Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1882 — Have you Forgotten? [ARTICLE]

Have you Forgotten?

Election day Tuesday Nov. 7 1882. Deposit your ballots early and devote one day for your country’s good. Vote first and then work. The Jail contracts, —It is said that a prominent legal gentleman of this town, will attempt in this week’s Sentinel to exon rate Mr Nowels from the responsibility for the failure of the first jail contracts. But “facts are stubborn things” and no amount of artful sophistry will dispose of the fact that Mr. Nowels, either of his own volition or by directu n of the commissioners, assumed the duty of advertising the letting of the contracts, ard failed to do so in a proper mannerThe mistake proves Mr. Now- . els’ liability to err just as clearly whether the work he failed to do was strictly a part of his official duties or not. A pledge to vote for submission given by a democratic senatorial candidate whom the Liquor League is spending money, like water, to elect, means that a resolution providing for submission at a general election, or containing some other provision which republicans cannot endorse, will be introduced in the sen* ate fo.i the special benefit of himself, and others like him, and tor that his vote will be given and in that delusive manner his promise be fulfilled.

Have you forgotten that inflexible greenbacker whom “the sickness of a relative” and an “appointment to meet a man,” (both stories were told) called to Lafayette the day of the Greenback convention, thus con /eniently enabling him to escape being called befor the convention, by Uncle Dick Ralph's resolution, and asked to “definehis position”? Have you forgotten the two inflexible greenbackers, one now a candidate on the democratic ticket, the other the chairman of the democratic central committee, to whose teachery, according to the Indianapolis Sun, is due the fact that J asper is not now the banner greenback oounty of the state ? Have you forgotten that “dirty lie” about the “S2OO by G—to beat -Nowels,” as a candidate before the greenback convention? The story was sprung at the very last hour before the meeting of the convention and was to the ‘effect that Mr. Robinson had put into the hands of an agent S2OO, to to be used among the delegates to prevent the nomination of Mr. Nowels. Some fool put the same story in the Sentinel, shortly after wards, but having forgotten the original dimensions of the lie put the sum at SIOO., instead of the original S2OO. Since that time the democratic managers have "fondly hoped that the story was forgotten; But Slanders, gentleman, like curses and chickens “come ,home to roost.”