Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — ATTENTION, COMRADES! [ARTICLE]

ATTENTION, COMRADES!

If the so-called patriots had not been so tardy injgoihg to the front in 1861. no doubt they would be in sympathy with those that did leave home and friends, and all friendly ties to help crush the Wickea rebellion. In thinking the matter over, it seems to me that many of these same men are the first to hoot the soldier down—especially if he is a candidate for office. It is likely Comrade Charles Platt will be a candidate for Marshal of the Town of Rensselaer—of course, an independent, for he or any other soldier that served his country faithfully stand no show at all when they ask office at the hands of the Court House clique. They only meet with disappointment. How many ex-soldiers are there to-day holding office in Jasper county? Few, compared'with the many that are well qualified and justly deserving. . Comrades, we still have the ballot left, and I think we should determine firmly in our minds that we we will vote for no man who was not himself a soldier, or in sympathy with the soldier. I want a little better proof for it than street talk before they get my vote. Don’t you forget it. A Com hade. A robust countryman on physician, ran to hide himself behind a wall.— Being asked the cause, he reElied: “It is so long since I ave been sick, that I am ashamed to look a physician in the face.” The N.Y. Star suggests Fred Douglas for Vice President on the Republican ticket.

In protection 1 ’ haunted 1 ennsy lyania the workingman is receiving less wages than anywhere else. If those iron anti coal barons do not import a lot of Chinese, it will be becanse they can’t get them. Monopolists are protected, but the workingmen have no remedy against the introduction of cheap competitors. Is industry protected^