Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1878 — AN UNHAPPY FAMILY. [ARTICLE]

AN UNHAPPY FAMILY.

Distrust, dissension and gloomy forebodings fill the camp of the allied flats and democracy of Jasper county. In the early part of the campaign It was thought by the democratic county seat ring that an alliance might be formed with the flat leaders by which possibly a few votes might be secured to democratic advantage. The democratic leaders and their allies who call themselves nationals thought that with a ticket properly constructed for trading, they might possibly secure a majority in this county, indirectly through candidates for the legislature, for the election of Mr. Voorhees to the United 81 a tea senate, and re-elect Mr. Price to the county clerk’s office. But it is now very plain that they miscalculated the public temper. Every movement on the pgrt of republicans has been marked by prudence; their, con conducted openly, with perfect fairness, and nothing has occurred to interfere with harmonious action; all of their candidates are gentlemen of unimpeachable character, eminently qualified to perform the duties of the several offices for which they are nominated. Net since the war has there been a completer organization of the republican ranks; and never a firmer determination to stick to every candidate and make a clean sweepThe well-informed men of the opposition know that the local republican ticket will lead the present confederate alliance by majorities Unprecedented in the history of the county, without something happens to mar present indications; they know as well that there is not a ghost of a chance for the success of a single man they have iu the fiteld, if they attempt to carry their entire ticket through as it is at present organized; lienee they are unxiously casting about for plans and tricks by which to save one or two ring favorites. The Union has information through a democratic official source, and confirmed by reports of fiat brethren, that a movement has been under contemplation to ask the resignations of Mr. Nowels, candidate for auditor, and of Mr. Miller, candidate for recorder, iu order to substitute other men less objectionable to the people. The record of Mr. Nowels

during war times is so obnoxious in the memory of those familiar with Its details, and Mr. Meier's educational deficiency ia so well known, as not only to render their election impossible, but also when added to the notorious and proverbial mean avariciousness of their candidate for county treasurer, to weight dowu the eutire ticket beyond the possible success of a single man; and disaster of such calamitous nature that they cannot recover in the life-time of a generation stares them in tho face. Already eaoh candidate has begun to look after his own welfare and Jet his neighbor get along as best he may. Mr. Price never publicly asked a nomination and lienee feels under ao personal obligation to a ticket that was arranged with special regard for his benefit should it ever become necessary to saorifice/it. His personal frleuds have freely published the general weakness of the ticket of which be is the he%d> even going so far as to characterize some of the men on it as fools; They are offering to trade Mr. Major, Mr. Brown, Mr. Nowels, Mr. Nickell, in short any or all of tho others, to save him from the defeat which is now Inevitable. Mr. Nowels’ friends are willing to do the same tiling for their favorite- With-

In a week they have been to republicans proposing to vote the entire republican ticket, except the candidate for auditor, for a single vote for Mr. Nowels. Mr. Charles P. Hopkins, candidate for surveyor, and the Hhrewdest manager among tho local democracy, predicted his own slaughter, us he expressed it, the moment of ills nomination. He knew very well that to nominate such.men as their candidates for auditor, treasurer, recorder und sheriff, was to court ignominious defeat when submitted to a constituency like the voters of Jasper county. He knew, as every intelligent reflecting man should have known, that it would be a fatal mistake for a body claiming to be a separate and distinct political organization, in a county largely republican, to pick up virulent democrats for their. candidates with arrangements already made to have them endorsed or nominated as a democratic ticket. He could easily foresee that the maneuver would be regarded suspiciously by the mass of voters. He knew they would look upon it as an attempt to deceive them with false pretexts and a name assumed for the occasion. He knew that men of perspicacity would Jiscover the miserable fraud. He kuew that a cheaper drama of hypocrisy was uever invented to bo acted before a discriminating public by a stock of shallower bankrupt mountebanks.

The nationals made a grave, a fatal blunder when they nominated a ticket of democrats. The local democratic leaders became contemptible in the estimation of every man of spirit or sincerity when,through cowardice, they allowed a handful of malcontents that tell them to their faces they are opposed to democratic doctrines, democratic principles, and democratic candidates, to nominate a ticket for themTho coalition Is dishonorable and of necessity weak, because it was made to deceive; for these reasons it is destined to ignominious defeat which it deserves. .Republicans have no occasion to trade away their strength to help this or that favorite candidate; by stauding firmly united they can elect their eiftirolocal ticket —make a clean sweep—and record the handsomest majority for their general ticket ever enrolled in the county. If the opposition are truly friendly to thisor that man on the republican ticket and believe them better qualified than the coalition nominees, they will, if honest, and sincere in their professions of interest in the public welfare, vote as much of the republican ticket and as little of the fiat ticket as they concientiously can without the corrupt inducements they are begging. Otherwise they fairly convict themselves of lacking principle, and debase the campaign to a mere disgraceful scramble for spoils. The motto of Jasper county republicans should be: No trading; a clean sweep. * ,