Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1892 — They Are on the Run. [ARTICLE]

They Are on the Run.

The voters of the United States are not overlooking the straws which infallibly fix the direction of the political breeze. Republican flock-gatherers are endeavoring to repudiate the force bill issue, and Secretary Elkins has gone so far in his West Virginia campaign as to denounce it as an infamous measure, such as his party would never seek to make a pare of our national legislation. That these declarations are made for campaign purposes only, and to sooththe alarm of those who foresee the practical workings of such an enormity, is apparent to all who read and observe. The one hope of perpetuating the Republican party in power is for it to secure absolute control of the election machinery throughout the country. The New York Tribune recognized what the party hoped to secure through the force bill by saying that in it were four McKinley bills.

On the tariff the Republicans fear and refuse a joint discussion between men ably representing the respective Views of the two parties, even the patron saint of high protection failing to enter the lists, though challenged by men who are more than worthy of his steel. The tools of monopolistic interests are content to place their misrepresentations before the people in the most plausible manner, and, if possible, lead them to the indorsement of a tariff system which is constantly reducing the number of those who control the capital and the vast resources of this country, while poverty or reduced income and privileges is the inevitable fate of all others. These professed friends of the laboring classes, who include nearly all members of great trusts, corporations, and monopolies, have drawn upon the absurdly false report of Commissioner Peck, of New York, and sought to make political capiial of evidence so unwarranted that it was burned to avoid an exposure of its rottenness. They have s gnally failed to establish a claim that wage earners have fared better in Massachusetts than before the McKinley bill was enacted, and in pettifogging a hopeless case are only injuring their own cause. In so ne of the silver States, notably Colorado, ileputdican stump orators, whose sole mission is to secure votes for Harrison, regardless of methods, are proclaiming his fealty to the cause of iree silver. Ex-Senator Thomas M. Bowen so proclaimed in his speech at Creede, and guaranteed the correctness of his statement to his thousands of listeners. Much else might be truthfully said to show that the Republican party has degenerated to an organized hypocrisy. It has outlived the days of its usefulness, and it is not only on the defensive but on the run.