Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1891 — A WAVE OF CHANGE. [ARTICLE]

A WAVE OF CHANGE.

Since the “landslide” of the last November elections the Republicans generally seem to be identified with things that needs reforming. Newport, E. 1., elects a full Democratic ticket. In New York there has just been exploited the complete domination of the representing what the late Senator Conkling might call the “forbidding and abhorrent agencies” in politics, consummating an identification with the national administration which drags it into what the late Senator again might style “the hurricane and the surfeit of mire and detestable accusation.” In Ohio the Republicans hope to profit by Governor Campbell’s assault on th» corrupt elements in his own party in Cincinnati. In our city the Republican campaign of disrepute is an appeal to “speakeasyism" and an obstruction to pul lie improvements and the moral and material progress of our affairs In Pennsylvania what Quayism and Bardslevism are needs no specification.— There, also, the Republicans are identified with the foul and corrupt agencies that have made the affairs of the Keystone State a stench in the nostrils of civilization. In the present campaign they are met and opposed by a union of the reforming elements, typical of which might be mentioned the attitude of the Philadelphia Ledge”, which now has come out in support of the Democratic ticket. The Ledger considers it “indispensably necessary that the spoils system shall be struck by a crushing defeat in Pennsylvania,” and it intimates very pointedly that the Quay Republican o.ganizatiou in the light of its acts and declarations will never strike the blow. The Republican machine in PennsylvanisfUas been struggling very hard for along time to alienate and drive away the conscientious from among the Republicans of the State, and its effort seems to be now attaining some degree of success. The same result is prefigured by the Platt Fassett national administration combine in New York. It seems to be a wave of evolution.—lndianapolis News, rep.