Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1886 — COMMUNICATED. [ARTICLE]

COMMUNICATED.

Editor Sentinel: ’There is abundant food for reflection furnished Democrats, and the people generally, in the disgraceful, unlawful and uncalled for RobimonJ nines pugilistic encounter. Poso far as the two men re concerned, there is little for us to waste sympathy upon. Mr. James’ whole career in politics has hem obnoxious in the extreme to Democrats and all who differed with him. He entered upon the years of manhood in the ranks of the Republican party, and the drill, discipline and associations of Republican teachings are impressed upon him. He engaged in the newspaper business, and became

the mouthpiece of the then dominant political party. His criticisms of the Democratic party and Democratic candidates were generally of such a character as neither to add strenth to his own or weaken the cause of his opponents. Of the local candidates of our party, Hon. Geo. Major, lion. George JBL Brown, Henry A. Barkley,, Ohalres H. Price, Ezra C. Nowels, Wm, E. Moore, Dr. J. H. Loughridge, W. G. Smoot and a score of others, have been the ol - jects of his vindictive spirit Notwithstanding his alacrity in the performance of the dirty work of his party, he has not been rewarded in proportion to his demand, nor in a manner in the least gratifying to his egotism. He demanded the mission to Panama, and fraud Hayes insultingly flung in his face the beggarly and unimportant appointment to Turk Island. After protracted pleadings, and extended visits to Washington, he was given the appointment to the Rensselar post-office. His ambit'on still unsatisfied, he craved the portfolio of- tne Indiana State Department, which was promptly

A ' X X. %J and emphatically refused. When in charge of the post office, without reg rd for the spirit of the civil service law, lie devoted time and labor in the interest of the republican candidates, his late eye decorator being one of them. As Democrats we entertain no respect, and need waste no sympathy in that quarter. To us it should be a matter of congratulation that his aspiration to resume a leadership lias been clipped, his hopes crushed, and his pride humbled by a robust pugilistic brother of his own political faith. There is, uowever, another tho’t in connection with this affair, and the position that the Jasper county Republtcans bear to it, that is, if anything, still more interesting, not only to Democrats, but to the candid, conservative and thoughtful of all parties. For years, and years, and years, the press and paid Hessians of the Republican party have charged the Democracy with being a party of lawlessness and brutality. ‘Harper’s Weekly’ and/The Judge’ always portray Democrats as long-haired, thicknecked bullies. Republican s have appealed in frantic terms to school ma’ams and Sunday school teachers to instruct their charges against the pernicious associations of the Democratic party. We are called the whisky party; the saloon party; the anti-morali+y party; the lawbreaking party; the buldozing and intimidating party; the party opposed to free speech and free press, and every other infamous stigm i that an organized gang of villains could devise and invent. Had Henry A. Barkley, Charles H. Price, or Ezra C. Nowels assaulted Mr. James in the same manner and urn er the same circumstances as did George M. Robinson, it would have been regarded as an unpardonable outrage, and there would have been no end to vigorous denunciations. Every yelping Republican editor in the State would have beeu st'ickon with terror. The Indiapolis Journal and Rensselaer Republican would have kept an embellished statement of the great ‘Democratic Outrage’ standing in their most prominent columns until election day. 'But a Republican Justice of the

Peace fines a Republican candidate for Auditor $8 for an assault on a Republican editor; a Republican wrou’d-be law maker sn s this fine is too severe, and the Republican organ justifies the assault us a means of grace, and publishes the justification to the world. Was ever more wanton and brazen hypocrisy manifest? With no love for Con el to Turk b land James, and no sympathy for those who deliberately violate the laws of Indiana aud the peace and dignity of our ivil community, I submit this matter to the honest, moral and temperate citizens of the county. Young Democrat. Rensselaer, Ind., June 21, ’B6.