Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — A Notable Hancock Recruit. [ARTICLE]

A Notable Hancock Recruit.

Mr. George W. Vinton, of Moline, HI., who, in 1876, came within an ace of being the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the State, has come out fyjr gaqcqck, because he “is dis-

gusfced with the recent corrupt tendencies of the Republican party management and with the wholesale abuse of the South, which section he has lately visited. ” He says the ticket nominated at Chicago was “ a compromise on one whom his- own party friends have convicted of perfidy and corruption, with a second whose only fame in the nation is of having been discharged in disgust from the public service by the head of his own party. ” He is confident Illinois can be earned for Hancock and lowa made a good deal closer than ever before. It will now be in order for the Republican papers to allude to Mr. Vinton as a sorehead, a blasphemer and a horsethief.