Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1889 — Congressman Owen as a Hustler. [ARTICLE]

Congressman Owen as a Hustler.

The election of (h- dy»)H*.ratie candidate for town marshal by a majority of 102 when Republicans were frbrrted for iiltttiT* ~nTtier “offices by .an average maj ority of nearly 90, is the most astonishing fact that has occured iu local politics, in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. If Mr. Simpson had been given enough Republican votes to have elected him by a Small majority, no one would have been greatly surprised, Ifut when almost exactly half of the Republican voters in the town gave him ♦heir ballots, what wonder if astonishment supersedes every other feeling. Wily it should have been so, is inscrutibie, “one of those things which an feller can find ont.” But whatever the cause or combination of causes may have been, justice to Mr. Mori an, the unsuccessful candidate, requires us to say that personal objection to him cut no figure in the matter, worth mentioning. He is a good man, honest, faithful and active,and we don’t believe that of all who scratched Iliri name last Monday, a half dozen did su through -any belief that he was not a deservingman, or likely to prove an incompetent official.

SjKcial to to the ludianajMilU Jouoai. Washington, May s.—Representative Owen left Washington to-night for his home at Logansport. He canfe here to secure a number of changes in the railway mail service iu his district, and met with extraordinary success. He secured the removal of thirteen democrats, and the appointment of as many Republicans to fill their places. This is one more appointment in this service than has been secured by any one man in Congress. The clerks about the office of the superintendent of the railway mail service are now referring to Mr. Owen as “the Hoosier Hustler,”