Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1891 — SOUNDS LIKE THE “REPUBLICAN SLOGAN” OF 1856 AND 1860. [ARTICLE]

SOUNDS LIKE THE “REPUBLICAN SLOGAN” OF 1856 AND 1860.

St. Lotjis, July 28.— The farmers’ alliance and knights of labor of the Third and Fourth congressional districts of Texas are holding an encampment at Sulphur Springs, Texas, and will continue for a week Among the prominent persons present are Senator Pfeifer of Kansas, and Mr. Powers, president of the Indiana allianoe. The speeches so far have all been in favor of the people’s party movement, and some of them are of quite an intemperate character, For example, Lee E. Hoods of Vanzandt oounty predicted a revolution in the event relief fails through tho ballot, and said that John Brown succeeded Lloyd Garrison, and that the people intend to break the reign of plutocracy peaceably if they can, butforoibly if they must.

President Powers of Indiana said he had looked across a gun barrel at the Sonth not many years ago, but he was here now to take them by the hand in a fight to the death against the two old parties, who were two old dogs trotting in the same path. There had been alt loody chasm between the North and the South for twenty-five years, but the people wo’d fill the chasm with dead politicians, wipe out monopoly and plutocracy and restore the government to the people. The exception written aotoss a greenback bil he held in his hand had destroyed the sovereignty of the people, end the evils aggravated when the exception was made against the silver dollar. He held a map in his hand illustrating the national banks in which the people could not approach the treasury, >. ut showing a banker in 1886 receiving $60,000,000 from the treasury hopper. A map with a seesaw on the backs of two farmers on uli fours, and a republican and democrat on either end, and still another map representing the farmers as reversing the operation. St, Louis. July 29.—A special from Sulphur Springs, Texas, says. Senator Pester was the orator at the farmers’ encampment last night. He wanted the Government te loan the people money at 1 per cent, to lift nine million mortgages, and to pall the teeth and olose the mouth of the great red dragon in Wall street. He proposed to do this with fiat money, issued direotly to the people who had mortgaged their homes. His speech lasted two hours, and he closed by saying the peoplo’s party would finally elect the President, Congress and Senate, and if the Supreme Court was not with them they would make another.

If the above reports are comet they indicate that the apostles of the so-called people’s party are in harmony with the accoucheurs of the repnblican party in 1856 ind 1860. In the Philadelphia convention, 1856, it was given out that if the repnblican party failed that year with the ballot it would resort to the bullet. In the above “a revolution" is predicted “in the event relief fails through the ballot,” and again “that John Brown sneoeeded (our recollection is that J. B. preceded) Lloyd Garrison, and that the people intend to break the reign of plutocracy peaceably if they can, but forcibly if they must.” The remarks of Powers, of this State were in the same line. The statements attributed to Pfeffei, if correct, are simply the anadalterated utterances of a demagogue. The authority of the Encyclopsedta Britannica has never been questioned in any Court of Justice in this country or in Europe. Lawyers take it into court to speak from it or quote it, with the same assurance that they would from a law book. At a recent county convention of the F. M. B. A. of Carroll county the action of the Cincinnati convention was not indorsed and it was resolved “that each member should he free to exercise his individual judgment as to how he shall vote.” The Carroll county farmers have taken the right coarse, There is nothing in their code of principles that can be construed as binding them politically and they will certainly do well by steering clear of the political shoals that wrecked the patrons of hnsbandry and other organizations. The farmers’ strength lies in their ability to discriminate between men and measures of the two ol<l parties and not in the effort to organize a new political party.—White County Demoorat.

The aims and objects of the alliance is all right and proper. By concerted and nnited action the organization can secure advantages and benefits in the world of trade which they conld not do in an onorganized state. They can accomplish much good for their industry. They softer mnch from the evils of republican class legislation. There is net a wrong of which they complain, but what the democratic party through its representatives has sought to right. The greatest evil impbsed upon the alliance is the action of the people’s party element, in sefr son and out of Beason, seeding to foist upon them their organs and speakers.— Qur republican neighbor must be a sort of a “demphool” that he don’t reoognize in this a republican move designed to mislead those of republican proclivities and thus prevebt them coming over to.the democracy! They argue that while it may be a republican loss there is no democr|tio gain in the result.

The Demoeratio gentinel comes |to the relief of his co-laborator in the Democratic vineyard, the Pilot editor, by sug» gesting that Judge Hammond, Treasurer Washburn and other leading Republioans were onoe Democrats, and the Pilot eagerly avails itself of the suggestion.— There is a vast difference, however, in the two oases. Hammond and Washbum left the Demoeratio party forever, at a time when its rank and opeu disloyalty was such that every true lover of his country ought to have followed their oxample. Their change waß from honorable and patriotic motives, and their reasons therefor are known of all men. * * —Renssolaer Republican.

We know nothing of the reasous of the Pilot man for leaving the Democratic party. It is sufficient for ns to know that the Denooratio party has always been the great party of the people from the time of its organization by Jefferson in opposition to the Federal plntocratio par. ty organised by Hamilton whioh has been handed down to the present time under the aliases of anti-Mason, Whig, Know Nothing and Repnblican. The inspired genius of the great founder of the Demooratio party was felt in our revolutionary struggle. The noted Declaration of Independence, produot of his brain and pen, and the outflow of his

pure, patriotic heart, inspired the patriots of that day with new hope and courage.— Later under his own administration the are area of our Union was extended, the abominable and un-Amerioan alien and sedition laws (similar in their objeots to the late force bill of the Reed oongreas), of Adams' federalistio administration re* pudiated and wiped out. Following, under the Jeffersonian administration of Monroe, the second attempt of Great Britain to seoure her grip upon this country was defeated, our people rallying under the battle-ory < f ‘Free Tade and Sailors Bights", the Federalist party—parent tree of the Republican—opposing thewa; and giving aid and oomfort to the enemy. Under the Jeffersonian administration of James K. Polk the foreign War with Mexico was oonduoted to a successful issue in spite of the opposition of the Whin party—predecessor of the Republican— and the expressed wish of its lenders that the Mexican* would “Weioome our soldiers with bloody hands to hospitable graves.” In 1852 the Whig party was wiped out. In 1868 the Republican party ,ucoeeded the Whig. Its coiner atone was sectionalism; its oreed was “No union with slaveholders"; “The unionjwas in league wlthihell and the constitution a covenant with death;" an ’ admonition to “Tear down the stars and str pos, with the declaration in convention that “If we did not sucoed with the ballot w« would resort to the bullet. " The spirit of fairness, the union sentiment among the people and loyalty to the constitution, however, prevailed, and the sucoess of sectionalism postponed. In 1860 the Republicans and Kuow Nothings combined forces and seoured viotory.— That party has retained power ever since by force, fraud and even theft of the Presidency. Its adminstration of affairs has been reckless in the extreme, honeycombed with fraud and corruption, and legislation oonfined to the interests of monopolists and money lords. The Democracy point with pride to its record during the war. Its rank and file rushed to the front in defense of the union in such numbers that it was an easy matter for the stay-at-home Republicans to defeat their party at the polls; Its represent, atives voted men and money without stint, only asking that the war be prosecuted for the restoration of the au thority of the government; It resisted all measures calculated to prolong the war and intensify the strife. The policy of the Republican administration was to prolong and embitter the strife, at th« expense of thousands of lives and treas' ure, with a view >o exhaust the patience of the pe iple' and force their oonsent to peace on terms looking to the perpetuity of the party in power This they expected to bring about through (reconstruction measures and giving negroes the ballot. Failing in this calculation their last resort was to procure the passage of the force bill which met with such an ignominious failure last winter. With this comparison of parties, and it is correct, we fail to see where the patriotic motives of the gentlemen named comes in in oonneotion with their abandonment of the Democratic for the Reoublican party.— The language employed by the Republican in justification of their course can be attributed to the ignoranoe of its editor or a readiness to bear false witness against his opponents. As friends and fellow citizens there are none we esteem more highly; as Republicans we can see no distion, and our Republican neighbor will bear us out in in the statement that they have been well and frequently provided for by the party of their adoption. Every effort of the Democracy to secure legislation in the interest of the masses has been defeatedlby the Republican party, aided by many of those clamoring for reform through a new party erganizaton. So far as the Pilot editor is concerned, if he ever was a Democrat, his change of hase can no more be attrib. uted to patriotic motives than can the :cl a age of the gentlemen feferred to by the Republican. The Democratic party has, from its organization, beep the party or the people.

The difference between the Britanoica and all other Encyclopaedias consists in the fact that all the great subjects, of which there are 3000, are handled as a oomplete treatise, jnst the same as if you purchased a book on a particular subjeot, written by one of the best authors in the world. Mr. Homer Kessler, of Logansport, Ind., Ass.t General Agent of the Union Central Life Inanranoe Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, is at present in Rensselaer looking up the interests of his oompany, and is being assisted by C. T. Guyton, Cambridge City, Ind. The gentlemen are meeting with ffood sucoess. Farmers wishing to borrow money oan aot do better than to see these gentlemen before going elsewhere. They loan money for ten years at 7 per oent. with privilege of paying baok at any time any am’t with corresponding rebate of interest— No commission to pay, nor expense for examination of title, drawing of papers or reoording of mortgage.

They have a plan by which if death ocours before tho expiration of ten years, the mortgage would be canceled, and in addition like amount would be paid the estate in cash. And if living at the expiration of ten years the mortgage will be released and no more will have been paid by mortgagor than if he had borrowed money eliewh. re at the same rate of interest, where he would not have had the great advantages offered by this company. Farmers wishing to investigate can do so by oalling on the above named partita at the Nowels House, or addressing Homer Kessler, Ass’t General Agent 314 Fourth Street, Logansport, Ind. The President of Yale College has said “He will defy any one to buy 3,000 volumes which will give him as good a working library as is furnished in the Encyclopaedia Brftannioa."