Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — Democratic Difficulties. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Difficulties.

Brooklyn Standard-Union. - We can not think of anything more apt and illustrative of Democratlo difficulties in finding great principles to stand by than is contained in the suggestion that the State of Nevada should be abolished. In the first place it would be in accordance with the relations as a rule between Democratic practices and precepts that they should, after preaching all their lives the sacredness of sovereign States, the divine origin and holiness of Statehood, enter upon a crusade to destroy one of the objects of idolatry. _ When the Democratic party was engaged in attempting to capture the Territories for slavery and struggling to extend slave soil, and the business of the party was to use the Government to make more slave States, it was done in the name of liberty. Just now it is the nullifiers of the .Constitution who are pleading the limitations of that instrument in restraining the general Government, and going through the old-fashioned flopping of mule’s ears and braying and kicking on that subject, A 9 the architects of electoral fraud they preach electoral reform—as the spoilsmen of the age they approve civil service reform—as free silver men they want forced paper, and in their deep inability to touoh any business question with intelligence they are the champions of tariff reformation.