Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1886 — The Duty of Party Leaders. [ARTICLE]

The Duty of Party Leaders.

It is not a very good Democrat who will allow disappointment iu the matter of distribution of offices • ©r his personal feelings with another Democrat to overshadow Ins loyalty to the success of the party that represents his political principles to a degree that would make the disappointment or preference contributory to their defeat. The majority of people are Democrats or Republicans through convictions on certain measures or principles involving their ideas of how government should be administered. As a whole, these masses care neither for individuals, their quarrels, nor the offices, that at best can affect but the slightest few. They do, however, care for their principles, and they confide them to the management of leaders in the full strength of their honest conviction, and ask nothing more from them than that these convictions be stamped upon the Government as its political j olicy. They do not care how they dispose of the offices, but they ask that their principles be not sacrificed. They do not know of nor care about the personal differences of those to whom they confide their leadership, except that they be not dragged into them or be sacrificed on account of them. —lndianapolis Sentinel.