Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-12-04
smoking them out.


busily engaged in smoking out such Of their
State Senators as they do not know to De
with them in the scheme of staving of the
election of United States Senators, by the
Legislature. this winter. If they wish to
ascertain whether any of these gentlemen
are likely to act Independently of the pro-
gramme which has been laid down for them,
all they have to do is, 70 start the rum0f that
it is whispered in democratic circles'that Dir.
So-and so will vote to 60 into an election
This affords the leaders pretext to COM
mence the operation Of smoking out" the
honorable gentleman whose reliability " is
shus questioned. Unless he is endowed with
more Independence Of character and moral
stamina than the great mass. Of those to
whom the party award high official positions,
no is brought out under q pledge to do the
bidding Of the wire-workers. If he refuses
to do this, he is at once denounced as
q renegade and traitor. How man
can be thus stigmatized for refusing to do
what every Black Republican editor and ora
tor united in condemnings before the election,
Is one of mysteries of political ethics which
It Is most difficult for our ordinary mind to
fSshom. Wet venture to say that not a
single Black Republican Senator was elected
with the understanding that he should use
his efforts and his votes to defeat the election
Of United States Senator'S Onthe contrary,
90 far as any issue was made on that subject,
he gave, an implied pledge, at least, that his
action should be the very reverse of this.
What inference was to be drawn from the
uniform and bitter denunciation of the DEM
ocratic majority in the State two years ago,
II il was not that the course of the "Republi-
sans' would be of an opposite character
With what show Of honesty or consistency
could they arraign the conduct of their DEM
ocrat;c predecessors, if they had turned round,
and, in the next breath, declared that they
intended to follow in their footsteps? Wessy,
then, as far as any pledge was given, or so far
81 one could be implied from the course pur-
sued, and the arguments used, by the "Re-
publicans'' previous to the election, it was
that no factious opposition should be raised
to the election of United States Senators.
Every member elected to the State Senate
by that party was. elected upon that pledge.
When the leaders, therefore, now undertake
to dragon these gentlemen into the support
of their scheme by casting in their teeth the
charge Of "treachery," they are playing with
edge .csls that may be needed to cut both
ways.
We do not know but every Senator elect
&c on the Black Republican ticket is as ready
to follow up the plan "chalked out" by the
wire-workers, as the .wire-workers themselves
are. II is the means to which the latter re-
sort to smoke cut" those whom they sus-
pect of being slippery eels." and the pecu
liar style Of argument used to bring them
into the plot, that we look at The first vic
tim of their suspicion was DR.. Sage, of Ohio
ani Switzerland counties. They gave the
Doctor chase. and after running him down, Ia
belled him "GH right" Next came Dr.
Bobbs. The Madison Courier advised lis
party friends of the painful rumor' that
DR.. Bobbs was sick and needed /" sitting up"
with The journal answered for DIR. Bobbs.
The Black Republicans might "bet their
ives'' on his sticking to the programme. He
would stand out against the election of q. s.
Senators till frUZe over.
Anon we heard of painful rumors' about
the Senator from Fountain county. The
party dogs are after him in full cry.
at is said," says the Clinton Republican,
/" in Democratic circles in this vicinity that
the Senator from Fountain county has agreed,
sincc the election, that he will vote to go into
the election for U. S. Senators by joint ballot
of the two Houses. We don't believe any
Republican capable of such meanness, much
less Republican Editor. Can Bro. Rice in
form us?'
Thus it is that the "hounds" pursue their
game. Every man who will not now do
what they denounced before the election as
the work of "pe1ured villains and scoun-
drels," is to be spotted as renegade and
traitor. 1t is now an act of meanness'' for
a Republican" to refuse to do what was
+" contamination of all meannessu for Demo-
Gratis to do.
There is, therefore, 3 vast difference, after
all, "'twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle- dee"