Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1878 — All Torn Up. [ARTICLE]

All Torn Up.

Tho demooracy in this state are afi at *#a on the financial question, and if the leeders continue to fight each other as they qre now doing, republicans can afford tostand off and watch the fun. It is a Titular Kilkenny cat fight. Senator UcDouaid says: “I cannot believe that congress possesses tho power to coin money out of paper.’* Senator Voorhees says congress cancoin money out of paper, and ought to Is-' sue an unlimited quantity of it. Senator McDonald says: “I do not eoasider tho question of our currency settled until specie payment shall be resumed.” Senator Voorhees says specie payment is a fraud,and demands the immediate aw! unconditional repeal of the resumption net. Governor Hendrioks says “gold and silver are the real standards es value*,” Mid “no one .desires a return to specie payroeuts more than I do.’’ Then they all unite in aa effort to bring themselves and the party into’ line. The movement reminds one es the Mulligan Guards—Voorhees praooing itt front beating an inflation tom-tom, McDonald behind blowing m e epecß emimptle* .horn, and Roudriokg in tho reae sawing on a hard-money, fiddle with a soft-money bow, while the Sentinel re publishes the diqjio-'-s cratie platform an* swears they nip oil ow it. It IS a beautifully united and consist--oat party*;— iHdiUnciffoti^