Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — IRONICAL IFS. [ARTICLE]

IRONICAL IFS.

If all flesh is grass men ought to be less shy of lawn mowers. If a woman doesn’t dress regardless of expense It’s her husband’s fault. If a man finds a dollar he Invariably spends two in celebrating the discovery. If some busy men had their just deserts they would have time to spend In jail. If a barber only goes over a man’s face once he’s less apt to strain his voice. If a woman could retain her beauty forever she might get along without brains. If a girl can’t marry her ideal she has to content herself with some otheT girl’s. If you see a young man out driving with a girl, and but one of his arms Is visible, the other is around somewhere.

The transfer papers, in ihe sale of the Murdock hotel, Logaosport, Indiara, had twejy dollars worth of government stamps attached. It is now said that Sampson and secretary of the navy Long are related, which, we suppose accounts for the great favoritism extended. It is now « matter of history that a s< lid democratic fron, aided by a number of republican members, in congress, forced McKinley to accept the situation and joiu in the ‘movement so;: war against Spain.

Those gentlemen who are ae* cepting Dsrnoc atic Congressional nominations will be sure to en*» counter considerable barbed wire before November — he Rensselaer Joui al. Some of them have encountei ed before.. Fighting Joe Wheeler, for instance, and got there all the same. Just now the Journal and Dam* ocrat? are having a tilt over a county official who went out of office some years ago under a cloud. The JournalVg-an asserts that he was a„Demojcrfit. The Democrat? man adtkits that he’s aware of tnst fact, but as he was not pun* ished he could not have gone for wrong. The truth is, the official m cjuestiou was a greenbaoker The McKinley administi ation, at the commencement of the war with Spam, mad? captain Sampson acting admiral in order to outrank commodore Sffiley. Schley accomplished the ‘corking up,’ and final* ly the destruction, of Cervera’s fleet. Sam* son accomplished noth,ng. In making promotions Sampson is given a numter more points than is given to Schlev, so that he may continue to outrank the latter. The Senate should rebuke the admimp.tration by unanimously confirming the promotion of ScnLy and refusing that of Sampson.

The fact that our navy perform ed wonders in the Spanish wai is not due to Democrats or Populists. .. Rensselaer Journal. \\ e lea e to the Democrat? to speak for the populists. But it was democratic secretary of the navy Whitney who refused the vessels or war sought to be turned into the navy by that republican ship builder, John Roach, until he made them seaworthy. It was the same secretary who compelled that other republican, Carnegie, to furnish serviceable armor plate. If Roach and Caroeg'e had be n permitted to hive had their way some of those vessels would to Jay be iu the neighborhood of McGinty*

Republicans are Republican having a merry Rascality. war among themselves in Wisconsin . W? at with alleged treasury steals, synd. cate protection and Oshkosh starvation of honest laboring men the republican party has put itself in a very bad position. It is not necessary foe a democratic new’Bpaper to criticise the conduct of Wisconsin republicans the organs of tne g. o p. are saving demociats the trouble of exposing republic, n rottenness. An a sample of the gentle terms which repu liuan editors in Wisconsin are applying to the republican administration, the following clipped from an editorial in the Madison Btate, will prove interesting

“Schofield was nominated by the Sawyer, Pavne and Pfister mas chine, They had adherents enough in the state t > work up nearly enough d legates to nominate him, and c sh enough to complete tl e job How could Schofield go back on the machine and stand by tho people as against this corrupt serys mg of private interests? ‘Doth not the a know his master’s crib? “What is the use at this late ch y to talk about any member of <hafc crowd serving the cause of the people?

“To that foul brood of politicians may be traced 11 the dhecu tent and revolt that now shakes the party from center to circumference.’' Out of the political strife in Wisconsin has come the truth as to the conditions which exist in the republican party. “Corrupt serving of private interests” ex presses one of th.s strong characteristics of the republican administration. As this co ruption exists m Wis 1 - consin according to the showing of a republican newspaper, so also does it exist m the nation. Gifts of millions of dollars gr en by the republican administrate “> to the sugar trust, gifts of money filched frem the people, prove the charge.

There is nothing novel in tbe statement that the republican ad ministration in Wisconsin is “cor rapt, venal, oppressive to the poor and deyoted to the serving of private ends,” buc it is rather novel for a republican paper to say so. Gall*y! We are informed that the Democrat? man has notified the several county officials that his is tie official Democratic paper for Jasper county, and that he desired them to bear that fact in mind in cases where publications may be required to be made.. in more than one party paper. Just what kind of a commission he has received, whofurmsed it, etc.,etc., etc., we have not learned.