Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1882 — Maine has gone Republican by some 8.000 or 10.000. [ARTICLE]

Maine has gone Republican by some 8.000 or 10.000.

< ulp. Ind., September bth,-82 Editor Republican:—\ iee,by reference to your notice in last week's isnue, that you bare a misconception of my meaning. In *y letter in tbe Sentinel I Lad two objects iu view: First, to exculpate the writer of the s4l article; and,second, to impress upon the minds of tax payers the awkwaro manner of Nichols doing business. I presume the S3O was paid by Nichols, but I presume it was paid on some other job of work, which in hisitemixed report should have so stated. Eldridge took the bridge at a stipulated amount, and to furnish all material, therefore his repor comes before the court in bad shape, viz: s4l for Superintending bridge. I had no intention to misrepresent •nythimg. Jobs G. Culp. Mr. Culp says that we are under a misconception as to what lie , meant in his letter in the Sentinel If Mr. Culp did not intend in that letter to lead people to believe that Nichols received s4l, when he received but $lO, then it is our opinion that he did not understand the meaning of the language he used. Culp says he had two objects in Writing his letter, one to '‘exculpate” “Tax Payer”, the other to impress upon the minds of tax payers the awkward manner of Nichol’s doing business. Now, John, don’t you know, fora fact, that you was very angry at Doc. because he would not let you have the contract to build that same bridge 2.-Ei for S4OO. tiias ferSOOO?

And are you not aware th«t he saved the county over SIOO by building the bridge .in the way he did instead of giving you the contract as you wished? And is it not true that throu h somebodj’s “awkward way in doing business’ three that were no braces mentioned in the orginal plans and specifications of that bridge furnished by the county Auditor, and that Nichols, with the consent of the parties had the same inserted? And you wish to call the attention of the tax payers to his “awkward” way! Yes, but by that same “way” over SIOO wap saved to the county, and you, John, are SIOO poorer, because you did not get the contract A speech like that of Capt. C. A. Edmonds at the Blue Ribbon meetin 4 last Saturday would be excusable at a democratic political gathering, but at a temperance meeting it was a good deal worse than in bad taste. The remarks in part consisted of an “out and out” anti-prohibition argument. The cases of Michigan, of which he may have some knowledge, and of Maine, of which he evidently has none, were cited as instances of the failure of prohibition. Of Kansas and lowa he was too discreet to speek. But this anti-prohibition speech a piece of mere special pleading, was the least of his offence. In the hope* probably, of getting in a little work for his party, he had the effrontery to assure his audience that the supremely adroit, but lying and in. famous peice of political chicanery, the amendments plank in the democratic State platform, gives to the people-squally with the Republican platform-assurance that the prohibition amendments will be submitted to the people. There is no dear and honest meaning in that plank of the democratic platform, unless, indeed, we except the declaration the democratic party is opposed to pro-hibition, and that though clear enough in expression, is an absolute falsehood in point of fact; for existsng party lines do not separate prohibitionists from the anti-prohibitionists. If Cadt. Edmonds hopes to promote the interests of his party by deluding people into believing in that plank, then let him go before the political meetings oi his parly, and not again outrag® common decency at the same time that he insults common sense, by attempting to do that kind of work at the temperance meeting.