Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-19

its inconsistencies would at first blush, be manifesto
every impartial mind, we passed it by, on account of
more important matter. UNDERSTANDING, however.
that some Wing speakers are not yet tired of using
the same contradictory and thread bare statements,
we shall trespass upon the tire Of our readers with a
few remarks on the subject.
The leading position assumed is that the Democrat
ic Senators who voted to postpone the election, disre-
gGrded lhdr oaths
The Journal, last January, shortly after the vote
was taken, took the same ground, and published the
names of those Senators, surrounded with black lines;
with the recommendation to .'pass them round"
In reply, in our paper Of the 1lth January last, we
showed that in the session of our Legislature Begin
ming ON the LIST Monday of December, 1912, after the
Democratic House of Representatives had passed a
resolution to 90 into the election of a U. S. Senator,
sirteen Wing Senator'S rotcd against going into the
election! We cited also the very page of the Senate
Journal where the vote was to be found. (See Sen
ate Journal for 1923, page 346)
And as the ''law and ORDER Journal had enclosed
the names of the Democratic Senator'S with black
lines. for voting to put off the last election, we en-
closed the names of the Wing Senator'S in black lines
for setting the first example in this State, by doing
the rery same thing themselves! :! We fancy we hear
an honest, unsuspecting Wing enchanting, Mr.. Edi-
tor, did those Wing Senators set the first example in
this State-did you say the first! Exactly so, my
here are the names of those Senators
NJ Akrr, Jas. III. Buell., VIM. II. S. Cornett, Root.
G.. Cotton, JOHN d. DEFEEEs-(Bless me, is it posi-
blel Certainly-hold on.)HJohn Ering, SylrTnuS
Eucrts, Ell p. Farmer; james r. MefaH, james
Morgan, Darid Mount, John w. OdeH, Samuel w.
Parker, BENZ. +. Reere, Thomas X. Stanford, and
Williamson Wright.
Now we are simple enough TO think that the hon.
est rorking Wings of the rank and file, who, in our
State, have after all, a considerable spice of demOcrG-
cy in them, will say that it was as proper to put black
lines round the names Of Wing Senator'S who set the
precedent-who gave the first example-as it was to
place them around the names of Democratic Senators
for only fololeing that example!
And that if the Democratic Senators disregarded
their oaths by voting to put off the election, the Wing
Senators did also. We do not believe that these
Wing Senator's, many of whom are members Of DIFF
ferent Christian churches, felt particularly obliged to
the Wing Journal for denouncing such a course as a
violation of a solemn oath, knowing that they were
involved in the same category.
As we have marked the name of the editor of the
Journal as voting to put off the election, in capitals,
it is but fair to hear what he says on the Subject,
since he has become an editor. In tie article above
referred to, he says
at is no argument against the correctness of the
above view of this subject 10 say, ''that a postpone
ment was justifable, because in 1912 certain Wing
Senator's voted against going into an election of U.
S. Senator AT that time there existed no statute
requiring the election to be made at that session, as
the act of 1881 had been repealed by the revision,
and of course there would have been no violation of
duty had a postponement taken place."
Now the editor ofthe Journal has certainly forgot
ten, (as we are bound in charity to presume,) that
the ~''statute requiring the election to be made at that
session, y had NOT been repealed by the revision, as he
states, for the very good reason that the revision it.
self was not passed until near the close of that very
session, when these very Wing Senators voted ugainSt
going into the election; it was not distributed or pub
lished, and of course not in force, as every body may
recollect, until late in the year 1Si3-nonthS after
that role icdS taken!
So the statute was in force requiring an election, at
the time when the editor and his fifteen associate
Wing Senators voted against going into it.
But if, contrary to the fact, no statute had been in
existence, would it not have been their duty to intro
duce a bill for that purpose, if it were their sworn
duty under the constitution, (Which we do not say) to
elect Senator that wiater! Would they be mere
excusablc for emitting that means for complying with
the constitution than to omit passing a resolution to
GO into the election, or to omit uoting or any other
meansl We think not. We can see no substantial
difference.
We will now pass on to the only remaining excuse
Of the editor in behalf of the Wing Senator's for set
ting this first example, which the Wing leaders are
blaming the Democratic Senators for following. He
goes on to say sin point Of fact, however, there
was no effort made by the Wing Senators of 1912 to
Indefinitely postpone the election. The journal Of the
proceedings of the Senate Of that session sustaihs The
assertion, as all who examine will find"
When VIC FIRST read this denial, we were not a little
astonished. On examining it closely, however, we
think we discovered a dodgipg Of the question. We
will have no dispute about mere cords. We shall
was no effort made to 90 indefinitely postpone" But
there are moro ways of destroying a bill or a resolu-
ton besides an indefinite postponement. 1t may be
done by a vote to lay it on the table, to refuse TO take
it up afterwards, or by bluntly voting directly against
1t. And the sixteen Wing Senators took this latter
cohrse,-theyv voted against the resolution for electing
a Senator which had been passed by the Democratic
House. See Senate Journal as above referred to. If
their only objection had been to the time fixed for the
election by the House Resolution, they would have
taken the course alcays taken In such cases, they would
have amended, by striking out the time and inserting
a different day. Instead Of that they adopted the
easier and more direct mode of trying to kill it at
once. The vote itself shows that such was their in