Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1886 — Good One On “Our Sam.” [ARTICLE]

Good One On “Our Sam.”

Goodland Herald: Sheriff Yeoman, of Jasper county, was in *own Monday, transacting some business. He found a few moments spare time upon his hands before the train arrived, and expressed a wish to some of the “faithful” to perform a lit le “missionary work for Simon Thompson” before he left. The boys sent him to T. P. Johnson who is a Republican, but a red-aot antiThompson man. The affable sheriff of Jasper took Johnson aside and opened up his “missionary work” but after the first round was the worst us *d-up missionary in this locality, as Johnson never stops for bre th when lie gets smarted. Yeoman soon weakened, and Johnson says before the finished the conversation that the worthy sheriff' wasn’t right dead sure that he was a very strong Thompson man himself. As he leaned against the corner of the depot and fanned his fainting form with his hat, he acknowledged that Simon lived in the same town he did and he felt bound to do him all the good he could.

James G. Blaine, in his Lake Sebago speech, made use of the following language: “I will not say that the democrat e party is responsible for the great southwestern labor troubles and the general labor troubles throughout the country, but there is a suspicious contemporaneousness about it.” On which the Winamac Democrat very sensibly retorts: “-Now, we will say that tha democratic party is not responsible for the munificeut and bountiful harvest of the present year, in wheat, oats, corn, grass, and, in fact, in every branch of agriculture, but we will say that there is a verv marked suspicious contemporaneousness about it.”

The Prohibitionists of Newton, Jasper and Benton counties met in Goodland Wednesday of last week and nominated Jos. Loughridge, of Benton county, for Senator; James Yeoman, of Jasper, for Representative, and A. D. Babcock, of Goodland, for Prosecutor. Goodland Herald: The flag carried by Col. Patton at the battle of Perryville, and which was shot into shreds in that memorable fight, is on exhil ition at Potter’s agricultural wareroom. Goodland Herald: That “Democratic trustee whe is supporting Thompson” is a good deal like the milk-sickness —always in the next township.

Nuts For the “Message” to Crack— When the Rensselaer Message would have the eople believe that the Democratic convention which met at Goodland for conference as to the Senatorial candidacy did “in effect certify to the fitness of both candidates and the satisfaction of the Democracy of the district with the election of either,” he attempts to gain a point for his friend Thompson by very glaring false pretenses. The Democracy was confronted at Lie convention referred to by a very considerable number of liberal and independent Republicans, some of them the immediate neighbors of th Republican nominee” and the prominent individuals of this element were very pronounced as to Mr. Thompson’s unfitness, and they made no disguise of their desire for his overwhelming defeat. That such a feeling does exist ..in the district among known and recognized Republicans is beyond the bounds of successful contradiction, and it was this visible exhibition of want of confidence in Mr. Thompson that contributed largely to the action of the convention as to the candidacy. The people who met at the convention, whether they participated in the proceedings or not, or no matter ■what their present political status or antecedents have been retired to their homes feeling that iff this contest Mr. Patton was the best man and the most deserving of their suffrages. In such a situation a formal public endorsement is of little value. Now it is preposterous to insinuate that the Democrats of this district by a iy act of theirs certified to the fitness of Mr. Thompson. They admit | that he is somewhat gifted by naj ture as to poesy, pettifogging, mo-ney-lending and calculating interest by 2 per cent, monthly methods, and possessed in a considerable degree with th „t smartness which seizes every opportunity of forcing himself into company whero he is not wanted, and often lifting himself to altitudes of selfglorification, so as fib enlarge his opportunities for avarice and personal aggrandizement. This is noi the fitness that Democrats either endorse, seek or desire in a Senatorial candidate, hence it will need no further argument to do awaj with the false and fraudulenl statement about “the satisfacteor of the Democracy with his elec tion,” if such an event should b< within the range of probabilities which we are very much in linec to doubt. —Benton Review.