Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — A Life-like Sketch of Our Brother McEwen. [ARTICLE]

A Life-like Sketch of Our Brother McEwen.

Delphi Times, (Dem,) . The oldest editor in the Bthte is undoubtedly J. W. McEwen, of the Rensselaer Sentinel. Mr. McEwen was the only Scbtbhm&h in the crow that shipped with tblumbus for the discovery of America in 1492, and after chronicling that auspicious event for the leading European newspapers of that day, he returned to the Old World where he remained until the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. Early in this struggle he espoused the cause of freedom and enlisted with the American patriots and was the first man to discover a pass at the Delaware Water (lap. At the close of this war he established a newspaper in Bucks county, Penn., “up behind Allentown,” and remhi’hed there until the country settled up 'and civilization began to crowd him. In the early part of the present century he located at Monticello, this State, where he imagined he would be free from the oppression of furtner progress. In this supposition he was nearly correct, but the construction of the Pan Handle railway and the prospects of an early completion of the Air Line brought in if host of newcomers and Mr. McEwen disposed of his establishment and removed to the everglades of Jasper county—a region that reminds him of his first explorations of the country in 1492. Mr. Me Ewen has been a life-long and consistent Democrat and he was so chagrined at the defeat of Douglas in 1860 that he registered a vow never to cut his hair, shaye, or publish an original article until the disgrace was wiped out by a complete Democratic triumphHe has steadily adhered td this determination and, we must confess, now presents rather an unusual appearance, but he is Brightening up now that the prospects of Democratic success are brilliant, and we are assured that in the event of the election of Cleveland and Hendricks the Rensselaer Democratic Sentinel will become one of the B *• I principal newspapers of the age. Mr. McEwen's long experience and intimate personal knowledge of the political history of the World are sufficient to give this assertion entire credence.