Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1883 — BOTTOM FACTS. [ARTICLE]

BOTTOM FACTS.

The people want bottom facts and will be quick to appreciate their value. Four years ago the Democratic party wre-ted from the control of the Republican party Beneyoleut Institutions of the State, and tbe figures show that under Democratic management the State saved annually, as compared with Republican management, the sum of $92,873 92. Those who are engaged in obtaining facts and compiling statistics, inform the people that crime is on the increase, and that India! a shows with other l*tdes in this augmentation of depravity. Still, uiuhr Democratic management the penal institutions ol Indiana are made tv pay tbeir way and pay over to the State a snug sum as profits at the close of each year. Here is another bottom fact well calculated to silence croakers and satisfy the people that by placing the Democralic parry in power they advanced indefinitely the welfare of the State.

If under eiuocratic co Urol the Benevolent aad Pena) Institutions of the State have prospered, every consideration of fidelity to important trusts demands that these institutions shall lie kept iiOcD the tainting touch of the Republican party—a bottom fact which need only to be mentioned io be appreciated The people of Indiana are credited with as large a shape of ihtelligence and virtue as has fallen to the lot of the people of sister Sta>es —a bottom tact which honest men will not deny Well, <he people at the last eiecti in declared that they were tired of Republican rule, they had listened attentively to the claims set up by Republican organs and bosses, they had been stuffed ad nfttiseum with the vulger claims or the Republican j party to superior morally, intelligence, etc.; they had been treated to ceaseless denunciations of Democrats and of she Democratic party, but the people declared by their votes that the Republican organs and bosses were guilty of laisehood and hypocrisy, botn in their eu.ogiums of Republicans and their dmu - | ciations ot Democrats, and by a 1 irge majority declared they had no confidence in the Republican party. This is a bottom fact, known and read of ail men who have sufficient intelligence to I distinguish between daj light and dark I nea*. ,

The Democratic party, thus indorsed ! by the sovereign people, find in every m- j stance that the Republican party has j monopolize 1 every office, and with a se- | verty born of the meanest ostracism, denied to the Democrats the right and privilege of serving the State in any capacit, whatever. From the President of the United Stales down to the smallest bureaucrat known to the public service. State or Federal, the Republican b isses proclaim that “no Democrat need apply.” The Democrats ia taking possession, are bound by tneir allegiance to justice to make a clean sweep of such partisan vindictiveness. In the fir-t

it is eminently becoming as a penalty for partisan outrage, a righteous rebuke and retribution for partisan poltroonery, ■ md the people indorse the policy. Republicans haying exiled Democrats from every place of public employment where a dollar could be earned, are made to take their own medicine in robust doses, nolens volens, and th s d«>ne the Democratic party will inaugurate a policy which will recognize the fact that Repub-* licans ought not be subjected to the martydom of idleness and poverty, simply because he is a Republican, and that this is the purpose of the Democratic party is clearly foreshadowed in the efforts of she Democratic .Legislature to pass the metropolitan police bill,

Those who want bottom facts which establish beyond all controversy the per; ti'‘y of the Republican bosses, need go no further than to comprehend the full measure of the revolutionary proceedings in the State Senate, A Republican minority, led by the presiding officer of that body, bring into the boldest possible relief a conspiracy to defeat legislation, and it possible inaugurate a condition *ot affairs which all good citizens must deplore. Bottom iacts place the Republican party of Indiana in a position utterly inuefensible, and if Democratic legislators are true to themselves and; to their party, and, above all, to the Bt te, the Republican minorty and the Republican parly will be taught a lesson they will ntvpr forget,—lndianapolis Sentinel.