Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1896 — IS NOT A POLITICAL MACHINE [ARTICLE]

IS NOT A POLITICAL MACHINE

Commander Walker Warns Members of the G. A. R. Commamler-in-Chief Walker, from i. headquarters of the national G. A. It, calls attention to the fact that some posts have engaged in political work, and some officers have been using their official positions to further the interests of certain candidates. Among other things the order says: “The country is entering upon a seasoi* of political excitement, when partisans will try to exert every influence for their friends. Such action and violation of our rules and regulations, if permitted to go unrebuked, is liable to breed dissensions in our ranks, and the good of the order demands that it be discontinued.”