Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1883 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

“The Republican. party must go.” Yes, yea, don’t fret; it has been going for over twenty years, with the same hungry crowd yelling after it. Start something new. Judge Hoadly is a great lawyer, but as a politician he is going to make a record that will dwell in'the memories of mankind as an awful example of how not to do it. —Commercial Gazette. No matter who may lead the Democratic party, it will only be a barren and unhappy union of incompatible partners, incapable of harmonious purposes or political aims; and we have not so mean an opinion of our countrymen as to believe that a party without a policy can govern the United States. —New York Tribune. The Democrats who a few v weeks ago were boasting of an easy victory in lowa are already beginning to shin it up back alleys. The people of lowa will make the campaign one to remember. It is a defense of every hearthstone, and will decide whether a majority has rights that the saloon interest is bound to respect.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Hoadly, the free-whisky candidate for Governor of Ohio, has pronounced the tariff plank of the platform on which he is seeking election “clear, concise and accurate Democratic doctrine throughout the length and breadth of the land.” Which Democratic doctrine? Watterson’s? Bandhll’s? Dana’s? Eaton’s? , Carter Harrison’s? Voorhees’? Beck’s? or does it contain all rolled into one and “worded” to suit Abe Hewitt and Toni Hendrick’s ?—Chicago Tribune.