Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1886 — CARD FROM MR. HOOVER. [ARTICLE]

CARD FROM MR. HOOVER.

Rensselaer, Ind. , Nov. 9th. 1886 . To the Voters hi Jasper County, Indiaaa: I am grateful for the support given me uD the 2d of November last and hope that my oonduet as a citizen and public servant may be such as to continue to merit the same confidence and trust. During the campaign just closed I endeavored to conduct the fcame on strictly honest and hoaorable principles, and I very much regret that my competitor, or his friends, had so poor an opinion of their cause as to resort for its s recess to so infamously unfair aud unscru pulou- a measure as the dissemina tion among the,, German citizens of this county of the circular letter informing them that 1 was antagonistic to the Germans knew it to be false. Had they published their prodigy a week or two earlier, or had they puolished the letter of Horace Marble Auditor of Lake county written in a spirit of badinage—to which the letter they did pub ish wti a reply, in the same spirit —which are facts the authors of said circular well knew, it would have boen a very-different thing. But that would not have seryed their purpose. T e letter of Auditor Marble to us was a joking letter, written at a time when politics were scarcely thought of, and the answer was in the same joking style as his letter, the remark therein “Hang the d—d Dutch,” etc., not being intended as a reflection upon the Germans, or of my feelings toward them, but.it occurring about the time of the hanging of Wartena, was au allusioh to that affair. The letter to Mr. Marble was written by my deputy, Mr Newels, and I knew nothi g of it until the letter was written and mailed It is probable that if 1 had known of its writing at the time. I should Dot have objected, being intended only as a little baroii less joking between county offlcecs. I herewith append both letters for publication which I think will sufficieu l.v explain tue objectionable re* marks in one when considered alone. Ho.-ing to continue as a man up* right and honorable in all my dealings with my fellow-men, I am as ever, Your Obedient Servant,

WILLIAM M. HOOVER.