Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1883 — Just What It Means. [ARTICLE]

Just What It Means.

The cry the Republican party must go says concisely what thinking men ieel. It means more than at first appears. At the outset, observe. Not Republicans, but the Republican party, must go. ' Not intolerence of men, but of methods; not hatred of principles, but of power abased; not prejudice against s party for what it has been, but contempt for what it is, is the meaning. Is it not vindictive; it is not narrowminded. It expresses a truth. Long continuance in power is fatal to any party. We do not attempt to trace the decay. We do not seek that this decay of a mere party shall by no

means corrupt the body politic. We find disease. We seek health. There is no hope for the Republican party in itself. It must go. The salt has lost its savor. Is there a Sumner, or a Greeley, or a Phillips, or a Lincoln, or a Garrison, or a Seward to-day giving the life of his great spirit to party councils ? The “grand old party” has outlived its vigor. Old, but no longer grand, it must go. Dorseys and Bradys, Belknaps and Babcocks, Hpwgates and Shepherds, Kelloggs and Mahones, Robesons and Chandlers are the men who, in spirit or in person, rule. For what does it exist ? The great mass of its own nominal adherents have lost faith in it. Thousands whose lives have been spent in the service see that its usefulness is past. Well for this party, if its story had closed since 1876. In the eight yearq past who will sum up the losses of the Republican party ? Men of conscience, men of honesty have been compelled to leave it. Patience has ceased to be a virtue. Place-holders may call it presumption, vindictive, unmeaning prejudice. The war-horse style of orators may begin their charges as of old. But the times have changed and the people with them. Hypocrisy must go. Whoever is deceived is deceived willingly. The Republican party must go.— Albany Argus.