Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1878 — HOW THEY HOWL! [ARTICLE]

HOW THEY HOWL!

Rensselaer Union. Will You "W oik Into My Parlor? Capt. Edmonds and Ira W. Yeoman •having arrived at the conclusion that anybody is good enough to vo.e the democratic ticket issue the following manifest: Than follows the call for a County Convention, decided upon and directed by a meeting of citizans at which Capt. Eemonds was chairman and Ira W. Yeoman secretary. A few years ago when Mn James was badly afflicted with “clerkship on the bruin” be was very willing, aye, anxious, to enter any parlor which presented a prospect of success, He then indorsed and advocated the financial views held by those who composed the ineetingthatissued the “mat.ifesto” he speaks of. The clerkship proved ;* • will-o the-wisp* to him, and soon he ceased to follow, and like the sow returned to his wallow. Those who unite and act with the Convention tomorrow will do so from different motives than those which actuated Bro. James. The Monticello Herald concludes an article in its issue of this week with the following excruciating howl: “We opine there are very few greenback men who will be taken tu by this last exceedingly tnin profession emanating from Indiana Democracy.— Don’t go to the Democratic party for a friend to the greenback,” etc., etc. Oh, no! Th* Herald would advise you to act with the party which has controlled the legislation < f the country for the past sixteen years and is and must be held responsible for the distress that now prevails throughout the land. It would have you give your support to the party whose every act has been in the interest of shylocks, and to your hurt. It would have the independent citizen uphold the hands of those who break solemn contracts in the interest of the money changers, and made payable in coin bonds which of right should be paid in currency—those who have debased and depreciated silver, constitutional coin - those who contract the currency and give nothing to circulate in its stead. You have asked for bread tUKi they gave you a stone! In view of the steady withdrawal of the greenback currency, and no other circulation provided for, the day designated by radical legislation for r - sumption drawing nigh, it will be an act of wisdom on the part of those who agree with the Democracy in financial affairs to make uo hr It now time is too short! A united and Vigorous effort will insure succw-s. Mr. Voornees, in his speech, in all honesty an I candor said: “I was among those who doubted our right to issue It, (the greenback,) but experience has shown it the best money, all things considered, that ever circulated on American soil.” In this view—with a vast public debt of billions to be paid, and a decided insufficiency of the precious metals—the Democracy, and all Independent citizens, concur. Let those whose present self-inter-est lead them to oppose the interests of the many to the oeuefit of rhe few, snoeringly and jestingly taunt the independent with" Walk into my parlor.” It will be of no avail.

“The American laborer must make up his mind henceforth not be sn much better off than the European laborer. Men must be content to work for low wages. • • * In this way the workingman will be nearer to that station in life to which it has pleased God tp ca}l him.”—Shylpck Organ,