Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1870 — Mr. Cumback’s Graveyard. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Cumback’s Graveyard.

“We notice a silly item going the rounds of the Republican press entitled “Cutnback’s Graveyard.” If this matter is to be kept before the people, it will prove to be the burying ground of the Republican party. Frazer, Orth, Julian, Kinley, Cravens, Fisher and other men of equal talent, are not going to be buried so eaey- It will require a struggle to dispose of talent like this, and that straggle may cost the party its life. Better go slow gentlemen The party can ill afford to spare so much brain. Let us maintain principle, aud not devote our time wholly to men. Cumback is one of the best men of the State; so is Julian, Frazier and others, equally as good. —MonticeUo Herald. The “silly item” referried to by I our cotemporary first appeared in the Indianapolis Mirror, a pseudo democratic publication edited by a person having no influence among republicans add who was kicked out of the Sentinel office six or eight years ago for complicity in the Brown-Vajen imbroglio. The author of the article has considerable talent, but is one of those, unfortunate beings who delight to see Neighbors in trouble and’whose forte lies in making retrac-