Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1888 — DEMOCRATS, ATTENTION! [ARTICLE]

DE MOCRATS, ATTENTION!

The Committee of the Hendricks Club having in charge certain preliminary nrr- ngements for the Democratic Conference and Convention to be held in Indianapolis on the day and night of January 11, desires to announce: That there will i e a conference at Masonic ilall, southeast corner of Tennessee and Washington streets, beginning at 10 o’clock in the forenoon and continuing thro’ an afternoon session. In the evening there will be a mass-meeting at Tomlinson’ Hall, addressed by distinguished Democrats from this and other Stites. To the conference meeting a delegate system has been adopted for the sole purpose of insuring a prompt and full representation from every county in the State. But the committee especially desires to state and emphasize that all Democrats are cordially invited to be prc sent and participate in the proceedings of the conference during the day, as well as at the night meeting. Should tickets of admission be required for the day conference at . Masonic Hall, they may readily be procured by persons desiriug them at the rooms of the Hendricks Club, on tire orner of Illinois and Washington pfropts. Numerous counties have already reported the organization of Hendrcks Clubs who will attend in a body Indications poin+ to an immense gathering.

COMMITTEE HENDRICKS CLUP

Indianapolis-

. The latest thing in the line of a swindle, says an exchange, for the tanners to steer clear of, is a v ry innocent looking individual who wants to paint the roof of your barn for a nighi’s lodging, nd in the morning wants you to sign a recommendation as to his qualifications. The recommendation turns up at a neighboring bank in the shape of the usual promissory note.

The hypocrisy of the Kepublican party in its declarations and protestations of loyalty cannot but be exceedingly amusing to all acquainted with its history from its organization. Its foundation dogma was sectionalism. It denounced the “Union as being in league with hell” and declared “the Constitution a covenant with death.” It boldly gave out that it “would have no Union with slave-holders.” It described the stars and stripes as “a polluted rag and flaunting lie;” and its boldest leader, Old John Brown, was the first traitor to pay the penalty of treason.— And but for the battle-cry of the immortal Douglas, backed by the precedents set by Old Hickory and ‘ adhered to by the Democratic - ■ i.

masses, there ar# good reasons to believe that tke republican administration would have consented to “let the Union slide.” To-day, in their conventions these self-righteous pharisees announce that they saved the Union? that they are the foes of n.onopoly and the friends of the hardhanded yeomanry? thst they are are permeated with honesty, and have no lot with thieves?

j. hat party, to-day, is as se tional as it was at its birth. Its impeding motive is power and plunder. No matter how deep-stained with treason your Moseby’sJLongstieet’s and Key’s, their aid to secure that power and plunder makes of them “repentant rebels” and loyal republicans. But the citizen oi the South, however honest and earnest in acceptance of the situation, if he will not stultify and lend himself to the behests of radicalism is denounced and falsified most venomously. As an instance of this, the recent Republican conference in this State charged against Mr. Lamar that '..e refused to declare the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments valid and binding. As a matter of fact, Mr. Lamar said in the lower House of Congress:

In a word, they [the Southern peoplej regard the new amendments of the Constitution, which secure to the black race freedom, citizenship and suffrage, to be not less sacred and inviolable than the original charter as it came from the hands of the fathers. In the Senate al*o, Mr. Lamar voted for the following resolution which sprang out of a political debate, and which resolution, be it said, Senator Edmunds voted against: Resolved, as the judgment of the Senate, That the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States are as valid and binding as any other part of the Constituti >n; that the people of the United States have a common interest in the enforcement of the whole Constitution in every State and in the Territories of the United States, so far as the power has been delegated to them, to enforce said amendments and to protect every citizen in the exercise of all the jights thereby secured.

Arrangements are making for another trial of Sim Coy et al, by the Federal court at Indianapoliß, on charge of election frauds, but there seems to be nothing doing toward giving Carnahan speedy trial. Carnahan was chairman of the r publican county committee. Jno. Sherman—’Lize Pinkston’s John —addressed the Senate the the other day in opposition to tariff reform, and Senator Yoorhees followed in reply. * The $100,000,000 surplus in the treasury, constitutes but one-sixth of the amount filched from the people by virtue cf the republican war tariff. The other five-sixths is paid to the protected monopolists, who in return pay tlieir em. pi -yes starvation wages, producing strikes, lock-outs, etc.

It was the Republican party that passed a statu,e of limitation on soldiers getting a pension from the date of their disability, and pays them only from the date of filing their claims » It was the Republicans in Congress that opnosed the Interstate Commerce law, their opposition being based on a desire to foster of Congress that opposed the law authorizing the \aboring men of the country to incorporate trade unions. It was a Republican Congress that authorized the coinage of the trade dollar seven and a half grains larger than the dollar of our fathers. This was done in the i. terest of the Chinese who flooded the Pacific coast. It was the s n me Republican party, after millions if these trade dollars in the hands of the Üboring m-n of this country, that

demonetized their money pud caused the Government to buy it in at a discount. It was the Republican party that demonetized the silver dollar and made the bonded debt of the country payable in gold coin, introducing what is known as the mono, or one metal system of mo ney. It was the Republican party that inaugurated the convict labor systen in the government workshops. It was the Republican party that gave to the railroads millions of acres of the public lands for which the roads never gave any consideration of value.

it was the Republican party that built ip and fostered what T as known as the hreedmens’ bank, and then heartlessly robbed the poor illiterate colored people of millions of dollars.

It was under a Republican administration that DeGolier contracts tlourished and the Credit Mobeliar swindle vas inaugurated. It was under a Republican administration that Dorsey. Brady, et al perpetrated the star route the railroad monopolies of the country.

D was the Republican members of Congress that for years kept the Mexican soldiers’ pension bill from becoming a law. It was a Republican Congress that passed a law in 1864 legalizing the importation of Chinese coolies to this country under five years contract for labor, and thereby drove thousands of patriotic, law abiding laboring men to idleness and caused their families, in many instances to become paupers. It was the Republican members swindles and frauds. It was the Republican party that l avished liberty and stoie the Presidency. It is the Republican party that has declared in favor of adjusting and equalizing the onorous and ur just war tariff, and now clamors for its retention, and use every means in their power to obstruct legislation looking to an equitable adjustment of the tariff.