Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1885 — William C. Whitney. [ARTICLE]

William C. Whitney.

Charles A. Dana returns the Republican fire on Secretary Whitney with the following statement of what the country may be sure of in naval affairs r If the Chicago, Atlanta, and Boston are completed under the supervision of Secretary Whitney, and by men selected by him to do the work, the people of the United States may be sure of three things: The ships will be honestly built from this time out. The Government will make the best of what promised to be a very bad bargain. Mr. Boach will be fairly and justly treated in the matter. Such are the good results of having an honest, intelligent, and incorruptible man at the head of the Navy Department. “Honest, intelligent, and incorruptible man,” and as able a man as there is in the Cabinet. The Buffalo Telegraph, the cheap and nasty little sheet that first printed the Halpin scandal in the last campaign, has suspended publication. Its sensation was a boomerang that killed it. Some of the other papers that polluted their columns with the vile calumnies, and thereby outraged the sanctity of decent homes, are not feeling very well either. BOUtwell, of Massachusetts, one of the most stalwart of stalwart Republicans, says that President Cleveland “has made a favorable impression on the people, which extends beyond his own party.” Bout well is a notable deserter from the violent and irreconcilable partisans who see nothing but evil in this administration. These Democrats who are “all torn up with dissension” are awfully sly about giving the fact away to anybody but Republican repoiters. In their conventions in lowa, Mississippi, and Ohio they unite in cordial commendation of. President Cleveland andms administration. The really important issue in Ohio this year, so far as the rest of tho country is concerned, is whether John Sherman shall continue in the Senate or be superseded by a Democrat. The struggle. so far as it bears op this question, will be watched with a great dea 1 of interest.