Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1880 — SALT CREEK, Porter Co., Ind., July 16th, 1880. [ARTICLE]

SALT CREEK, Porter Co., Ind., July 16th, 1880.

Perhaps your readers will like to hear by direct letter from Porter county, the home of the Hons. John N. Skinner and Mark L. DeMotte. It was eminently proper that the political parties iu choosing the men from whom the people are to eleet our next representation in Congress, should, in the respective conventions, decide to use Porter county material. Tne campaign of 1880 will be a great one. Every man fn our country will feel it his duty as a patriot to contribute to the funds of his party to the fullest the extent of his purse will permit a prudent man; and, where there is a prospect, real or imaginary, of reimbursement from the spoils to fellow. there will be many a patriot recklessly lavish. But the fight will be such that this money as fast as taken will have to be expended for ammunition. Hence, it is not improbable that by the time the October election is over, there wili not be an abundance of patriotic funds remaining; and the little that will remain will be required to effect the national salvation which, as appointed by our country’s laws, shall be done at a time some weeks later. And I have said all this to fix the premises upon which I wtsh to show the eminent propriety in our district’s choosing between Porter county men. Notice the heading of this letter.— Salt Creek is a port on the noted stream which bears the same name. Now, as the defeated candidate must go up Salt Creek, and as he must necessarily, by mid-October, be illy able to go to the expense of a rail road trip, and as railroads never allow defeated candidates to deadhead. Salt Creek should, in his last extremity, be near him. But, as the movement on the one hand wouldn’t, and en the other couldn’t our Ootober Mohammed, unless he have the power long ago decided by high ohurch authority as belonging to the angels, vi*: passing from one place to another without |going over intervening space, would bettei be “right thar.” Successful congressional candidates, once at Washington may do the feat of passing from a few hundred dollars to a great many thousands without having bothered themselves with the intermediate amounts, but it has never beeu charged that a defeated candidate can annihilate space. The eminent propriety afore mentioned follows. Now. who will be the up river excursionist? your readers will want me to speculate on. My answer is, without mental reservation, Mark L. DeMotte. An attempt is being made to have it appear that there will be defects in the ranks of the democrats aud greenbackers. This is very unlikely. It does not seem probable that any persons whe hate wrong will throw overboard so big-hearted a man as John N. Skinner, and support a man who, if sent to Washington, would fall into the ranks, and assist without compunction, in the vile sectional and class legislation of the republican party. There is this differ ence between Uncle John Skinner and Mark L, DeMotte: the latter worships at the shrine of stalwart republicanism ; the former is devoted to the good of humanity. DeMotte is the candidate of a foul partisan organization which does the bidding of giant corporations; Skinner Is the People’s candidate, ; nd will Bt{ok to the last, and rise or Tall with hjs constituents. It is because he is a man of broad views, a philanthropist, that Uncle John can do what the repuolicans derisively call riding two horses. If there is defection among antiRepublicans, let some man on the “anxious”-seat rise and put his finger on it. The Porter county Vidette says that there are partisan Democrats who will refuse to support Skinner, and that the Republican Greenbackers will not support him. Thus it would convey the Impression that at home they are rebelling against Uncle John. Let tke Vidette point one man in Porter county, be he a partisan democrat or that paradoxical mongrel n ‘republican greenbackor,’’and then we will give it credit for sincerity. The truth Is, all democrats and greenbaokers |in Porter caunty are Skinner men and enthusiasttc. According to the election of *7B, the democrats and greenbaokers of tke 10th district are 3900 in the majority; adding to this the 1100 that Uncle John get in Porter and Lake counties above his ticket as a tribute of love, and this will give him a majority of 5,000. He is now stronger in the affections of the people than ever before. and they will.raise his majority 1,000 more, and with a shout triumphantly proclaim that he is the man whom they will have go to do their work at Washington. Mark will be furnished free transportation on a mud-boot frem the port gait Creek up stream. Remember and wait.

BAMRULA.

We suggest to Bro. Jamqs that he dive into the files of the Rensselaer Unloa during the time he was “conspicuous for indulgence in * vituperation” severe, but truthful and proper against the Republican party, and read the productions of “A Demagogue."