The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-10-28
AN ARRANGEMENT.

Inc IOllOWlng appears In the
Northwestern Chronicle (Bishop
Ireland's paper) under the caption
"a Word to Democrats"
We wish to speak as kindly as we
may of the Democratic party.
Many of orr readers, indeed the
majority of them, have been for
years it's friends and supporters, and
old-time associations evoked from
memory by the sound of this name
are strong temptations to wheel into
its lines on election day. Catholic
voters in the past have done for it
yeoman's work, and their absence
will leave wide vacancies in the
ranks. We know all these things
and We remember them. But we
must state the truth. We do it how
ever, as giving an advice to the lead
ers of the party, which we trust they
may heed, in the future, and in this
way exempt us from any duty to en-
courage Catholics to desert them.
Our grievances with the Democratic
party is that as a fact it represents
today public RIGHTEOUSNESS. Tens of
thousands of decent, honorable men
are its adherents, but it has taken
to its bosom the unruly and vicious
elements OF the population. 1t hugs
and caresses those elements. The
sa!oon.keepers, the brewers and dis
tillers, the gamblers, the pimps are
Democrats. Formerly these danger
Gus classes were somewhat divided
in their political allegiance, today
they rally almost TO man around
til e Democratic banners. The loud
mouthed orators at Democratic con.
ventlons are frequently from these
classes. They put boldly forward
their demands for unrestricted law
lessness, threatening the party with
defeat if it does not accede to their
demands, and their will rules. Can.
didates are chosen who are popular
with liquor dealers and rowdies, and
political platforms are scaled down
to meet their favor. A reputation |
Of dishonesty, of unblushing i'm
ia orallty is no bar TO nominations
for Office; yea, rather a positive
recommendation. We need but evil
i:nce Democratic doings in our
State of Minnesota. For the highest
office in the gift of the people A. A.
Ames-whom> to name is to con-
lemn-is chosen amid rapturous ap.
clause. In the state platform plea
s inserted in favor of widest liberty,
md against SC, called sumptuaryl
avs, which no one is SO dull
o understand to be pl~. for nv
'ridlea immoralit- and intom nor
ne : =" sral municipal nomina-
- .ne conventions yell is the
-ercest whom counterparts of the
nominee for governorship are thrust
Onward. When the party triump hs
n any city or village-a tree is best
inown by its saloons run
light and day, Sundays and Mon.
lays, the tax on beer and whisky
cling goes down to the lowest
lotch; houses Of vice. keep ope
oors and emissaries of sin throns
be thoroughfares. This is "the
WIDEST liberty for all' reduced to
ractice. In this present campaign
he Columbia association of saloon.
eepers. whose chosen attorney
pouts daily in the st. Paul courts
gainst Sunday observance, fiinging
peclal insults to Catholics by
lumbling Latin words from Catho.
G writers in his wild efforts to
rove that the Catholic church
'vors law-breaking and Sunday
ssecratioD, is up in arms for the
emocratic ticket, and has his run
ers eoursing through the state
loating for the Democratic nom-
'ess. and purchasing voters for
lsm by gifts of money when glasses
lager will net suffice. These are
facts so clear that no one will at /,
impt to deny them, and in view of
lose facts We do not need many
ords to defend our policy in oppos.
% the Democratic nominations j