Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — No Blank Cartridges. [ARTICLE]

No Blank Cartridges.

Gen. Daniel E. Sickles of New York, a life-long Democrat and a brave soldier who lost a leg at (let'tysburg. is one of the men who cannot find it in his heart to support the I’opocratic ticket, nor .vet to throw his vote away. Gen. Sickles anmuimTs his own iirogrntnine in words which cannot fail to find an echo in tunny another old soldier, who is also,an honest Democrat. He savs in a letter to Maj. L. Edwin Dudley: ‘ Il Is fortunate that one ‘of the great political parties has named a candidate for the presidency whose admirable military record every souller looks upon with admiration and pride, and for whom he may east Ills vote, without hesitation, assured that in doing so lie is promoting tile best Bterests of the reanblie. ■ „ 1 know Maj. ifeKinte-y very well. He is' n man of rectitude and honor, l oon the practical and pressing issues of the day he stands for all that Americans must uphold. White I do not agree with some of his political views. 1 anj far more widely separated from the ruinous platform of his adversaries. As President, chosen as tie Will be by tile votes of men of all'parties, his (•lection will not be li partisan trlunipli, 444 s -a4n»i-iu.stvattton- wiU~ guaßintee ;>ul>;ie credit and public decorum and Order, now threatened by a conspiracy of anarchists, Populists and socialists Gen. Sickles’ conelusiou is put with soldjerly frankness. He says: You and I and our comrades are not ae--Customed to use blank cartridges in presence of ini enemy; therefore I don't prpposc to throw away my vote on any third cami,i (late. Nor are we in tile habit of withholding ouii tire when assailed; therefore I don't mean to stay at home and not vote at all. I shall give a patriotic vote for my comrade. Maj. McKinley, believing that in so doing I am repeating wh it I did in '(>4. when, as a war Democrat. I voted for Lincoln and the I nion Other Deiuoerats will prefer indirect methods of nccotnpiixhitig the saane purposes. But "no blank cartridges” will be the watchword of the majority.