Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — Good Americans. [ARTICLE]

Good Americans.

Methinks we’ve heard it said that Democrats are not good Americans. History the assertion. Jefferson, the author of the most God-like declaration that ever emanated from the mind of man, was a Democrat. Monroe, who was the first to enunciate the doctrine that foreign interference in American affairs, should be considered an act of hostility, was also a Democrat. Jackson, the hero of Ne v Orleans and the most aggressive president (that ever served the people, was a Democrat. James K. Polk, during whose administration the Mexican war was fought, was a Democrat. Grover Cleveland, whose interpretation of the Monroe doctrine is so plain, so aggressive ard so soundly American, is a Democrat. The Americanism of Democrats has been questioned because thev will not subscribe to the infernally unfair system us protection—a system th t next to human slavery is most to be despised. Wherever you find a man wno believes in equal rights and eqqal opportunities—in individualism rather than paternalism—you wiß

find a Democrat and a true blue American. In all the conflicts of the past in which the spirit of true Americanism has been manifested, Democrats have been the leaders. The Pharos refers to these mats ters to remind people of what constitutes Americanism and to refute the oft repeated assertion that Democrats are not good Americans because they are opposed to that system of human slavery known as protection.—Logansport Pharos.