Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

It is sot forgotten that Alger exerted every effort to humiliate Geneial Merritt. General Fitzhugh Lee ha j been kept from going to the front by the administration. McKinley has advanced Sampson more points’tban he did Bchlry* What for? It was Schley who destroyed Gervera’s fleet. In Birmingham, Alabama,where tberi are numerous great menu** faoturing plants,at the recent citetion, ont of a total vote of $2,000 the Democratic ticket received 1,800. It is intimated that Gen. Fitzhogh Lee will be made military governor of C üba u til such t.me as it may require this government to establish a stable condition of affairs in the island. The South Bend Times reaches the conclusion that “the immense Democratic majority in Alabama rather tends to show that the party of Jefferson is getting into fine fettle once again. Evidently it is training to make a grand iun eve rywhere this fall.” On the commencement of the war with Spain Captain Sampson was appointed acting Admiral thus advancing him o-.er the head of Commodore Schley. It was Sch;ey who lured Cervera into the ‘bottle’ at Santiago. And it was Sc’ ley who destroyed the Spanish [fleet when it attempted to escape out of the bottle.

While the interest in the war has kept the people from noting the doings of the spoilsmen, the administration has been very busy in their behalf. In Indiana, as an instance, 1,413 postmasters out of 2,218 have been changed since the 4th of March, 1897, and of the 143 presidential postoffices, all have been given to republicans but nine. T'he appointments in the army have also gone almost exclusively to republican partisans.

In an attempt to create a favorable impression for the Dingley law, l ssistant Secretary of the Treasury Howell is out with a set of figures which are being given space in republican organs. An examiraton of the statement show 3 that Howell resorts to jug ghng of the wors r . variety. Tak* ing the last five months as a basis for calculation, he subtracts from Le expenditures of the govern ment all the expenses oi the w i and adds to the Dingley law re ceipts the enormous revenu deflved from th 3 new war taxes during the month of July. More than this, the treasury reports previously i repared—we presume, in part, at least, by Howoll..show that the customs receipts from Dingley’s scientific schedules were more than $27;000,000 less in the fiscal yeir 1898 than the fiscal year 1897, aud that the total government receipts in 1898, less the mon y obtained from the Sale of the Union Pacific railroad, were $7,000000 less than in 1897. Howell’s figures will mislead no one who will take the trouble to analyze them.

Hon. Samuel M. Ralston, Demociatu candidate for Secretary of State, in his speech before the Frankfort convention, “ reviewing the monetary policy of this couni try, said: “In demanding the unlimited coinage of both gold and silver into standard money at a fixed ra* tio by law, we are not departing from the traditions of our party, or seeking to engraft a new or novel scheme of finance upon the country. We are but pleading for the restoration or the monetary system of our fathers, whose virtuous operation can be cited by its supporters in the absence of famine, starvation a t d the application of the gamblers’ art on the board of trade. Our position we know is impregnable, We in list that gold and silver at rates fixed by congress constitute the only standard of value allowable under our constis tutioD, and that the people have the right to the use of both metals m the monetary form, in the discharge of all dents, both private and public. We submit that if the constitution has made the stan* dard of value to c<.ns st of the two metals, congress has no authority to increase the value of the meass uring standard in the interest Ls the moneyichan -er and against the wealth - producer, by demonetizing silver, and thereby shifting the monetary demand responded tr by the two metals on to gold alone.”