Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1878 — THE BLOODY SHIRT. [ARTICLE]

THE BLOODY SHIRT.

The Way It Han Been lUed to Aid AaUical RaeoalitVi Richmond (lu<l.) Press, The “bloody shirt”dodge of the republican party is well nigh worn threadbare. It has kept the party in power many veals, But while in powoi it has protected so many monopolies, at the expense of the tax-payers, that the eyes of some of It blindest adherents are being opened, and it is steadily losing its grip upon the public mind. To refresh Ihe reader’s recollection of a campaign four years ago, we reproduce th following document; Republican Rooms, 1 Central Executive Committee, > Indianapolis, Sept. 8,1874. ) Editor of Union, Rensselaer, Ind.: Sir—l desire to call your attention io the horrible scenes Of violence and bloodshed transpiring throughout the south, and suggest to you to give . in-m as great prominence as possible in your paper f;om this time until after the election. Thomas J. Brady, Chairman. Give those “horrible scenes” “as great prominence as possible in your paper from this time until after the election.”

What for? To catch voting gudgeons. But that kind of gudgeons are not so plenty as they were a few years since. Ben Harrison and all the rest wave the “blody shirt," but the poor people are too hungry to heed it. Tlib consul didn’t give it the prominence desired. At that time he wasn’t in the employ of Brady & Co., but he naturally “blowed,”