Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1887 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The Republican party in orde»to increase its numerical strength and secure it in power placed the ballot in the hand of the negro and added that element to their organization, and yet, notwithstanding all this, the Democratic party is vastly in the majority, numerically considered. Under Democratic rule our domain has increased in extent that now its shores are washed bv both oceans. Under Democratic administrations two wars, with foreign nations, were conducted to a successful termination. No Democratic administration has ever been connected with whisky-ring, Credit Mobelier and other thieving gangs, and sharing in the plunder. Its national candidates have always been men abov< reproach. It was, and is, beyond contradiction, a National party. Now, 11.- .' does the g. o. r. p. ? compare with this? It was organized as a Sectional party. Its advent to power, numerically in the minority, was followed by the introduction of civil war ? During the existence of civil war, th U Oil orts of its administrations were more bent to insure results that would build up and perpetuate its power, than in efforts to secure a united country. —In fact, its ascendancy in a divided country was preferred to a united Union with the Democracy in power.

Its declarations were that the the Union of our fathers was in “league.with hell,’’the Constitution of our fathers “a covenant with death,” and our flag “a il.-unting lie —a polluted rag.” During the war, numerically speaking, the membership of the so-called “g. o. r. p.” remained at home to do the voting, while Democrats were at the front battling for the preservation of the Union. In the past they had been jeenngly stigmatized by their opponents as “Union savers,” and their presence at the front fully confirmed them to the title. The ov jrwhelming republican victories at the ballot boxes, at the same time, clearly establish the point of their presence. The period of reconstruction and carpet-bag rule w an extension of time to their thieves to secure plunder. The very foot-prints of whiskyring thieves were traced into tue executive mansion during the administration of Grant, and their gifts occupied the stalls of the White House stables. The Executive office was stolen for Hayes. Garfield, their candidate tor the Presidency in 1880, was known to be tainted with Credit Mobelier, while his associate, Arthur, had been kicked out of the New Yoxk Custom House, by Hayes and Sherman, charged with corrupt administration of his office. Their next candidate, Blaine, had been connected with Credit Mobelier, Little Rock, and other illegitimate speculations, and a devout, knee-bending, tear-shedding worshipper of Mulligan. Blaine is prominently mentioned in connection with the next radical presidential nomination. Since vis last candidacy another illegitimate traasa lion h* been cbarg- * ed agaist him,

A party with such,a record, and with such timber to present as its best, should be slew in its reference to “A Thoroughly Bad Party-”