The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1888-01-12
JACKSON,
The Soldier, Statesman,
Jurist, President.
Whom the Democracy Will Ev-
er DelighttO Honor.

Whom the Democracy Will Ev-
er DelighttO Honor.
Brillians Banquet at the Jackson Club
Last Evening-Eioquent Words Ex.
pressing Sound Democratic Prinel-
pies Fall From the Lips Of histin-
guished Speakers.
AS st. Jackson's day came the
year on Sunday, the Jackson
Club selected Monday as the
most appropriate time for the
Democracy of the Capital to pay
tribute to the grand old Demo-
cratic hero. The very pleasant
hall of the Wells Post, q. A. r.,
was the scene Of the banquet
The hall is so neatly furnished
and the decorations so tasty that
the Jackson Club Committees
concluded that elaborate decOra-
tions for the occasion was not
necessary. So the committees
contended themselves with plac
ing upon the east wall the pictur-
es of Allen G.. Thurman, Grover
Cleveland and Thomas A. Aen-
bricks.
Col. w. A. Taylor is always at
home in responding to toast at
a banquet, and he did not disap-
point his friends last evening in
responding 10 the toast, THE
Ohio Democracy, defeated often,
it is in fighting trim always He
said:
This sentiment, Mr.. Presld ent
hardly needs any elaboration at
my hands. 1t is one thing of
which the Ohio Democracy may
well boast, that when it is de-
feated it is never demoraIized,
and that it never regards the bat
tie as lost IN advance ofthe onset.
There ale two good and sufficient
reasons for this. First, the party
is organized on inimltable prin-
ciples. Second, it has abiding
faith in the intelligence and pa
triotism Of the people. Thus
grounded and thus believing. de-
feat one year only becomes an
incentive of greater effort the
next.
The Democratic party is in
power in the National admin
stration to-day. because of its un-
dying and undertaking faith in
the ultimate triumph of princi-
pie ami intelligence over the
self-suflicient hypocracy of the
Republican leaders. who reduced
spoliation TO an exact science and
converted the civil service Of the
country. into a mercenary, self
perpetuatig machine, little
worse because little less respon-
slble, than the common forms Of
European monarchy.
Here in the Capital of the
State within the recent past, we
have seen that which should IN
crease our faith in the future and
nerve us 10 renewed effort in No
vember next. The lesson of re-
form is working within the Re
publican party-the iron grip of
the boss is relaxing, and we have
seen nine Republican Senators,
representing almost one third of
the people of the State, and
standing head and shoulders
above their colleagues in point OF
intellect and statesmans ship, re-
fusing to vote by a bargain and
sale of offices, and the parceling
out ofpublic plnnder by select
cabal of conspirators. To me at
least, that act is hopeful sign
and points to the early resener-
alton of Ohio, and her return to
the Democratic column, where
she so proudly stood, with but
little deviation, from the over
throw of Federalism down to 1852.
when she cast her electoral vote
for Franklin Pierce. 1t was the
spirit OF Jackson and Democratic
fair play that impelled the nine
Republican Senators to over
throw The secret Vaccinations of
the cabal, and it comes like a
revelation to that large body Of
Republican voters, who have
long delested the methods of the
bosses, but were powerless to
make an effective protest.
Whether they have the nerve 10
stand by their acts, remains TO be
seen.
1t is true that large portion
of The Republican press have de-
nounced decent independence as
political heresy, and one of the
Republican papers of this city
has declared that it was only a
fight between two rings. having
bagged The Doodle became reg
ular' and par excellence Reprh
lican, but il is none the less true
that all over the State intelligent
Republicans of the rank and file,
now had their eyes opened to
boss methods and boss despotism
and are taking their frs: lessons
in that Democracy which believ-
es that public office is a public
trust and not "a commodity 10 be