Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — THE PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

THE PEOPLE.

The old Democratic party will come up milling nt the next fight. * ruth cruohctl •to earth will rise again.” - We nre chuckling over Hancock’s defeat but there was a time not runny years ago, either, when the defeat of Hancock would have made us grin out of the other side of our mouth, it were.—Chicago Ne ts. A Galveston woman, just married wishing to imprt ss her husband with her ability hs housekeeper, bawltd out to the servant us she entered the door: "Matildy, bring tne the washboard ; I want to wash the potatoes for dinner.” After a eareful survey of the field the Chicago Times concludes thut the United States Senate, utter March 4th, will have one Democratic majority, and that the next House will be composed of 146 Democrat? - , 145 Republican? a 1 2 Greenbackers. The Republicans claim a majority of 10 in the House. lowa it awfully solid." Its majority is nearly 80,000. If It were a South ern State It would-be damfltd. The organs would point to that overwhelming majority as full incontro vertible evidence that only one side was permitted to vote. No explanation would be taxen. The 80,000 would be lowa’s condemnation. But if lowa had polled a half million more votes than she has it would be all right, for is not lowa loyal ?

One of the loudest mouthed and windiest Republicans in this locality —a man who is forever talking about Democratic disloyalty and prating about “voting as he shot” —is a fel low who deserted from the Union army without firing a gun and valiantly “shot” over into Canada, where he remained nntll the war enden, and then sneaked home and has t ince spent the most of his time abusing his “disloyal” Democratic neigh bore, a large number of whom fought through the entire war, but quit fighting when the war ended.—Laporte Argus. There was a clearing out of the outlaws in the Newcastle region of Kentucky three years ago. Six of the offenders were hanged by lynchers, but Jack Simmons, the worst of the gang, escaped from his pursuers in the mountains, and was not afterwards seen. It was supposed that he made his way out of the state The opening of a cave was recently discovered, and within was the skeleton of Simmons. He lay on a bed of straw, where he is presumed to have died of a wound received during his flight from the mob, and by his side was a tin box full of booty. The Hartford (Conn.)Times puts it thusly: “The Republican success is not i sweep, nor all one way. They have escaped defeat by a very slen. der thread. Had New York City given a true and full democratic vote Hancock would have been elected. The same majority tnat it gave to Tilden would have secured the elec tion of Hancock. It was ihown by their canvass that the Democrats in New York and Brooklyn had over 80, 000 majority. In a squabble over the Mayoralty and through jealousies and revengeful feelings, about 40 000 of this majority was destroyed, It is enough to state the facts in re gaid to such bad work. Comments upon it are of little use. By it Garfield gets his election.” It will be well to keep such facts before the country, for, while they show Democratie tollios, they do not show Republican wisdom.

[lndianapolis Sentinel.] k majority of the people are with the Domocrario party. The people have proclaimed their, preference for General Hancock. General Garfield is not elected by the popular vote o' the Republic. In 1880 as in 1876, the people have condemned Republicanism. The St. Louis Post Dispatch tabulates majorities for Hancock and Garfield and says: The following rough estimate is as nearly correct as it is possible to make before the official figures are in. We have in nearly all cases accepted the Republican claims: Now York 20,000iCalifornia 50° Massachusetts 40,000 Nevada 600 Connecticut 2,500 New Jcriey 2,000 Ohio 30,000 l Alabama 50,000 Pennsylvania 25,000 Arkansaa 40,000 Indiana 7,000 Delaware 1,000 IHinoU 40.000 Florida 5.000 Maine 4.000 Georgia 30,001 80;000 Kentucky 40,000 Wisconsin 20,000 Louisiana 20,000 N Hampshire 8,000 Maryland 16,000 Minnesota 20,000 Mississippi 50,000 Kansas 50,000 Mlssonrfe 45,000 Nebraska 20,000 8. Carolina 30,000 Rhode Island 5,000 Tennessee 40,000 Colorado 2,000 Texas 80,000 Oregon 500 Virginia 50,000 Vermon t 20,000 Wert V irglnia 15,000 Michigan 30,000 —Dem. majorities in Rep. majorities in nineteen States 518.100 nineteen States 899.000 399,000 Met Dem. popular majority 120,000 “The official figures are not apt to change the popular majority for Hancock below 100,000. We have made the estimate for most of the Southern and bordar States much below their vote in j 876. Georgia, for instance, gave Tilden a majority of over 80.000 and Kentucky oy*r 60,000. Alabama gave last September a Democratic majority of 80,000. “So the Democracy have given their Presidential candidate a popular majority, carried nineteen or onehalf the States, elected vary nearly one-half of the House of Represents' tives, retained one half at least of the Senate, and came within the vote of one State of electing the President.

Considering the effect of the Indiana disaster, the good time, the general prosperity, the many Democratic blunders, the extraordinary life and death struggle made by the Republi ans, and the enormous power of the united capital and corporations, the office holding army and the money aristocracy, this mr.st be regarded as a remarkably close fight.” It will be noticed that a majority of the people do not always decide the most important questions that can be submitted to them—the choice of President and Vice Presi dent—and nence the present method of electing a President is likely to engage the serious attention of the country, At the late election in Indianapolis two Republicans In the Eighth Ward scratched Arthur’s name and inserted that of English. Another scracched the names of every one of the electors sand voted: “For no President at all.” He was no doubt in favor of Grant for 1884.

The Treasurer of Montgomery County has assesssed slo,oooof taxes against the Wabash College. The Trustees of the institution, one of whom is Attorney JGeneral Bald- ’ win, met and decided to fight the payment of the sama, claiming that under the law college property is exempt. Remarkable Tom KA-LEy?—One of the most remarkable private soldiers on ei’her side in the late war was a young man named Tom Kelley, a private in ths Second Michigan Infantry. The remarkable began with his build, He had arms a full hand longer than any man that could be found. He had no more backbone than a snake, and could almost tie himself in a knot. He could tell the a silver quarter held up twenty feet away, and he could hear every word of a conversation in a common tone of voice across an ordinary street. He could run a half a mile as fast as any horse could gal. lop, and there was a standing offer ofslotoany man who could hold him down. On a bet of a box of sardines he once passed six sentinels within an hour. On another occasion he entered the Colonel’s tent, and brought way that officer’s boots. When Tom,s remarkable qualifications were discovered, he was detailed as a scout and spy, and was changed from one department to another In the capacity of spy he entered Richmond three times. He entered Vicksburg and preached a sermon to the soldiers a week before the surrender. He was in New Orleans five days before that city was taken. He was a man who firmly believed that he could not be killed by an enemy, and he governed his movements accordingly. While under the orders of General Hooker, Kelley proved on several occasions that he coulc see further with the naked eye than any officer could witlia field glass. If he could get a plAce of concealment within fifty feet of a picket he could catch the countersign. He visited Lookout Mountain, intending to spike as many of the Confederate guns as possible. His disguise was that of a farmer who had deen driven from home by the Union forces, The enemy somehow got suspicious of him, and he was placed in the guardhouse for the night, There was a sentinel at the door, and others near by standing guard over the guns and store, but it was all the same to Kelley. With an old tin plate for use as shovel and scoop he out at the back end of the building, and walked up to two pieces of attillery and spiked both before any alarm was raised. When the sentinels began firing at him he ran out of camp, out before he was clear of it he had been fired on fifty times. Kelley was ouee» captured when asleep by Missouri guerrillas. When he opened his eyes he was surround, ed by five or six men on foot and others in the saddle. It was under a tree in an open field, and he had bee n tracked by a dog. As he rose up at tnelr command he resorted |to hi® wonderfull skill ae a gymnast. By dodging and twisting and jumping he got out of the crowd, pulled a man off his saddle, and would have escaped had not the dog fastened to his leg. He was then put under guard in a log house with only one room. Two sentinels sat at the door with revolvers in their hands and kept watch of his every movement. After an hour or two Kelley approached as if to offer them tobacco* and jumped clear ovei their heads like a deer. He had half a mile of open field to cross, and he crossed it under the fire of a score of muskets aed revolvers without being hit. During his three years and a half in the service Kelley Jcaptured fiftytwo Confederates and turned them over as prisoners. He himself was captured and escaped five times. As a spy he eutered more than thirty Confederate camps and forts. He was fired upon at least 1,000 times and yet was never wounded. He said that he would never die by the hand of an enepay, and his prophecy came true. In the last year of tne war, while bringing a captured Confederate scout into camp, both were killed within forty rods of the Union lines by a bolt of lightning.