Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1880 — THEY WONT BE SOLD. [ARTICLE]

THEY WONT BE SOLD.

The Journal cornea pretty near being a prophet. Weeks ago said the Democratic convention at Monticello would endorse Skinner, and that such endorsement would cause a split in tne ranks of the party. There was a feeling of certainty about this matter that made us hope for such a result. Had Skinner not been endorsed he would have thrown up the Greenback nomination, and Republican success would have been assured. As it stands now -the split ia one that will grow in width and intensity. The honest portion ot the Democracy, that portion who are Democrats from principle, do not believe in permitting a weak faction of voters to dictate nominations for their party. They are opposed also to the financial vagaries of the Greenbackers, and are not willing to forsake their principles and to help advance merely for the sake of defeating a Republican, Third parties are only built up by the mistakes of the stronger party accepting their candidates, thus helping them tn place and power. The Democratic leaders in their Greed for power, have been led time and again to help elect a Greenbacker, furnish-*

wgDine-Umth. of the votaj. The honest musea of the party here n- 1 assert’ that if they are to choose from outside their own party they will take a Republican in preference to a Greenbaeker, it an alliance into be made they will make it with « party great in numbers and In principle rather than with a party weak in numbers,and whose principles are the ysgaries of diseased brains. It is too soon yet to tell just what shape this revolt in the Democratic party will take, but it can have but one good result to the country and to the party. To the country the good result will be the election of a Republican, to the Democratic party it will be in the fact that it will teach the leaders of the party that the honest masses are not to traded like cattle, simply to secure the defeat of another party. The men who thus refuse to be bought and sold like sheep in the shambles, may make a nomination, and fight for their priifciples, though failure is certain, or they may in this Congressional matter cast their lot with the Republicans.