Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — “MY DOG-A LINCOLN." [ARTICLE]

“MY DOG-A LINCOLN."

The rra Part otthe Democratic Many a time spine guilty setmndrel furnishes evidence himself by his efforts to fasten his guilt upon some innocent party. In this manner the Democratic schemers test week .furnished much of the evidence which has convicted them before the bar. of public opinion, of having removed the rope from their own flag pole, with the intent of having Republicans blamed for the act. In the same way, too, they have given good reasons for believing that they also put’up the posters, on the, night before .the Voorhees ralcontaining the quotation from one. of Voorhees’ copperhead speeches: “My Dog—A. Lincoln.” This act was, undoubtedly, a democratic scheme, concocted and carried out by the same parties who removed the rope from their flag pole and for the same purpose. Of course their pretended indignation at the discovery of the posters, Wednesday morning, would be an obvious part of the scheme, as would also the fierce zeal with which they scoured the town and tore down and destroyed the posters. Some of the known circumstances which establish the conclusion that the posters was the work of Democrats, are herewith briefly stated: 1. ,Vhe motive, to cause indignation 'against the Republican cause, is obvious to any person of sense, and needs no arguments to establish it. 2. The positiveness and great alacrity with which the bosses declared, Wednesday morning, that the poster scheme was the work of local Republicans, coupled with the equally positive declaration that the posters had been printed in The Republicn printing office. • 3. The equal alacrity with which they shifted their ground, about half an hour later, and declared, as those having positive knowledge, that the posters were brought here by an agent of the state Republican Committee; the very trains upon which he arrived and departed being given with exact particularity. This shifting of their ground from charging The Republican printing office with the work, to laying it upon the state commitee, i was made necessary by an uifforeiseen circumstance. And that was i that the two democratic editors in I the town, knew and were compelled to admit that The Republican 'office is not possessed ot any type i like that with which the posters were printed, and consequently, could not have printed them.

<. One of the most prominent and unscrupulous Democratic schemers in town, came home on one of the late trains, Tuesday night, from the north, evidently from Chicago. He rode down in the Nowels house hack, and carried in his hand a soft bundle, of about the siae and character which two or three hundred of the “Lincoln Dog” posters would make. He was met, oh dismounting from the hack, by the Democratic saloon keeper, mentioned last- week, and, in company with the precious bundle, they went up stairs in the building .where the democratic counsel room is located, and remained there for an unknown length of time. 5. The same besotted and drunken young tool who peddeled the hand-bills on the night of Owen’s meeting in the Opera House, is known to have been in company with the two men above refered to, ahd ~fe also known to have stated the next morning that he was about used up, having had no sleep the night before. - Upon him and another kindred spirit, had, nodoubt, devolved the work of pasting up the posters.