Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1890 — The Jamboree at Remington. [ARTICLE]

The Jamboree at Remington.

Notes by a reliable observer on the Democratic celebration at Remington Monday night. It is said but one of the speak*v rs was an American. More drunken men were seen j on the streets of Remington than | ever before in the history of the | town. | One of Carjventer township’s renegade Republicans conspicuously circulated among the simon pure democrats on the speakers stand, a fitting wind-up for one so recently risking an office of the Republican party. The effect will be good for the Republicans here. Some are already kicking themselves for voting for Patton. ZkZZ ..111... _ All through the speaking there was an evident purpose to hoodwink the Republicans but the genuine Bourbon Democracy would assert itself occasionally, and many Republicans who supported Patton are already regretting their action. ,

The claim that it. was the «soldiers th.it deff a€ed Mr. Owen is iiot only ;iu-* rankest nonsense, but it isaslantler on the most patriotic and public spirited class of our The stay-at-home vote allowed the tenth district to go Democratic by an enormous majority, and Mr. Owen went down with the general wreck. His vote nearly ,equals that given to the state ticket and is much better than might reasonably have been expected considering the inany disajxjMiintments and heart-burn-ings necessarily resulting from the distribution of appointments to office. In Cass county, for instance, where it was most particularly insisted that the soldiers would turn • against Mr. OwCn in shoals, he run only 19 votes behind the state ticket. In Fulton county Patton’s plurality was less than the average of the democratic- candidates. In Pu- j laski county Patton is nearly 20 j votes behind the Democratic state ticket, Owen run 25 votes ahead of his state ticket in Jjakevounty and only 11 behind it in Porter. In Jftsper county, Patton’s own home, Mr. Owen lost more in jxropbrtioft than in any other county in the we believe, and this loss, which nearly all occurred in a single township, is accounted for, in part, by votes given for a near neighbor and a personal friend, lmt still more from an unreasonable and unjustifiable feeling over the post-office appointjneat- -In n» place in the district, to any degree worth mentioning, did Republican soldiers prove false to their best friend by voting against Mr. Owen,

It is glory enough for one little toxvn to furnish the congressman, representative, and county clerk. Even the little disappointment that our Republicans friends may feel, is lost sight of in the pride they feel in their newly elected officers. —Remington Press. This is a little “inspired” palaver given for the purpose of inducing gullible Republicans in Remiilgton and vicinity to give something for nothing and vote for Democrats who happen to be their neighbors. It is a part of the same old game to turn the natural, but in political matters misdirected, local. pride of the people of the south end of the county to [the advantage of the Democrats. Republicans of that neighborhood xvill find that their pretended neutral paper will bear close watching.