Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1888 — Democracy the Moral Side. [ARTICLE]

Democracy the Moral Side.

It is not what the Democrats have done, except what has been done by a President far better, stronger, and brdver than his party, that has sent the moral weight of the country to their side. It is what the Republicans have done to disgust and repel conscientious and independent voters. It is the fact that the control of the Republican party organization has fallen into the hands of men to whom politics is merely a trade, like any other, and who have made it more disreputable than almost any s other. It is the Steve Elkinses and Tom Platts that have wrought this revolution. It is the praetorian guard putting up the empire at auction. When a party arrives at that state in which it is a serious question whether a man cannot buy its nomination to the Presidency with money paid to the "leaders,” and when the “leaders’* put out a platform which is simply a speculation upon the gmllibility oft the voters, intelligent and conscientious voters must feel that such a party has out-? lived its uselMiaess. —Hew York Times . ~ W