Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1878 — INDIANA A REPUBLICAN STATE. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA A REPUBLICAN STATE.

On n fair election and full vote Imliana is today a reliable republican stale. The democrats, enrrieit it for Cass in ItUS by only 4.SSS plurality; for Tierce in 1852 bv only ?,ai"u plurality, ami for Uiiclianan in IH3H bv only I.tKW majority. TUtt republicans curried it for Lincoln in iJStiO by i,9ja iimjorlty; for Lincoln again in 18<M by 2u,l8!l; for Grunt in ISGS bv unit for Grant again hi 1872 by 21,088. In 1870, there being three candidates m i lie tfeiil, the democrats succeeded by most infamous and outrageous fraud in carrying, the state for Tiiilen by a plurality of 5,51.). of the total votecast in the state Hayes received forty-eight percent., Tildeli forty-nine per cent., and Teter Cooper three per cent. So Tilden was the minority Chojce of the state. There is no doubt that iu a fair and hilt election luiliana is more dec)dolly republican now than she was democratic during Ifie TasraozelTfSSis'of^dTSfifiSCTiracii*e*h<tbli«y' the Wbc." Thu smriirfs'wsite-'-wtvßttiatttl jil-ogress educationally, politically, commercially and socially, and progress in these respects menus a decline of democracy and growth of republicanism. Tile work of the republican party in this state has been somewhat of a missionary character. It has bail to let light 'into tile dark places of democracy, substitute intelligence for ignorauce, loyalty for treason, enterprise and progress for Itourbonisiu. It lias been a hard coutest, but tbev have won at every step and have held their ground. To-day the stato is reliably republican if republicans will but do their duty, it will be tlieir own fault if it is permitted to fall back into the slough of democracy.— /iidfunujwlit Journal. Let republicans of each county of Indiana consider these facts and make a local application of them- As is shown by the JourruU Mr. Tilden succeeded in carrying Indiana by a plurality of only 5,015; there are 92 counties, and the plurality vote averaged nmong them is only about 00 to each; there is, say, 10 townships in each county, which would tnako the average in each township s. h’ow, if republicans will be active everywhere as they should be, four out of that number may bo converted to republican principles. If this is done —if each township in the state makes a gain of four votes from, tho demo” cratlc ranks —the state of Indiana will elect a full republican ticket. Jasper county republicans, if energetic, will certainly perform their share of ther work. - BaM Ben Butler once: TltcVlmvc called me »• ITsr. null they have celled me it thief, mid they have culled me » murderer, but I believe that *no one has ever yet called me a tool. —Terre Haute ~ . Froth this it seems Mr. Butler has felt tl,iat lie was not appreciated according to his deserts; and his recent speeches indicate a determination to impress upon his countrymen an estimate of himself which none liad been so discourteous as to express in words. For ourself, since reading his communistic speeches, wo feel the force of life rebuke.