Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1898 — TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS. [ARTICLE]

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS.

The Liberality of Politicians to the Instrument ±hat Made Them. F. J. Zimmerman has for 35 yrs been publishing a Democratic newspaper at Warsaw and telis some ot his experiences a 8 follows: “The Union has on several oc casions supported candidates who weie not subscribers to it. During a congressional campaign, not so many years ago, the Demooiatic candidate for the office invested the sum of 25 cents for 2 month’s subscription; and o'n another oc easion a candidate for joint representative robbed bim-eff of 10 ets to bribe h) send him two papers exp ot**d to contain flat t ring notices of himself. We defaulted in bo<h cnees and our e.nsciaive lias been smiting us cvei since... In the last campaign under the Cleveland administration, a Dpmocratic officeholder who was taking the paper, ciisconti. wed at the ex piration of ;is time. Apo tuna - ’er o r C'evflau i’s second term appointraent, discontinued the p per because he coaid now ‘‘get all the readiug matter he Wanted,’ as ‘you know J. h;u in the postoffice.” Yes, some of these aspiring pol tic; an* can get through the eye of a nee die if a camel can’t. But these are some,of the things connected wilhthe ‘ nblishing business. But it is no worse than dropping a worn-out button into the contribution box” Ic our forty-three years experience we can dicovmt the afove oi brother Zim all to pieces. We had one subscriber lected to one of the best paying county offices As a year would the date of election and the ime of assuming the duties of the office, he concluded he would retiench by discontinuing the paper for that period. On entering up*m the duties and emoluments of the pffice he resumed taking the paper t-nd continued taking it for ei iht or ten years. Opposite his name> however, are no credits for these years. A successful candidate for congress, for whom, innominat ng convention, we cast two votes, securing his nomination by oie ma jority, received our paoer from the date of his nomination to ..be close ot his term. We deceived nothirg for servioes rendered nor for die paper. We might go on ennmer ate, a gccre or more, but the two cases referri d to eclipse any on Zim’s record. , Mrs. Henry Pnrcnpilehas opened np a millinery stock at her home in the residence part of the Lndd Hopkins building first door north of Wright's undertaking rooms, and desires all of her old friends and patrons a>; well as others to call and see her goods and prices before purohas - ing. Mbs. Henry Purcupiue.