Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — English and His Detractors. [ARTICLE]

English and His Detractors.

[lrish Citizen, Cincinnati, Aug. 7, 18*0.] The Republican press, since the Cincinnati Convention, has concentrated most of its artillery upon Mr. English, and for the reason that he has become wealthy through strict attention to his business. In most other men, this would be deemed evidence of capacity and trustworthiness, for it is to be presumed that he who attends diligently to his own affairs is not likely to be indifferent or remiss, when invested by his fellow countrymen with an office second only to that of the highest in their gift. In epithets which they have hurled at him { they have not scrupled to falsify facts, with the most unblushing effrontery. The story of his donation of one dollar to the Chicago suffers ran the round of the Republican press with characteristic comments, and when it was fairly proven by those who had received the subscription that he had donated SIOO, there was not one of ’them who had the candor or manliness to contradict the calumny. They have not touched upon his congressional for they know too well that no representative in Congress was more assiduous in attending to his duty and the interests of his constituents; no contracts in the nature of the De Golyer transaction or Credit Mobilier fraud can be urged against him; the wealth he has acquired has been gained in legitimate business pursuits, whereby, in tho natural course of trade, others as well as himself have been benefitted. Had he been so minded, he could have represented his District in Congress to this day, and the charge of unpopularity which they have urged is as unfounded as the most baseless of their inventions. No man in Indiana could have been named who could more surely carry a large majority, and we may add that, so far as that State is concerned, almost any other candidate would have been infinitely more acceptable to the Republican leaders. There is a proverb that “no man is a prophet in his own country,” but we venture tne prediction that when the time comes Mr. English, if not a prophet, will prove a tower or strength to tne Democracy. To be sure there is work to be done in securing the State, for even now the wire workers ofGarfield are busily engaged in colonizing illegal negro voters; but under the watchful eye of so sagacious an opponent as the Vice President, we have no /ear but that their nefarious schemes will be frustrated. If only in this regard the choice of the Cincinnati Convention was most fortunate. , In response to a letter of inquiry as to the situation in Indiana, Hon. W. H. English wroteas follows to a Pennsylvania Democrat: Indianapolis, Ind., August 7,1880. Hr Diab Sib: —Never mind tbe claims and boasts of the Republicans about Indiana. It Is all bosh. Tbe Democrats are thoroughly united here, are gaining by conversions, and are only in danger by reason of tbe Importation of negro voters, frauds and the ate of grant sums of money, which the Republican* are raising with a view to overwhelming the State. Bat with dad’s help, we iatsad to hsrldthe fort. Years respsetfnlly,

W. H. ENGLISH,