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MARTIN K. LEE.The Kind of a Man Whom the Democrats are Running for CommissionerFrom the Third District.During the rebellion there were formed, in a great many parts of Indiana, clubs of citizens, with the object of standing by one another, and raising a fund to buy substitutes for any of their number who might be drafted. A club of this kind was organized in Prairie Creek township, and theagreement was drawn up on a Sunday, and signed at the Baptist church there, in which a Baptist conference was in progress. There were thirteen members of the club, all of whose names can be given if thereis any denial of the facts herein contained. When the Prairie Creek draft was made known, it was found tiiat five of the thirteen members of the club had been drafted, one of whom could not pass physical examination, thus leaving only four. Martin K. Lee, present Democratic candidate for commissioner from the Third district, was a member of the club in question, and here is the pusillanimous mannerin which he got out of paying his pro-Eortion of the “pay out” fund: He ad signed the agreement on the Sunday referred to, the document having also been drawn up on that day. He refused to pay his proper, ion. The other members commerce*) proceedings against him in court, where Lee pleaded the Sunday law, and gained a legal victory.' He knew at the time that the drawing up of the agreement and his signing it was all occuring on the Sabbath, but raised not a murmer against it then. It was an honest and just agreement between men. Lee entered into it with a show of spirit which caused the others to think he was acting sincerely. He proved false to his word as a man. He deceived those into whose eyes he looked with feigned honesty when their country and his own was being rocked by a mighty agitation, and the prospect was not far otf of southern hands-pushing their murderous warfare into the very heart of Indiana. That was the time in which Martin K. Lee turned traitor to the men he had pledged himself to stand by. It will be seen that there is quite a difference between Mr. Lee and the gentleman on the Republican ticket against whom he is running. The latter is Mr. W. B. Cochran, who served four years in the Thirty-First Indiana volunteers, and is a person whose many friends have been attracted to him by his manly principles.1lt;11(Ii\£1r\ttc
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Terre Haute Daily Wabash Express
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Fri, Nov 03, 1882
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
William K.
IN, USA 24 Apr 2018
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