Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — They Are Thinking. [ARTICLE]

They Are Thinking.

Our Republican friends are worrying because there is a significant lack of noise in the current campaign. It puzzles them and creates unpleasant forebodings. They miss the brass bands, the long processions of horse and foot, the ringing cheers, the shouts of defiance, the showy uniforms, the wavering lines of light, the flags, the banners and the transparencies with their gems of pclitical wit or wisdom. Why is this thus? is a conundrum to them. The question is not a difficult one. The people are not hurrahing this campaign. They are thinking. The day of election is not far off, yet there is a marked absence in that turbulence and excitement that have grown traditional, and thus far the campaign has been the quietest within the memory of man. Business has not been disturbed and confidence is unimpaired. Mr Harrison professes to see nothing in this to alarm, but his shrewder friends, who have nothing to look after but the course of political events, realize what it means. Men are not educated in political matters under the band wagon method of campaignings They cannot shout and acquire knowi-

edge at the same time. Noise is not oonducivo to successful mental investigation. Otherwise school ohildren would bo favored with constant orchestral music and philosophers could evolve their grandest theories In a boiler yard. The less the people shout the moro they think, and the more they think the more emphatic will be the vote by which they declare against the existing order of things. They declared their opinion upon national questions two years ago and the feeling then manifested against the multiplied evils of MoKinleyism has been greatly intensified through lessons of bitter experience and a broadfer knowledge of the great economic problem.