Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — Turn the Rascals In. [ARTICLE]
Turn the Rascals In.
In Rhode Island a Eostmastership is given to a Democrat who has been arrested nine times in three months for violating the liquor laws. Turn the rascals in. . In Indiana a place in the mail service is given to a Democrat who, says the Indianapolis Journal, publicly boasts that he has offered bribes to the city officials. Turn the rascals in. In Maryland an appointment to the Treasury Department is given to a Democrat whose reputation, the Civil Service Reform Association of that State, is not that of a man of integrity and honor. Turn the rascals in. In lowa another Postmastership is given to a Democrat who was jailed for breaking the pension laws. Turn the rascals in. In Colorado an agencyship of the National Labor Bureau is given to a Democrat who has been in the penitentiary for horse-stealing. Turn the rascals in. In Pennsylvania a clerkship in the United States Mint is given to a Democrat who sent a bogus letter to Cincinnati last fall purporting to come from Neal Dow, and by him denounced as a forgery, designed to drive the German vote away from the Republican candidate. Turn the rascals in. In Vermont a collectorship is given to a Democrat who was an active member of the committee that endeavored to compass the defeat of Gen. Garfield by the infamous Morey letter. Turn the rascals in. , In Mississippi another postmastership is given to a Democrat who has been indicted and „ convicted of breaking the civil-rights law. Turn the rascals in. In New York a cabinet office is given to a Democrat who notoriously is one of the most offensive partisans and thorough-going machine bosses in the country. Turn the rascals in. —New York Tribune. - k Let it be conceded that the Republican party has gone to seed, especially in lowa. Ent it should be remembered that “seeding” is a good thing; the harvest will come after the sowing.— Indianapolis Journal.
