Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1898 — POLICS OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POLICS OF THE DAY

fHE TWO PARTIES lI^CONGRESS. in the House of Representatives. He very aptly Inquired of Hon. Mr. Dingley, the Republican leader and bond champion, why he wanted to borrow five hundred millions of money when Secretary Gage had just publicly asserted that be had two hundred and twenty millions already la the tjeaa--ury? .That calculation didfhot eihibit any danger of Governthent bankruptcy, and the immediate necessity for incurring farther interest-bearing pnbllc debt did not exist if Mr. Gage’s boastful statement were a truthful one. Mr. McMillan suspected that there was reference rather to increasing the national bank circulation than to the prosecution of the wax against Spain. _ The argument upon the bond bill In the House has been a partisan argument. The Democrats have given uphesitating and patriotic support to Wgr measures, to fill up the ranks of the national forces and to make such appropriations for military and naval purposes as the executive departments called for. But they have steadily opposed concessions to Wall street, and legislation enabling capital to take undue advantage of tlje Government’s needs. They have remembered that they were themselves elected to their present positions charged and intrusted with thejgter#st# o%tbe tax-paying people, arid that to cast their influence in favor of the public creditors, as against those who had confided to them that agency, would be a breach of good faith. It has been left to the Republican majority of the House in this discussion to uphold the demands of the loan mongers, and to tbst jankers*'policy to l the detriment of : their * own eons t ltd ikitoMN’ew ’York News.

Wbo Are Obstry^tionists? j>‘Republican leaders are getting ready to raise the cry that Democrats are obstructionists. This, they believe, will furnish good campaign material fpf/the political contest , this~faiy and, they pro-, to put things to such a* shape tha,t they can find an exousd to us 4 It'. With the demands of war upon the country the Republicans are preparing measures for,the secttriUg of fleVdWue which contain propositions entirely con-’ trary to Democratic doctrines and which must of necessity be opposed by (the Democrats, in Congress.; If these measures are not opposed,/ then thd gepublicahs will succeed In passing ws which, under ordinary circumstances, could not have peen pasgedJ s If/’howevet, the refuse to bOiWaade tlie victims of, this sort of trickery, then the Republicans will rlaise the cry that Democrats are “obstructionists,” and will go before the cpuntry with this false issue, a matter of fact^'the Republicans are the obstructionists. They)refuse to 1 yield their partisanship;,to-the demands ’of patriotism, and they propose to forbd Issues which in all decency and fairness should be left until the more imminent demp.pds.of the war have been met. ’ It is far from being settled that a bond issue is an immediate necessity, yet the Republicans have taken it for granted,that there Is necessity and have proposed an issue of $500,000,OOp worth of bonds. AU these matters will have to be discussed in and whep the.facts are laid befdre the people they wjll be able to decide who are the obstructionists.—Chicago Dispatch.

Debt and Taxes. President Mclfciniey and his bank president Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Gage, and their followers in Congress, are determined upon an old-fash-' loned Wall-street-begotten government bond, to be ; subscribed for and taken up by money lenders, and to be made a basis for additional; national bank isto the profit of the Shylocks. They even make a parade of sacrificing fhelr darling scheme of a gold bond issue, and will accept the “coin” payment, if by that means they ean only get a government bond that will help them to put out and circulate more bank paper. ’ " ' .. , . , t] The Democrats in Congress are in a minority, although 1 in the Senate they are strong enough, when re-enforced by the Populists and the Silver Republicans, to make a good fight. It is probable that they will do their utmost to save the country from any .more government bdhds. They will propose in-- 1 come taxation, greenback issues, z ln-' crease of, Internal ,revenue duties, postoffice savings banks, coinage of silver dollars—anything* and everything, except the handing over of the government; of the United States to the plntarchists of Wall ) street. We cannot, doubt that the Democrats of the Senate and Mouse of Representatives will do everything in their power to save'Our people , from that money' power whjch haa .played so prominent a part in this Cuban business and appears resolved to speculate in our people’s patriotism still further. t > ‘ Secretary df State Day. '■ Neber since JohnL. Sullivan refused' to be mayor of Boston In order that he might fill the more glorious ofljh& Qf heavy-wetght' 'champion’of,, the. world, hhs a more political change taken place t&an that in the State de--partment. It Is one the very contemplation of which brings the inoistpre pf, virtuous perspiration' 'to "tbe meck-. -of modesty. "Tfih& if! ,lohn Sherman,'* whose glorious predecessors In- the State Dqiartment rwere such tnteilec-' tual and patriotic giants as Jefiferson, Madison, Webster, apd Silas* fright, is succeeaed by Judge »Day. ua swathe phrs.cJveq in Ganton*flhhnel and reflect—Waahiagtwf ' Factions in the Ohio G. O, p. ~ ;Nowi that the Notih andj South, are?, united and party 1 lines'ln Congress obliterated, it is time for the two or three Republican parties in Ohio to get together. In other words, it ia unfortunate that a season of almost unlverspj. harmony should be disturbed by the bick'erfpge and dickerfngs of rival factions of Buckeye Republicans in or out Louts iOwifcv-i> |. rv wok, rtnftw ' ' Record aa a Diplomat. * w w has twJce' afioweJd /pp£wittod;ln of * dlplopittcy. Instructed to demand thd' recall of Dupuy, be permitted the Spanish cabinet to accept the minister’s resignation before acting, and, given the President’s ultimatum, he permitted himself to be surprised with his passports. When it Is remembered, in addition to this, that he was firmly convinced that he could talk the Spanish

ii*af pi «ce, one to bolnd to acknowledge tlnlttikvneraJ f*rdri»iiola success An Ohi/j Prediction. All ther e Is of. the Republican painty in Ohio to- day is what Governor Bushnell and hte wing of It represent; B|Ut for him the whole party wonld hare submitted to the corrupt dictation'Of' the most unprincipled man who has ever risen to d iatinction in our codntry. ibovetmor Bust i|ell ujUl. leave his office Tvith the good will of all the people, while Mark Hi mna will In all probability leave hia In disgrace.—Columbus ' Press-Post. . I >%.. A Loan.” j * After conferring with a politic ppjtv vocation o t \Neiw York bankers, j the Hon. Lyma n J. Gage announces that the bonds hwued will be a “popular loan.” The 'lnference is that the ers are the people—a conclusion nat-i nral enough leonsMering hfi /(page’s tasteSohn# dffirfdfci&iffi That the saints shall inherit the earth,” ran the declaration., of a certain historic gathering. “R(solved further, Tiitf we are the saints/’ Trouble for Mci'lnley’s Friend. | ! The Ohio Senate has accepted the *e-\ port of the committee charging th it' the election of Mark A. Hanna to ti e United States Senate was obtained ty 1 bribery. Now| the United .States jjte wi|| be#cim|Mfted jto *tuke coguj-’ zance of the subject, an<nt would seer / to be in the interest of Senator Hanna, as much as In that of his opponents!" that the full facts In the contest shaJ, • be submitted to the ' public.—Bostor Herald.

Tired' of Republican PudigMKi „i j T&e peopVeiof wcmld glg4 tp, vuetoome « able, 'honest and rtmakwortby Democratic party and everything to-day points to' more than willingness op their part to intrust Audli 1 a* Democracy with -fine control Of tfche State, as a ref uge from a discordant,' demoralized and profligate Republlcand&nfi.—PMladelphia Thnfes*. i . / ’... —*—■*— l * Confident (Misscrtirl’Deniocratß. j i Governor Alfcevens of ■ 75,000 for the ticket inMissouri "next..iThto to- ‘a biir figure/ it tiakee -blg-figtireS represent. the, rational tlj'e t .M4ssouisl Democracy,'‘b&seii' paat achievemtents’ conditions.—St." - '■ *i- p ***•'' ' ■. . , i.... .i >• . . ~, . I > <Tfn 7rrr*-.J-'-l- i WRe’n Reed RulerWillßeßrdlte a. u It‘ aiay, be. that the House'of Reptesepjtatives will 'ftom. l , yom Reed*; 'ln fact,-ft ItTalmqsi pejH»iM, be-cause-Mi*. R'ceaVaimpt iivfi^.faixiverJ—■ Pebrife Hferafcf.' /, * • > » “•■** —*- ‘ /political Moths.* •* • ,lw v - W&sq’.i it .Mq.rk Hann* who' feajti “There will be nO> war?” “ “ * 1 John Sherman Is not belng bored by the iaterv^tewerß’. .Poet.. *> , t pheViasqn TK&y General Dee ttoks’soP tall )s that, (he..is. standing-in-,a rather 1 sqjuattyAcrewdi—Detroit ’ / ./ general GrosVfe'hpr jpraetieaJly-i <ro freebee that this has >eeu.a hard spring onj doves and olive. branches.—Washington Post. . ... 4mong: ito other WaP appfbpfiatfoiua. CopgresS may as well spy jqn r . otter •‘wtng'tm, the Fr:indlsho/OhroiMsp/,. ~ u * 1 I: .-to .suggested that if "‘Mark’ Hahna, 'wU. enlist >in the war stitute'- to- thfe qll it ■yrjli,be forgiven. A'meni < -■ “ , while we have a -Bestoocratte'SehUte an 4 a goodly number of House inembers, the money power will not be permitted to dishonor this nation through the Republican ad m ini 8 {rationvNationai The,Mark Hanna methods inflict mbfe injury on fihe-rephbiic Weyler methods/ Th 6 cap. be. met; and ¥prippigi» insidiousj dor rusting perlipuis / tpt •> Ahe couijxiy’s.wel.fe^e,—Jfititsbnrg Poeft. J ol The - sale of i-postoffice 1 abtfekinYr^ents' in this State ih shipe Qppgyessmenj have beeh^concerned, has become an hcaiitiaij ' it is another of'those" politidai so weli caJdulateti *tb* injure, the party, and 'subject’ It * 6j“'de-.feat.i-rPbfladeiphla Prbss/ 4 1 . . - 'iitiO 1-3-i *-• V * vIMV