Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1889 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The following editorial from the New York World will be interesting at this juncture: ‘ the president abroad ” "The ‘loyal citizens of Boston,’ as a patisan Presidentworshipper would call them, were in a tremor of excitement yesterday lionizing President Harrison. “They showed him ‘Funnel Hall’ and the gilded dome, the Common and other historic spots, and the beautiful suburbs. They stood on the sidewalk to see the Presidential party drive by. * * * And what did they see? A very small and pale and commonplace Indiana statesman afflict ed with a paonounced case of that progressive and fatal com plaint known as the “Big Head.” He has been five months in office and has not, so far as the public has been made aware, or as appearance indicate, give* thought or attention to any business save filling the offices with his own relatives, friends and support ers. He has bestowed high offices as a reward for raising enor. n: ous sums of money to promote his election. He has re* pudiated the pledges of his party ana his own-promises to the nation by inaugurating snd carrying on the wildest carnival of spoils which has been seen in this country in twenty-five years. He has appointed notorious rascals to office. He has made corrupt bargains with political freebooters. /nd he aggravated these offences against honest politics and good government by Pharisaic pretentiousness and the cant of piety. ’‘What is there in his character or his record as president that should lead the people to pay hero worship to Benjamin Harrison? It is well to honor his office. But before the Presidency is honored in its occupant he should first honor it. And this the present incumbent has not done.”

The Republicans have insisted that the reason why Dem ocrats are elected to Congress from southern districts in which the negro population is the largest is that the negroes are intimidated by Democrats and thus prevented from voting. They sent several northern Republican Congressmen to Louisiana to see about this, and to report such a condition of things in the district of that state, in which there was a special election for a Congressman last week. The returns of the election, says the Atlan ta Journal, completely dis* prove their charge. 'They did persuade most of the negroes in one of the parishes not to vote, hoping that their abstinence would afford them a tact to sustain their charge. But, notwithstanding this, about 32,000 votes were cast in the district, and that at a special election for on i official on ly. The returns show that not only must the negroes have generally voted (except in one parish above referred to) but that hundreds of them voted the Democratic ticket.

There 32,000 votes were almost as many as were cast in both the congressional districts of Republican Rhode Island at the simultaneous presidential and congressional elections of last year. They are greatly more than were cast in the whole Republican State of Nevada. In ten of the congressional district s districts of New York last November hardly as many votes were cast in each, notwithstanding the fact that the presidential, congressional and State elections excited and called out nearly every voter. No doubt we could find many other congressional districts of northern States in which less than 32,000 votes were cast, if we had time to look then out. Thus is another Republican slander on the Democrats of the south signally refuted. — "■ Lock out for bargains at Priest & Pexton’s.