Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1892 — Factory Hands' Earrings. [ARTICLE]

Factory Hands' Earrings.

The Piled gang of coarse di*u\ e» l di ©lare to be a lie the state “Oh «"e|t, jjtwrt m ire <nn get them to feetkro it until after th. i - I | »

in regai l to.tbimsr &Edtkius oonclosi rely the false apd slanderous cha> acter of all th 1 not gaug's previous assertions ml insinuations in regard Uiei 'U, had the result that tLe ganj, wbileTaoitiy admittir.j'Tho falsity »f their charges ,by abandoning them, now shift their ground and and make a feeble nrgu men t in favor of the proposition that ii would huvebeen a good tbingtohave permitted theinvestigation to have gone on according to the terms of the original contract, and. that it ywhto tprebeenagood investment to havwputd tKe above firm half of all sums they might have found *dne the county from the townships, on former erromoua settlements. This' is quite a different contention from their original claims that the investigation was interrupted for the purpose of covering up official

rascality. Even if we were to admit, which we do not, that this last claim of the gang-is light, namely that it would have been a good thing to pay Fleener & Perkins large sums for flailing money due from the township?, the fact would prove nothing worse against the commissioners than an error of judgement in thinking otherwise, and would furnish no excuse nor shadow ofexcuse for the sland-

erous assertions and insinuations the gang hive previously indulged in regarding this matter. If Jj’ieeuer & Perkins find any naouey dne the county from the state, it will be a good investment to pay them half for finding it, for in sodv iug it will cost no. e of our people anything. But if any money is due the county from the townships, it would be anything but a good investment to compel the people of those townships to pay a dollar to .Fleener k Tenons for each dollar that went back into the county treasury. If some cheaper menus than that can not lie found for discovering balances dne from the townships then it will be far better to let them remain undiscovered. And with this view of the case wo are ■ dialled that 99 out of every 100 taxpayers in the county will agree.

One of the meanest slanders of the campaign is now going the rounds of the Democratic papers of the state, being copied from the Indianapolis Sentinel ; the Rensselaer Democratic Sentinel copying it last week. The slander originated in the Winchester Democrat, and consisted in charging Governor Chase with uttering the following language in a speech at Union City, last April. Democrats are imps of boll. If I had a mind to swear I’d say God damn them to hell. They ought to be dead and mouldering iu the dust of (he earth, a.id the dust be scattered to the four winds of heaven that they might be completedly obliterated from the memory of man.

To suppose that Governor Chase made use of the above language is too preposterous for belief. As to’ what he really did say on that occasion, the following from the Winchester Herald,An reply to the first utterance of the slander in the Winchester Democrat is no doubt the whole truth. In reply to the “fling” at Governor Chase, we desire, iu the first place, to state that, we know what we are writing about when we say that the statement is au absolute lie. We candidly assure thp Democrat there were many old soldiers in the audience who heard what Governor Chase did say, and who applauded to the echo. This is a cheap attempt at turning6ome >f the soldiers against Governor Chase, and it (anuot succeed. What Governor Chase did say on that occasion was this:

For those who fought you in the the rear when yon" were in the front defending .|h« fl K g, and who 're now callmfTjou cetfeo-coolere, red-nosed patriots, bouuty-jump-•'ra, perjurers and cowards, I have no words in which to express my oondemnation. Yon fought for dsys where these scoundrels would not stand for ten minotes for this world if it were a (mil of gold. 3nch men are not lit to live in oich a community as ours, ami wheu they die their nsLei shoul 1 be blown by the winds of heaven to the four corners of the earth. Hiey cannot be patriots or Americans. . V ,»• tj .", * *♦ , - .- w ...

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Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, of New York, the foremost Democratic union soldier of the whole country, and a recognized loader in the New York delegation at every democratic national convention since the war. has • openly repudiated Cleveland ami declares be . , r~ will support Harrison. Gen. Sadies’ deb c on is a terrible ‘‘deet 1 - oner” on the hopos of Cleveland in New York.