Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1888 — DEMOCRATIC TICKET. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For Governor—C. C. Matson. Lieut. Gox. —Wm. R. Myers. Supreme Judges- W. P. Niblack, G. V. Howk and Allen Zollars, present incumbents. Sec’y of State—R. W. Miers. Auditor of Sta^e—Charles A. Munson. Treasu er of State —Thomas B. Byrnes. Supreme Court Reporter—John W. Kern. Attorney General- J no. R. Wilson. Sup’t Public Instruction—E. E Griffith. e i o . —.... The Jasper County Democratic Convention will be held in the Cour* House, Rensselaer, on the first Saturday m June next.

Township Democratic Conventions to select delegates to the County Convention will be held in the several townships o# the last Saturday in May. The Democratic Congressional Convention, for this District, will meet at Hammond, Wednesday, May 16, when a candidate will be placed in nomination who will do Billy Owen up Brown. Our old friend, ex-Sheriff Joe W. Ste wart, of White county, now represents this Congressional Dis" trietjon the Democratic Stat a Central Committee. No better selection could have been made.

Cl Delegates to the Democratic Congressional Convention for Jasper county, are Jas. W. McEwen, M. J. Castello, D. W. Shields, D. W. Mellon, George H. Brown, jr. } Jay Lamson, A. J. Freeland and Joel F. Spriggs. The Convention is called to meet at Hammend one week from next Wednesday, May 16th. See to it that Jasper county is fully represented.

Ingalls delegates to the Republican National convention were defeated in hfs own district, Kansas. The man who during the war remained in the rear and went sneaking around and jerking up Kansas soldiers for any and every petty little misdemeanor, subjecting them to punishment, deprivation of pay »nd rations, thus earning his commissions, deserves to be repudiated.

Prof. 3. B. s ßrown, President of the Normal School at Valparaiso, we understand will be before th* Democratic Convention to be held at Hammond, May 16, 1888, for nomination for Congress in this District.

Pref Brown has few equals as a public speaker, a gentleman of ability and untiring energy; and if selected as the Democratic standard bearer, will relegate Billy Owens back into the private walks of life. i

Indianapolis News (rep.): That Voorhees was a Knight of the Golden Circle was never believed and probably his story about the documents being concealed in his office is true. Let us suppose it is. D:es not Mr. Voorhees see what a terrific arraignment this i. of himself? Suppose those documents had been concealed in Oliver P. Morton’s office, or Ben Harrison’s? It is a historical fact that the radical drag-net succeeded in capturing *~ut four or -five who laid claim to membership with the Democratic partv. They were tried, convicted and sentenced to be hung, by an unconstitutional commission organized to convict. The action ot the commission exceeded the wishes of Morton, and was calculated to interfere with his object. His object was to attach odium to the Democratic par ty, and he hoped conviction and imprisonment would accomplish that. Furthermore he believed a reaction would take plac » and it would be safer to have those men where they could be produced, if called for. Consequently he was required to hustle to secure a commutation of the sentence to imprisonment. Had the sentence of the commission been executed the people would never have discovered the imposition attempted.— Bowles and Horsey were admitted into the radical cemmunion! Milligan was placed in nomination for Senator by the republicans of his district in opposition to a Democratic soldier; and Dodd, who was permitted to escape, soon after turned up as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Wisconsin. The result proved that there were no Democrats in the K. G. C. Had the convicte i men been hung the republican party would have been deprived of th»-ee votes. The last proposition contai ed in the extract from the News goes for nothing. The extremes to which the radical leaders of those days, in falsehood and infamous schemes, in order to manufacture capital and create sentiment in their favor, is well remembered.— Radical methods came to be well understood. The documents to which the News alludes as having bee found in Mr. Voorhees’ office, were first in possession of the radical managers, conveyed by them to the plaee where Carrington, the military satrap, proceeded to find them. The exposition by Mr. Voorhees of the effort to create suspicion of his loyalty, estrange from him the confidence an .1 support of his friends, and deal a blow at the Democratic party, was so clear, explicit and satisfactory, that the scheme failed, and Carrington was removed. Of course had the documents been found “c neealed in Oliver P. Morton’s office, or Ben Harison’s,” suspicion would not have attached to them, for the simple reason that they would have been recognized as necessary adjuncts of their trade.

The excoriation of Ingalls by Senator Voorhees, for his infamous assault upon the memorjes of McClellan and Hancock, brought the late skulking, sneaking judg? advocate to his feet the other day in an attempt to reply. He revamped the old and oft-exploded campaign lies manufactured and set affoat in the war times by Morton and other leaders of the Republican party. It will long be remembered by men who passed /hrough those trying| times, that partisan malice had no restriction in the work of defamation and ruin of such as opposed the selfish schemes of certain self-proclaimed “unconditional patriots.” Their claim of membership with the dominant party was made a cover for the villainous outrages visited upon those who incurred their

personal enmity, or stood in the way of their advancement a d aggrandizement. Mr. Voorhees very promptly and properly denounced Ingalls as “a liar, a dirty dog and a scoundrel!”