Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1883 — A Card. [ARTICLE]

A Card.

Ina communication to the Remington News I gave in my opinion, the best method for temperance men of all parties to work in order to succeed in obtaining such legal restrictions as the best people desire. The Editor of the Sentinel alluded to it in a manner the facts would not warrant In later communications he has been mentioned in a tiuthful way, which he is pleased to term “abuse.’’ He goes out of his way to mis-represent my motive for being a Republican by saying lam snch because there is a Republican majority in Jasper county. I ind been a Republican from 1862 to 877 in the Democratic counties of Pulaski and Cass. The venom of his nature is manifest in the last issue of his paper when he promises the Republican to go for his (its) friend only in his role of a selfish, scheming, intriguing politician.” My political friends will relieve me of the charge of selfishness, as they know I have never demanded anything for what little I have done for Republicans, and Republicanism and further that I have stood by them and redeemed all promises to them. If he desires to know why I fill more than one position, at the present time, he is respectfully referred to the Board of County Commissioners, and the Board of Tewn Trustees. I am confident that it will not be very long until the young democrats of Jasper county, who wear white shirts and black their boots, will control the affairs of the party in this county, and if the Editor of the Sentinel wishes to march in the procession, he will have to brush up his office and give them value received for their money, as bnt few of them aro satisfied with the Sentinel, as it is, i. e. the worst looking sheet published in this congressional district. At present the Rensselaer side is enough to make a man ignorant if he depended upon it for information.

I. B. WASHBURN.