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

PATRIOTS.

Democrats in congress hav j manifested a patriotic spir t in regard to the situation in which the country has been ul iced by tne imbroglio with Spa n, says the Chicago Dispatch. “They have not taken advantage of the oppo.tu ity to make political capital out of the troubles experienced by the republican administration . '1 hey have developed a broad patriotism which has bien but the expression of the true American spirit wh'ch exists in the democratic part . . “Inis patriotism has been ac* k more less grudgingly in one or two instances bv reDublican newspapers, but the Washington Post, an independ* ent journal most ably conducted, speaks frankly and generously <n praise, of the democrats in congress 8 Among other things the Post says: c T. e demo'-rats have pre* sented the spectacle of a sinceie and patriotic conseivatism—of a high*minded and admirable mod eration. They have done absolutely nothing to embarrass the re* publican administration in its ef* fort to reach an honorable solution of th; penning difficulties and have in no case sought to make Letty party capital of a delicate and critical national emergency. “They have shown that there is ia the r ranks as noble a love of country as may be found in any of our politic al subdivisions, and they have xtorted from theii most de* termi ed opponents a tr.bute of unadulterated and unfeigned admiration.

“On the occasion of 'the vote to sustain the president and his con* templatecß: course they were as prompt, as ardent-, and as unani* mous as were the republicans, and ever since, through all the intri* cate and perilous evolutions of the ejjisode, they have set the examn pie of a patriotic temperance aud a splendid self-restraint. “The country will never a am the devotion ot J;he democratic party to the flag, the union, aud ita institutions. The repub lican demagogue who, in any future ; political eamnaigD, attempts to j play upon that raise and foolish note will find himself reoudiated as an impud nt aud vicious mount* ebank. ’ These ere words that republicans should remember; but repub* lica s will not remember them, and when the next campaign opens the same old slanders will be retailed by reDublican spellbinders that h ave been retailed by them for the last quarter of a century,