Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1918 — GOES SCALPING; GEIS SCALPED [ARTICLE]

GOES SCALPING; GEIS SCALPED

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CHAIRMAN GIVES MANY SCALPS FOR ONEFrank Welsh, chairman of the Democratic county central committee, was very busy last week gunning for the scalp of George H. Haanmerton, the Republican nominee for trustee of Union township. The Big Injun, tomahawk in hand, had wandered into the woods of Union township with grim determination to have the scalp of this Republican official. Not unital the still small hours preceding the election did he and his comrades raise the war-whoop. Then with wild cries, Bad Man, Bad Man, they overcame their victim and with true Indian honor and glory “Big Chief with Silver in His Hair” appeared before his followers and was decorated with the cross of “Simon Pure Democracy” and hailed the hero of all the Injuns in the county. Some Big Chief, much Democratic victory, was the cry on every follower of the banner, “He kept us out of war.” ■ But their hero was soon to be greatly humiliated and from the crest of his exalted mound he was to descend with every feather plucked and his red war paint washed pure and white in the baptism of Republican victory. • While he had been on the war-path for Trustee Hammerton the people of his township were reading President WilsOn’s partisan note and from his dreams Big Chief awoke to the awful calamity that every Democratic candidate in his township had been defeated. That even the office of trustee of Jordan township had been captured by the Republicans after it had for more than forty long years rested under the sceptre of Big Chief Welsh. It was like stealing his own babe out of his own cradle, and from the awful loss the Big Chief will not be comforted. Chairman Welsh had expected more than the scalp of Hammerton. He had his knife sharpened for Jesse Nichols and True D. Woodworth. He was positive that ( Stackhouse, who, like Billy Bryan, was so accustomed to running, would defeat Charles Postil! for trustee of Marion township. In fact, so much faith did he have in his leadership that he had fortified himself against the possible surprise of carrying the entire county and most of the townships. It was a crushing defeat and wholly deserved, not on account of the character of the candidates, but strictly on account of the leadership in county, state and nation. The unfairness displayed in the Hammerton matter is but an infinitesimal reproduction of the many acts of Democratic leaders. The Wilson partisan note in the face of the unpartisan support he had received, charging the Republicans with being pro-German, the attempt to buy the labor vote, the marriage of the administration to the Bolshevik of this county, the use of every government instrumentality in the interest of the Democratic party and the attempt to suppress free speech, all have been used as weapons in the hands of Democratic leaders and they reap the reward they so justly deserve—DEFEAT.