Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1880 — FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1880 [ARTICLE]

FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1880

And now cometh the rumor to our ears that we apologized to General Thom son for the articles concerning him in the Sentinel, admitting itrWt S compulsory with us, etc., and that the aforesaid General was the source of said rumor. We do not believe a word of it. The General knows full well we have made nary apology, and he is too sharp to place himself liable to positive and public contradiction.—This in the flrst place- In the second place, tl e venerable occupant of the room across the hall has drawn too extensively upon his his imagin* at:or: with a view to help his military friend, then by placing him in an absurd and false light before those mote of his history and career th in does his new found champion. We have s. id the General could go Les ire the < onvention the equal in rta iding ai d ability of any man named in iiis party, that he needed no uiantifin tured record. This is all we havo done, and neither owe nor will offer an apology. The venerable chief across tho wav is the one who should apologize for making it necessary for US to eorr et his .v*>surdi:ies. Only last week lie lit on with imaginary zeal oil the hem ral'i wonderful popularity! The l'gures we give in another nrtiel? I'xpla iii how near correct ho is, and he owes another apolo-gy-S