Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1858 — OAVID SNYDER, ESQ. [ARTICLE]

OAVID SNYDER, ESQ.

As this gentleman has become the candidate of the Democratic party for the Legislature, his past political record, as well as [ the; present, is public property, and as such, I we, and everybody else, have a right to use. j We are sorry Mr. Snyder was nominated, i not because we believe him a strong man, —far from it—but because his past record .is. so black and damning.'that we regret to bring it forward. As Mr. Snyder is now before the people, seeking their suffrage, it is our duty, as conductor of-a public journal, to keep the people posted up in regard to him. Much as we dislike to find fault, yet we are compelled, under the circumstances, to warn the people that if they elect Mr. ; Snyder, they will elect a man who, of all I other prominent men in his party, is the . least qualified to till the-station with ifonor to himself or profit to his constituents. His j most intimate acquaintances place no reli- ■ ance upon him, except when they can make it to his interest not to break peace with them. His character is too "well known I here to need saying anything- about him. did we not fetir t hat jnany who know bettor, in their blind party zeal, will go for him. We now sound the note of ’alarm. If David j Snyder should be elected, this district will I have cnus(> ; to regret it, ami his parly will be ashamed of him.