Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — The Maine Muddle. [ARTICLE]

The Maine Muddle.

Thanks to Hon. W. H. Calkins for bound volumes of the Congressional Record. Just once mimic the animal, and true to his nature he comes at you head foremost. “B-a-h nt “Iroquois'’ and you initate and ruffle his temper immensely. A family of six, living near Hills dak, Mich., has been distii’ utvd among the various penal institutions for adults and children, in that state, for stealing from their neighbors. Wells, the returning board fraud, wus rejected by the Senate as Stir yeycr of Customs for New Orl< atis, ukhough his nunut was presented /. i’ h an alias. Hayes is the most unLlush Ing raucal of the iot. The Democrats of the new Eleventh District, this State, have nominated Gen. Jarnos R. Slack, at present Cir c tit Judge, for Congies . At the last election the counties composing that district gave a democratic majority Of 840. Silas Stockton, ex commissioner, died nt the residence of Mrs. Blue, in Ash Grove, last night at. 9 o’clock, after u sevore illness. - Lafayette Dispatch, April 8. Mr. Stockton was at one time for many ye»rs a resident of Barkley township, in this county. The supreme coujt of Massnchu setts has awarded Claries H. Worthen, formerly with Field, Leiter & Co. Chicago, $45 000 damages for the loss of a leg by a railroad collision at De troit several years ago. On two pre vious trials the verdicts against the company were for SIB,OOO and $20,000. The editor of the Sentinel was supplied with amendment tickets by tiie member of the Republican township central committee. When that mem her thinks a principle is r’ght he will work for it.—“lro quois,” in the Republican. Yes, the law directed the inspector tq keep them in custody, and furnish each vbter on application. The township committeeman, by his own ad mission, usurped the prerogative. We think prospective future preferment Is his impelling motive to work, and not that u principle is right.

It is apparent ’mid all the blowing of the Maine republicans that they ore In great doubt about their ability to carry the State at the next election, The leading republican paper, the Portland Advertiser, the other day, said, “there is more than an even chance of the greenbackers carrying the state.” It seems that around all the discouragements of the time as recorded in the associated press dispatches and the capture of the state by Blaine, the Greenbackers actually carried over two-thirds of the townships at the spring election. No wonder that the republican newspapers, amid all theirlying,are actually scared at the outlook in that state.

—Business called us to Lafayette. Friday and Saturday, otherwise we might have secured a full report of the G. B. F. —Rensselaer Republican. Although in Lafayette, as admitted above, in another local, tlie editor gives his personal observations of whlut he calls the “G. B. F.”: * * ♦ The meeting, in numbers and party spirit, was a nauciating fizzle (He means “nauseating”.) Fifty all t< 11. * * * We are not a member of the Green back party, but we believe their principles are much more correct, and harmonizes io a much greater extent with the interests of the masses and the government than those of the ladled party; and then we like truth and fairness. The fact is, the radical party has not lately held a meeting or convention, at this place, equal in point of numbers and enthusiasm that which assembled at the Court House last Saturday.