Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1880 — Jaspor County’s Candidate for Congress.” [ARTICLE]

Jaspor County’s Candidate for Congress.”

On the appearance of the Sentinel with the article concerning General Thompsons “war record,” “Jasper county’s candidate for Congress” was sorely troubled, and in anguish of soul exclaimed, “ what shall I do to be saved”—fromjthejhands of my friends ? “What shall be done about my war record ?” A council of the wise-heads of the party was called in consultation, and it was determined to institute a vigorous search for the needed record. Emissaries were dispatched to various points in the district. Lycurgus stepped off the narrow gauge at Delphi, and the County Physician put in his time in the city of Logansport and county of Cass. Four days were consumed in the hunt along the Wabash, the Eel, and the Tippecanoe; from Delphi to Logansport, from the mouth of tiie Tippecanoe to Winatnac. Tiie desired information was at last obtained, and the little chiefs hastened to curryjthe tidings to the head chief, and rushed into his presence exclaiming: “We have found it!” and “Jasper county’s candidate” responded, “ Well done, good and faithful servan s, when I get to Congress you shall have some of the crumbs that fall from my table.” and they were exceedingly delighted thereat. The “war record,” as ascertained is thus given by his historian in last week’s Republican: “Perhaps it would not be wise in us to urge the “war record” of Jasper county's candidate for congress, but that he did go to camp Taylor, Ohio, in 1802, and offer his services to the government, cannot be denied. * * He also served sometime as a recruitingoffice!-. If his health did not permit him to enter the army at the beginning of the war he did a good job of fighting and voting against Vallandigbam Democrats.’ This is the “war record” as given by his historian. Went to “camp Taylor,” and may be kept a peanut stand until his soul became so “fired” that he abandoned it, rushed to tho “rear,” and engaged in the recruiting business. It was probably more profitable to travel over tee’country and persuade other men to leave their homes, their wives and children, and endure the hardships of a military life. Now the able bodied recruiting officer, continually urging others, and themselves refusing to go, and the sutrler, “the curse ofthe camp” were during the war equally deserving the supreme contempt of patriotic men. For lack of “war record,” then, which, “perhaps it would not be wise” to urge the devoted biographer of of “Jasper county’s candidate for congress” tells us that “he did a good job of lighting .and voting against Yallandighatn Democrats.” The biographer himself diil that; and a sufficient following of tiie radical paity to carry the elections did the same thing.— But so soon as tiie ‘ boys in blue” returned the table turned and Democ racy assumed the ascendancy. But, seriously? what a God send for the nation that the health of “Jasper county's candidate for congress" failed just when it did. But, “God moves in a mysterious way, His woundurs to perform,” and had General Thompson gone to the front, instead of to the rear, there is no doubt bat what Vallandigbam would have been elected Governor of Ohio and taken the “Buckeye” State into the very vortex of treason, and perhaps would have dragged it into the Gulf of* Mexico. The last version of the military career of “Jasper county’s candidate for congress” is a hundred fold more ridiculous than the first.

On several occasions the publisher of the Republican has boasted that ere long he would have the “Democratic scalp of the editor of the Sentinel daugling in his wigwom.” A friend at our elbow, for the benefit of the “big war chief” of the Republican suggests that the chairman ofj the Radical Central committee go to Nor man Warner’s hardware store and purchase one of “Norm’s” machines for extracting wind front beans, and operate once or twice a week upon the Republican editor, as there is evidently too much wind in his Bitters. The “big chief” might read with profit the history of the Giant of Pbilistia, who was an egotistical, blustering braggart, and defied the armies of the living God. He, too, was a “big ingin,” put on bis war paint and threatened to have the scalps of the Israelitish chiefs dangling in his wigwam, out the stripling David stepped fortli.aud with his sling and pebbles knocked the wind out of the boasting bully, and the Gitite was laid low in the valley of Elah. Aud the unciroumsed Radical Philistine should take warning from this result and understand, when lie becomes overly windy, that there is a God in Israel.

Delphi Journal: “The many warm, personal friends of J. D. Cowdin will rejoice to learn that he has been appointed clerk of the Northern State prison. Jerre, as he is known here, will make an excellent officer.”

Delphi Journal: Rensselaer hasgot up such a boom in the corn market that one engine is constantly employed hauling corn from that city.