Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1892 — They Continue to Come. [ARTICLE]

They Continue to Come.

Nebraska Democracy has a new convert whose position and ability will render him a great help in the redemption of that State and the permanent establishment of its political virtue. This is Gilbert M. Hitchcock, editor of the Omaha World-Herald, Mr. Hitchcock is the son of the late Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, a life-long Republican. The young man naturally began life with Republican tendencies and for many years he has been conducting an independent paper. But McKinleyism, Thayerism and prohibitionism were too much for him, and on the recent anniversary of Andrew Jackson’s victory at New Orleans he threw both hands and in the presence of Gov. Boyd and many other enthusiastic banqueters declared his conversion in earnest and eloquent terms. • Readers of protection organs know that tin-plate mills are springing up all over the country like mushrooms; still the operators insist that the present tax of $16,000,000 i 6 not enough to get the infant on its feet. They would have Congress raise the tariff wall about onehalf higher. But that sort of thing is becoming obsolete. There was but one spot on the North American Continent, it is said, of which there is authentic account, where maneating people dwelt, and that dark spot was withtng the geographical limits of what isnowthe Statesof Indiana and Illinois. These horrid rites were performed by the Miami Indians even where Chicago now stands. . A circular being sent out to postmasters intimates pretty clearly to the officials that their positions will be safer if they send $5 each to the Republican League to aid in the diffusion of political literature. Of course, Mr. Wanamaker does not know about this. Ex-President McCosh, of Princeton College, has undertaken a very ambitious literary work. He proposes to Issue a full set of volumes on the various departments of the human mind, and is at present writing a little book on ethics to begin the series.