Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1886 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

The Republicans try to persuade ; themselves that there is a prospect of their winning in the next election in this State, and of their thus retaining one of her United States Senntorships. This prospect is a dream of their desires rather than a thing of fact Indiana is as essentially Democratic as Ohio is Republican. The renorof her history is Democrat! ; the mass of her people have been born and bred Democrats; in their daily lives, in their plain Avays and honest habits, they exemplify Democracy. By the jar of war the Republicans did force her from her Democratic orbit and make her revolve for a time on an abnormal course; but the cause is removed and she has righted and is steady again in her true position, as next November Avill show, bhghting the hopes, once for all, of the Republicans as to her political status. She is not only Democratic, but is one of the brightest stars in the Democratic constellation of States. She alone, of the Northwest during the dark days of Republican domination shed any light for the Democracy. This light the Republicans, Avielding txe power of the Union, sought utterly to extinguish but could not, as it would and did slioav iffielf from time to time, to their alaiin. Hoav idle, then, for them to mature hope of of her now, Avhen they no longer hold the Federal power for coersion nor the Federal Treasury for bribery, for corruption, for Dorsey campaigns. Indiana is the dread of the Republicans and the ‘ dmiration of the Democracy. She is the Democratic star of the Northwest.