Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1878 — PUBLIC SPEAKING! [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC SPEAKING!

Judge David S. Gooding Will address the people ol Marion rtfxl adjoining townships nt the Court House, in Rensselaer, on WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT, I I, 1878, at 7} o’clock. Everybody invited to attend and hear this distinguished oratorand sound reasoner on trie issues that are now agitating the minds of all thinking people. Go to Catt & Smoot for the solid hot smoking tobacco. Trading politicians are corrupt politicians. —Consul James. Justso! Two years ago, after assisting in and endorsing the noniina lion of Haymond you traded him off for Calkins tmd—what! The consul, therefore, must be a “corrupt politician.

Best Browned Coffee at Catt & Smoot’s. Try it. In spreading a slander always be careful to exj less your pity and sympathy for tin: pel son sluuUered. —Ex change. That’s just the way our consul does it. lie reproduces the slander precipitated with a view to defeat General Alanson’s Domination, and with emotional hypocrisy insinuates that he dees it “more in sorrow than in an ger.” His readers readily detect the falsehood, however.

Sherman, instead of j utiing in circulation the standard silver dollars, shipped out to the national ranks of the country all the Mexican and trade dollars in possession of the treasury, and so soon as those institutions had circulated them among the people, gave out that they were worth and would be received only jit ninety cents. The people have been robbed of many thousands of dollars by this act ofrudical rascality.

Jasper county republicans have an excellent ticket. There is not a bad man on it —Consul James, 1878. We have been content to let Horace prefer charges against his candidates, and one of the present nomi nees called forth, two years ago, the following howl: “Temperance and consistency are excellent virtues in- their place, but l heir place does not appear to be on the republican county ticket.”

"Our Simon," according to the Fowler Democrat, is anxious to take a hand in the canvass of Benton county, since he has become convinced that his power and influence is not felt and appreciated in his own county. The Democrat intimates that if he goes to intermeddling with affairs in thateonnty, it will show him up, etc., etc. Probably Simon might do as well by not thrusting himself where he is not wanted. We want him at home, and anxiously desire that he shall canvass every road district in Jasper county. Send him home.

Horace E. James, editor of the Rensselaer Union was in the city Friday sveninff. He is the member of the Republican State Central Committee, from this District, and he estimates the Greenback vote in Jasper county at less thar one hundred. Reports from other quarters place the probable strength of the party in that eou nty at about 300.— Lal’or/e Yes, and it is over 300. The consul has a habit, on paper and in cmversation, of over-estimating the strength of. his party, and greatly under estimating that of the opposition. But actions is said to speak louder than words. The unceasing and la borious efforts the radical party is now putting forth to maintain its hold—-the several arrangements ihe leaders are now striving to perfect to enable them to colonize voters in Jasper county, ail conspire to show that the consul and his friends have no confidence in the strenth they claim. Our people must be vigilant and watchful, and have a care that the balance of power be not vested in men employed for the time being undfortln sole purpose of control ing the elections. Such cannot, bv any construction of law, be regarded as bona flde citizens.

The 1 correptiun” fund furnished by the bond and officeholders is being us< d in thts county, to circulate defamatory and false campaign supplements, a gratuitous circulation of radical newspapers, and to procure free trains in which to send crowds to rad c d mei tin; s.

Quite a large number from this place, and stations along the line of the I. D. & C. RR.,attended the meeting at Mcnticello, addressed by Hon. D. W. Voorhees and Mr. Shanklin, Democratic candidate fcr Secretary of State, Monday last. About three thousand of the citizens of White and adjoining counties were present, and the greatest enthusiasm and good feeling prevailed.

Our opponents are restless and unea«y. They will hesitate at no falsehood to secure their r nds. Be Prepared to hear all kinds of campaign slanders against the Democratic and National candidates, but heed them not. Just on the eve of election all kinds of reports will be set afloat to deceive, and the people will do well to act upon their own judgments, and disregard the means used by the “ring” to mislead.