Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1890 — The Sober Words of a Judge. [ARTICLE]

The Sober Words of a Judge.

From the charge of Judge Cunulngham to the Grand Jury, directing them to discover and Indict the murderers of Ciaytoii. ■ (“There is no man with three ideas above an oyster who does not know that murder and assassination are the results, afid will continue to be the results, of the political methods that have been employed in this country to carry the last election, and the meanest man in the country is the professed ] oiitician who advocates or indorses such methods. You must stop ballot box stealing, force and fraud,or the title to your property will not ba worth the paper ft is wipt.en on, i-e----mocracyimeans that-the people sha 1 rule, and we are told it is undemocratic to denounce buldozery, ballot stealing and assassination. It this be true, then I am no Democrat. If apology for bulldozery, ballot stealing and as-" sassination constitute De nocracy.then may the angels and ministers of grace protect me from such Democracy.”