Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1898 — SILVER SENTIMENT. [ARTICLE]

SILVER SENTIMENT.

It 8«ill Has a Strong Hold on the People who Think for Themselves. War talk has not diverted the attention of the people from the consideration of the political battle which was fought between the forces of gold monometallism and bitnoietallism in the autumn of 1896. William-J. Bryan has been given a most enthusiastic reception in the South, and has demonstrated, to the dismay of the gold clique, that silver sentiment Is deeper and broader and wider, more enthusiastic and more earnest than ever before. In discussing the triumphant tour of Bryan, the Washington Post, a newspaper devoted to the gold cause and opposed to the Democratic candM&te for President in 1896, says: “yhose eminent mngwumps and cuckoos who are trying to make themselves believe that Mr. Bryan is a dead Issue will do well to take careful note of the manner in which the people receive him everywhere along the route of his present journey. There can be no sort of doubt that Mr. Bryan received In New Orleans a welcome of unparalleled warmth and enthusiasm. Those Democrats who refused to accept the Chicago platform in 1896 were as zealous and as cordial In their attentions as the other Democrats—a vast majority—who stood by the party and its candidate.” Under the circumstances It would, perhaps, be just as well for the gold clique journals to restudy the theory that “silver sentiment Is dead.” Differences of opinion among Democrats are being harmonized, and Secretary Gage has been forced to admit that the battle of standards will have to be fought over again in 1900. This is not a propitious time to discuss political questions, but It is just as well to call attention to the fact that rumors of war, or even war itself, cannot divert the thoughts of the people from the vital question of bimetallism. —Chicago Dispatch.

Michigan and Lumber Duties. The furniture manufacturers of Michigan are turning against the Dingley law. They point to the disappearing forests of that State~and then to the new $2 duty on lumber, which shuts out the Canadian product, upon which they are coming to depend. It Is a duty excellently designed to stimulate forest slaughter in the United States, but the trouble In this case is that there are few more forests left to slaughter. So a united protest against the Dingley duty goes to Washington from the very State whjch, next to Maine, was supposed to be a chief beneficiary of the imposition.—Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Ingalls as a Populist. It would be a sight for gods and men to see ex-Senator John J. Ingalls of Kansas running for Congress as a Populist candidate for the purpose or overcoming a big Republican majority in the first Kansas district. If Ingalls can really down his former party in such a struggle—and is willing to do so—the opportunity should certainly be given. And whether he can or not, it might be well to encourage the effort. The example would be valuably to many persons not yet fully awake to the versatility of politicians of the Ingalls type or to the wild and weird possibilities of Kansas politics.—St. Louis Republic. The Boodler’6 Pet Stronghold. Republican and mugwump spouters love to talk of the depravity of New York under Tweed and other Tammany bosses, hut they never refer to Philadelphia, where boodieism and all sorts of knavery have flourished for years, and where the people are worse governed and more shamefully plundered than those of auy other great city in the country. The developments now making of rascality in the Council of Philadelphia are only in line with similar revelations which have been made from time to time for many years past. In Philadelphia boodllng has been a fine art for more than a generation.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Sordid Commercialism Scored. Boss Hanna’s insolence was fittingly rebuked by Senator Thurston. The high priest of sordid commercialism, ready to sacrifice every thing to gain, stands for a group which is struggling to make itself a class and a caste, a group already laden with iniquity, and which Is now bent upon turning an Ignoble penny out of national perplexity. Senator Thurston ddd well to rebuke these men, and his words will be cheered by every honest heart, by every true patriot, by every man who hates wickedness and loves the light.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Began Under Democratic Auspices. The Philadelphia Press speaks of ‘k:he development of the modern navy as begun under President Harrison.” These are times when even party organs can afford to be fair. The “development of the modern navy” was begun under the first Cleveland administration, and the credit for the inauguration of the good work is due to William C. Whitney.—Washington Post. Disgusted Republican Organ. Thepersi&tent interference of the proSpanish party, represented in Washington chiefly by Secretaries Bliss and Gage, is having a disturbing effect both on Congress and on the people. American citizenship cannot endure the thought that a question of principle and duty can be determined or considered by the profits or loss of stock speculators or of anybody else.—New York Press. Patriotism of the Highest Order. The attitude of the Democratic party, from the inception of the Cnban crisis to the present moment has been in the highest degree patriotic. Mere considerations of partisan advantage have been utterly lost sight of, and the Democratic party has stood as one man in favor of a policy which would maintain the national honor and be worthy of the best traditions of the American people.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

John Handicapped by His Record / The general public will find it hard to (forget that the John Wanamaker who is to-day so vehemently denouncing political corruption in Pennsylvania is the same John Wanamaker who, ten years ago, fried that $400,000 out of Keystone State manufacturers for the Harrison campaign fund.—Manchester (N. H.) Union. Supposed Benefactors Mixed. The farmers out West are reported to be naming their babies after Joseph Leiter In honor of his services In making wheat sell at $1 or better a bushel. Alas, for the ingratitude and forgetfulness of man. Was it not McKinley who made dollar wheat?— Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Hanna Always Un-American. The American people are very tired of Marcos Alonzo Hanna. They have tolerated him for years. They will not stand him much longer. He has never said or done a thing which was not nnAmerican.—Wasliington Times. Marie Antoinette was the first person who broke the absurd fashion of dressing Infant boys ns droll miuiatures of their fathers. She attired the unfortunate dauphin in a simple blue jacket and trousers