Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1899 — ON THE POLITICAL PICKET LINE. [ARTICLE]

ON THE POLITICAL PICKET LINE.

A number of our contemporaries, Republicans and representatives of the driftwood cast ashore by the 10-cent gold party, organized by the promoters of Clevelandism, have a new bone of hope to gnaw on. They say that the election of Carter Harrison is not only a rebuke of Mr. Bryan and the Democratic party, but is to be marked down on the llats of Mr. Croker’s victories. This sort of thing showfl that the political sharpshooters on the Republican line hare run short of ammunition and are now engaged in firing blank cartridges. It is a profitless pastime that Is always Indulged in the year before the big guns are unlimbered. Carter Harrison is supposed to be a Democrat, and Ills re-election has the significance of a Democratic victory, but it is dbt a partisan victory by any means. Mr. Hnrrison was elected by a combination of those rotors, Republican and Democratic, who relish the manly stand he has taken in opposition to the franchise steal contemplated by the Yerkes gang. His party polities had little to do with his election, though it Is to be suppdsed that if he had not been a Democrat and an honest man to boot he would have surrendered long ago to the power and influence of the combination which owns the street car lines in Chicago. Mr. Harrison’s election was just as much a victory for Croker as Wat Hardin’s victory In Kentucky Is * defeat of Bryan.—Exchange.' HaUktoxCsadltot** in Ohio. The Ohio gubernatorial incubator is kept at the proper temperature and hardly a day passes bnt a new batch of fehfcks is. turned out— Washington Post. ik. ' - .v