Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-01-24

~ III OHNSofOAAA0 W ehAVN ehO Ahii4O "
the non-election of Speaker of the House upon
the Democrats, the opposition pretend to say
that there are three parties in the House
the Democratic, the Republican," and the
"Amsrican' or Know Nothing. They say that
the men who vote for Banks are +" Republi-
cans" and those who vote for Fuller are
Know Nothings. The Banks men from In
diana, we are told, are Republicans" Now
this dodge won win. When Colfax, Cam
back, Barbour, s. Co., were elected, there
was no such thing as the Republican " party
known in Indiana. The Know Nothing par
ty in this State are just as much responsible
for the election of the men we nave men,
toned, as the Know Nothing party in Ken
lucky are responsible for the election of Hum
phrey Marshall. The Rising Sun Visitor
says Mr.. Cumback was nominated by a Know
Nothing convention in the first instance, and
we know that Mr.. Slaughter, the candidate
against Mr.. English in the second district, was
first nominated by a Know Nothing caucus
We have no doubt every anti Democratic
candidate in the State, unless it be Mr.. Dunn,
was brought out in the same manner. 1t Is
true, these men were subsequently, nomina-
ted by conventions of what was called the
Peoples party - but the Peoples" con-
v~entions are now well understood to nave
been a farce and a humbug, intended to 'rope
in" those who had been Wings but were
not Know Nothings.
Cumback, Holloway, Barbour, Scott, Mace,
Colfax, Brenton, and Petit are all Know No
things. The p~retence that they wero elected
as Republicans " is a gross fraud. No such
thing as a Republican party had been heard
of in Indiana when they were elected. II
they are now members of such a party, they
must have joined it since they were elected.
These members cannot escape the terrible
responsibility of keeping the House in chaos,
by pretending that they belong to a different
party from Marshall, Fuller, and their COM
panions. They are all members of the same
oathbound faction, and there is no escape for
them. They comprise a majority of the
House, and the country will hold them to
account for their neglect to discharge the
duty imposed upon them by the constitution.
GIf the Evansville Journal is to be be-
lieved, the people of that city were thrown
into a great state of excitement in conse-
quence of alleged unfairness on the part of a
Mr.. Tyler, who advertised to give a "Grand
Gift Concert one day last week. Mr.. Tyler
was arrested and held to bail in the sum OF
one thousand dollars, to answer a charge OF
violating the law againsr lotteries. The
Journal thinks this was a very great outrage
on the part OF the magistrate. We think he
did exactly right, whether there were any
grounds for the charge of unfairnesso or not
We have a law against lotteries, or "Gift
Concerts as they are sometimes called, and
that law should be enforced. These concerts
are demoralizing in the extreme. We have
seen boys and young girls watching the
drawings of tickets in this species of lotteries
with an anxiety equal to that OF the gambler
watching the turn of a card or the throw of a
die. They should be suppressed, and we
are glad to hear OF one magistrate in the State
who has had the courage to discharge his
duty IN this respect.