Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — THREE STARS STILL TWINKLES. [ARTICLE]

THREE STARS STILL TWINKLES.

Editor Republican. The editors of the Pilot say that “three stars” “tried to belittle a church.” They say “the articles to which we referred were written. by parties with uo pretentions to piety/’ Well we know that, the allusions to the pious editor was “sarkasm.” The impious editors of the Pilot thought to make a little capital by misrepresentation. There was no alluson to a church or church members. They seemed to think we were a little troubled with “delirium triangles.” They are' - mistaken. We had visions of “billy goats, crocodiles, snakes in-the-grass and whang-a-doodles,” but'we would have them when stirring up the animals in the Democratic side show.

As we said, the Pilot repeats the old story that we had a larger volume of money at the close of the war than at any time since. They might just as well call our present out-standing bonds, money, as the old 7-30 and 10-20 bonds. They know it is a mis-, representation; but what better can you expect of people “with no pretentions to piety,” or truth telling. They may be able to fool a part of the people a part of the time, but they cannot fool all of them all of the time. While The Republican favors McEwen for postmaster, we suppose it ha# a “fellow feeling in its bosom” as Mrs. Partington said, but Bates is our man, because he was a good official. We note however that Congressman Wilson has been to visit Mr. Cleveland and he reports the latter as saying that he did not intend to appoint any of those men who held office during his first administration. That would cut friend Rates out, and leave Honan, McEwen, Nowels and Smiler. We would like to suggest an old soldier that no one has said anything about and one they all know, too. We mean Ed. Button, Esq. He would not draw his pay as postmaster under the same name as he drew his soldier’s bounties but he is a good democrat just the same. If Mr. Cleveland appoints Judge Gresham,premier and leaves Tammany, Isaac P. Gray and Horizontal Wm. Morrison out in the cold, he will canse some republicans as well as Gen. Bragg, of Wisconsin, who got left for gU. S. Senator, because he didn’t have a bar’l, to “love him for the enemies

he has made.” ' We still twinkle for" the benefit of the impious Pilot editors. , v