Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1883 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

The worst features of Mr. Randall’s candidacy for the Speakership lies in the fact that the Republican press is supporting him with unexampled unanimity. That is a weight he cannot carry, and it should defeat him, even if there were no other reasons. What the Democracy will do when they come into possesion of the Federal Government we are willing shall be judged by what the Democracy have done for the people of New York by and through the admistration of Grover Cleveland. — Oswego Palladium. Sentence was passed on the Republican party in 1874, says the Albany (N. Y.) Argus. Execution has been stayed twice. Perhaps the next time they will let the prisoner escape, and then it will be so long that he will be trying to deny his identity and prove an alibi. Mr. Ames,the representative of Massachusetts culture, nominated for Lieutenant Governor by the Republicans, is the richest man in politics in the State, and it is expected that he will shovel $25,000 into the canvass to “beat Butler” and save the honor of the Commonwealth. The Republican party is a party of high aims. In a recent public address, John Bright, the well-known English statesman, although a total-abstinence man himself, declared himself against the extreme grounds of prohibition. He favors the plan of curtailing the evils of intemperance by judicious legislation, but thinks prohibition will react upon the cause of temperance. It is understood that Gen. Grant is very serious in advocating the claims of Mr. Conkling for the next Presidency. Well, Conkling stood by Grant until the last gun cracked at Chicago, but then Mr. Conkling will not get the nomination for tlje next Presidency. They say he is too honest to suit the various Republican gangs and cliques which control the nomination. The Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette is of the opinion that if a Southern man were sought for the Democratic ticket, Senator Garland, of that State, would prove the strongest in the list, but it doubts if a man who ip bo short a period has won so high arid durable a reputation as a statesman and occupies so exalted a sphere of usefulness would desire a transfer to the Yice Presidential obscurity. Mr. Pierce, who was first, selected by the Massachusetts Republicans to run against Butler as the best man in their party, was in Congress when Tilden was swindled out of his election. He opposed his party action, and said: “I am aware, Mr. Speaker, that in the action I now take I stand almost alone among my political associates here; but I should be recreant to my convictions if I neglected to place on the imperishable records of the House my dissent from the vote which it is proposed to establish.” The organs are one and all insinuating that old Ben Butler represents the baser elements of Massachusetts polities and society. Old Wendell Phillips carries a level head on his shoulders. Let us have his opinion of the men opposing Butler. We have published it before. Here it is: “I distrust and despise the Republicans as hypocrites and time-servers, as double-dealers, as soulless carrion masquerading in the grave-clothes of their honored predecessors. They have no right to seek their candidate among high-minded and honorable men. Let them choose a fitting leader from among the Tewksbury marshes—those peddlers of poor men’s bones!” “Those peddlers of poor men’s bones!” Wendell, you hit them hard that time.— lndianopolis Sentiael.