Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — A Pretended Mugwump. [ARTICLE]

A Pretended Mugwump.

(Indianapolis News.) ‘How are you, Mr. Sheerin,’ said a stranger of the shabby genteel order, approaching the clerk of the supreme court yesterday. ‘I am a Republican,’ he continued, ,but L voted for you this time.’ ‘You did, indeed,’ observed JM r. Sheerin. ‘Yes, and I u*ed your pasters freely. I induced several of my acquaintances to scratch your opponent. I am not such a hide-bound republican that j always vote the straight ticket whoever the candidate may be.’ The request of the loan of the small sum of a dollar was imminent, when the genial cleik interrupted him with, ‘Stranger, I appreciate your independence, but there is certainly some mistake, for I was not on the ticket this year.’ The interview terminated very abruptly. The radical cor.gresses always seated contesting Republicans, and they ar« horrified .»» the thought that Tom W>o-’mV- *■ t y .Democrat-