Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1883 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

Jeff Davis joins tlie New York Sun in the cry that the Republican party must go. That do settle it. Bo long as leading Republicans maintain their integrity and hold the confidence of the country, in the eyes of Democrats they are very dangerous men, unworthy of public countenance or private credence. But when one loses and forfeits his high standing among his fellows, his words then are regarded by the democracy as little less than oracular. —lndianapolis Jourfial. It is one of the cheapest and most foolish tricks of the oheap demagogue to be continually canting about the corruption and profligacy of the opposite patty when it is in power. Inasmuch as the Democrats are in laok of more decent or effective campaign material this year, one can hardly be surprised that the cheapest demagogues among them run platforms. But the man that this mud-slinging does him any good or strengthens his party only shows that a -callow politician.— Nevq. f York Tribune.