Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1879 — Blind Partisans. [ARTICLE]

Blind Partisans.

The Potter Committee have made their report, and the Democratic corpse, that has been carried over the same old bridge until the planks are worn away, is again lugged across on the stringers, borne upon the shoulders of the sorrowful statesmen who compose the majority of the committee. There was really but one point in this renowned onslaught on a dead issue that needed attentive examination, and which really interested the American people; that was the charges regarding the attempts on both sides to purchase the Electoral votes. It started with an attempt to involve Sec’y Sherman and other visiting statesmen, and the charges were fully investigated, every facility being afforded for the examination. The result was a full vindication of every Republican from the President down. Then came the charges against Mr. Tilden. They grew until, by the exposure of the cipher dispatches, the guilt was traced not only to his most intimate Democratic advisers, but to his own household. It became impossible to deny or escape the fact that, from the home of the Democratic candidate for the Presidency had gone out offers of bribery, propositions to - purchase the votes of electors for the purpose of Elevating Mr. Tilden to the Presidency. The guilt was Mr. Tilden's, or his nephew's, one or both, and the question was, which should bear the odium. There was little hesitation. To convict the former would be to cast still greater disgrace and obloquy on the party; to saddle the crime on the nephew would only leave suspicion of the uncle's complicity in place of positive proof, and so the scape-goat was saddled with the shame and turned out; but not into the wilderness. Oh, no! He still remained in the uncle's household, and in the uncle's employ, his only task being to carry round the obloquy, which his distinguished relative was too cowardly and the Democratic party too selfish to assume. All this has come before the Potter Committee, but do they mourn over the shame, and denounce tho would-be sellers and buyers of American honor P Not at all. They do not even condescend to deprecate this scandalous and nefarious attempt to rob freemen of their votes.

They-decline to even express regret over tne affair, and go through their long report without so much as alluding to it. This is the sort of document that the American public is requested to give ear, to. Those are the kind of disinterested statesmen whom the people are expected to look on with admiration and respect. —Chicago ter-Ocean.'-—The Utica Herald is responsible for the following rat and clam story: “.A New-Berliner bought two dozen elams last week", took them homo, and spread meal on them. The next morning he found that thirty-two rats, in search of meal had been caught by tails and toes ■by twenty-three clams. The unoccupied clam must have bossed the job. One clam had three rats. Ohs of our most estimable citizens may be thankful for th« introduction of Dr. Bull’a Cough Syrup, for its timely use has saved his life.