Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1883 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

P. H. Winston, heretofore one of the leaders of the Democracy of North Carolina, has formally announced his conversion to Republican doctrines. When he delivered the valedictory at the University of North Carolina, in the presence of William 11. Seward, the latter took off his watch and presented it to the young orator. Never was there a party more at a loss to know what to do than the Democratic party is at present. They are in favor of free trade, and they want a tariff “for revenue only.” They want civil-service reform, and they don t want it. They want the saloons taxed, and they want free whisky. In short, they are like a swarm of bees flying around hunting a place to settle. Keep the rascals out. — Bedford (Ind.,) Journal. ’ - The country is not going to believe that the Democratic party has ceased to desire a partisan civil service, or a debaunched currency, or fraudulent elections, merely because of profession# and promises, or the nomination of a ell-meaning candidate, so long as its change of purpose is not «shown by a complete re volution in toe Congressional action of the party. If we are to believe thatthe leopard has changed his' snots, there must be some proof that, he no longer eats people when he has a chance.— New York Tribune. If there are any reasons for turning Republicans out, except to let Demo-, crats in, we would r thauk some of ths able advocates to mention them. Would they do as well as they did when they had the power feelore? Would even that be encouraging ? The ; nation has made greater advance in | real prosperity under the twenty-three* I y. ars of rule of the Republican party,’] notwithstanding the enormous burdens' from the War of the Rebellion, than it did under a whole half century previous. Financially, commercially, socially, and in all that enters into the make-up of national prosperity, the United States to-day is an object for the whole world to admire.— lnter Ocean.

, The St. Louis GlrY.e-lJemor-rat, looking the country over, observes that the Democracy has what it aptly calls j “a political Donnybrook” on its hands, and diagnoses the situation as follows : “A bird’s eye view of the whole Democratic field supplies the following revelations: Irreconcilable rows in in New York and Ohio, the New York Sun and what it represents saying that it is madness to" agitate toe tariff question, and toe Co trier-Jeruriial crowd crying that it is madness to lea-, e it alone, a similar antagonism—though less talked about—on the currency, an advocacy 6? famperance laws in Missouri arid opposition to them in Ohio, and the only txrad of ,union an.vwhere to be /observed a tossjxe to gain possession of toe . offices. -Is it st all strange that an agitation pf these dfaeordant — dementi produces— rows, especially when individual s rlfisune is is the inspiration Z Is it jics-dblc tba! an organization of this"hnt tar win in a.general political epnt-. ”