Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1892 — A CARD FROM MR. BATES. [ARTICLE]

A CARD FROM MR. BATES.

The editor of the Republican will please give the name of the man whom he alleges I gave $50,00 of alleged 'r oodie, or I will ck rge him publicly with being a malicious iiar and a slanderer of jyrivate character. The Democrats have no money and are not desirous of purchasing any votes. We expect to win on our merits. N. S BATES. The man who would sell his vote could, under the Australian system, refuse to cast it in accordance with pnrehase; and the purchaser of rotes, whioh Le cannot see delivered, would be the biggest kind of a fool. Democrats are not in that market. After much drumming, extensive advertising, large expenditure of money, the Republican rally, 'contributed from Jasper, Newton, Benton, White, Lake and other counties, numbered about 1500, The speakers were abusive, and a Republican remarked that the speech of the accidental governor was the most undignified he had ever listened to—that it was actually smutty.

Having received an invitation, accompanied by our daughter, Miss Franc , we took in the dedicatory services of the World's Fair, Chicago, 1 ist Friday. - -■ • A fair audience listened to the remarks Messrs. Nye a:id Holman, yesterday.— Senator Gilman took advantage of an opportunity afforded him to deny bis vote on the tax bill, and at the same time ndmittod that he voted for the conference report. We insist that Mr. Gilman defend h is vote. —— '- ■ 1 ■■<»»»« ■ - ■ ■ ■ - -■ Judge John P. Bea, of Minnesota, ox-commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Bepnblic, a life-long Republican, has declared for Cleveland