Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1887 — A Political Blatherskite. [ARTICLE]

A Political Blatherskite.

Valparaiso Messenger: Senator Kennedy, of Rush, is an old political blatherskite. In violently waving the bloody shirt in the Senate, recently, he wanted to know, speaking of the record of Democrats in the war of the rebellion, who it was that had been ar rested during the w r becaues he was at the head and front of the Knights of the Golden Circle?— “Why, his name is L. P. Milligan,” sarcastically replied Senator Fowler, “and your party ran him as a State Senator in Huntington county in 1886 against a brave Democratic soldier, Captain William J. Hilligas.” This rather stunned Senator Kennedy for a time, but he soon rallied again and charged that a man named Conroy, one of the greatest blackguards and murderers in Indianapolis, had been recomm mded by Governor Gray and other influential Democrats for a position under the Federal Government. “Yes, and as soon as it was found out who Conroy was,” retorted Senator Bailey, “he was bounced out of office by president Cleveland. He was then taken up by the Republicans, and is now a Republican Assistant Doorkeeper of the Indiana House of Represepresentatives.” This completely stunned Senator Kennedy, and he short’y afterward retired from the Senate Chamber and madly rushed off. And Senator Kennedy might have been further informed that Bowles and Horsey- Milligan’s associates on trial —were active Republicans, and that last, but not least, Dodd, the active promoter and organizer of Golden Circle organizations throughout the State, was permited to escape to Wise nsin, where he was made Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. {These wholesome •truth-” camot b** too freouently reihe beneiiiof the self- •

righteous Pharisees of the “trooly loil” Republican party.