Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — APERY IN POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

APERY IN POLITICS.

The Chicago Herald. Results of local elections in various parts of the country recently confirm what was plain enough in the contests of last year, that an alliance, offensive and defensive as been entered into between the republican party and the A.P.A.— the know-nothing—party of the time. It may reasonably be expected that this alliance will continue for tbe present, and that it will exhaust its resources in an effort to carry state and congressional elections next fall.

While the more ruffianly of the A. P. A. leaders exploit their vicious propaganda openly, inciting to violence and exasperating intended objects of their malice for the purpose of making them break the laws, the more dastardly work of the organization is done in secret, where collusion with republican leaders may be prudently effected. It is not yet in the ann ale of this un-American and nefarious body that the democracy in any part of the United States has accepted favor from it or consented to have anything to do with it except to protest against its motives and resist its progress. It is a treasonable organization. It deliberately aims at infraction of the constitution of the United States. While that instrument separates church and state, > nd places all creeds on an equality of rights and responsibilities the A. P. A. society plus the republican party seeks to unite the state with one form of religious bel es and to exclude from a portion of their political rights a part of the citizenship of the country on creed account. The republican party has entered into an unholy alliance with this treasonable body. It is perfectly willing to trample upon the constitutionlwherever and whenever by doing so it can get one more office. Proscriptive of all traditions but its own. narrow and biggoted at heart, it plays ape to the A. P. A. and imitates ts conduct with only the modification of cowardice and greater secrecy. I "J need not be alarmed by this epoch of ap ry in American politics.— They may lose a little here and there while the corrupt combination lasts. It is bound in time to perish. Its life must be brief. Its principle is too abhorrent to the deep sense of justice and fair play implanted in the real American mind. Its organizers are men of scant intelligence, slight reading, contracted sight and debased hearts. The republican politicians who are abetting them would form an alliance With Satan or Judas if by doing so they could make even slight and temporary gain. Their profligacy will bring its own reWard. This combination of brutishness and political greed will in due tUne revolt intelligent and law-respecting Americans who nave been in the habit of vot ing With the republican party. That tainted organization will lose far more from among this class of voters ultimately than it is now gaining from the set it is consorting with. Men of many creeds laid the foundations of our government. Men of manv creeds cemented its foundations with their blood. Men of many creeds have stood side by side again and again in its defense. Every battlefield of the nation contains the ashes of patriots belong! g to almost every known form of religious preference. Without their common sacrifice, without their cordial and unfalter ing brotherhood, we would not exist as a republic to-day. To seek io rob any portion of our people of their political rights on creed account is' ungrateful, is brutish, is treasonable. Let the republicans beware of the alliance they have made. They will yet be hoist with their own oatapult. y Already some of their organs realize the danger in the distance. If republican papers had not voiced this brutish organization and by cunning flattery helped it into growth, it would not be a factor in American politics. They kuew that the apery it engendered would naturally tend to help them, especially jin local contests. With its aid they have won in some places where on high political brlnciples they bad honestly lost in Wisconsin for example . But they foresee already that as rapidly as the I igots get the upper hand they will use their . ower to proscribe others as they are now proscribing one creed. They will turn igom religious proscription to race proscription. They will become nativistio and puritan. Then the partnership must break. The Germans, whom the republican party and the Apes have for an hour lured nto their despicable company, will revolt the moment their peculiar tastes are threatened. It is a crowning disgrace to the Germans wherever they have followed this brutal leadership that they should abandon the only national party on which they have safely relied in the past for their personal rights. It is a shame to them that, having suffered at times themselves from; proscription, they should become proscribers of their fellow citizens of any creed or race. They will bitterly repent their treachery and lolly. They will be whippe t with tbe scourge they are helping turnon other naturalized citizens. They will deserve the whip. Political apery will not last long.

The Delphi Times, booming Mr. Hammond for renomination, says: ‘His record is in accord with Demo cratic ideas and pleasing to his oonstitu ents.” We believe no Democrat is finding fault with Mr. Hammond’s record in the House, but we also believe that thelargest pro portion of his constituents are bitterly opposed to his making recommendations at the dictation of a coterie of self as Burned leaders inside and outside the dis triot. His actions in this regard, louder than words, has sad, “the public be d—d!“ and, while we always abide the action of our conventions, we cannot ignore the declarations of scores of Democratic vot ers, more numerous than the few so called leaders, that they will resent Mr. Ham inond’s insult to them. It will be wise in the De mooratio Congressional Conven tion foi this district to heed the disoon tent extant and not invite defeat. A lawyer said to a witness: “You’re a nice fellow, ain’t yon?" Witness replied: “I am, sir, and if I was not on my oath I’d say tho same of you.’—Oakland Enquirer.