Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-10-07


and rejoice that corrupt administration in
its efforts to insult God and enslave man,
has met with such whitening rebuke.
From the Indianapolis Journal.
The State Ticket.
The course of the Administration. and
the singular Inconsistency of the Demo
cratic party. in regard to the Kansas ques
ton, has naturally conferred the interest OF
the people in the Congressional contests,
where national politics are the proper to
pies of discussion. When President
breaks his pledges, made both at his nom
ination AMI Inauguration with every cir
cumstance of solemnity that can attach to
a mere secular act. AMI the great boly OF
his party follow his lead, and approve his
falsehool it's not strange that the people
should feel more interest IN hearing what
sdch aen can say for themselves, an their
opponents say against them, than In the
less singular questions of domestic policy.
though W. have Ia | mig )vernment c.
nouy'l ut home. it has not been accompa
nil by tn, same deliberate falsiicatioa OF
pie, ,es, or ths Same circumstances of cor
rup;ion, that mark the National policy
AMI naturally exrites less interest. 1t is
simply bal. bat not won lsrfully IN an. as
the other is. Yet, "a natural as 1t is that
the Kansas que 'ti1n, an the strange an |
almost incredible extravaganza of the All
mini,tration. shsali excite popular feeling
III IRE than questions Of State policy. we
shoal not allow them to absorb all inter
est or discussion. There Is a, much de
pen linz on election of State officers an |
Legislature, a. on the election of Congress
men. We have the most disturbed and de-
r.sn,,l con li,ion of tn. State revenue and
expenditures To- a Just that has ever existed
since tine State was organized We have
some psrplexing work to do with the
school system which our Supreme Court
his patriotically ruinel We have Unifed
States Senators To elect in place of the two
forgers who holl their seats by corrupt
baryiin with the L,comptonites who gave
them the pay Of two Senator's for their two
votes We have the effects of the action
OF the DEMOCRATIC Senators in 1857, who
refuse for DAYS and weeks to allow any
hisiness TO b, done. in or,lcr tn allow Mr.
LTay Wool, to holl two Offices at the
sum time. an Mr.. Miller to holl seat
TN 1t h, never was elected to. AMI thus H.
nally defeated all necessary legislation, a.
they boa<tc.l they would 10. to remove
We have as difficult task before Us a ev-
er reformers undertook. And it demands
some OF the attention that is 50 largely at
tracted by the almost romantic falsel,ool
ani treach.ry of til, National policy.
Let Us see in what coa,litioI the Demo
cratic State Administration has left us
j 4. The session of 1857 was utterly vast
e by that party. In or,ler to retain LEROY
Wools OF Clark county in his seat as
Senator. sHl at the same tim, allow him
To keep his office of Instructor to the Peni-
Tertiary at six hun Ire dollars year, they
broke quorums. and DELAYED legislation for
an aggregate perioi sufficient to have al
lowed every bill to be considered AMI act
e | on, and every necessary act to be per-
formed. ANY one who will read the Sen
ote Journal viii see that. incluling the four
days that Lieutenant Governor Hammond
held the Senate at ',leal lock" in order
to compel that body to recognize the plu-
ralist Woods as a member after he hal
been legally oustcd. fully two weeks were
wasted by the Democratic minority in eff
forts to prevent the majority from going
right along with the regular order of bust
ness. In that two weeks every appropri-
alton bill, and every other bill necessary
to collect the revenue or preserve the cred
1T of the State. could have been passed.
The Republicans triel every possible means
to secure the regular transaction of the bu-
siness. but the Democrats defeated them
steadily, sometimes by breaking quorum,
sometimes by those dilatory motions and
calling the yeas AMI nays that made their
usual resort against allowing work to be
done. and sometimes as on the last night, |
by deliberate refusals to do their sworn /
duty If the regular order of business had /
been permitted by the Democrats to b. /
gone through with, we should have had I
our State affairs in as good condition as
they can be placed. Nothing else was
needed and the Republicans asked nothing
else But the Democrats could not con-
cede that without consenting that vote
should be taken as to whether Mr. Woods |
had any business with two offices at once.
and that they wouli not do, and did not
do. To the last. they fought for that greedy
gentleman's claim to both his Offices And /
they could not consent to go on with the I
regular order Of business without allowing /
a vote to be taken on Miller's case, who i
was proved to have no right to a seat at
all. and that they boosted, should never be
done. Anybody who recollects the report
of the Scnate's proceedings will remember
how Ere<V and Brown and H.fxa, .,l