Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1878 — ANOTHER FRIEND OF LOYAL SOLDIERS DISCOVERED RUNNING FOR OFFICE. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER FRIEND OF LOYAL SOLDIERS DISCOVERED RUNNING FOR OFFICE.

Mr. Ezra C. Nawels, democratic candidate for auditor of Jasper county, made a friendly visit to The Union office last evening and requested us to announce that the remark derogatory to tlie character of Union soldiers attributed to him was made in the of debate at least ten years ago; that lie did not say they were “mostly from the lower uneducated classes of society,” but he did say that about onefourth of them were Ignorant and could not read or write. Mr. Noweis further said that he was always a friend of tlie soldiers aud this statement was made In tlieir defense as an argument why they should not be disfranchised. He (Noweis) did ndt vote for Mr. Tilden for president, but lias long been in the habit of voting for republican candidates for office; his name appeared signed as chairman of tile township committee to a call for a democratic convention this past spring while he was hundreds of miles from the county. He does not favor the success of the democratic party, nor does he subscribe to democratic principles, but being a candidate for office he finds it necessary to be prudent; if democrats will endorse him and vote for him he is powerless to prevent it, but they will not be voting for a democrat. The Union is glad to make this announcement at Mr. Newels’ repeated request. It is unspeakably glad to learn that Mr. Noweis was intensely loyal during the war. It is glad to know tliat lie is opposed to the democratic party and to the principles and candidates of tlie democratic purty. It is glad to learn tliat lie long ago began voting against deint>eri4jc candidates. It is glad to find him bold enough to tell this, while a candidate of the democratic party, in a republican newspaper office, in a mixed eompapy of republicans, democrats and nationals. It was sorry to hear from him that he had not. been reading tlie newspapers' for two years and was not posted upon tho political questions now being discussed. It hopes to learn as tlie campaign advances tliut Mr. Noweis was a gallant soldier in Hie Union army, was several times shot to pieces by rebel, bullets, while defending his country, that ids name appears on tlie pension rolls, aud tliat he decides to vote tlie entire republican ticket next October.