Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1852-06-03

hood hundred with which that poiticsl loco fooo
concern teens We hope it is not expected of do
more. paper phieh strires 10 bring drepus oar
internal Improvement system; which warning with ali
the Institutions of the country and whose wishes Doubt
less are for the establishment Of an agrsran system
does net certainly need 10 have its statements contra
dcted, TO prevent imposition uPon the public"
Again. November 25 1897, the Journal says:
'The Democrat has long asd assidaously labofed to
nure the State and its prospects, but il has spent its fury
and trust in vain It's preparations about internal
Improvements, banks, iuntos, and the Ike nil Be .e
1embered its beered only for the reckesshess Of such
attempts"
In the spring of 1897, the Indiana Democrat com.
menced series of numbers detailing the extravaqsnce
Of the system, the amount paid to engineers and
other officers, sc. In that paper dated March %,
1887, We find the following
LET the works 60 by the present mode and when
about So 600 600 expended, without work being
completed, and s250,O0O yearly interest be paid bY
taxation emigration will stop, capital vii GOT flow in
bet on the contrary our farmers who doing WELL will
be obliged sacrifice their farms and move cut Of the
State to avoid oppressive tax This will be the re-
suit. calamity so dreadful be avoided by CLASH
fcation."
In the numLer of the Democrat dated 9th April 1887
find the following extract published from the Loas
vilIe Public fdretiser which will show better than any
extract from that paper how matters stood that time
in Indiana
''The Indiana Democrat is right advocating elsssih
State. Take hold of eac irorks at Hie-fnish them
let them be yielding increase in few yesTs-then
commence and complete others. This is the style in
which honest practical men 90 to work. They would
not have many irons il the fire, and would not per
NIT any to fail. Improvements would be rapidly com
pleed and would pay interest the cost Of construc
ton, 50 finished; and the whole system would
be carried into effect in the speedy and economical
But certain objects may be accomplished, if
general scatteraon of the State funds be annually pre-
erred 70 classification" Some Of the Wing legislators
of diana unle uuifoa n
understood in Kentucky. The fact is, who believe
every public expenditure is necessarily local 6rbs, ere
100 corrupt 10 be trusted with the direction OF State
government any other government, in age Of i'm
provement like the present They will 60 on expendng
money not to push improvements onwaTd and increase
the wealth and power of State but TO buy political
pogsy to be Vieidea during their lrctess hires for selfish
and corrupt purposes"
In the Democrat Of May Il, 1897 we find the follow
ing warning the people reference to Internal I'm
provemen!:
We say, in seriousness, there IS feeling in the
country, which demands review Of the subject Of in
erna Improvement. II demands repeal. Il demands
whal That the credit Of the State should be preserved
unmpared. That capitalists should feel secure when
they loan money that it will be expended in the imne
diate completion of works that viii yield revenue
That it, ately, the time might arrive, when add
onal loans could not be procured owing TO tie State
financial operations, national calamItes, or any other
Unforeseen dangers works would not De uncomple;ed
butt far they went would be oil beneht to the coun
try This still small voice of wisdom and careulness viii
be found the deliberations Of independent yeomanry
The farmer he follows his plough thinks OF these
things with calmness and debeTalon. he extends has
thoughts through the vista uiurity and reflects upon
what would be the situation Of orr State snPPosn2 all
the works progress simultaneously until they hall
cOmplefed and then calamity befdl such
have stated. aud works be compelled to stop, Oh
progress exorbtant interest, which the people
would he unwilling TO pay What legacy would this
be for a father 10 leave his childrenl would have
canals indeed butt if they contained any, they would
ia reality be desert waste Of water and solitary
the grave and all the eloquence OF statesmen would
be in vain. Oar State debt, like an incubus, lOOzId
iceigh doICR and Indiana toOUd fail from her high
estate to rise more"
Thus it will be seen the Democratic party never
had the power either de the internal improvement
system in its inception; 10 prevent the wasefu
travagance that characterized lis progress: until the
State was nearly ruined by Wing mismans cement.
When the bill of 1896 passed. all the Executing officers
of the State; from the Governor down, Wings.
The Legislature largely Wing, in both branches,
that passed The bill The committees Of the Houses
that reported the bill and which the bill referred
were nearly all Whigs-the Governor that appointed the
first Board of Internal improvement a Wing, and
an ultra Wing at that-the Board Of Internal Improve
that expended the money consisted Of sssea Wings
and but fsco Democrats, and of the Democrats BY
no means parzan--the Fund Commissioners, that lost
millions upon millions ia the sale OF bonds were al
Wigs and when the cry Of classification was raised
mainly by Democrats, and Governor Wright and others
in the Legislature took the ground that work should
be finished lime, the whole power and Patronage OF
the State government used 10 defeat the project
When John puIaon entered The field the classi6ca
ton candidate for Governor and the regularly nominated
candidate Of the Democratic pariy-wbO was also q
classifer-declned in his favor-then il that the
whole kennel Of Wing ofcehoders lei loose upon
him. The Engineers and their numerous assistants
and the contractors and laborers the public works
were all appealed 10, and the appeal was not in vain
Dumont was called second Peter the Hermit whose
object was destruction, and his Wing competitor told
the people from the stump, order quiet their fears,
that the price Of an extra hen and chickens would pay
their taxes Finally when Indiana became it were,
in cha acter bankrupt and proud and glorious
Commonwealth was held up the gaze Of the world as
repud ating State, Wing Statesman able tc ind
a remedy and during the whole of Governor bIggers
administration, we felt the blight and mdew oil ruined
credit emigration ceased TO flow into the Stale, and
many of our best citizens were leaving IL was then
that the power of the State passed into Democratic
hands Since that period course has been onward
and upward and no State this Union now sustaIns
better credit better able pay all her debts than
the once ruined bat now goriousy regenerated Indiana
No sane man. who loves the State, will ever think o.
going back TO Wing misrule, Wing extravaganza and
Wing ruin
straws show which way the Wind blows.
Achilles Williams Wing candidate for Treasurer Of
State perceyinq that inevitable defeat awaits the Wing