Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

&MMBIAB* Entertainment —AT THE — OPERA HOUSE, Tuesday Evening, ) February 13th, Given by the Ladies of the Pbesbytebian Church. All come and see the Japanese, and get a cud of elegant Tea for 5 cents; or a cup of Coffee and a Sandwic h for 5 cents each, at “Old Vienna.” Visit the “Indian Wigwam,” the “Esquimaux at Home.” the “Turkish and German Villages.” There will also be Music and Tableaux. Admission 10 cents. Remember the time—Tuesday exening. a( 7:30 o’clock, —at Ihe Opera House, Rensselaer, Ind. T. P. Vanatta, Sec’y.

The Republican Federal Election Law, enacted with a view to p?rpetuate republican rule, was repealed Wednesday. Glory! In th. repeal of the Sherman silver purchase law, a disgraceful republican enac'ment was wiped oul. In the repeal of the Federal election law, lisgraceful republican enactment No. 2 lias be-u abolished. Now let ti e Senate quickly pas s the Wi ! son bill, and thus repeal the McKinley iniquity, and the country will have started on the road to prosperity. • The repeal of the Federal elec tion law deprives Johnny Davenport and judge Woods of a please ant occupation.

In 1852 the old Whig party was snowed under and was succeeded by the secret, oath, bound Know Nothing party with but two planks in its creed— hostility to foreigners and Catholics. 1 t hoped to succeed by playing upon the fears and prejudice of its membership Then, as will be now under direction of the A. P A., (succes sor of the late republican party so badly avalanched i~> 1892) the couutry was surfeited with literature of the most outrageous and quesHorabie character, aud multitudes of ex-priests, so claimed, perambulated the > country from one end to the other. Riots, bur - ing of church property, etc., were of irequent occurrence in the | laige cities. In the elections of

1856 Nuow-Nothing ism was bui> led benea h the wave of popular indignation. Declamations against the and his church ceased to awakeD the fears of the people and a new opposition to the ocrati?: party must be bro’t forthIt wa3 introduced in the n:m of Republican; it’s platform—the , oor nigger! lis plan of campaign appeals to sectional hate and prejudices. The south was lied about and vilified even w rse than was the pope and his church by the Know-Nothings. Division ip the Democratic ranks made it possible for the Republicans to succeed in 1860. A s ctionnl r ;ivil war was the natural result. The existence of war; unwarranted interference of tke government in elections; the en.rgetie and persistent waving of the “bloody shirt;” tie enfran H chismei tof the n? -ro (the blacks hold the balance of power in Pennsylvania and some pther states); outright stealth of the Presidency iu 1876; purchase in 1880 enabled the Republicans to cont'nuously hold power from ’6l to ’BS. In 1888 the Republican party agai n succeeded to power by questionable and fraudulent m thods. In 1892 it was <?aught in a landslide.