Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1888 — A Democratic Boomerang. [ARTICLE]

A Democratic Boomerang.

Etesplte all their pratoatatioQS to tho contrary, the admhiisrrytivi organs have already began tlxrosri;ig innS" at tlio Sopubliean candidato. Tho New York World charges Con. Harrison with haw ihg left tho army daring tho robollioii to. accopt a Civil office, and trios to use it for an .offset to (frorcr Clovelr.nd’s utter lack of n war record of any kind. The World is not only mendacious, but alarmingly indiscreet. It not 'only ut tors n a untruth, but calls, attent-irm to somo disgraceful tactics on the part of its Imiiana Democratic friends. Tlio facts ns to tho incident In Gen. Harrison'S career on which The World’s accusation ia probably baaed are these: That Gen. Harrison in 1864 made a canvass of his state for the office of reporter of .the sfipreiHtf court Hinrthat he was eh- tod. This tnuchris true, featthe explanation of how it came about maker The World’s clmrgp a veritable boomerang. Wlien Harrison entered tho army In 1562 he held the civil post of • reporter of tbo state supremo court, to which" he had been ehosen a year or two before. Somo tuna in 1803 tho Indiana Democrats obtained from tilts Democratic court a decision declaring the office of reporter vacant and summarily turning UaiTison ont in favor of a Bourbon,* Indirma.was the hotbed of cdpperheadism during the war, and this sliamoful treatment, of a gallant Republican soldier wlio was at the front fighting his country’s battles" was in full ao*xa*dancfj with rtiio poliny of men who supported Voorhess, and with whom the .infamous Vullnadigham was a hero. But though the ertppornoads. strack Gen. Harrison this dastardly bloWLis lovval fello.w Republicans stood by him and rcncmiiiated him for tho office from Which he had hann ousted. .Actin-r uadnr orders from iho war department Harrison imported to -layaLGavnrnor .ilorbin ou a thirty days’ leave of absence, made a splendid canvass of the state and v.ss triumphantly roelected. , But instead of resigning liis coxnmissioh-ainLqnitiing: Lis.soldier comrades, tvs Tho Workl unfortunately alleges, Gen.Thicrison returned to his brigade und served until tho very close of tho war, leading his comraand in the grand review of teherman'o laaguiticent army at tho national capital. So ranch for Democratic lie No. 1. It reacts with crushing .force on tlio heads of its tmsernpoloua authors. So will all tho otlc-rs if tho administration organs are Indiscreet enough to try to bolster up them weak and- declining cause by any farther personal calumnies.—Boston J ourual.