Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — Why Threaten War! [ARTICLE]

Why Threaten War!

Here from St. Louis Republic, which is the journal in which the voice of the true Democratic party speaks, is the customary Confederate Democratic threat that therte shall be civil war again whenever it is the pleasure of. the Democratic party to regard itself cheated out of the Presidency—and they are always wronged in their own minds, when they do apt-wlor i ‘Throughout the Central West, which votes in a block and is the key of e very winning political combination, the Democratic party is stronger than it is in the Northeastern block of States, but these Western Democrats have never led since the war. They have held back while the attempt was made to split Indiana off the block. Whenever they do take thp lead and say what combination must be played in the Electoral College, it will be played. If they are driven to assert themselves, they will nominate a Western man for President, and if they elect him the votes stolen under the Force bill, as votes were stolen in 1876 under the similar Returning Board system, will not stop them from doing their best to seat him. They are not likely to call for an electoral commission.”