Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — A Democratic Hornets’ Nest. [ARTICLE]

A Democratic Hornets’ Nest.

Goodland, Ind. Feb. 7,1886. Editor Republican, Dear Sir:—lt seems to me that I have stirred up,a Democratic hornet’s nest in my article, a few •weeks ago, in the Republican, in reference to Simon P. Thompson for State Senator. I have even called down the wrath and indignation • the shoe-peg organ of Rensselaer. And a very small Democratic “star” tries‘to twinkle through the columns of the Goodland Herald , from your place. “O! consistency, thou art a jewel.” This Democrat who flourishes and flops for fear that Mr. Thompson will be nominated by the Repub-, licafts for Senator of this’ district, js, perhaps, one of those fellows that hail from the rural districts of Jasper, who has, at some time or other, been persuaded to appear before the grand jury, to give a correct statement of where he got his winter’s wood, while My. Thompson was prosecutor of this district. “Trot him out-/’ says the SQoe-peg, Democratic —reform (?) organ of your town, and adds that “that party has reformers, like Hoover, capable of reforming him.” O yes, Mac, Hoover even tried to reform (?) some few individuals in this part of the district, 'against whom he held notes, during his campaign section. And the campaign previous, while lie was yet a citizen of our town, flour and other articles of merchandise were at a very low ebb with the great reformer '(?) and the success of the reform (?) party-was more precious to them than any article of merchandize lie possessed. If Mr. Thompson has set all tile old Democratic drones to buzzing at The thoughts of'his being nominated, what would become of the reformeis (?) if he were conducting a campaign? This reform (?) Democrat through the columns of the Goodiand-Saturday-Demncr.it-ic-ProhibitionsWpublican- W liat-is it, says Mr. Thompson has been a standing candidate for the position for the last decade. Why, you ignoramus you. are you as ignorant of polios in this district as you are of human history? All the, so-called statesmen the Democratic party in this disti icfc has produced, would not make., a respectable shadow with Mr Thompson. He has never been a candidate for State Senator, and you know it, if you know enough to tell the number the judicial circuit. Mr. Thompson's name was used, in connection with the last Representative convention, held at Rensselaer, but his nomination was not urged by his fiiends because they thought him eminently fitted io* something better. .. If Mr. Thompson enters into an ' early campaign, we will then hear coming from Democratic throats “S. P. Thompson is on the track.”

Having been "well acquainted with -Mr. Thompson for nearly twenty years, I believe I am able to speak knowingly on this question. ITcnbw him to be well and ably qualified to stump the district, not only in his own interest, but in the interest of the whole Republican ticket of the state; and h ; is ;io political “leaper.” to-day favoring this candidate, to-morrow that, because he, or some of his friends, have beenYlefeaied in a nomination, but has tho interest of the Republican party at heart. .1 recognize that every wine lias i|s lees, and that all men’s faults are not w ritten on thoir foreheads, and it is quite as well they are not, or the whole Democratic party would need wide rims on their hats. A reformer (?) like Hoover, is like a horse that is weak in the knees, he may not stumble for a mile or two, but it is iii him. and the rider had better hold him up well; Fred has stumbled a little in his fir.-t campaign 1 and every voter knew it was in him- Bring him back and let him try it again, and the whole ! Democratic party .will wish they had’ left him off the track, or held I him up well. As a reformer Hoo- | ver is a failure. I have some other facts and figures connected with the Senatoral : contest of 1882, and if Mac, or his 'reformer (?) or moral “leaper from there* wants other matters : un raveled, let them come again. Republican. 5