Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1887 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

A Democratic gain of nearly 2,000 at the recent citv election in Baltimore is good enough. Senator Don Cameron says that the woful predictions for the country to follow the advent of Democracy to power h<.ve not been been fulfilled, and that nothing short of a tremendous panic can defeat his re-election. George has just caught on. Republican papers, unable criticise Mr, Cleveland’s utterances at the various points through which he passed in his recent weste n tour, think it a slur to assert that he acquired informati n concerning the several localities from the ‘Cyclopedias.’ Now suppose he did? Do not all acquire knowledge by study ox authorities? It is exceedingly gratifying to the friends to see them driven to this shift. And George has but just caught on! Our neighbor of the Republican is raving over “soft-headed dotard Blue Jeaus Williams” and “unscrupulous self-seeking demagogue Ike Gray.” One of these gentleman is in glory, where the wicked cease from troubling, and the other will be his companion in the great beyond. We insist that George continue to spit out his venom at Gov. Gray while it is to-day, for in the hereafter the opportrnity will be lost to him. The Governor wont care, and if it is “amoozin”’ to you, why, amuse yourself to you heart’s content.

Hon. W. P. Pishback, for many years editor of the Indianapolis Journal, republican state organ, in a recent speech referred to the methods of his party in the past- “ About ten ',ears ago,” said Mr. Fishback, “on the eve of an election, the Democratic majority of the City Council passed an ordinance redistricting the city m such a as to give Ik Hr party great advantage. At least it was so charged by the Republicans. The fiery and untamed young Republicans, who had assumed for themselves t e name of the ‘gang’ decided to fight the Democratic devil with fire. And lo! on election morning, it was discovered that during the silent watches of the previous night, platoons of juvenile Republican voters had left their homes, and had become residents of the Democratic strongholds, so that when the polls were opened the Democrats were dismayed to find that the enemy had received unlooked for reinforcements. Many of these voters were challenged and many of such votes were sworn in, a curb-stone opinion having been given by a number of the ‘gang’ to the effect that a voter con’d change his residence in the night from one w d to another and soon as he h d \ -ed, return to his former residence without violating the law. The grand jury took a different view of it and some of these young men were compel! ed to def-nd themselves in th e criminal court and escaped lhe penitentiary by the skin of their eeth the juries divided six to six according to politics, just as the electoral commission divided as between Tilden and Hayes.” Mr. Fishback also scorchmgly referred to the Dorsey gang that invaded Indianapolis in 1880, with headquarters at the Dennison, and prostituted the politics of Indiana with new two dollar bills.