Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1888 — “Tell the Truth,” [ARTICLE]

“Tell the Truth,”

W*s capital advice, rendered famous when tendered by Mr. Cleveland to his enemies and tradueers. It is worthy of consideration by any who, to make a point, will stretch the tru+h to such an extent as will Munchausen to take a back seat when they meet in ’tother world. It should be earnestly pondered over by the gentleman who circulated tho report that 400 or 500 Democrats took the Republican in preference to the Sentinel. Mr. Marshall says he has 70 or 75 Democra ic subscribers who, with but few exceptions, are also subscribers to the Sentinel. * The gentleman who asserted that we had been proffered aid to enlarge the Sentinel and procure help, as well as a tender to purchase the establishment, is equally wide of the truth. He, too, should profit by the maxim: “Tell the Truth!” One N. D. Levinson, in a communication to the Indianapolis Journal endeavors to reply to the unan propositions of Rev. Sm’th with reference to the polit-

ical complexion of the union army, and says that the computation cannot ba properly made, from the “fact, that at least one-half of the Union army was composed of boys who had not a' tained their majority in November, 1860. He fails, however, to account for the immense increase of the democratic vote on the return of the boys, compared with the republican.— He asks, too, “<ihy did the Democratic Legislature of Indiana in 1862 refuse to pass the bill allowing thq soldier to vote in the field?” We answer, for the reason that the vote was sure to be manipulated oy republican tools in the interest of the republican partv.