Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — Democracy United. [ARTICLE]

Democracy United.

The Democratic is a national ■ party. It exists in every State in the Union as a vigorous and vitalizing force. It is the party of the people everywhere in the Union, but some particular annunciation of party doctrine fcs received in certain quarters more heartily than in others. The South arrays itself with the utmost heartiness against the Republican proposition, vigorously combated by Democrats, that through the means of a force bill there shall be Federal control o' elections. lowa, cursed by prohibition, which Republicans, notwithstanding the popular verdict, insist upon maintaining because a gerrymander has given them control of the General Assembly, are delighted with the Democratic proclamation of opposition to all sumptuary laws as an interference with the individual rights of the citizen. Both Illinois and Wisconsin arc well pleased with the declaration of the Democratic convention that freedom of education as an essential of civil and religious liberty as well as a necessity for the development of intelligence must not be interfered with under any pretext whatever, and the interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children is a fundamental Democratic doctrine. Wisconsin is pleased that its course in repealing the Bennett law is thus approved. Illinois is pleased that it has the moral, support of this national declaration In the fight it is still making against obstructive, illiberal, and bigoted Republicism for perfect freedom of conscience. The national Republican platform is silent on this point. So far as it has spoken concerning sumptuary laws it glances support of prohibition in those vague terms wh'ch its managers choose to employ. Everywhere in the Union, but more particularly in the agricultural States, which have felt the grievousness of the burden, Cleveland’s declaration that unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation is heartily accepted. The people have grown weary of abuse of the Federal newer in tho levy of taxes. They de-

mand so decided a reform that unjust burdens shall be lifted from them, and they want all schemes of taxation for a government economically administered to fall evenly in their operation, so that no class shall be special objects of governmental regard. The Democracy everywhere in the Union has determined to sink all differences of opinion and stand heartily by the Democratic cause and the Democratic candidates. Republicanism means prohibition; it means the force bill, it means interference with tho liberty of conscience, it means class legislation in the tariff and elsewhere, it means, as demonstrated in the McKinley law, pro-tection-run-mad, not the simple, wellmeaning if ppssibly mistaken protection advocated by Henry Clay, but the crushing, cunning millionaire’s protection, devised by William MoKinley and upheld by Benjamin Harrison, under which trusts flourish and wealth is concentrated in the hands of relatively few residents of the Republic, its Carnogies and its Goulds. Democracy opposed to these abominations will support the Presidential candidates named by a National Democratic Convention. Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin, and Indiana Democracy will make earnest struggle for the success of Cleveland and Stevenson.—Chioago Times.