Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1885 — LAST CALL FOR 1085. [ARTICLE]

LAST CALL FOR 1085.

A pair of radical grumblers occupy considerable space in the Republican this week in abu -e of Postmaster General Vilas; Commissioner of Pensions, General John C. Black, and through these gentlemen President Cleveland and the Demo* ratio party generally. “Honorbright” mourneth over the removal of Postmaster Clark, of Remington, from a position he has held for the past fifteen years. “Honorbright” is evl dently one of that class who favor “life tenure” in office, provided the incnn.bt nt is a republican. So firmly convinced is he in the

“divine right” of a Republican to hold office, that lie undoubtedly considered the theft of the Presidency, by his party, in 1877, as a righteous act. We believe Mr. Clark to be a gentleman who will not sit down and bemoan his misfortune, but will rather enter some other avenue of business for a livelihood, and will regard “Honorbright” as a disgruntled radical meddler, who lacked the courage to father his production. Mr. Vi as still lives. And a “Soldier” who could pen the miserable falsehood that the Democratic party “utterly failed to support them (the soldiers) in their hour of need, and in the Nation’s hour of sorest trial,” in the face of the fact that his party counted its majorities in

nearly every State, away up in the thousands, but from the moment the war ended and the boys in blue returned to their homes the radical majorities melted away like snow under the rays of a summer sun. \\ kile the boys in blue from Indiana were at the front Morton nnd Baker were the radical Governors elected by heavy majorities; -since their return from the front Hendricks, Williams and Gray (present incumbent), noble Democrats, every one of them, have been chosen. The results of the ballot box during the war and since should certainly settle the point as to which party did the voting and which the fighting, when the battle was on. A number of soldiers ars inclined to the belief that Gen. Black “stopped” more rebel bullets than his “Soldier” vilifier “stood in the way of.” The statements in the report of the Commissioner of Pensions are only confirmatory of those in circulation before the change in the administration, and if called for by Congress, Dudley, et al will have occasion to exclaim “the Lord deliver us from the tender mercies of our friends!”

The Lord opened ihe asse s mouth, and he spake, saying: ’ “The article from “Soldier,” on his page, in regard to the lying, demagogic report of Commissioner of Pensions. Black, is from the pen of one of the most estimable citizens of this county, and a man who stood in the way of several rebel bullets in war times, and is well entitled to sign himself Soldier.”

The above choice morsel is the latest literary production of our gentle neighbor. We fell in love with it at first sight, and could not resist the temptation to transfer it to our columns, therefore we reproduce it, “et literatum, et punctuatum,” so that our readers may with us enjoy the entertainment Gen. Black is an intelligent gentleman, a true lover of his country, and to this day is a sufferer from wounds received in battes in her defense. He interposed his body and stopped rebel bullets at the time win n he who now writes him down a “lying demagogue’

was probably trembling in anticipation of the draft. He was “stopping 1 ’ rebel bullets while our “Solder” who denounces his official report as a “monstrous falsehood” simply “stood in the way of several,” but not in such proximity as to got hit. Gen. Black is a Democrat, he has the records of his o'fce, and the exposures he makes of the rascals turned out causes their friends to squirm and say- naughty things. Don’t get nervous, gentlemen. If called on General Black will back the statements in his report with proof that will convince even a “Soldier’, and his backer, our gentle neighbor, that the Commissioner ot Pensions is a gentleman of intellig nee, honor, and endowed with a courage -and fairness that will let no guilty man escape, no matter what his position and standing may have been in the past, or . is at the present time. “Senator Harrison has introduced a resolution calling upon Commissioner Black to furnish proof for some of his outrageous, utterances in his report,” etc. — Republican. Yes, and if he means fair in offering the resolution, the Senator will fare as badly in the hands of Gen. Black, as he did with Judge Turpie, in the Blaine libel suit. — But then it is said Mr. Harrison expects the proof will be furnished, and with it the political death ot some troublesome members of his party. Cruel. -

Our gentle neighbor recently commenced fooling with a Goodland Kitt, and the result—he is badly scratched up.

Black, and that midnight assassin of character, Guiteau Vilas, are an even match, and a brace of the most fanatical and unscrupulous partisan demagogues that ever disgraced an American administration.—Republican. The brave Gen. Black, and the chivalrous Vilas are only guilty of being Democrats, and the allusion to them in the above extract is simply done with a view to establish the loyalty and devotion of our to his party. He don’t mean any harm. In fact, we expect ere long he will adopt the method of Peter oE old--attest his declara tions with u little emphatic profanity.

“It is certainly a remarkable fact that the President neglected to refer in his message, in any manner, to the death during the past year of one of his predecessors in the presidential office, etc. Republican. Yes, and doggon him, h e “neglected to refer, in his message, in any manner,” 'othe arrival during the past year of a son and heir at the Republican mansion. — -g-Ex-Senator3 Brown, of Missouri, and Toombs, of Georgia, died uring the past week.

The reports from the various departments of the General Government operate on the Republican press much th Q same as a red rag waved in the face of an infuriated bull.

AH persons knowing themselves to i e debtors -of Ralph Pendig, either by account or note, are most urgently requested to call and setd- curing thus month, as on January Ist, 138(1,1 shall put all notes and accounts into a collector’s

bonds.

HALPH FENDIG.