Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1884 — The Independent Strength. [ARTICLE]

The Independent Strength.

[Brookly Union [Rep) ] The movement of the “young scratch--ers\ in 1875 was liastly organized and not liartly supported in the press, but these figures prove th?at itcontolled 20,000 votes. Political independence in New York State has grown steadily and rapidly since- 1879, and- 20,000 yoters

represent probably but a tithe of the Re. Eublicans who, in 1884, will cast their allots, not as a party convention has dictated, but as theii consciences require.