Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1888 — JUDGE GRESHAM. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE GRESHAM.

J. H. Hardebeck has aol<l his paper, the Fowler Nutshell, to Leffew & Wallace, after publishing it 22 weeks. The new proprietors in their salutatory, of about six lines, give no hint of auy future intentions in regard to politics. Heretofore the Nutshell has beau entirely neutral in that respect. This county furnishes a speci-. men of President Cleveland’s much boasted of friendship for the veterans of the late war. Mr. D. W. Hastings, postmaster at Mooresba ugh, although a republican and ex-soldier, who is now sixty-five years of age, is still postmaster of that place and is likely to be until he will no longer serve. This is but one of the many of Cleveland’s great, big-hearted, whole-smiled tokens of regard for the soldiers. The office is not worth more than .£2O a year and nobody else. .will, take it. When we consider the thousands of such post-offices, in which changes are impossible, a great many of which are held by ex-soldiers, we weepat Cleveland's gratitude and respect. Winamac Republican. The Indiana Christian Advocate makes the following dignified but severe reply to the reviling of a prominent and blatant organ of political prohibitionists. An editor always measures the mental and moral character of his readers and writers to please them, hence when writing for saloon bummers he selects some Christian whom they have reason to -- despise and calls him rogue, liar, hypocrite, stupid, corrupt, scoundrel, abominable, dirty, a disgrace to the church, disreputable, and -the like.—He knows-how to pleasehis patrons. An editor who writes for reputable families, about re-’ putable Christian gentlemen, treats ■ theip with common decency, even j though he may not agree with them' in politics, hence it is -noC to take the editor’s measure of the' - moral tone of his readers, and de-' -cent people must feel humiliated! when the paper comes into their : families which was-evidenfly gotten •out for the slums. !

Here are some points in Judge - Gresham’s favor, as summed up: by a distinguished citizen of Chicago, in the Inter. Ocean: Please permit me to suggest a few reasons why Walter Q..Gresh-i am is essentially the people's can -! didate for President: 1. He is an honest, consistent Republican, and believes in theprinciples of the part}’ which voted as he fought. y 2. He was a brave soldier, and I almost surrendered his life for the’ Union, as his game leg testifies. 3. He is an honest and upright judge. 4. He is a man of pronounced ability. 5. He was a splendid executive officer, as was shown by his official record in two Cabinet positions. 6. He is essentially a man of the people—was not born with a gold spoon in his mouth, nor has he had one since, though he has held high official positions. 7. Lake Lincoln, he comes from ... the people. 8. By his intellectuality, bis

integrity, his patriotism, his industry, he has been the architect of his own fortune. 9 He has never sought office. 10. Asa judge he has never been afraid to call a railway magI nate to account 11. The discordant elements in New York and elsewhere can honestly unite on him. 12. He bails from a doubtful state, in which he was born, and which he can carry without question. ■ i 13. If the Mugwumps don’t like l him, they won’t like anybody.i l i. The great West demand? a candidate. 15. He has no political enemies. It is important that all Repub- ; licans can unite on some such

man.

JAMES P. ROOT.