Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1883 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

Turn the rascals out. The Republican party must go. Dorsey and Jay Gould tell different stories in the Stanley Matthews matter. As a general proposition Dorsey’s word stands highest in the market. Mr. Blackburn has withdrawn from the Speakership contest. He thinks that Western Congressmen should combine against Randall. Mr. Blackbum has his eye upon a seat in the United States Senate. The Rochester Post-Express, a Republican paper, advises the Republicans to turn themselves inside out; for echoing Dana’s New York Sun “cries,” it says: “ ‘The Republicans must go’ and ‘turn the rascals out.’ ” Keifer’s support of Randall for the Speakership ought to be enough to settle the question against him at once. The Democracy could not ask for a better indication what not to do than Keifer’s desire to have it done. The remedy for extravagance at Washington, according to a contemporary, is “to keep the Government poor.” That is what the Republican starroute gang and other political bummers of the same general complexion think. Turn the rascals out. A shrewd philosopher suggests that all the talk about running the old ticket in 1884 is designed to make Mr. Hendricks the Democratic candidate for President. It is certain that Mr. Tilden will not accept a nomination, and we are told that, when this fact is established, the enthusiasm so industriously worked up for the old ticket will naturally transfer itself to Mr. Hendricks, so that he will be nominated by acclamation. This seems to us rather a profound view of the complication, such as could only occur to men accustomed to looking very deeply into a millstone. But suppose Mr. Hendricks should be the candidate for President what harm would there be in that ? He is a most respectable man, without a single blot or stain in his history. He has filled various public offices with credit; and, if he should be elected President, we are sure that he would fill that office with credit also. Let them run the old ticket in the newspapers, then, and let us see if it comes out as our Mephistophelian philosopher supposes. Anyway, we could vote for Hendricks with a good conscience. The Republican party must go!— New York Sun.