Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — A Correction. [ARTICLE]

A Correction.

The stairway caucuses between ihe editor of the Pilot and the Democratic heelers are still of frequent occurence. The same old gang that counselled and helped kill the defunct Democrat and the earlier Message, are now the regular advisors of the Pilot.

The Republican was mistaken last week in the editorial paragraph in relation to the committee which solicited money for the Alliance mass-meeting. Mr. E. P. Honan was nob a member of the committee and instead of him Mr. G. W. Goff was the third member. We were led into the error as to the names by the statement of a prominent and entirely reliable business man, who gave the names in good faith, but was himself mistaken. We may further add here that this committee was appointed by the Rensselaer Business Men’s Assoc tion, a fact which we were not aware of until after the paper containing the erronious paragraph above mentioned, was published. We are therefore free to state that there was no Democratic politics in the movement to raise money for the mass-meeting—although there has been considerable very dirty Democratic politics made out of our error in regard to the matter, aud by those who knew perfectly well that our statement was based on an error and was not an intentional misstatement

The Democratic Sentinel comes - to the relief of his eo-laborator in the Democratic vineyard, the Pilot editor, by suggesting that J udge Hammond, Treasurer W ashburn and other leading Republicans were once Democrats, and the Pilot eagerly avails itself of the suggestion. There is a vast difference, however, in the two oases. Hammond and Washburn left the Democratic party forever, at a time when its rank and open disloyalty was such that every true lover of his country ought to have followed their example, Their change was from honorable and patriotic motives, and the reasons therefor are known of all men. In the easeof the Pilot man however, his change was made between the time of leaving New Castle, where he was “know only as an earnest Democrat” and of his arrival at Rensselaer, where he professes to be known as an advocate of the People’s Party; but where the evidence constantly accumulates that the professed change is not a reality of conviction but merely something assumed for what present money and prospective emoluments there may be in it The cases are not at all similar. Hammond and Washburn left the Democratic party because they loved their country. The Pilot man left, (or pretends to have left) the same party because he loved the boodle.

The Pilot has discovered that tl}6 Republicans of Jasper county are very anxious to get rid of the e ditor of their county paper, The Republican. We remember very well that the late lamented Rensselaer Democrat and previous to that The Message both claimed to have made the same discoverv. S trange to say, however, both those able publications have passed into the limbo of things that were, while The Republican is still here and likely to be here when the memory of the unprincipled sheet known as the People's Pilot will have become a “putrid reminiscence,” like those earlier prototypes above mentioned. There is a marked similarity, by the way, in many respects between the bla ckguardism of this last new combination scheme organ and that of the previous ones, and it s h ows that most of it is suggested by the same foul minded gang.