Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — REPUBLICANISM AND DEMOCRACY. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICANISM AND DEMOCRACY.

Look Upon Thin l*ictur« and Than Cast Your Eye Upon Thia. As another campaign is on, it is well to contrast the records of the two great parties now contesting for supremacy in Indiana. During its tenure of power at various times in the last decade the Democratic party has done these things: It passed the mechanics’ lien lew. It passed the law giving laborers a lien upon the product of their labor for wages and material furnished. It passed the law protecting labor organizations. It passed the law providing for the safety of miners and the proper ventilation of mines. It passed the law constituting eight hours a day's labor in public employment. It passed the law prohibiting the blacklisting of employes. It passed the law prohibiting "pluckme” stores. It passed the employes' liability law. It passed the law prohibiting the importation of Pinkerton detectives. It passed the law against the importation of alien or foreign laborers. It enacted the school-book law. It enacted laws to purify elections. It enacted the Australian ballot law. It devised and passed the present tax law. It passed the new fee and salary law. It enacted the Barrett improvement law. It passed the state board of charities law. The Other Side. Every one of the above mentioned laws, now admitted to be valuable, was opposed to the last by the Republican party. It fought the school book law with utmost desperation. It arrayed itself against the labor reform laws. It opposed the 8-hour day law. It was against the employes’ liability bill. It was the champion of Pinkerton detectives. It fought all the laws to purify elections It arrayed itself like a stone wall against the Australian ballot law, which it regarded as an attack upon its inalienable right to buy votes. It was savagely against the present equitable tax law and fopght it at every stage, and if returned to power is pledged I to repeal it and go back to the old system of corporation favoritism. I It opposed the fee and salary law.