The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-07-15
BEAT THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY

| The audacity of the Republican par
| ty verges on inSolence. The position
| of the party is substantially that of the
| fishwoman at Billingsgate who was
| skinning an eel and made tremendous
| outcry. attracting the attention of the
entire neighborhood. The Republican
| party, engaged at present in the fabri
cation of measure of rapine and plum
der uneXampled in the history of the
republic. demands that the entire
American people shall lie still while it
skins them with it's tariff law.
How atrocious the present measure
is may be gathered from daily routine
reports Of the Senate's discussion, in
which it is not thought worth while on
the part of Republican Senators, so no.
torious is the fact, to diSclaim that
they are serving not the country gener-
ally, but some particular interest in
their immediate neighborhOod. Be-
cause these robbers, prostituting the
power of Congress to legislate for the
general welfare, are legislating for
particular class and assert that they
propose to restore prosperity. they de-
mand that they shall have the active
support in their piracy of gold Demo-
Gratis.
The claim is preposterous in its in
science. Not only do Republicans de-
mand that gold Democrats shall
support them in the scheule OF
spOliatiOn in which they are now en-
gagged in special session of Congress,
but that they shall also support their
policies and their partisans anywhere,
at all times and in all places. Demo-
Gratis must not, in the opinion Of these
insolent party managers. support
Democrat in Iowa, because it is tire
purpose of the Republican party to
perpetuate in that State the admins
tration of Drake. notoriously a servant
not of the people of Iowa, but of the
railroads in that commonwealth, whose
administration has been eXtravagant
to the verge of criminality and dis
grace They demand that gold Demo-
Gratis, on the pain of being confronted
with allegation of inconsistency or the
peril of meeting the Republican bogy
man brought out on all occasions. shall
indorse in Ohio the scandalous political
maneuvering by which Sherman was
placed in the State department in Or
der to make room in the Senate for the
manager of the Mckinley campaign.
Democrats may be in danger of los
~, ~, 4, ,,f bnf VI
Mr.. Hanna promised them if they do
not subscribe in toto to his program,
but they vii. endeavor to get along
without the Hanna kind of prosperity
as best they may.
There are differences of opinion in
the Democratic party concerning the
currency question. but these are nsig
nificant compared with the question
now confronting the people of the Uni
ted States whether the Republican
party, the unblushing champion of
trusts made in restraint of competition,
the proprietors of that brand of pros
perity which is to be had only as the
result of placing tremendous burdens
for the benefit of protected classes up
on the people of the United States.
shall be continued Indefinitely in the
power with which they We're intrusted,
not for the purpose of such abuse as is
daily seen. but for that of making a
stable currency, duty they have
shirked.
Democracy ought TO get together.
Democracy ought to welcome any en-
emy. any possible enemy, of the Re
publican party, wl,.ch is to-day,
through its championship of cemmer
cial slavery, the most insidious foe of
the renublic.-ChicagO Chronicle.