Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1886 — AN ILLUSTRATION. [ARTICLE]

AN ILLUSTRATION.

A republican paper Bays tbat it hopes President Cleveland will leave the Government at Washin ton in as good a condition as that in which he fouxd it, which reminds us of a little story. An Austin man who had been living in a rented house, notified his landlord that he was going te move. “I hope,"said the landlord, “tbat I will find the house in the same condi tiou it was when you took it" “No. I do not expect to leave it In the same condition that I found it.” “Well, you will have to do It.” All right, then. I’ll drop a cat in the cistern and advertise for bod» bugs.” —Texas Siftings. The Chicago Tribune, the very otanobn Art Blaine’s trtoads, has do clayed in i*ver of General Logan for President. Blaine’s furiotta efforts in the Maine campaign are thrown away o far as b . pea

Congress has been in session for the last eight months, and in that time scarcely anything has been done by the body that will be of benefit to the public. It has been an intensively Democratic body, and notwithstanding the profuse promise that so much would be enacted for the public g od, the farmer finds the times still closer, Democratic promises unredeemed, and instead of the good tim s he was to have, want rnd hardships stare him in the face. Democratic rule is mighty undesirable thing to experience, as our peonle find not only in National rule but in State and county.—Huntington Herald. In reply to the above the Huntington Democrat puts m the following well-timed and truthful reply, which is so complete in itself that further comment is unnecessary: “Nothing but either egregious ignorance or a deliberate intention of lying to the public could cause a newspaper to pul lish the above paragraph as the truth.— The Herald knows as well as it can know anything that the present Congress has done many good things during the session and not a single bad one. Had it passed any measure contrary to the welfare of the people and the prosperity of the republic, our neighbor would have mentioned it with delight. But it can find nothing better or more definite to say than to print a loose-jointed and general falsehood. This in itself is a confession that nothing wrong has been perpetrated by the DemocraticJCongress. Let us see some of the good things it has accomplished. 1. It has increased the pensions of the old soldiers, their widows and orphans fifteen million dollars annually. Is that nothing? The Republican party never treated the brave defenders of the Union so generously. It saved its generosity for land-grabbers and monopolists. 2. The Democratic Congress of which the Herald complains so bitterly has saved the public domain millions of acres of land which the Republican party had given away to corrupt corporations. The latter political organization gave away enough land during the time it had control of the National Government to make eight or nine States the size of Indiana’. And the people are wise enough to keep the Democracy in power until their heritage is restored. 3. By closer economy and better management the Democratic Congress has cut down the running expenses of the nation to such an extent that the amount thus saved will more than pay the fifteen million dollars that has been added to the support of pensioners. 4. The Democratic Congress lias commenced the building of a navy worthy of the [republic. Let the party remain in power a term or two more and we will be as mighty on the sea as we are on the land. Our coast defense being secure if worst comes to worst, we can defy the most powerful nation on the globe.

5. The Democratic Congress has not passed a single bill in the interest of monopolies. How different from the Republican party!— Its chief business was to control the Government in favor of monopolists and millionaires. 6. The Democratic Congress has passed every measure it has been asked to pass for bettering the condition of the laboring classes. The Herald never could say that for Republicanism. That party took more interest in the welfare of a few bloated aristocrats than it ever took in the weliare of laboring people. If it could protect a few at the expense of the many it did so, and then let the rest, the millions, take care of themselves. 7. When the Democracy took the reins of the government from Republican hands it found hundreds of thousands of industrious men out of employment because, like those mentioned in Scripture, no man had h>red them. Now, as a Congressman said on the floor of the House a -f*w < »• s since, there

is not a laborer in the United States who wants work that can ot find it. So much has the present Democratic administration and Cc ngress inspired the American people and business with healthy confidence. With such splendid results before .us, one must be blind as a bat not to see on every hand the excellent fruits of our superior Democratic policy. Let the Herald, in the future, look before it leaps. ♦ *4 ♦ The Indianapolis News (Republican) makes some pertinent comments on the platform of the Republican Convention. We make the following excerpts: The Republican platform is an inordinately long document, and in some portions thick —a veritable jungle. It contains som6 remarkable wild assertions, as, for instance, that the Democratic party has disfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters in the North by its failure to admit Dakota into the Union, and that the same party by its legislation has “interfered with the regular and orderly reduction of the public debt, which was so conspicuous a feature of Republican administration.” The only thing akin to legislation which the Democratic part Gias done that in any way touches this is the adoption ot the resolution declaring that the debt should be paid. * * * The attempt to prove that the Democrats “show continued enmity to the Union soldier” because of the pension vetoes, in view of the fact that Cleveland has signed more pension bills in eight months than Grant did in eight years, is ver ; feel le, and in view of the defeat of Major Holstein in this Congressional district is ludicrous. * * * The protective tariff plank, stripped of its verbiage and translated into English, simply doesn’t mean anything further than this—namely, that the Republicans are going the whole gait of protection, just as the National par y goes. It “favors the maintenance of the principle of protection.” Those are the first words. All after that might as well have been omitted. The Republicans of Indiana are in fact pbdged to “protection” as a “principle.” The financial plank is t vaddle, and there are some other planks that don’t even amount to that much. * * * [As to the liquor plank.] What is it? We give it up. If it means local option, why doesn’t it say “local option?” If it means high license, why doesn’t it say “high license!” The n arest to meaning anytning that we come with it. is this: “If people like thi, sort of thing, this is about the sort of thing they like.” It means, in short, to plain people; nothing. Asa declaration, there is really more positiveness in the Democratic plank, which speaks definitely for a “reasonable increase” in the rate of the present liquor license. We should expect more and better things of & Republican Legislature in this way than of a Demdcratic one, but this declaration is evasive, though it may lead to an advance in legislation.