Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1884 — OXFORD. INDIANA, June 16, 1884. [ARTICLE]

O XFORD. INDIANA, June 16, 1884.

Mb Editor— Dear Sir: W. D. Owen, who Is now a candidate for congress, run for eounty treasurer in this county about the year 1868; am not certain as to the exact time, but he was beaten between 300 And 400 votes, and run against a very slow man. and the county was near 200 Republican. The reasons were that be used county money when his uncle was county treasurer, with the connivance of his uncle, to buy soldiers’ and widows of soldiers, cluims that were issued to them during the war to keep them from want. His uncle would say that ti.ere was no money for that purpose, but tnat his nephew, “Billy," had some and would probably buy them. Now “Billy” wat not wo.tu one cent in the world, yet he bought hundreds of dollars worth of these orders at sixty five per cent, and less, and no doubt made his start in the world by that means. There is not one in twenty c oldicrs that will vote for him in this county under any circumstances. It is your duty'to euquire into this matter, and you will find out that I have not overdrawn the case If he had no such recordjhe is no representative of the people,

A SOLDIER.