Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1878 — BE NOT DECEIVED. [ARTICLE]

BE NOT DECEIVED.

Let no man be deceived by the maneuvers of the democracy. Let no republican be led away by their spacious talk, their hollow pretences, or their slanders. As a party they are treacherous and perfidious. -Na artifice is too disreputable, no scheme too dishonorable, for them to adopt. They stoop to conquer.' With them the end is sufflcient justification of the means. Nn shiiiihr Jb too ba-se, no falsehood too villainous, for them to invent tw«d circulate against republicans. To perpetuate the crime of slavery they were willing to destroy the Union; to secure a president they would bribe electors; to carry a State they would murder freedmen; to overturn an administration they would hazard civil -Wftfff-to cdoot w--men.iber o£ JM»ngress

they would ruin the reputations of honorable men; to elect a county ticket they would slander the innocent: to curry a town election they would debauch the youth. The darling hope of the democracy in Indiana this campaign is to elect the legislature and as many representatives in congress as possible. To accomplish this object they will hesitate at no scheme however disreputable or villainous. Republicans should understand this, bear it constantly in mind, and not stiffer themselves to be deceived by false pretences, side issues, campaign slander and the many other corruptand insidiousdevices for which the democracy is notorious. The socalled national party is simply a democratically. The principles announced in ttieir platform is so nearly-allied to those stated in the democratic platform of Indiana tiiat the difference is scarcely perceptible. The record of the independentgrecnliack or national party of this state proves them to be the willing base tools of the democratic party. Every important act of Hon. George Major who was elected to the state senate as nn Independent four years ago resulted to democratic advantage. Four years ago and two years ago the independent and the greenback vote in Indiana gave tiie state into democratic control. The election four years ago In Jasper county of Charles 11. Price as clerk and Henry A. Barkley os auditor on the Independent ticket, resulted simply to democratic advantage. The public service gained nothing whatever by it. They- have been no improvement upon their predecessors. If by any possible contingency, "(which we do not in the least anticipate or fear) the democratic county ticket nominated by the nationals last Saturday, or any candidate upon it, should be successful, the result Will be just to that extent a democratic success. Stripped of disguise, this is the true inwardness of the whole thing, whatever may be said to the contrary by’ whomsoever endorses it.

It may bo understood as truth that tlie better informed and shrewder deinocratsof Jasper county look upon the success of the republicans here as a foregone conclusion. The republicans are so well organized,so harmonious, and so vigilant that they dispair of making any inroads. This is proven from the fact that Mr. Henry A. Barkley refused to accept a renotnination for auditor, Mr. George 11. Brown imperatively forbid the use of his name in .connection with any nomination, though urgently solicited, and Mr. Charles 11. Price persistently declined to attend their conventions or to be considered as asking a nomination from any source whatever. Thev have not ti glimmer of hope, but are tennceously dinging te the willows and making a sliow of opposition to keep their fragment of a party from melting to nothingness.

It must be very consoling to Mr. James Yedman and Mr. Willis J. lines to reflect that they signed away, in a written, published instrument, their votes and influence to the principles—communistic and all—of the Toledo platform, and to the ticket of the Bray-flats. It must be delightful for their friends to know that they XQt for this the glorious privilege of being beaten in a set-tip ami prear-" ranged convention. Talk about Esau selling his birth-right for a mess of gruel!. Two vote# and the influence of two men, either of whom if running independently., of party nominations would receive more vote* than the natkpals’ State ticket will get, signed away for the empty compliment of eleven and eight votes in a mongrel flat caucus! Mau got the best bargain by a hundred fold. *. . -—’■ “Spook money” Is .suggested as a better name for '‘flat money” than “materialized demand”of the I’encc's Hall fvttfrs<>f the Terre Haute JKr/wrss. a

Two grent refortnefa add reused the nationals at tlielf cofilily convention last Saturday— Mr, T. B. Buchanan, of Jndinnnpolls, and Mr. Joseph Bray* of M heal field township. The former talked about flat money, nnd the latter said that Jasper county pars tnXce to the extent <;f*s4oo,ooo per »hn6ffl more thnn Porter county does for the sole item of relieving ’‘porpers.’* As Jnsper contains n population of only about 10,000 It will be seen thnt our “porper° tax amount* to S4O for each man, woman, child and suckling in addition to (lie sun* paid by the inhabitants of Porter county. Mr. Buehnnkft Is stumping the ntnte for the flats, and Mr. Bray has l>een stumping Keener township for the '’porpern.’* Is it any wonder that the want of an asylum for idiots is felt?