Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — The Pledges Must He Kept. [ARTICLE]

The Pledges Must He Kept.

If the Democratic party is to live—nay, if it is to deserve to live—this desertion must not ouly be punished but eff\ ctively guarded against in the future. Democracy must have one creed—one test of loyalty. Its solemn pledges iu national convention must not again be broken and trampled ou in the house of its fr ends. Disguised Republicans must cease to hold s ats in Democra i • conventions, or to r present nominally Demo ratio districts. The party had far belt r be iu a minority in Congress than have a nominal mn ority compot ed iu part of men who will thus join the Republicans to betray the principles and tie y the pledges of Democracy. —New York Slur.