Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1888-06-08
THE BATTER is BEGUN.
ISSUES WELL DEFINED An9 salts.
- FACTORY TO REPUBLICANS.

=. FACTORY TO REPUBLICANS
Northers Denocrsss stin Bound by
seuthsrn chains-A Summary of the
nigh Principles for which Republicans
vlgbt-pemocratio sbiiiy-shaily,us.
The campaign ID fairly open. we know
Just what the issues are 70 bel and they
suit the Republican TO at The Demo
crats wabbled all around the dividing line.
and actually put in for while an appear
ancs Of craftsmanship and patriotism that
decsived some people: but when the test
came their old instincts proved too strong
for them. they fell fat before the -outh
eru brigadiers and took such principles a.
the latter dictated They never have
been emancipated Republicans declared
their Independence over thirty years ago
and even the negroes were freed by 1870.
but the regular Old Hunker Democrats
are still subject TO the plantation lords
Tho result Is. they oppose American
manufacturers, and Q free ballot and .
fair count In the Gulf states
And that 10 Just the kind Of 6ght the
Republicans wanted They arc never %
happy - when fighting for human rights
and American institutions They are for
the American iaborer every time against
the European. for the right Of every
American. laborer or capitalist. TO vote -
be pleases and have bis vote counted. for
education. protection and progress. and
on the present issues their triumph II ab
solutely certain. unless the people have
lost the sense Of honor and the Judgment
OF what's good for them. and we don't be
heve they have.
But aside from general principles. are
there no specific facts. II will be asked.
which foreshadow Republican victoryf
There are many. Of which we will mention
but few
First Is the fact that Mr.. Cleveland was
elected BY a sort of accident and on the
most explicit pledges. which he has openly
violated Those who were "too good" to
vote for Mr.. Blaine have lately given us
their candid opinion Of Mr. Ceveland's
performances. and what u 1T Without
an exception. from Curtis to Caliban. they
say he has violated bis pledges A few Of
them announce their intention to st'r
vote for him; but what sort Of an appeal
can they make TO their followerss Neces-
sarily It will amount TO about this: In
Mr.. Gevelands name and by bis authority
we gave you most solemn assurances Of
evil service reform and q new era Of
purity: be has violated all these pledges.
demoralized the postoffice department,
degraded the judicial department. con
fused the customs service and very
grievously afflicted us by sending inferior
men. largely ex-resels, TO represent US
abroad. and therefore-whati Well, now
the damage is done. he cannot do any
more, 20 let rs try him again. and see II
be does not improve by experience II
the American people are chiefly simpletons
that argument" VIII win voteA
Another paipable fact, and one that Is
going 10 count In this campaign for much
more than the Democrats suspect. Ii this;
Everybody knows that the administration
OF James q. Blaine. whatever other faults
II might have had. would have been in
tensely American; and everybody knows
that the administration Of Grover Oeve
land has been painfully the reverse. As
Dickens Jerry Crunchex' said Of his
wife. ''she do be always ! looping and
Hopping agin tho business. too;" %
Cleveland's cabinet has "Hopped" every
time the chance offered When Bayard
wasn't "Aopping" before England or
Canada. or Cleveland himself Stopping
before what he called the Confederate
states" (his own words) In the Gag busi-
ness, the others were "aopping" before
Mexico or the whisky ring Always and
everywhere - Topping And after
backing out Of their FIRST position In the
fisheries. and refusing TO execute one act
Of congress. and violating the law BY ere
sting . commission without authority.
they ended by negotiating treaty 30 bad
that the Democratic Journals darc not de-
fend It, and Democratic senators only
venture to ask that It's consideration may
b postponed till after the electioni The
national pride Is wounded; Americans feel
humiliated. and many thousands not
known ss Republicans. men who do not
say much, will put In a very effective
protest In November. When the majority
against Grover Cleveland is counted out,
credit 100. 900 OF 1t to national pride and
a. many more TO that shameful letter on
returning Gags TO the Confederate
states
Another very palpable fact Is the feel
ing OF the Union veterans 1t Is becoming
the fashion to sneer at the ''soldier ele-
ment.- and We must admit with patriotic
sorrow that as the years roll on the ranks
Of the veterans are thinning fast; but
there are still enough OF them to make Q
big difference The old soldiers are not
vindictive. they cheerfully tndorsed the
unprecedented amnesty granted the Con-
federatee,x But they do Insist that p,
soi6T soners should sbov q little
modesty. Ghat they 'should not claim .
divine right TO rule the country or even
the half Of It. and that - the same recon
struction acts which restored them to
citizepship gave the suffrage TO oolored
men. common gratitude and common hon
esty ought 70 make them defend the col
ored soters' right ~ they would defend
their own Even the common instincts
Of honor that prevail among gamblers
ought 70 make them do ~ much a. this
To bs "bossed- By those they captured
and paroled. TO bs taunted Is waving
the bloody shirt waen they protest, TO
bs sneered al ~ 'beggars" BY Confeder
ates In congress and insulted In veto mes
sages. 10 too much The veterans will
give good account OF thsmselves In No
vomhof
These are but few Of many forces
vorkine nightly for Reppblican suocess
The people have made fair trial Of Mr.
Cleveland and his ''Confederats states
statesmen: and their disgust = certainly
. palpAbls fack Quietly bat positively
they are making up tiaelr minds 10 role
gale the party Of Dan voorhees, and JsG
Davis 20 back ssat Tor . few yeasa mora
tiil n shall aoquirs just notions Of Amsrt
can di9nity and pskriotism. and until ex
ciusiou from oflios and power shAai have
tausht the pnp prqgresuIvs Bourbcns that
The wzy of shs transgssssor Y hskd
rhs Mlsuoar psnoeraax. liks lhslu
htethron n New xctk anl severai othel
stafe>. xere continuously allsnt on the hilI>
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