Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1886 — Stand Up and Be Counted. [ARTICLE]

Stand Up and Be Counted.

Enough Democrats have violated their political pledges to give control of this House of Representatives to the Republicans. Though nominally in a majority, the Democrats are no more able to pass a Democratic tariff bill than was Gladstone able to pass his Irish bill through a Liberal Parliament. It is a pity Mr. Morrison can not dissolve the House, and, like Mr; Gladstone, appeal to the people. The people of America want tariff reform, radical and thorough, and they mean to have it; a revenue which will give us a tariff for revenue only—that is, a free list which includes wool, ores, coal. lumber, salt and all that these items imply, with a corresponding reduction on manufactured articles into which these enter. A little handful of so-called Democrats have united with the Republicans, and, to all intents and purposes, have abandoned thrir party. Now let them look to the Republicans for re-election, every one of them. They are entitled to nothing from Democratic voters. It would be a gain to the Democratic party to have every one of these men defeated, even though it were done by a Republican. They should be remembered this fall, and left to their fate. Every district should be contested by a true revenue-reform Democrat. There is no sense in any other policy. If such insubordination is to be tolerated the patty will go to pieces. These recreants come nlmost entirely from Pennsylvania, New York. New Jersey, and Ohio. Beyond the borders of these States the Democrats are almost a unit for reform. Now let the war be carried into these districts. Wherever one of these men is nominated revenue reformers should nomiuate a genuine, true-blue Democrat, and if they c..nnot elect him they can, at least, stand up to be counted.— Louisville Courier-Journal.