Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — THE SENTINEL SCARED. [ARTICLE]

THE SENTINEL SCARED.

The following is an extract from a long editorial in the Sentinel and shows that it is not as hopeful of a Democratic victory as it was sometime ago. It is a Studied effort to crawl out of the hole it got into on the single tax idea. The Sentinel says: We are not all alarmed about this new qrusade that has been inaugurated by the Republican managers. In fact, it is encouraging to the Democrats, because it shows to what desperate straits their adversaries are reduced for campaign ammunition. They have runaway from thetariff question, from the discussion of State finances and from almost every other issue of present practical politics. Their coward--IC6 is only equalled by their dishonesty. Their campaign, like that of 1888, is nothing but a systematic appeal to popular ignorance and prejudice. It proceeds upon the theory that the average citizen is an idiot. It will certainty not succeed, if the Democrats do not fall victims to overconfidence. It is only necessary for the Democrats throughout the State to “hustle,” as their adversaries are doing, and take the necessary steps to circumvent the Republican -schemes of bribery and fraud, to redeem Indiana on Nov. 4 by a glorious majority. As Mr. Lincoln said: “You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time."