Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1887 — DEATH OF MAJ. WM. P. ELLIOTT. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF MAJ. WM. P. ELLIOTT.

Rhode Island — .i 'emocratic. The outlook for the Democracy shows up well. Cleveland, Ohio, has been carried by the Democracy. The Republican major ty in Cincinnati has been considerably reduced. In Chicago Democrats generally united with the Republicans with a view to down tiie socialists. The idea that t l e Democracy have yielded a point in their oppoposition to centralization, by advocacy and passage of te Inter-State Commerce law, is original with the Message man. The Rensselaer Republican presents ts readers with an article manufactured by the Indianapolis Die Factory, commencing thus: “A prominent Democrat of the Indiana House, speaking of the e - posures of the southern prison and insane hospital, said: “There will literally b no end to the majority the Republicans will have in 1888.” * * Now the name of that “prominent Democrat” would be of incalculable benefit to the Republican, but it is unable to furnish it. The “prominent Democrat” is a myth. The sentiment was never uttered.

lheLewistown (Pa,) Free Press of this week brings to us the sad intelligence of the death of Maj. Wm, P. Elliott, who departed this life at his home in that place, on last Saturday, in the 94th year of his age. Maj. Elliott was a v 'teran of the War of 1812, and at t'.o time of his death the oldest printer in the United States, an honor which will now fall upon his old friend, Gen. Simon Cameron of Harrisburg Pa. Prior to and du. ring the Jacksonian period Maj. E. was editor of one of she Lewistown papers. On our visit home in 1879, we had the extreme pleasure of meeting our old friend. He was ripe in years, and enjoyed vigorous health.

Rev. N. G. Taylor, father of Gov. R. L. Taylor, of Tennessee, died at liis home in Happy Valley, in that State, on Saturday last. He served two terms in Congress before the war, and was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs by President Johnson in 1886. tie was regarded as the most eloquent minister in Tennessee. At the close of the war, when the people of East Tennessee were in a destitute condition, he delivered a series of addresses through the North, and collected more than SIOO,OOO for their relief. The unique canvass of his two sons “Bob” and “Alf,” m the Gubernatorial race last autumn, in which Robert, the Democrat, was successful, will long be remembered.

The Republican this week dishes up to its readers anjarticle from the Indianapolis Journal which denounces Democrats as rebels, traitors, etc., and presses Morton to the fron -as the type of statesmanship, morality and virtue. It would probably be as well for these lickspittles of Mr. Morton to let him rest. There are scores of thousands of patriotic citizens who bear more rebel lead in their bodies than Morton and his fob ower* ever saw, who wen* at the fron dicing battle for the Union whil the~o tivoly 1 oil” shr/ekers re-

mained at home to do the voting, and they do not by any means place the sa ..e high estimate upon t e statesmanthip, the patriotism, morality and virtue of their patron. It is no oart of wisdom for the Journal to furnish such ammunition to its ignorant fol owers.

Republicans who are distressed over the fact that the 49th congress failed to reduce taxation and who are loud in th Q ir abuse of the democratic party for not seein i that it was done, will see themselves reflected in the following from the Chicago News: Senators Sherman, Edmunds Vbison and ether republican leaders are about these da s delivering themselves of diatribes against the ' emocratic party and administration, on the grounds that they have fail d to take t e iritial step looking to some measure to reduce taxation. On every possible occasion —in speeches, letters and interviews—these gentlemen take oc casion to ring the changes on this political chestnut, wflh the idea of elevating it into an important party issue. No..', in reality, this r harge is a bald-faced piece of political hypocrisy—a xarty dodge of the cheapest and at the same time most despicable description. In p*. int of fact no less than two conspicuous attempts to “take the initial step,” which those conspicuou > leaders of tii * opposition were apparently so coin erued should be taken, were made. One was on the 17th of J une the other on the 18tli o e December 1886.

From the present exhibitions of regret on the part of these Fueling senators one would naturally be lea to suppose that on these two occasions their party friends and supporters in the lower house made every effort in the direction which Messrs. Sherman et al now claim to have been essential to the best interests of the country. On tl e contrary, the facts are that on both the above occasions they were the members of congress who rendered it wholly impossible that the much-desired “initial step” should be taken. Thus, on the occasion of the June attempt, the vote for considerat on of the lax-reduction bill stood: Democrats 136 for; republicans, 4 ditto: against consideration, 35 democrats and 122 republicans. On the occasion of the December attempt the vote stood 134 democrats and 6 republicans for, and 25 democrats and 129 republicans against consideration.

So that this “initial step” which the hypocritical Messrs. Sherman et al are now shedding floods of tears because it was taken, owes its defeat almost wholly to their own party tactics; ft>r, whde 86 per cent, of the democrats voted to take it, only 3 to 4 per cent, of the republicans aided them in a direction which the opposition party new claims was a necessary and patriotic measure.

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