Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1889 — Something Rotten in Him. [ARTICLE]

Something Rotten in Him.

A man may be a professing Christian and an exemplary person in private life and still be so twisted and dwarfed by prejudice as to do immoral and even criminal things.' History abounds in instances of the sort, and almost every

one may recall individuals whose fanaticism carried men into grievous error. John Wanamaker appears to be a man of this sort. A monopolist himself, and bred in an atmosphere of privilege, he has become a fanatic on the question of the protective tariff, and in the senseless gibberish which he talks on all convenient occasions he manifests an utter incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, between self-interest and patriotism, between lies and falsehoods. Speaking at Saratoga the other day concerning the campaign erf 1888, this whited sepulcher said: “I believe a man or a party should back up his or its convictions. I gave what I had. We did not want the republic harmed.” This is the utterance of the professing Christian who raised the greatest corruption fund ever known and placed it in the hands of the biggest rascal in the State of Pennsylvania for expenditure. The worst of it is that "Wanamaker is a sincere man and believes as he talks. He did not want the republic harmed—by the reduction of unnecessary taxation—and so, “backing up his convictions” as a gambler would, he became a prime mover in a scheme of ballot corruption which struck at the very vitals of the republic. Wanamaker is a fair person to look upon, but there is something rotten in him, with all his cant.— Chicago Herald.