Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — FIGURES THAT DON’T LIE. [ARTICLE]

FIGURES THAT DON’T LIE.

But They Show That the Re* publicans Do Lie Most Shamefully. (From the ludiuuupoiis Seutiuel.) To the Editor—Sir: Will you pardon me when I say that the republicans lie when they say they {ought and put down the rebellion. I will give you a few historical facts and figures—which do not lie —whi .h y< u are at liberty to use as an answer to lheso foul-mouthed slanderers of the men who really fought the Rebellion and restored the union. Yours respectfully, D. Smith (Rev.) “The republicans put down the rebellion, did they? Yes, with a vengeance. They did not do any such thing. Look at the following, based on figures taken from the ‘American Cyclopedia’: Six months before the wa v commenced Abraham Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes; Douglas Breckinridge, 850,082; 8e11,646,124. The total opposition vote was therefore 2,797,780, or a popular vote of nearly one million majority against the republicans. Now let them bear in mind that there were 2,675,975 union soldiers, or nearly one million more soldiers than there were republican voters in the country, provided every republican went into the army. But we know the republicans did not all go into the army.

But say one-half went and then you have 933,226 republicans who wore the blue and fought the batVes of the country, and the remainder of the 2,678,976, or 1,743,750 vere loyal democrats. The fact is, and we all know it, the republicans staid at home to make money, but the majority of the Sc Idiers were democrats. So n uch. for the democratic soldiers that fought the rebellion. Now let us see how it was with the generals. Of fifty-five noted union generals forty-nine were democrats and six republicans. The latter were Gens. Banks, who was called ‘Stonewall Jackson’s commissary;*' Carl Schurz, now a vigorous “independent;” Frank Blair, Franz Sigel, Thomas Ewing and H. W. Slocum. Of these original republicans Frank Bia r died a democrat, and the others, e cept Schurz, are all democrats now. So much, then, for the republican boast of having put down the rebellion. O shame, where is thy blush?” May 5, 1888. Noblesville.

And yet the most emphatic fig - ures that do not lie- -the figures denoting the repulican streuth that remained at home to vote —is omitted in the above. The republican majorities given by the stay-at-homes of that party, more clearly settles the point as to which party furnished the greatest number ta the union army than any other. Prime Breakfast Bacon, and don’t you forget it, at

Duvall’s.

White County Democrat: Th© l editor of the Rensselaer Republican has got the “heaves,” all caused by the election of a democratic marshal in that town. The Rensscribe is on the warpath,, end it will likely be a hard season: for bull frosjs up in Jasper. Yes, for’f they (the bull frogs) hesitate or refuse to sing republican campaign songs, Bro. Marshall will surely exterminate them.