Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — HOVEY OR MATSON [ARTICLE]

HOVEY OR MATSON

WHY THE UNION SOLDIER WILL VOTE FOR GENERAL HOVEY. ' ! ■ CoL C. C. Mauon Allowed Troops Toße Captured by Rebels Because He Was a Coward. ■*' 1 '" '* - ■■' ■ ’ ■ - - ... . - t - . 8 The Richmond Telegram publishes the following: •Nate Lamar, deputy in the recorder's office, returned last night from Noblesville, where he had been attending tlie reunion of his regiment, the Fifth Indiana cavalry. A part of this regiment was mustered in* at old Camp Wayne, but the regiment was organized at Indianapolis and did not have a& many Wayne county boys in it as the regiments that were organized here. The only representatives from Wayne county present at this reunion were Mr. Lamar, of this city, and Abe Saur, of Cambridge City. However, the fifty-two survivors present voted like Wayne county sdldiers,. When...they met Wcdueadaynight all mvs one » hmTuT not say how he was politically, were for Harrison, and yesterday lie was pronounced for the same gallant leader. Accordingly Col. T. M. Butler telegraphed Gen. Harrison they would come and call on hirii at noon yesterday, and when, they arrived their colon. 1 proudly introduced them as a reunion o£ soldiers who were unanimous for Harrison, saying they now called on him in a body, and on the 6th of November they would vote for him as solidly. And they will vote just as solidly-for Gen. Hovey fpr governor. Twenty of the fifty-two were prisoners of war, and they have good reason to mark Gen. Hovey’s opponent, Col. C. C. Matson, who commanded the Sixth Indiana cavalry in Stoneman s raid. The reason was well told at the reunion by L. J. Bruner, of Portland, Jay county. He was one of Gen. Stoneman’s orderlies, and in the rear of Macon. Ga., July 30, 1864, took an order to Col. Matson,’telling him to hold his position, but Matson said it was too hot for him there, and he was going to get out of there if he could. And he did it, leaving the Fifth Cavalry and tire Twenty-fourth Indiana to be captured where they felt sure of victory, had not Ute-y not been virtually surrendered by Matson and his followers. Lamar says the white flag was hot run ■ up for three hours after Col. Matson had skipped out of harm’s way, and he is satisfied they could have won victory right on that field had n,ot Col. Matson disobeyed the orders of his superior officer, Gen. Stoneman. r- Col, Butler says Jiis regiment tost as many men in prison as any one that wdnt out of Indiana, and he thought they would have come out all right with a great deal smaller loss, had the other regiments obeyed Gen. Stoneman's orders and held .their positions near Macon. THE RESULT OF FREE TRADE. Testimony of An English Cotton Manufacturer as to the Poverty of Workingmen and Women. The following is an extract of a letter written by a gentleman employed in a largecotton.manufactory4h-Manchester, England. It is worth the reading of every workingman and woman: I cannot think for a moment what ever made them introduce such a bat-tle-cry as free trade, when there are so many people go from here to America to escape it and to better their condition. The laborers here cannot get a decent pay for their labor. You would be astonished to see things that are turned out here and the miserable pay for them. In our trade a woman weaves a piece of heavy cloth 220 yards long and 108 inches wide, taking her loom nine to ten davs to weave it. She gets paid 13s (s3.l2)—think of it! 13s. Why, I am jL-maay for T have to pay it, and this is the top price. We pay better wages than 50 per cent, of the mills. It is awful to think how the poor people manage to live. Some of them are widows and have two dr three children to keep and maintain. Take machine sticbers: They hem one dozen handkerchiefs for Id (2c), make a man’s shirt for 3 1-2 to 6 cents, according to ■quality yUC.TlitSf&affair sampleor wages paid in free trade England. This isUhristianrEngland. In the Jew and - Italian quarters in Manchester the people herd together like pigs; all working, sleeping, eating is dune in one room, and then the upper class persons, prate and say they doirt know why the people arc so depraved and wrekhedlooking, adding insult to injury. - The classes keep ddwn the masses here. They say if people don’t vfofk for starvation wages, they cannot compete with foreigners who send their goods here. Please, can you tell me what good free trade is in this case—for I cannot see it. My idea is that home industries ought to be protected, and, not we keep and feed foreigners. It strikes me that there will lie a jolly,, old row some dayv The starving millions are beginning to think. To hear them talk in the work-shops will make some of the upper class pause a ishing thing to me tat a laboring man, who has left home and friends in the place of his birth, gone to America to better the condition of himself and family, educate his children, live in a comfortable home of his own, can be a free trade Democrat. If they think free trade England is better that protective Ameriea 4 i 4 the name of God send them back to starve. What do Irishmen think of Mr. Morton and the famine?” Mr. Henry Hall’s Figures for Indiana. Hon.'Henry Hall, of Mercer, Pa., was in the city on his way home after a three weeks’ stumping tour in Indiana. Mr. Hall spent his time in that part of the state lying south of Indianapolis, where the large Democratic majorities come from. In speaking of the outlook he said: “Indiana will give Harrison from 8,000 to 12,000 majority just as sure as the sun rises on election day. I base my judgment of the majority on what I saw and heard. The excitement is intense and the individual vqter is being looked after.”—Pittsburg special. i Democracy Defined. The assault upon our protective system is open and defiant. Protection is cissailed as unconstitutional in-law, or as vicious in principle, and those irho hold such vietrs sincerely cannot stop short of an absolute elimination from our tarifi laws of the principle of protection. The Mills bill is only a Hep, but it is toward an object that ike leaders of Democratic thought and legislation have clearly in mind. The important question is nbtyeo much the length of the step as the Hon of