Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — Three Great IssueS. [ARTICLE]

Three Great IssueS.

The Democracy derives not a little comfort and encouragement from the knowledge that its candidates for President and Vice President will experience no difficulty in standing squarely upon tho platform adopted by tho Chicago

convention. Each of the nominees may be said to embody in his own person the oardinal principles of the party, thus establishing perfect harmony between the ticket and the platform. The three great issues which the Democratic party makes in tho pending campaign and on which it intends that the contest shall be fought to a finish are as follows: 1. The robber tariff must go. 2. There must be no force bill in this country to overthrow peaceable elections and destroy free government at the South. 3. There must be no degradation of tho money standard of the nation. The three gigantic evils which the Democracy proposes to combat zealously and aggressively are all of Republican origin and each is supported, either wholly or in large part, by rabid Republicans or men whoso political antecedents were Republican. The iniquitous doctrine of protection was nurtured in the rock-ribbed Republican commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Is to-day upheld and encouraged by the monopolists' and tariff barons of that highly protected State. The idea of the force bill originated in the minds of Johnny Davenport, a New York boss; John M. Langston, a Virginia negro; Albion W. Tourgoe, a wandering agitator; Thomas B. Reed, a political despot; and Henry Cabot Lodge, a puritanic theorist, who are one and all bright and shining lights In tho Republican party. ( In the case of the ebony-hued Langston there may be some question as to his "bright and shining” qualities, but the genuineness of his Republicanism is beyond dispute. The Minneapolis platform likewise commits the Republican party to the support of the force bill. The agitation which disturbs the financial system of the country had its source in the silver-producing States of the West which have never given Democratic majorities and can never be reasonably expected to do so. It is palpable, therefore, that the Democracy in its fight on the great' questions which divide the voters in this campaign discovers the Republican party as tho common enemy at every point. Under these circumstances, every friend of a revenue tariff, of home rule and free institutions and of honest finance is expected to rally under the banner inscribed with the names of Cleveland and Stevenson.