Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1886 — Ingalls and Black. [ARTICLE]

Ingalls and Black.

John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, tlio’ an ardent Republican, took great care to keep himself out of the range of rebel bullets during the years 1861 to 1864. He was for the Union, no doubt, bathe favored it a great ways off. John C. Black, of Illinois, an ardent Democrat, was not so choice of himself. He responded early to the call for troops. He participated in many battles. lie received more wounds probably than any other soldier who survived. The phrase in common but exaggerated. use, “shot all to pieces,” applies to him with truth. A great sufferer to this day and long threatened with total incapacity to support himself, he has, thanks to surgical skill, to which he is frequently compelled to resort even now, gn.ned sufficient strength to practice his pr Session anil hohUth * office of United States Pension Commissioner. He is a Union man, who has shed more blood in defense of the flag than the weazened and waspish Ingalls ever had in his veins, and his services to liis country on the field were of more value, a thousand times over, than all the rhetorical patriotism which has constituted the sum of Ingalls’ contribution to the republic. A pensioner himself at the rate of $1,200 a year, General Black has gbeen the favorite mark for the envenomed shafts of Republican stay-at-homes. The editors of truly loyal newspapers, who impudently assume to set the standard of all loyalty, but who were notoriously at the rear in time of War, have reserved for him their most exquisite satire and their bitterest abuse. A man who could hold an

office under a Democratic administration and, above all, one who still had vitality enough to block the raids of unprincipled United States Senators on the Treasury iii behalf of fraudulent claimants, deserters and bount / jumpers who, unable to secure pensions in the usual way, depended upon truly loyal political influence with Congress to accomplish that end, wo’d naturally be regarded by men like Ingalls as wholly unfit to receive a pension for disability. That is the secret of the hostility to General Black. He is not in favor of throwiug open the Treasury doors for the benefit of every swin Her who may, for party service rendered, secure the support of a United States Senator in his pension raid, and he is in this most unflinchingly supported by the President, whose vetoes of corrupt private pension bills have caused something akin to a panic among their authors.

When Senators and Congressmen are shown, as they hive been this week in Presidential veto messages, to Vie engaged in the shameful business of trying to put deserters, notorious, frauds and boun-ty-jumpers on the pension rolls, it is not surprising that being balked, they turn in with a ferocity that is forgetful of decency or patriotism to vilify the honest soldier, the shattered veteran, the worthy pen-

sioner, who stands between them and their unholy ends. To animosity thus engendered may be attribute • Senator Ingalls’ attack on Gen. Black, which was contemptible in every sense. With Republicans revili g, belittling and posting Union veterans as imposters, and ex-Confederates defending the latter from their unjust attacks, it is evident that the soldier issue, so carefully nursed by the Republican party in times past, is becoming rather too threadbare to deceive people who know a veteran when they see one.—Chicago Herald.

Pursuant to call a meeting of Democrats of Marion township, Jasper county, Indiana, was held in the Court House, Rensselaer, on Saturday, May 29, 188 G, and organized with the election of James M . Dontliit as chairman and Jas. W. McEwen, secrotary. Th following named gentlemen were appointed delegates to the County Democratic Convention, to meet at the Court House, Rensselaer, Ind. Saturday next, June 51 h, 1886, at 11 o’clock, A. m. :

Sylvester Healey, Syl. Omearn, Jos. Sharp, John C. Chilcote, Willis Prewett, Geo. O. Pliegley, Jas. Kays, F. M. Parker, George H. Brown, Rob’t H. Yeoman, Henry Imers, Abraham Simpson, William Shields, Jasper Kenton, Alfred Collins, Charles D. Nowels, Alfred Donnelly, William King, Thomas Crockett, John Chamberlain.

JAS. W. DOUTHIT,

Chairman, Jas. W. McEwen, Sec’y

, The Democrats of Carpenter township met in coucus at Exchange Hall, May 29th, 1886, for the purpose of electing delegates to the County Convention to be held at Rensselaer, June sth, 1886. G. F. Bloom was elected chairman, and A. Beasley secretary. The following named persons were then duly elected as delegates: O. B. Mclntire, 11. R. Pettit; Abe Dawson, M. J. Castello, Ed. M. Culp, James Clowry, Wm. Austin; John Kittering, J. D. Morris’ John Stoudt, Erank Hoover, M. G. Trough, J. W. Hammond, Jas. Pefley.

G. F. BLOOM,

Beasley, Sec’y.

Chairman.

At the Democratic Township Convention, last Saturday, the Democracy of Newton township elected the following delegates to the County Convention to be held in Rensselaer to-morrow, Saturday, June sth, 1886: Jno. Baker, Lute Strong, James Lane, John St wan, I. N. Makeever, C. M. Paxton, A. J. Freeland. ■ I l I t —I The new display of Goods, selected and bought by such a combination of experience and taste as Mr. and Mrs. Ludd Hopkins may justly claim to have, will certainly sell at the prices offered. - «-<•»»« It i<* a notorious fact that Leopold gives greater bargains than any other house in town. Call and examine for yourself. To make it generally known to all interested, will say that? the Furniture and Undertaking business of the late W. J. Wright will not be discontinued, but will be conducted by Park Wright, who hopes to retain his father’s friends his friends, and secure the patronage of many more by square dealing with all Park Wright.