Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1887 — An Open Letter From Mr. Robinson. [ARTICLE]

An Open Letter From Mr. Robinson.

The Message says the pension just granted J. M. Troxell “will serve practical purposes.” Yes, mere so than did the pension he failed to receive from the republican administration. Look Out For Them.—Traveling salesmen are abroad in the land working the farmers on binder twine Ihe samples they exexhibit are said to be good, but the supplies with wluek they fill their contracts are of very inferior quality. It will be foum the safest plan to let thes- swin lers alone and for farmers to buy their twine of some well known home dealer. —Fowler Review.

Vice President H rper, of the wrecked Fidelity National bank of Cincinnati, is the prominent business man whom Senator Sherman quoted in one of his campaign speeches as saying tnat if Cleveland should be elected he would quit business. We i, he has quit; and may for some time in the future be furnished employment by some of Uncle Sam’s prison warden s.

Some sharp fellow, anxious for a sensation, recently set afloat a letter to be credited to poor old Jeff Davis. The bogus letter had something to say concerning the return of rebel flags, and our Horace, armed with his young lamppost, in frantic rage is hot on ln s trail. Evidently the Message man desires it to be distinctly understood that while he fought bled, died and captured those flags, he didn’t do so for the fun of having them turned over to the old reb.

A special from Eort Wayne, lnd., Jun 9 22, to Indianapolis Sentinel, says: In the Allen Circuit Court today Bohemian oats got another black eye, the jury bringing in a verdict for defendant on note for $240. Plaintiff was shown to have had knowledge of the character of the note and its consideration w T hen he purchased it from the original holder, w .o has since left this vicinity. In the face of repeated adverse decisions the- e is little prospect of the collection of other Bohemian oats notes being pressed in this county.

At the commenc ment of the war the sole purpose of the radical cabinet and leaders was io keep the rebs outside of Washington, and their own cowardly carcasses safe from harm and danger inside that city. j hey preferred a divided country with a perpetual lease of p wer, rather than a united country with thmnseives relegated to private life. They aimed to prolong and embitter the strife with a view to drive the pe ;ple to an acceptance of their ultimatum: “The abolition of slavery and the enfranchisment of the blacks,” hoping thus to increase their strength to an extent which would insure to them perpetual placo. To carry out this design it was necessay to obstruct McClellan in his plans by withholding and withdrawing tr ops from his command while he was engaged in actual conflict with the enemy. These radical leaders succeeded in prolonging the war; in securing the abolition of slavery; in enfranchising the blacks; but the united strength of the black and white republicans has failed to perpetuate their power. Their loud proiof loyalty, like the pr y- j pharisees on the street! re intended only to be 1 aen.

To the Editor of the Sentinel: Sir: The Journal of the 23d inst., in its epistle, “A Great Waste of Wrath,” not only infers and presumes in its frantic efforts to extricate itself from the pit into which it by falsehood fell, but in its desperation plunges deeper by additional false statements. In addition to its false insinuations in this short sketch, it publishes three positive lies, to-wit: “When elected to the Legislature he was not in good standing in the order.” This is lie No. 1. Reference, Assembly No. 303, Brazil, Ind., to which I belonged. “He had a lien bill that applied only to railroad employes and laborers.” This is lie No. 2. I did not irtroduce any bill applying only as aforesaid. House bill No. 56, introduced January 13, is the only lien bill 1 introduced. and it was not imited to r ilroads only. Reference, House bill No. 56, on file in the State Librarian’s office. “The bill that applied to all workingmen Robinson wanted killed in the Committee.” Your evidence, Mr. Journal—but no, it is not a matter of evidence with you; statements are made by you with impunity, regardless of truth or falsehood, anything to vent your spleen and relieve your entirely superfluous gall. H. B, No. 293, referred to as one of grea f er scope, introduced January 28,1 made no effort to kill in committee or elsewhere.

The committee enlarged its scope by adding not less than three features of No. 56, and it already contained three. All this was of no avail, however, as H. B. No. 56, was held bv die chairman of the committee for more than two weeks, and not passed on by the committee till after No. *'93 had been recommended as amended. I then called the after tion of the committee to the fact that No. 56 had been held more than two weeks for action, and that No. 293, as amended, was very similar to No. 56, and if the measure failed to become a law the responsibility should attach wlierf it belonged. It did fail to become a law. Mr. Journal, your statement concerning it is false. The State Assembly notified you last week that you had published a falsehood that reflected on the order as well as a member. You had not the manhood to correct it, but still persisted in trying to establish your assertion as true; if notin ction, in sentiment, thus insinuating that the order was striving to conceal, and that the resolution it published was not strictly true. The State Assembly told you, Mr. Journal, that your statements were wholly and unqualifiedly false in every particular. AV r ho lied, you or the Assembly? I answer, you did, willfully and maliciously, and this is not the first time by several that I know of. With true Knights of Labor an injury to one is the concern of all. They believe in the universal brotherhood of man and paternity of God, the Father. But they disclaim any fraternity with the “father of lies,” and repudiate his

offspring.

F. J. S. ROBINSON.

Bear in mind the get erou- rates given by the popular passenger department of the Monon Route, for the Fourth of July season. Tickets will be sold on Saturday the 2nd, Sunday the 3rd, and Monday the 4th, at the very low rate of one fare for ti e round trip, or just one half regular rates. Returning, the tickets are good until the sth.

The L., N. A. & 0. Ry. will sell tickets at half rates for the round trip, between all stations, next Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

A bank has just been established at Monon, under the management of foimr r citizens of Rensselaer. J. W. Paris, of the Citizens Bank of Attica, is president; Zimri Paris, of Bridgewater, Dak., is vice-president and W. J. Imes, of Monon cashier. The bank will have ample capital for doing business, and be provided with fire and burglar proof safes, of the most improved kind. The name of the institution will be The Monon Bank.

The Christian Missionary Society will meet with Miss Babcock on Wednesday of next week July 6th, at 2:30, p. m. Subjects Bethany Park and Our Home Missions. Every body welcome.

-ja m As the Monon Route accommodation train from Chicago last Saturday euening, upon which the editor was a passenger, was northeast of Pullman, running at full speed, the engineer caught sight of a little child sitting between the ties, inside the rails and with its back against one of them. He turned on the air brakes, reversed the engine, and then ran out on the pilot to endeaver, if he might, to snatch the unconscious little innocent from the dreadful fate which awaited it. But all liis efforts were all in vain, the momentum of the train was too great to be sufficiently overcome, in so short a distance, and the pilot of the engine bent the infant’s body backward over the rail, and all the wheels of the engine passed over it. The poor little body was dreadfully mangled, anddeath, of course, was instantaneous. The parents lived near, and in a few minutes the agonized father came and carried away the body, wrapped in a linen duster, one of the sympathizing passengers gave him for the purpose. The child was two years old.— Republican.

The Rensselaer Blues have received and accepted a challenge from a nine in Chicago, composed of employes of J. Y. Harwell's wholesale house, to come down and play a match game of ball, on July 4th.

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