Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1888 — COUNTY TICKET. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY TICKET.

Treasure:, WM. H. WELLS. Sheriff, JOHN 0. CHILCOTE. Coroner, VICTOR E. LOUGHRIDGE. Surveyor, AUSTIN N. LAKIN. Commissioners. Ist Diet—DAN & TURNER. 2d “ JAS. T RANDLE 3d “ ED. W. CULP.

It was not the man from Maine! But the “iceberg” of Indiana. Harrison—the grandson of his grandfather—and Morton compose the ticket to be demolished by that of Cleveland and Thurman. Republican platform-free tobacco, free whisky; high-priced wool, high-priced clothing and blankets, high-priced lumber for homes, high-priced salt, coal, and necessaries of life generally. As claimed by the Democratis press, Blaine was not sincere in his Florence and Paris letters.— John Sherman would not get out of the way at his bidding, and now denounces his perfidy in unmistaken tones.

A gentleman from the north part of the county the other day remarked to us: “Mac., The Democratic county convention made >o mistake when it placed Daniel H. Turner in nomination for Com missioner from the Ist district. He is capable, he is honest, and, besides, he is popular where best Known.” The same can be said of every candidate on the Democratic ticket, from president down. The ‘Democrat’ has a good word to say this week for our Democratic candidate tor sheriff, John (J. Chilcote. But what can that office as now constituted, do for him?— There is the ostensible editor, Bro. Bickels, will have no vote; Bro. Jarnos, the publisher, isaHa.rimuma republican, and Ed. Bass,

an employe, is also a rej üblican. — There is no substantial aid. in this view of the case, to be expected from that quarter. The nomination of Harrison and Morton acted like a chill upon the republicans in this locality. — ard Armstrong procured the services of the small boys to get up a bonfire, while they got the powder and anvil together and fired off a few salutes. Little Foraker, of Ohio, in the late republican convention at Chicago. sought to play Garfield in 1880. Like him, a pledged Sherman man, he was untiring in his efforts to attract the presidential iightning to himself.

Goodland Herald :Bro. McEwen, of the Rensselaer Sentinel, does not beat about the bush when he wants to “set down en” the new Democratic newspaper firm at that place. He seems to think that the prospective proprietors are not of the old moss-back line, but anything for policy. That being the case Bro. McEwen should receive the more hearty support from the Demo-racy of Jasper county, for they certainly have never had a man to hew to the line more closely than he. We don’t ‘seem to think’ —we know that prior to 1874 James was an uncompromising and bitter republican. In 1874 he opposed that party, whether from ‘policy’ or ‘for revenue’ we leave for those who know, to say. In 1876 lie returned to the republican wallow. What ‘policy,’ ‘conviction’ or ‘revenue’ might h .ve induced him to do in 1878, had we not become established here, we are not prepared to stat-. In 1879 he was made the recipient of part of the plunder that had come into the possession of Fraud Hayes by virtue of the presidential stc-al. He was active and zealous in his efforts for that partyjduring his occupancy of that office. But so bitterly did he deplore the success of the Democracy in 1884, that he could not conceal his hatred, and on the day following the ‘jubilee’ held on the triumph of Mr. Cleveland, he gave vent to his malignant feelings in ihe following false reference to the proceedings on his bulletin board:

“The vandalism committed last night are the legitimate, organized, deliberate insults of Democracy for Reform.” “In the interest of Reform the Democracy of Jasper County deliberately, wantonly insult every soldier who lost a leg or arm, or who was wounded in the line of duty in defence of the Union.” ■ In 1886, when the campaign opened, he stated the “Message” in the interest of the republican party. It was not received with the favor he desired, and on Oct. 6. 1886, in an article nearly eight columns in lenghth, he cited his chairmanship of the republican congressional and county committees, his membership of the state central committee, and his appointment to Turk Island and* the postoffice as indorsements of his republicanism. Failing in this he ‘‘split” and supported candidates on both tickets. In the campaign now on he is publisher ot the selfdubbed “Rensselaer Democrat.” Jno. W. Sickels is announced as editor. From his boast to us we. conclude he is equally at home in a Democratic or Republican paper. Publisher and editor are evidently well mated. True democrats have no respect for, or faith in, men endowed with such gifts.

Goodland Herald. —A young Democrat, of Rensselaer, who has already reached the bottom of the legal ladder, and who never was and is not a subscriber to the Herald, wants to know “why we don’t give more railroad news.” Verily, this aspiring young iawyer, like hundreds of others, is a reader, but not a subscriber. The men who borrow newspapers also borbow books, and the most there is of them is borrowed material.