Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1888 — COMMUNICATED [ARTICLE]

COMMUNICATED

Editor Democrats Sentinel: In your last issue I notice an article headed: “Who Paid For the Rally?” Now, to set the matter at rights and forever at lest, I, as one of the Executive Committee, wish to make the following statement: The subscription paper was presented alike to Democrats and Republicans, but up to the morning after the rally not a single Democrat had subscribed a single cent, although I myself had re peatedly asked some of them to do so. On the morning following the rally it was found that we (the committee) would still be short some sls and again some of the Democratic business men were appealed to for aid and the amount of $6,50 was raised from that source, as follows: George Strickfadden $5 00 Abe Long, 1 00 Lorenze Hilderbrand, 50 And this was the entire amount of said subscription. Afterwards some of our Republicans, hearing that we were short, came to our relief with sufficient to pay the and as the Democratic business men of the town in genial had failed to give us any assistance, the above amounts were returned to the original donors with many thanks for their manliness And thus not one cent of Democratic monev went into the Porter rally. J. W. Powell. The above does not set at rest the proposition that the deficiency was made up by repub’icans, and subscriptions advanced by Demo crats refunded, in order to prompt republicans, who were responding from a business point of view, to withhold their ai 1 from the coming Democratic rally.