Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — Democratic Lititeracy. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Lititeracy.

kiali rson Hi I'.iM Mr. W. A. Fulton, of this city, late engrossing clerk of the Indiana House of Represent:’;.! •i J, has received a letter .from C. A. B okwnlter. clerk of the State Printing Board, and the f.illowing struct is made; 1 have not forgotten my promise to send jou copies <ff the.-House andSenat' 1 journals, but th y will not lwout until .futy' oT Augrrst. 1 can tell you, though, from whai I harp seen oi. the enrolled copies of the two books, that your work stands out like a column of lire as compared with the dark pall of ignorance, which is the principal characteristic of the Smnt•* nienb As a sainpTe of tile o.h 'g aphy of the latter 1 quote: On the lasi day the iidoltigai+tclerk im-ist-edon spelling district-, “histneks”; June, “Junne”: argued, “argied”; Green Smith, ‘-Grime Smith”; Republican, “llepublickan,” and d‘)Zcus of ether rare samples. This continues thrauglumL. the- entire document, and “Josh Billings.” in his palmiest days, could not , hold a candle to ibis production cf Democratic .talent. .