Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1888 — Republican Rot. [ARTICLE]

Republican Rot.

George Russ Brown, of the Little Rock Gazette, in an interview at Denver said, the other day: “Your evening paper to-day says : •if the South would cease clia reassertiou of the righteousness of the lost cause and the superior patriotism of Jeff Davis,’ etc. Now, so far as Arkansas is concerned, that’s all stuff; rot in the fullest sense of the word. 1 have been a resident of Arkansas since 1872, and came there from New York State. At Little Rock more than half the citizens—and we have a population of nearly 40,003—are from the North, and they do not care a picayune about either Jeff Davis or the lost cause. Mr. Davis is an old man, harmless, posribly embittered by failure, living quietly at his home on the Gulf coast in Mississippi, and the lost cause is a ‘dead issue’ —dead as a mackerel. It’s a fact, too, that the people with whom I talked about the war express themselves as gratified at the way things have resulted. It has all turned out for the best.” Among the sheep-raising States t ight, that have 7,920,000 sheep within their limits, voted substantially for free wool; six, that have 2,530,070 sheep, voted substantially against, and two, Michigan and Indiana, that have 3,100,000 sheep, voted eleven for free wool and fourteen votes against it. It would appear Iron} this that the States that have the greatest interest in sheepraising are for free wool by a large majority.— Chicago Globe,