Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — Tilden’s Old Prophecy on Democracy. [ARTICLE]

Tilden’s Old Prophecy on Democracy.

Belen Gougar’s suit against the flection Board, in Lafayette, for not allowing her to vote will not secure to wb'men the right to vote nor will it probably help the cause of women’s suffrage in any way; still, it will not be likely to do it any 'harm, and that is more than could be said if Helen were to put in her time “jawin” instead of “lawin.” Few greater disadvantages can befall any good cause than to have Helen M. take the platform in its favor.

/ N. Y. Sun. s / It seems to be broken down at present, and it is broken down. Yet it will come up again, and it will once more gain control of the government. But this situation .will not be permanent In order to come into power the Democracy must have the support and assistance of the southern states; and that support and assistance may very soon prove to be its ruin. The southern states will insist upon ruling tne Democracy utterly, and being poor they will try to foist into the Democratic programme ideas and measures contrary to all Democratic principle. Against this the whole country will protest. The United States will never consent to be governed by the south or by such southern ideas. The democracy will be voted down; and then its last situati<‘’.’ will.be worse than the first. Tne southern Democracy and the free-traders in the north have dictated the policy of the Demo- . crane party as Mr. Tilden predicted. and the result has been as he predicted. The south, controlling the party, demanded cheap money, an income tax, and has prevented the financial legislat mil which the intelligence of the north demanded. It is now united in favor of the ClevelandCarlisle banking scheme, but in ' doing so it has rendered “the last situation of the party worse than the first.”