Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1886 — Spot the Traitor. [ARTICLE]

Spot the Traitor.

Mr. James, of the J/< ssoy/r. wag in close and almost constant c.»b- ■ suliatiou with the leaders of the Democracy last Friday and Saturday. It is known that his njain object was to induce the - democratic conference of Saturday as. ternoon to refuse to put the name of Geo. Besse,the Greenback candidate for sheriff upon their ticket. There is crooked work and a sinister motive back of all this and the straight Republicans of this county ought to know what it is before they cast their ballots next Tuesday. If there is k traitor on the,Republican ticket cover him with the IGNOMJNOUS DEFEAT THAT HE DESERVES. G§t cut a full Republican vote next Tuesday. A vote for Hoover is a vote to 'indorse the school fund reform. A vote for Dr. Patton or James Yeoman is a vote for Free Trade. Let the full Republican vote' be got out next Tuesday, and all will be well. A vote for Dr. Patton or James Yeoman is a vote in favor of ithe Liquor League. A vote for Dr. Patton or James Yeoman is a vote for a Democratic Vnited States Senator. Campaign lies will nowbetlricker than autums leaves in Vallambrosa. Pay to them no heed. A vote for Dr. Patton or James. Yeoman is a vote against investigating the more than suspicious condition of the state treasury. A vote for Dr. ( Patton or James Yeoman is a vote against Beu Harrison, the able"statesmanYTheigaL lant soldier and the soldiers’ best Friend. A vote for Strong is a vote to |>ut Nowels, the School Fund .reformer, and Strong’s chief lieutenant and adviser, (excepting Janjes) Lack into the Court tlouse. Republicans, Greenbackers and Prohibitionists who vote for Dr. Patton or James Yeoman vote in favor of the gerrymanders and of consequent self disfranchisement A trio of -Carpenter township democrats came over early last Monday morning, with blood in their eyes, because a green backer was not indorsed They are f®|g|| of Dr. Patton. BB|| The Message is being purß Relayed two days, this we® the purpose of t irculating Bgsfs 'T 1 : ; ' s’fim y aimed at Mr. Robinso®Bß| jefore the elect; ui, and obe reputed. We coB Hiat the Republic?-.., of '■BB county will have too m;iclißßß| sense to allow thcmselvt-s Influenced by slanders issncßii <3 Her such circumstances'

Patriots like set. {John are not half as anxious to aid the cause of temperance As tiiey. are “to smash the Republican’party?’ St. John has a pprsbhdl grievance, as have also certain prohibition leaders of Jasper county. No more faithfiiT, < fiicient and accommodating official than James F. Irwin can be found anywhere. He is also a most genial, pleasant and deserving man and his certain re-election to the office he now fills is in everyway deserving. James F. Watson is u man of fine understanding and a thorough* ly upright and conscientious man. No better man for commissioner ' could be found, in seven counties and we are confident that he will carry Iris full party strength, and more if anj thing, next Tuesday. The Message man, the assistant Commissiuy of the Dodd Raid, I the School Fund Reformer, and I the Democratic candidate for J county Treasurer, .would not per- , mit the indorsement of a Greenbacker!! They are more rigidly tDoia<MWtU? tbuu- they vaU'e im < ’ *4, "76, '7'-', ’SO and 82. ax-mnar * ».»wwtrmat ■bmm • The common policy of. the Democnits wh ■ > want to- trade votes is ito make*..if possible, the same [trade with a number of different Republicans some times as njany las a dozen and thus get many ' vbt s for their men, in exchange i for their one vote. Have nothing to do with any trading proposition. There is a nigger in that woodpile every time. •Unde Tommy Antrim and his capable assistants have discharged the duties of the office of Recorder, in a manner to leave not the slightest grounds for complaint. The are written up in a beautiful and legible manner and the work of the office is done promptly, and no pains are spared in accommodating those who have business in the office. Dr. Patton, who -wants the soldiers to vote for him, voted against Gen. Grant, in 1872; against Gen. Ila yes,. in 1876; aga i list'-Gen. G ariield, in 1870. He voted for Gen. Butler in 1884, but also for the rebel Gen. West, on the same ticket. He is a fine ask soldiers to vote for him. Soldiers can vote for S. P. Thompson and so doing vote for Gen. Ben. Harrison who hitsTftever “gone baek on a soldier” yet Mr. Adam Hess, of Gillam tp., attended and took part in an important Democratic conference, in Rensselaer -last Saturday. In Gillam-Mr. Hess is a red-hot prohibitionist, but in Rensselaer lie is a rock-rooted Democrat/ and down on “Old Sumptuary” the hardest kind. Mr. Hess can well afford to keep up his prohibitionist pretensions, even to the extent of voting tbat ticket, “if by so doing he can induce ten or a dozen Republican dupes to vote the same, way. It’ is an old dodge, but is still more or less successful. The members of the democratic county central committee (including Adam Hess, the prominent prohibitionist of Gillam township) held a conference last Saturday in the office of J. W. Douthit, Esq. It was a stormy old time, the chief bone of contention being the question whether the name of Geo. W. Besse, the Greenback candidate for Sheriff, should be placed upon the democratic ticket Mr. Besse - ---- -- held written pledges from thirty i members of that committee to the BBarkfcing ■aster Blican B and Bit to B of a ® the ■emoBraph Be. for l&t>*

resentAtive, James YeomAn. And why should the editor of the Sentinel, or /any_ other rock-rooted Bourbon Demo rats desire the election of Mr. Yeoman, a man whose professions are that he,belongs to a party whose principles are more diametrically opposed to those of the Democratic kparty than are those of any other party? Everybody except perhaps a few deceived ex-Republican Prohibitionists know what the only answer to this conundrum is. They know that if Mr. Yeoffian should by any possibility, happen to be elected, he would be, in all essential particulars, a thoroughly Democratic Legislator and on all party measures vote with the Democrats. The Message stated last week, * iu an indirect and cowardly way, that the Republican central committee had paid the expenses of Mr. John Reynolds while the latter was making a Sunday trip to Corpenter township in the inter- ■ est of one of the Republican can- ' didates. A’so that the same comI mitree had paid 865 for job printiTng of' tire value of perhaps ten . dollars, and for having the county ticket printed in the Republican county paper. The] statements , arc simply malicous lies, in every particular. The committee has net employed Mr. Reynolds to do any sort ’of political work, nor | have they paid or.promised to pay : any expenses for him of any kind. ' The bill paid for printing was the ' balance due on a bill for $65 worth j of job printing, representing all that had been done for the committee ever since the opening of the campaign, and including all the printing done for all the coni ventions, for the primary election I &c. Not a single item of the bill i was charged above its fair value, and not one cent of it was for publishing the ticket in the county paper, or for any other kind of work done in the paper for the good of the party. The present proprietor of Tha Republican has never, either this year nor heretofore, asked for nor received so much as a single cent for the use . of its columns in the service of i the Republican party. Fuitheri more he has never charged more than a fair living price for any work done for the party in the way of job printing.