Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1914 — Something For Old Soldiers To Think About. [ARTICLE]

Something For Old Soldiers To Think About.

When republicans w&e "In control of the state house, twenty-five union soldiers held positions in the various state offices. Today, with the democratic party in power, only two survivors of the civil war have jobs in the state house, and these two civil War veterans < did their fighting as members of the confederate army. One of the ex-confederates, who was a captain in a Virginia company, is employed in the office of Auditor of State W. H. O’Brien, who has been picked by the Taggart organization to become the next democratic* candidate for governor.