Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — ONE LESSON TO BE LEARNED. [ARTICLE]

ONE LESSON TO BE LEARNED.

Ex<;oMyressman Whiting, fusion cand’datefoi governor of Michigan, writes t > Chairman Camp u ot: the Democratic st lie centra! committee,say* ing: “It is to be hopped that in the futuia we may profit by ihis defeat and uniteoly work for the t reat principles taught by Je.tersen and d > it under the simple omen Democracy.” Tne Toledo Bee, the leading Democratic npwspaper of northwestern Ohio, taking Mr. W k iting’s letter for a text, pro* ceeas to make an argument against fusion, declari g that a fusion policy doos not pay that when it wins it does more harm than good. Continuing, the Bee says: ‘The only fusion that amounts to anything is a nats ural fusion of men wh-j think aJ ike con .erning toe political principles which should g vs er u this country. The i *em< (*• r cy of Jefferson is thereat Democricy , id Ihe Democrat* ic party must stick to its text, ft must . e what Jefferson, Viadison, Monroe ndjjaokson wei e. it must be the champion ot humanity, equality, justice liberty. Every time P reaches out of its path to jolly some taction along with an em •* ergency ulank it loses ground its mission is t ups-t kiius and masters and mthrone the people; to recognize no aris* to racy save that of wor lr to dignify labor .nd capital ’by establishing the right relation O' tweeu men and insuring to each its right and preventing either fr m oppressing the other; to break down artificial barriers to ihe op. ra ion of natural laws; to humanize, civilize and organ ze the wirdto forever establish the principles f f the de laration 01 ii - dependence, to abolish gun government and bring about universal pe *co;to make stand ing armies and| great navies unnecessary.”! The principles of Demourac are right and will triumph, but tint triun ph will be hastened if tne Democratic parly is true to itself. If there is any lesson lo be learne 1 from rece.it political history it is that the great party of the people must have less regard for expedients and more regard for fundamental prinuipies... LaFa etie Journal T le above is pre-eminently correct. What ac mmenlary upon the methods pursued by tlie op; osition to t e republican pa ty in th s c mnty in the last campaign! The Democracy had no organization. The management was in tie hands of such well known populists as Lute Por. sler, Lute Strong, Marion I- Adams, L. E. GlazeIn ook, Frank Welsh, et. al., assisted by such well known democrats (?) as D W. Shields late a slockholder and director in lhe Pilot company, dec’d and a few others. Principles were ignored, a.id th: sole ?s----sue was made by them m th 3 ere tion f, and expenditures for, the new court house, in the hope that a sufficient number of lepubl.can votes would be se ur d to help the county icket cut —ihe state a.id district tickets were not considered in thejdeal. In fact, a large proportion cf thepopuhsts vo* tea their state tick t straight. At no time was the demo critic committee-if there is such a committee— called to meet lor consultation. The campaign was conducted on tn© ’ still hunt” plan. A few tew meetings were hdd, addressed b/populist speakers. A small, cneap outfit was procured and an original republican i stalled by Bhr .ds! as organ grinder. And possibly ie gave the same assurance to Strong, as was given by H E. James in 1874, when askei if, ben g a republ can, he co’d o justice in his assumed role Hon. John B Stoll, editor of th South Bend Times, refers to the results of fusion, thusly: ‘Frightfully expensive has been the alliance with populism. All the democratic ernors that were electe i in the Worth before this unnatural uliance was entered into,have . 3w ept out of offic u not a singly one remains to remind Jn of better days. With them

gb all the democratic United btates Senators that once repsented the great eastern and central weste. n States in the upper b .anch of our national legislature.” At a meeting of the Democratic Stat e Committee just prior to the opening of the campaign, the proposition of fusi n received a black eye And in the ‘ tate onvention the announcement that a c indiiaie had populistic backing was sufficient to defeat his nomination. Hereafter Wr> trust the Democracy of Jasper county will stand by its principles and its party organizati n, and in the s dection of candidates let the test be honesty a nd capability, and from year to year it will increase in streni th,and finally come out victor.

Tuesday last Co. I, 161st Indiana, saileu for. Cuba. W. •). Miller L vtaiting Battle Creek, Michigan. N. Warner h u s Withdrawn from the hardware him of N. Wauiei & Sons— making way for his s< n Charlie.. The style of the firm is now Warner Bros. Fr. nk Randle has bought the interest of Dal. Yeoman in the dry goods fiim of Porter Yeoman. Rev. W. H. Applega.e wi 1 res move to Rensselaer and work foi the Prudential insuiance company. . .Delphi C’t zen Allie Daj has returned to her home in this city. John Callow is visiting home and friends in Rensselaer. Postmaster Robinson is corn, fined to his rooms on account of ill health lhe contempt case n which the Fowler attorneys were fined by Judge ihompton has been reversd by the Supreme Court