Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

‘‘Daughter, if th? Inttn.” #Gen ihi Van*. Rensselaei Chap <er D. A. R. will meet Friday, November 20th, at 2:00 o’clock p. m;. with Mrs. J. J. H. Chopman. Mem eis capond to “patriotic say’ngs of greatest an ! wisest men of the Revolutionary period.” The farmers aro now busilv engaged in husking 18 cent corn. —■ ■ IV here did the recent ovclouo in New York deposit Hon. Bourke Gockran? Watterson’s request that he he alio ved to become a private in ihe ranks of the Democratic army should bo acquiesced iu, and the privater the better.

Au exchange says that the Pres ident is ashamed of the showing made by Ohio. Well, horse and horse. The returns indicate that Ohio is ashamed of the of the showing made by the President. l’he Indianapolis News (repub** lican) says “if the prevailing deficits in revenue were occurring under a Democratic administration the Republican organs would be clamoring for t u iff revision,” T:i<? suroiiiH iu the treasury has been gradually dwindling down under the operations of the DiDglev tariff, if the gold conspirators were iai-lined to make a gold raid on the- treasury they could foico a bond jgsut i two weeks.

Hanna r u behind Governor Bushnell something like 40,000 and lost the state o the legislative vote by over 10,000. The gerrymander was all that saved him. He may yet be defeated. President McKinley, in hi- Cincinnati speech, asked the question: ‘What will make the nation strong?’ Governor Le-dy, of Kansas, is the first one 1 1 make answer. His reply is a vigorous one. He says: “Why not ask how can we secure for the average man his fair share of the wealth he creates, instead of Feeing it swell the coffers of trusts, combines and corporations? The way to make our citizenship most useful • and effeedve ih to break the force ot ancient prejudice, direct the citizens’ attention to the evils of government by injunction and by financial syndicates .

“If the children of great cities 1 ke New York and Chicago could have the same educational advantages Kansas provides for hen, much would be ained. If the nation is to remain strong, its com mon people must thrive. A real Democracy cannot mainta.n an a istocracy of wealth that hypnotizes courts, congresses and cabinets. ’’ - ■ 1 ...... .m ■ - , < ■ -■ C ommenting on the statement made by the New York Evening Post that such transactions as the Union Pac fie railway job are large ly responsible for BryaJsm; the Indianapolis Sentinel says:*

4i<“our contemporary, for once, is right. What our Wall street con temporary chooses to style ‘Bryan ism’ is, as a matter of fact, a good deal more than a mere theory of finance. It is a protest against the perversions of the functions of government to the service of greed the manipulation of and congresses and oouits in th interest of corporate monopolies the systematic prostitution of the law mak-'Dg and judicial and ad ministrative machinery of the na tion and the states and the mum cipalities to the ends of the job bers and schemers who have for so many years largely controlled le gislation in this countiy. “Does anyone suppose that if Mr. Bryan had been elected pres ident in 1896 the Union Pacific steal would have beeu carried cut, or even attempted? The Evening Post, by its unguarded confession that such scandals tend to stirnu late ‘Bryanism,’ unwittingly ad mits that the two things are ineoi. sistent When the national gov ernment is dominat d by P-ryap ism there will be an end to the ex ploitation of toe treasury and the people, by the classes who were so much alarmed about the ‘na