Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — Republicans, be on your Guard [ARTICLE]

Republicans, be on your Guard

Eternal Vigilance IS the Price ot Liberty.

The opposition is desperate and unscrupulous, and will resort to any means to win. f Look out for fraudulent ballots. Beware of tickets that have been tampered with. Set down as a wicked lie every campaign story circulated too late to admit of thorough investigation. Beware of tickets with tissue paper slips pasted over some of the names. Beware o£ tickets printed by the opposition, identical in form with the regular Republican tickets, but with one or two Democrat’s names in place of Republicans. Especially be sure that the list of Presidential Electors is all straight. Rensselaer Republicans were universally delighted with our noble and gifted young candidate for Congress on the occasion of his speech here last Monday evening. He is not only an eloquent and brilliant orator, |but he is a great and wide minded man. He will be a power in Congress and make a name that will be as wide as the nation, and an honor to the people whom he represents.

Tom Wood spoke at Rose Lawn,' tQ few days ago, and used the pro-' noun “I” 128 times in 30 minutes, by actual count. He speaks -of Mr. Owen as a “A little Campbellite preacher, who has lowered himself by getting down into politics.’’ If Mr. Owen were to “get down into politics” in the same-manner that Tom Wood does, it would Idwer him or any decent man. But Ov en is quite a different man from Tom Wood, and is honorable, honest and self respecting in politics as well as anything else. “Js there a>iy yoyd reo.soniohy Hendricks ■ sh<Xtild be selected from forty five millions of people to be the. possible head of a Gov? - vemment which-he did his best do destroy?” —Geo. W. Curtis in 1876, ——-—<«> Durbin Ward told us of the ■time when the republican hosts swung their hats and shouted for ‘‘Honest old Abe”, but he did not tell us that the democratic orators .. of old Abe’s day slandered and reviled Lincoln just as they now slander and revilh Blaine. They called him “Smutty old tyrant”, “Bloody minded despot”, “Ob- ( scene jester.” They accused him of every crime in the calendar. Harper’s Weekly* the same aleged “Journal of Civilization” which now teems with slanderous cartoons upon the present republican leader, pursued Lincoln with same devilish and brutal maligpit y ■o •