Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — A REMARKABLE CANDIDATE. [ARTICLE]

A REMARKABLE CANDIDATE.

The Words, Fsed in a" Recent Spsech by Dr. Brooks at Decatur, Jtl. Dr. Brooks, the Prohibition candidate far vice president, seems to be rather a remarkable person. The following are reported to be the exact words which he used at the recent meetin? at Decatur, Ill.: “I lived in the south arid slaves. I sympathized with the south and prayed for the success of the Confederate‘cause, but my prayers were not answered. I have.beeyi a Dimiocrat, but thank God I li,avc never been a Republican. . I will never have that sin to answer for.” Dr. Brooks also said, as reported by an organ of his own party: “* * And I want to say further, that, under the present regime, of that party (Republican), and the waving of the .bloody shirt, and—the perpetuity of the sad memories of the war, the time will never come until Gabriel blows his trumpet that the negro vote in the south will be counted. - ’ . The Prohibitory party seeks to recruit its ranks chiefly from the Republican party, and a large part of its membership is-composed of men who were ouce Republicans, and who have still, it may be presumed, 'some regard for the record of that party and for the grand work it accomplished in the cause of human freedom. To present to them as a candidate a man who publicly thanks God that he never was a Republican. and who boasts as publicly that’the negro vote will not be counted, is an act of extraordinary audacity.—Boston Journal.