Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — They Arouse a Fellow Feeling in Beecher's Bosoni [ARTICLE]

They Arouse a Fellow Feeling in Beecher's Bosoni

Indianapolis Tinies. The horrid stories they tell at Buffalo about Cleveland’s loose morals have no | effect on Henry Ward Beecher and the New York independent. They sup p'ort him all tho eamo perhaps from sheer sympathy.

About tile thinnest campaign stuff tliat can be conceived of is to charge a nominee with having been a “standing candidate” for office. W. D. Owen’s name was presented in the Republican congressional convention four years ago, but promptly withdrawn by h imsel c. Two yeare later he might have been conspicuous in the congressional convention, but believing in the propriety of Col. De Motte’s re-nomination his name was not presented. He afterward labored strenuously for DeMotte’a election. This consistent conduct of Mr. Owen was a for-

midhble argument in favor of the nomination lie received last month, and the hardest thing yet found by several of the democratic exchanges to reflect against Mr. Owen is that he has been a “standing; candidate.” Mr. Wood has long been a standing candidate foi office he cari get; and some he cannot get; but this they appear to overlook rind go on reasserting the 4 fearful announcement that Mr. Owen is a “standing candidate”. We wrtuld rather be a “stdndirig Candidate” than a fallen one, arid we predict (confidentially to the readers of the Vidette) Mr. Oweri and not Mr. Wood will reriiain a “standing candidate” after the first Tuesday in November.—[Porter County Vidette.

I. hung the man who tore down the American flag (at New Orleans) on the spot where he desecrated the emblem of his country’s power, and last night I pilloried the blackguard (Thpibas A. Hendricks) whd strttek at my character (at North Vernon) on the spot where he committed the ertthf..-Extract from * speech made at IndianapolU, by Oeti, Ven Butler,