Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1883 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

When we hear Sherman say “I am for a strong Government” we seem to hear Bismarck and Gortschakoff gently echo “me too.” The Republicans of Massachusetts have issued a whining address bewail* ing the disclosure of the Tewksbury scandal, but not lamenting the abuses which led to the disgrace. Incorrigible hypocrites. So ear only one appointment has been made under the new civil-service rules. At that rate it would require just about 50,000 years to turn the rascals out. The Chicago Tribune does not sympathize as it might with the Republican brethren of Massachusetts. It says the Massachusetts Republicans are advertising for a man to beat Butler, but so far have been unable to find him. Collector Badger, of New Orleans, thinks that “Louisana is ripe for a new political party.” The old political party to which John Sherman and Eliza Pinkston belonged was rather over-ripe when last heard from.— New York World. The Chicago Herald wants Mr. George Jones, of the New York Times and Mt. Whitelaw,Reid, to make public statements regarding campaign secrets in 1880. These great editors find it convenient to keep silent, but an investigating committee will unlock their tongues in due time. The public can afford to wait.— lndianapolis Sentinel. Edmund Stevenson, the New York capitalist, who is creating a disturbance about the Dorsey drafts is the man who carried the Republican corruption fund to Indiana in 1880, and doled it out at Dorsey’s orders “where it would do the most good.” Mr. Dorsey has not gone so far as to say this, but it is one of those open secrets of political history that are known without the telling.— Omaha Herald. The charge that Dorsey bribed, either directly or indirectly, the jury that tried him in the star-route case is not by any means an improbable one. No one who has followed Dorsey’s career as an eminent Republican statesman and political manager can doubt that he is equal to the bribery of a jury as he was to the bribery of the Indiana votets. But at the same time there is reason to suspect that the charge is made at this time in the hope of closing Dorsey’s mouth, and shutting off the damaging stream of “revelations.” There is no danger, however, of this result. Any effort to choke Dorsey off will only make him more determined. That is the kind of evidence” he is.— Detroit Free Press.