Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — The Wrong Man. [ARTICLE]

The Wrong Man.

U A Bycicle Bage is announced for the second day at the Remington Fair e understand our neighbor sympathizes with the bounced cattle ki Jigs. On the 20th, at Fowler, while a 3-year old son of Dr. Roberts and a 13-year old daughter of Mrs. Berry, were enfirged at play in the Doctor’s office, the little fellow came across a revolver which he accidentally discharged the contents entering the girl’s head, causing'instant death. Our neighbor this week propounds a few queries. He wants to know about the appointment, by the Democrats, of a Colorado horse thief. That horse thief is a Republican, and was appointed on the recommendation of Senator Teller, (late Arthur’s Secretary of the Interior) end other leading Colorado republicans, but so soon as it became known that he was a a republican and a horse-thief he got the grand bounce. And so in the other cases. As to Mackin — well, if guilty, as charged, Democrats will insist that he be punished—but not in the way that Hayes punished those who stuffed him into the presidency by fraud and perjury.

The editor of the Champaign County (Ill.) Herald, a Republican, was in New York City recently. While there a reporter endeavored to get information from him detrimental to Commissioner Black. In relation to the maiter the editor says: “We were interviewed by a newspaper reporter in New York City, who wanted to know what we knew about the extent of General Blank’s disability; whether or not he was sufficiently disabled to be entitled to SIOO per month. We iirh >rmed the pen-cil-sliover that General Black was most grievously wounded, that he submitted to several surgical operations in h ving pieces of bone removed from his arm, and that at the time the case was made up for his pension he was in almost a helpless condition. We gave ■ trhe reporter’s corkscrew plenty of exer.

cise trying to xtract something from us detrimental to General Black.” Logan observed, after the reporter had exhausted his resources: “You haven't found the man you were looking for. It will be a cold day when any ‘p«nny-a_ liner’ will persuade us to belittle the services of any Union soldier, be he Democrat or Republican. We despise the politics of General Black, but for his soldier record we have the very highest opinion and no seven-dollar-a-week report, er for a New YorK. paper can ‘work’ us for a ‘sucker,’ or lead us to slander any man who wore the blue.” Wo commend the above to the prayerful consideration of those republican journals that in years past supported and defended leaders of their party, who were willing to “let the Union slide”; who denounced the Union as being in “league with hell,” and the Constitution “a covenant with death”; in derision stigmatized Democrats as “Union savers,” and at the commencement of the war for the Union were loud in ther demands that “the South be permitted to go in peace,” but now so exclusively* “loyal!” as to dispute the claims of wounded Democratic soldiers to pensions.