Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1882 — A Message From Keener. [ARTICLE]

A Message From Keener.

The spring in opening up nicely, plenty fgrass, and farmers and slock men are looking forward to a prosperous sea«'tn. There wus considerable excitement over the election but now peace and hair, mony prevail throughout our township. Last June, shortly after the election of County Supt.v a correspondent stated through your columns that Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, referring to a northern trustee. Although the shoe dill not fit 1 wore it, and treated the unmanly allusion with silent contempt, for 1 believed that my life in the past and future would prove to those with whom I associate that the assert!en was utterly aid maliciously false. After bearing the reproach and willful misrepre-entations of some, I had considered true friends 1 was elected to the ollice to which I had beon appointed about one year ago. Although my majority was small I received the warm support of the leading Republicans of th« township. In the discharge of my official duties in the past I have been prompted solely by the purest and most conscientious motives and claim to be and to have evor been a true Republican. The eiicumftances under which I received my appointment, together with the recent changes in have all had their bearings against me, yet I have to thank the people of ray lownship for hearty support given in the discharge of my duties and earnestly ask for a coutinuance of the same.

G. S. GUILD.