Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1884 — And it is Only the Democratic Party that Does this thing. [ARTICLE]

And it is Only the Democratic Party that Does this thing.

Chicago Times. The facing both ways platform commonly called the straddle—is a monstrous immorality. It encourages hypocrisy and deception. It stimulates lying. It sets before the youth of land an example of dissimulation and fraud on the part of men \yho recommend themselves as honest and worthy of public trust. It teaches, by precept and ex ample, the practice of knavery, in politics. There is absolutely no saving grace about it. It is wholly vicious, wicked and damnable.

“If it is now in order wa would ask: ‘Will Newton county now concede the Republican nomination for Representative to our Simon?’’—[Democratic Sentinel. Mr. Editor: —The above is a faint attempt at Bourbon irony. The support of such a “moss-back' ’ sheet ought to be guarded against by all who expect Republican nominations. Since Simon P. Thompson’s name was written on a few Republican tickets, as the choice for Representative, the Sentinel has not failed in a single issue to “throw clubs” at him. His nomination would be “pizen’’ to the Democrats. The Sentinel’s championship of a man for Republican nomination, is down right political slander.

A REPUBLICAN.