Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — The Two Tanners. [ARTICLE]

The Two Tanners.

The democratic party is marching iug under the starry banner of a reconciled republic, fiaternal and free. Thn radical party marches under the filth}' rag of the bloody shirt. There is no question as to which is [(referred by the people cf this great’ restored republic. They have hud enough of gore, of misrepresentation, of angry and tumultuous conflict.---They have had enouga corruption, enough extravagance, enough official peculation, and enough returning boards. They demand peace and order, prosperity and law, reform and honest govei ninent.

The bloody shirt is the ensign of the origan d. The desperadoes who carry it have robbed the South of many millions of dollars, and the republic of millions -more. And by their plots ami conspiracies, they have, at various times, set the rabble of the South quarreling with each other; and then used the consequen ces of their own villainies to fire the Northern heart into perpetuating their powei to plunder the people. Hold high aloft the flag of the free, push forward the standard of the punisher of thieves and press on the column.—New Albany Ledger. Hon. Frank Hurd, in his speech be. fore the Democratic Convention of Ohio, said:

The old watchwords and battle cries of the party must be heard again. The maintenance of the right" and sovereignty oi the States inviolate as the surest guaranty of the perpetuity of the Union; no consolidation of power in the Federal Government; an indestructible union of indestructible states; opposition to monopolies; death to the National banking system; a currency as good as gold and silver and based upon them and issued under constitutional authority; the utmost liberty to the private citizen consistent with the public safety;, no sumptuary laws; the removal of embarrassing restriction upon trade; tariff lor revenue only, with the ultimate view of free trade with all the world; the" most for the man, the least for the Government; tiie uplifting, the exalting of the individual; the limiting, the restraining of governmental power—these were the battle cries of the Democratic party from 1798! They are hallowed by the immortal lips which uttered thaml They were incarnated in the administration of the Federal Government by the Democratic party for nearly a century! They were hushed in the thunder of the civil strife, and stifled in its smoke: they were silenced ih the despotism of the reconstruction era. Let them be revived tn 1880. Let them be shouted on every hillside and valley in the land until in the trumpet tones of triumph they are declared in November next- to be as of yore the sentiments of the American people.