Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1874 — Electioneering Schemes. [ARTICLE]

Electioneering Schemes.

As the time of election draws nearer and nearer, the Reform King are ndout'ling’their exertions to get the people deceived into supporting their nominees. No amount ot falshood or misrepresentation will be spared. The nearer the time of election and, of course, the shorter the time in which to refute their calummies, the more extravagant their repres ntations become. At the present time their hired emissaries are in dirterent parts of the county circulating the most extravagant and immitigateo falsehoods. One florid gentleman of Carpenter township, the first letter of whose name is Ross, represented to be in such estimation as to have nothing to lose by any part he plays in the political campaign is perambuilating the county,in Don Quixote style announcing joint discussions to be held with persons to whom he has never proposed any such thing, awl reporting how wonderfully he has ‘ vanquished” the Republican candidates for re-election to the county offices at meetings which were never held. The only thing that he has been known so far to meet was a bottle of gin, and we have no doubt that he or the gin was not a long time in getting “vanquished.” This is a unique way for persons tir. d of “corruption” to represent their principles. It is an eminently befitting accompaniment to the extrav.igant falsehoods, the garbled statements from “official records” and the stop-thief cries vs “reform’’ “extravagance” “monopoly” “ring” “court house clique” etc., < tc., that have been the burthen of the independent wail eversi. ee the attempted swindle the “daddies” of which named a “people’s movement?’ It is to be expected that the most unprecedented falsehoods will be put in circulation when these honorable high-minded purity-loving gentry think it is so near the time of election that they cant be shown up till their unprincipled work is accomplished. Let all who have any regard for truth and right be on their guard. Let not such conceited persons who think they can gull the voters of Jasper by whole-sale, get any thing to congratulate themselves upon.