Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XII

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RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY APRIL 6, 1888

THAT COWARDLY SPEECH.

INGALLS WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO TRY OBSCURITY HIMSELF. Senator Ingalls undoubtedly knows Dy this i.me that even from a partisan political standpoint he made a miser,. ide mistake in deli' ai'iag his iccviit speech in the senate. d s abuse of Hancock and McClelku raids but a faint approving response from even the most rabid party organs, while it is being resented m such a manner by many of the soldiers of the country, irrespective of politics, as to make the rebuke to the Kansas senator conspicuously severe. That a man of Mr Ingalls’ ability and ambition should descend to bid for the favor of th sol iers in the discreditable way he did, and then inspire as his reward the indignation and condemnation of the soldiers, must be extremely humiliating to him. It will probably be many a moon before he his anything to say in public again about the war, or those who figure in it. If he is as shrewd as he has been heretofore credited with being, he will leave, henceforth a field in which he has made such a spectacular failure to mor successful cultivators of it, lik,? the governor of Ohio, who, even if he were to provoke such a rebuke as the Kansan has received, is so small that it would never hit him.

Meanwhile, as he is pondering in penitence over the blunders of a politician, he might reflect advantageously on ano her of his declarations made in the same speech, when he proclaime :, with what was intended as withering sarcasm, that after the nomination of Grover Cleveland there is no man in this country “whose obscurity is so impenetrable that he has no right to aspire to the presidential nomination of the Democratic party.”

In the course of his reflections perhaps Mr. Ingalls will be able to arrive at some definite conclusion as to the exact time at which obscurity became a crime under our government, or a disability in the path of the citizen of the United States who dares direct his ambition to the presidency of a republic built upon the principle that all men are equal. Perhaps Mr. Ingalls will also be able to explain, at least to his own satisfaction, how it is that in censuring the Democratic party for nominating a man who not so many years ago was undoubtedly an obscure man, he can at the same time escape censuring the Republican party on the same ground. Who was more obscure than L nccln, the first of the Republican presidents? Did President Grant emerge from less “impenetrableobscurity” than any man who ever rose to fame? Even the now distinguished and canorized Hayes was not always like the effulgeni luminary which he became when he shot above the Ohio horizon and achieved notoriety as the first and only man who ever robbed the people of the presidency. It was the boast of the Republicans during the Gar field campaign that their leader had risen from the humble obscurity of the towpath, and President Arthur’s name was h irdly known outside of New York before Secretary Sherman gave him promD nence by summarily turning him out of the custom house.

Whera then is the Republican president who was not guilty of the crime of obscurity, if this apostle of Republicanism insist on denouncing it as a crime? Perhaps senator Ingalls is in fayor of making the presidency hereditary, as the crowns of Europe are, conferring the honor upon some distinguished family, and providing that it shall do-cend in a regular line of succession to whatever unobseure nincompoop whd happens to be born in that line. By th’s means the danger of xny political party nominating • and electing an obscure candidate wo’d be effectually guarded against, and all citizens es the nation would be

saved the trouble of trying to overcome the sin of obscurity. To say the least, this is a very prevalent sin among the citizens of this country. It even rumored —upon how trustworthy authority authority we dn not pretend to say —that senator Ingalls himself was, not so very long ago, an obscure peddler. . But we know of no one who would think less of Mr. Ingalls on that account, unless it is Mr. Ingalls himself. Indeed, if the goods he peddled were honest we are very much inclined to think that most people in this country have greater respect for Mr. Ingalls as a peddler than they have for him when, as a senator, he deals in such shoddy pinchbeck wares as he purveyed when he delivered his speech n the senate.— Louisville Courier-J ourn al. Take your butter and eggs to J. W. Duvall, at the new Grocery, and get cash or goods for them.

GERMANS FOR CLEVELAND.

The Tariff Policy of Clen* land Indorsed by the Germans of New York. The Qermau-American citizens of New York have resolved to unite in support of the President in advocacy of the policy of the Democratic party. The following address has been issued b i.rominer t German citizens of that city: To the Germans of New York: The Democratic administration at Washington has proved itself a blessing +o the country. The apprehensions felt by many in 1884 at the impending change of party in the Federal Government have been pleasantly dispelled. Instead of disaster to the business of the country a general progress in every department of life has taken place. The machinery of the Government has not been impeded, but is moving more swiftly and effectively than ever befor-. The spectre of the assumption of the Confederate debt has vanished; the South and the North feel themselves as one and indivisible. All the Federal debts that became due have been paid off; hundreds of millions of acres of agricultural lands, which the corruption and criminal negligence of the Republican party have granted away, nave been rescued from the railway monopolists. A remedy has been found against the crying evil of arbitrarily discriminating freights and passenger rates by the inter-State commerce commission. The public offices are no longer }he property of party organization, but open to any one who has given proof of his qualifications, and the beneficial measures and institutions are the result of long contests. Their maintenance is necessary for the stability of our national existence. But new and more difficult preb lema are yet so be solved.

Our iniquitous tax Jaws take every year from the pockets of the people the enormous sum of SIOO,000,000 more than is necessary to defray the expenses of the government. This needless accumulation of money in the treasury endangers the continuance of our republic, forming, as it does, a continuous incentive to extravagance and corruption, and will before long launch the country in a terrible financial crisis, if the remedy is not applied soon. The remedy against this, evil lies in the abolition of the taxes and customs on the necessaries of life and on raw materials. This does not mean the introduction of free trade; it means a sensible tariff, a cheapening of things felt as daily needs and wants br the workingman. It means an increasing competitive capacity < f our industries by multiplying the opportunities for employment. The tariff now in force has created enormous monopolies and socalled trusts, which displace a great many workingmen by wilfully curtailing production and at

the feme time lowering the average wages. The tariff does not protect the workingmen, for while it restricts merely the importation of foreign goods, it does not restrict the importation of foreign labor, which needs must compete •atith our workingmen. The revision of the traiff is ab solutely necessary for a favorable d velopmentof our industries. It will restrict the importation of manufactured articles’more effectively than the high custom duties have done heretofore, and will also enable our manufacturers to successfully compete in the markets of the world. Our individual as w 11 as national instinct of self-preservation compels us to solve this problem. The ways and means for its solution mist be made clear to our minds. This clearness of understanding c rt n b i obtained effectively by discussion and political organization only; and the effective j means ot pr .otically bringing | about the needed desired results.

The question now arising is this: Shall we Germans organize ourselves separately? The answer must be yes, and again vee, because comparatively few Germans only have the capacity to effectively express their views in the English language in a public meeting. And as not the few ouly, but all the Germans, should perform their duties as citizens, and farticlpate in the political straggles of the country, a separate organization is necessary.

That we cannot organize an independent Germ-n party is plain; we must of necessity ally ourselves with t .at partv which is most in sympathy with our principles and views. Such an ally is not to be found in the monopoly-ridden Republican party, but it is to be sought for in the Demo jratio party because it represents sound political progress and because it is the friend of the foreign-born element of owr population. The Democratic party advocates relief from excessive taxation, ab tement of the surplus in the Federal treasury, improvement of our commerce, shipping and industry; if advocates the securing of the public domain to bona fide settlers; suppression of monopolies and trusts, the regulation and 1

WCloanjOuisile, -AT(One Door East of Joe Hardman’s Jewelry Store.) The stock of goods consisting of IB© errs & Fetors, ' Ruoy-made clothing. BENTS’ FURNISH’G GOODS, must and shall be closed out in order to satisfy claims against it. Call soon and secure Bargains I This is no Humbug! Having retained the services of , N. FSNDIG He will be happy to see all his old customers and wait on them.

supe;yision of the railroads, the fostering of trades unions. It is against the infringement of the rights of the naturalized citizen, and especially dpea it seek to maintain inviolate the right of universal suffrage. A movement iiii deal to the forborn element is spreading through the whole country. The errors of a *ew fanatics that call 'themselves Anarchists are used as a pretext and the Republican party as an organ, for all the proposed measures of disfranchisement and sumptuary laws aimed at the foreign born citizens.. We protest against being identified <ith said fanatics. This n ovement will, however, assume overwh. dining dimensions unless by a strong German organization and a strong support of a Democratic party we raise a dam to confine it to that portion of opr population which to gets that this . country is a Democratic republic, I the “home of the free;” that the ancestors of every and each one of us was an immigrant, and that no one can claim any merit over others from the mere fact of having been born ii. this country, an event obout which he has not been consulted. We must go to work immediately. The political parties are already preparing for this year’s campaign. For it is not one election only, but three of the most important elections, that will coincide in New York next fall. New York, with its 37 electoral votes,, is the pivotal State and its decision depends upon the vote in this city. In the hands of the citizens of New York the election of the President, Governor and of the Mayor reits. And this decision depends largely upon the attitude of the 70,000 German voters residing in New York city. j’ [The address is signed by Wm. Steinway, the piano manufacturer, as chairman; Edward Grosse, Secretary; Joseph Keppler, of Puck, and a large number of tho most respected and influential German citizens of New York. Their names are printed with the address in the New York papers and in its circular form.] Groceries! Groceries!! Groceries!!! Cheap as the cheapest, at J. W. Duvall’s new Grocery.

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