Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1884 — Another Lie Hailed to the Counter. [ARTICLE]

Another Lie Hailed to the Counter.

Washington, D. C-,) May 28,1884. J Mr. E. Zimmerman: I have just read telegrams from " ashington going through the Republican press of the Tenth District. Republican editors should send me a copy of their issue containing such untruthful and slanderous charges. I do not see them until they are about worn ©ut by Republi cans. It would be strange, indeed, if I did not know who were Democrats and who were Republicans in Congress after a service of six months with them. I did introduce a homestead bill for the benefit of the old soldiers of the Union armies, and afterwards the chief organization of the Grand Army of the republic—the high shoulder-strap men—passed a resolution and sent it to Congress and to the proper com mittees. requesting that no homestead law be passed by Congress. This quelled the enthusiasm, only among members but in the committees having the bill in charge. I did go round with the bill and worked very hard for it on the floor of the House. My heart was in it, and I worked tor it with all my energy, as I thought it necessary, after such a resolution was sent to Congress. In all my earnest and faithful labor for the bill not one word was uttered by me about the Senate not passing the bill; not one word about votes for me in my district; notone word about any aid to me whatever. Where I live the old soldier knew me to be his friend long before I thought of going to Congress I did argue his case with all my ability, and declared frequently that this country wo|uld be written down in history as an ungrateful country, unless it sooner or later gave the old solder a free and substantial homestead out of her great unoccupied public domain. He sho’d have it in preference to railroad companies and the, lordly English barons. lam willing to have my acts, judged by impartial countrymen; but'to be abused and slandered by entire falsehood is galling indeed to a sensitive nature.

This Congress ha s d me.mibch for the soldier, and I hope it will do more before adjournment. I labored with the bill doing away with proof «©f soundness to enlistment on application for a pension. # I favored the Mexican pension bill. I favored the bill increasing soldiers 1 widows’ pensions from 18 to sl2 per month, and which will soon pass the House.

I favored the passage of about two hundred bills granting pensions to soldiers who were unable to make proof of disability before the pension . department. I favored the equalization /bounty bill and the soldiers’ -prison pension bill Some of the employes from the Tenth District should attend to their duties when drawing salaries, and not lay around the galleries to find items to build falsehood upon about a member not of their political faith. These fellows are known here, and it is common talk that their retention in office on good salaries with half time for work, and the other half hanging arounc the Capitol is a public disgraoe. Ido not allude to the great body of department clerks, who are really overworked. But I have said enough to nail these falsehoods ,to the mast head, and 1 want my constituents to hear from me before believing any statement about my conduct here. Your friend,

THOMAS J. WOOD.

A story is told of a .Republican (per se) protectionist who would have ransacked the earth to obtain cheap labor, beingdriven to the polls at the last Presidential election by an Irish operative, who when questioned, told his employer chat he proposed to vote for General Hancock. He was informed with some show of temper by his employer, that Democratic success meant what the liepublican platform now says it means, namely, reduction of the wages of labor to pauper rates. Patriok promptly replied: '‘Your Honor can’t fool ine. If you believed what you

sayyou would vote for Gener al Hancock yourself.” Chicago Times: The presi' dential candidacy of Mr. JasG. Blaine is a menace of evil to the republic. Of all the citizens that were proposed to the assembly of partisan electors yesterday, and of all whose names have been mentioned in connection with that office, Mr. Blaine is the least fit, the least trustworthy. He is perhaps the most intense partisan in America. — Moreover, his partyism is not the partyism of a statesman who is guided by sincere convictions founded on broad knowledge and understanding. It is the partyism of a mere passion for leadership actuating a man of intense prejudices, of ugly temper, and of defective understanding, whose highest happiness is in playing ringleader in a disturbance. This character of Mr. Blaine was fully displayed during his leadership of the house, at a time when passion rather than judgment was the guide of nearly all the members of that chamber. In no respectable sense of the word is Mr. Blaine a statesman. When he entered the senate—a body in which statesmen is not yet wholly extinct —he stepped out of his own place, and into one which he failed to manifest the faculty of filling respectably, So far from adding to his public reputation, his,brief career as senator served only as a means of making more conspicuous his notable defects by comparison with superior characters. It has been said by some of his personal Champions thai he made himself conspicuous by his advocacy of the Chinese emigration prohibition bill He made a speech for that measure whichfgained for him no admiration among those who listened to its delivery.— Without any foundation in reason, knowledge, or understanding of his sub.’ect, it was the painful liaran tie of an aspiring demagogic who, as everyone plainly perceived, was already fishin < for the “sandlot” votes.

The fatal error of Garfield in placing Blaine at the head of his cabinet (Counselors—an error which The Times emphasized at the moment —was the beginning of a tempestuous ana perilous voyage for the government and the country, that was arrested only by the death of the mistaken chief. — In that tempest Blaine was “in his element,” but his was and is the faculty of leadership that raises the storm without the power to still, the storm. His strange and more than auspicious South American diplomacy was a further exhibition of a meddling and reckless propensity to “rush in where angels fear tj tread,” and to undertake what neither .angels nor mortals of good judgment or right prudence would either undertake or approve. That chapter alone in the public career of Blaine contains conclusive proof to all .sound minds of the peril with which his selection for the presidency menaces this republic.

The republican platform alludes in very touching terms to the laboring man, and the tenderest solicitude for his happiness and welfare was expressed in the speeches, but it was observed that no laboring men were given tickets to the convention.—Chicago paper. Mr. Foraker promised the state of Ohio to the republicans, but the latter must not count too surely on it. Mr. Foraker sometimes fails to deliver the goods. For particuf lars inquire of Gov.Hoadly Ex. “Hooray for Blaine,” Mulligan, Fort Smith, Spencer rifles, Credit Mobilier, Peruvian claims, Shipherd, railroad corporations, and—magnetism. It will not be necessary for Mr. Tilden to go into training to “knock out” such a ticket as the republicans have nominated. SfFort Smith railroad stock will now come to the front as a leading feature of the market