Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1891 — WHOSE WAS THE PERFIDY? [ARTICLE]

WHOSE WAS THE PERFIDY?

There is talk in some republican quar tersof the “perfidy”of Moore and Cockrell in voting for Palmer No one will deny that there was perfidy in the senatorial contest at Springfield, but it can - not be laid at the feet of the independents. ~What party was it that tried to mislead, and for the time did mislead, these men? What party was it whose promises, trades, dickers and tricks kept the people in suspense for two months and prevented an election? What party was i that professed to abandon every principle that it ever had in order to secure the three farmer votes? What party was it that took poor old Streeter in tow and, working craftily on his ambition to be senator, compel! ed him to play false to the farmers and pledged him to monopoly tariffs, force bills, trusts, gag laws and subsidies?— What party was it that left no depth unsounded in order to cheat the people out of their chosen senator and what party wag it that, at the last, when sentenoe was about to be passed upon it. sought to bribe Dr. Moore, and, failing in that, refuged to vote at all and then, to make a record, threw one hundred votes for Lindley, whom nobody wanted? What party was it, too, whose governor, after maintaining a pretense of friendship for the farmers for eight weeks, sought to punish them for voting for Palmer by denying them any representation on th railroad and warehouse commission and by appointing thereto a number of maohine politicians? It was the republican party that engaged in all this dirty business and it is now denied even the poor satisfaction of knowing that it triumphed. The democrats won the senatorship because they deserved to win it, because their attitude throughout proved them to be men of principle and beoanse their leader remained a democrat from beginning to end, proposing no bargains and making no sacrifices of principle. The perfidy was all on the other side and it came to grief as it always should.—Chicago Herald.

Physical culture! What is physical culture? The present aim and the certain result of this new “fad" include the attainment of good health and a fine form; and a fine form outranks a pretty face in the popular estimate of physical beauty. Who is not willing to make some effort for such a desirabls attainment? It is not so difficult, after all, —if you only know how; and if you want to know how, you may learn from the April number of Demorest’s Family Magazine, which contains a splendid artiole on “Physical Culture,” by Prof. E. B. Warm an. A. M., giving a course of exercises, profusely illustrated, whieh will help everybody—man, woman or child—to acquire a graceful, suple form, and without going to a gymnasium, or even spending a cent for apparatus. And this is not the only attraction of this excellent number of this excellent magazine: “The Land of Our Next Neighbor,” “The Care of Palms in the DrawingRoom.” “How Art Students Live in Now York,” “Grotesque Ways of Deoorating Easter Eggs, “Kito-Flying” (for the boys), all handsomely illustrated, several capital stories, a fine article cn “Thinness: Its Causes and Curs,"by Susanna W. Dodds, M. D., are a few of its other features, and there are nearly three hundred illustrations, including a full-page watercoler Easter card. As an all-around “family” magazine, this one cannot be beat: there is something in every number for father, mother, and every one of the children; and it is only $2 per year. Published by W. Jennings Demorest, 15 East 14th Street, New York.

Fart of the republican scheme to obtain a secure majority in the Senate has been the reverse of a shining success. The territory of Dakota was made into two States only because it was considered certain that they would elect four republican senators who would stick blindly to the party programme. Daring the first Congress in which the Dakotas were represented one of the South Dakota senators voted against the HcKinle bill. The other voted for it, and he haß recently t een defeated by an Independent who has declared that he is in favor of low tariff and that he agrees with the demoorats on most of the leading issues of the day. Both the North Dakota senators voted for the McKinley bill, and one of then, has been defeated by a republican who is committed to low tariff. Qln the next Congress the Dakotas will therefore give three senatorial votes for low tariff, and only one for the style of taxation represented by the McKinley bill.— ‘The best laid plans of mice and men,” etc.—Lafayette Journall.