Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1883 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

The New York Times is of the opinion that the Republican party is afflicted with the glanders. The only remedy for glanders when it attacks a horse is to kill the animal and cleanse the stable. The Republican party will have to take that sort of medicine. Some of the iron men of Pennsylvania who profess to be unable to pay fair wages to their employes have found thousands of dollars to put into the hands of William Mahone, to be used in his effort to preserve the solidity of the colored vote in Virginia.—Washington Post. The Boston Post felicitously remarks that “young Mr. Thurman, of Ohio, seems to have discovered that while people honor and respect his father they don’t care two straws about him or what he thinks, and he has therefore done the wisest thing he could do; he has shut up. ” President Arthur has at last got ■started on his “swingin’ ” feat. Edmunds is watching him with a jealous eye, and Blaine is prepared to write a particularly-vicious paragraph about him in that book in case the performance excites too much favorable mention.—Atlanta Constitution. The Republican party believes in stealing the Presidency; it believes in buying the Presidency; it believes in fostering and protecting monopolies; it believes in corrupting elections as a matter of personal pride; it believes in extortionate taxes and in collecting from the people $150,000,000 more taxes each year, than the necessities of the Government require. Let it be understood that we do not mean the great masses of the Republican party, but the leaders and controllers of it. Honest members of the Republican party, should there not be a change ? Tipton (Ind.) Times. One of the rumors from Massachusetts is to the effect that Butler will stand by his declaration that he is not to be a candidate for the election as Governor, and will advance his old competitor, but present hearty supporter—Hon. Charles P. Thompson, of Gloucester—for the Butler-Democratic nomination, taking the stump for the latter, and making the campaign on the State issue his Administration has raised. Rev. Dr. Bartol, of Boston, in a recent lecture said of Butler: “Some of you think you do not like the Governor, but is he not awakening you? No one is perfect. Let us beware of thorough-going disapprobation.” The indications are, notwithstanding Judge Gresham denounces Southern Republicans as a set of “d—d scoundrels,” that the Republican party is now concocting a scheme by which Confederate bonds can be paid, and that it is to be used as bait to catch i Southern Republican votes. It should I be understood that the Supreme Court, ■ has been partisanized for the express purpose of deciding questions in the interest of the Republican party, ex- , cept, possibly, Stanley Matthews, who 1 is principally owned by Jay Gould, he having paid SIOO,OOO for him.—-Jyir , d van apo lis Sentinel.