Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1888 — The Lincoln dubs of the State [ARTICLE]

The Lincoln dubs of the State

aid to U e composed of the “kids’’ of the Republican party, pursuant to call met at Ind ianaapolis on V'edn.sday last. Judge Hammand, Senator Thompson, M. F. Chilcote, I. B. Washburn and W. W. Watson, represented Jasper county, and are a sample lot of the “kids ’ composing that assemblage. M. F. Chilcote was the “kid” selected as manager of club for this district. The convention is said to have been a slim affair.

The only objection urged against Gray, Matson and Myers, by the republican organs, is that the were, at one time or another, members of the republican party, and are therefore “renegades” from that organization. From the way th-y howl, he is a might mean man who has ever been a republican. Do these organs ever reflect upon the fact that their organization is wholly made up of “renegades’’ from the various old parties of the country.- Black spirits and white, of all creed-, like the various birds of prey, united only in greed foj- plunder.

Ihe morning train due here at 4:39, on last Friday morning killed an old man named Cary Taylor, a short distance north of Guernsey. The engineer and fireman state that the track was apparently clear, and the first intimation they had of an accident was a glimpse of a man’s hat flying past the cab window. It is supposed he had been walking by the side of the track and had f erhaps stumbled as the engine appr ached or had miscalculated the distance required for safety and had been struck by the steam chest. He was about s xty—eight ; ears of age. Funeral services were held at Moron Saturday under t)he auspices of the G. A. R. Post of Monon.

Mbs Ida Wittenberg, w r ho was shot by Ed. Chamberlain at Reynolds, died at her heme in that town on Friday last. It is a sad affair,and ajerushing blow to Chamberlain’s mother. She does not sleep, eats but little, and her condition excites grave apprehension.