s ure fashionable, lighter to carry, and ever so much more respectable in appearance. On the other hand there are a few hot-blooded young democrats who think that having been selected as delegates to nominate a straight-out democratic ticket, they Ought not to be swindled out of tlie fitfir by~w mongrel eoH veiition of.

Brays, Tharps, Millers and Monnetts; but the old stager# will persuade them that crow Is very fine diet when once one liasJiccorne accustomed to it. 'Jfo say that the ticket nominated is a good one; ora strong one, or a respectable oue, would be to (elf what threefourtbs of the voting population of Jasper county do not at heart believO. There are good men on thg ticket, but they are neutralized by a preponderance of another element. Like the twin boy’s pet sheep that hail been put with the diseased ones of the ' flock by his brotheC wket/Wy hnd i divide, they nft with a desI petal* inferior lot. As a ticket it is

undoubtedly weak. Tills Is the universal expression. Even the candidates themselves declare their determination not to vote for one another, and boldly say lhe ticket cniinot be elected. Much of this feeling will die away, iiowevei, and by the time the democracy come together In July they will undoubtedly adopt the policy indicated before—endorse it and recognize it ns a first-class, representative democratic ticket.