Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — The Flag Trailed in the Dust. [ARTICLE]

The Flag Trailed in the Dust.

Rochester Republican. • - ' One of the cars of the special train that carried the delegates and Z:mmer man boomers to the Democratic" congressional convention, at Hammond, Wednesday, had a banner tacked on both sides of it, upon which was painted in large letters “Fulton County Democracy.” The banners kept their places all right going to Hammond, and during the stay at that place, but upon the return trip one of them seemed to be aslramed oL-Yhe-eruwJ-ftftJ-made a

desperate effort, to get loose and finally succeeded in severing itself from the car near Marshland station. The next morning a brakeman on a freight train discovered the banner, and after carefully examining the long piece of muslin and the inscription, he tacked it upon a double decked hog car, loaded with fat porkers for the Chicago market. Ob course “Fulton County- Democracy”-, attracted the attention of all beholders along the line of railway, and especially so at Hammond» where it was a familiar sight to citizens generally, who expressed the opinion that the Dems had come back for another -driahi - . . / .... "

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