Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — By Request. [ARTICLE]

By Request.

Mr. M. E. Shiel, editor of the Monitor-Journal, the temperance organ, requests us to correct our assertion to the effect that Roger R. Shiel attempted to bribe that Journal with and states that the ain’t was $3,000. The following asplains itself: Indianaplis, Ind., ) Oct. 151884. j For some two or three weeks previous to the Prohibition State Convention of July 24, 1884, Roger R. Shiel, Republican nominee for Treasurer.of State of ludtana. * * * * tried to hire me, and finally offered me three thousand dollars ($3,000) to oppose the prohibition ticket, if nominated, and favor a constitutional convention. Michael E. Shhl. State of Indiana, Marion County, ss: On this 15th day of October, 1884, said Michael E. Shiel, per onally appeared before me and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the fore going statement in due form of law. Witness my hand and notarial seal. Robert Denny, Notary Public, in and for Marion county, Indiana.

The Labor Signal is Non,Partisan. The Indianapolis Times has spoken of the Labor Signal as an “inferior sheet.” The La bor Signal makes no pretense of being a great newspaper.— t is not published by the organized labor assemblies of this city for the purpose of making money out of the enterprise. but to voice the sentiments and wishes of labor.— It is published by an editor selected by the Trades Assemb ly. The Trades Assembly is composed of sixty delegates, selected by thirteen organized labor bodies in this city, including the Knights of Labor, ypographical, Carpenters’, * igarmakers’, Molders’, Upholsterers’, and Varnishers’. Unions ond various other crafts. This paper is non-partisan, but will strike down the hand of any man raised against the rights of working men, as that of Roger R. Sniel against the telegrayh operators, be that man Reyublican or Democrat ’he dead and wounded in Cincinnati as the result of the Ohio election numbered twen-ty-f our.