Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-30
STATE ITEMS.

-THK USroS STATE ORGAN TURSISG DIsoR-
GASIzER We have referred TO the sermon with
which the Indianapolis Journal has so kindly
favored the people Of this Congressional District,
after the nomination-denounciDgt their system
Of popular nominations aud otherwise instrucung
them in their political duties That paper had
hoped. prayed. and as far as il dare, lsbored for
a different result, the nomination OF Gen. Mere
dith Ii bad prosituted its columns TO perfect
and consciously dishonest pufery OF him, Tor
months and months Had Meredith been NOM
mated. the Journal would have had no word OF
censure for any mode by which that result might
have been reached: The popular vote system
would then have been all right and every way
commendsble and admirable.
Nevertheless, when il Was all over, the Jour
nal did assume a show Of fairness IL promptly
aeknow lodged Julian 5 mination, and has since
repeated the admission over and over again. IL
professed deprecate profoundly any further
continuance Of contention over the matter, and
begged correspondents to withdraw the contro-
versy from its columns
Now, after all this, what tonest man would
have supposed that the Journal editor would him
self, after the lapse of nearly mouth, have re-
vlyed this matter and not only so, but that he
would Ay in the face of all his previous admis-
sions and the most unquestionable facts? Yet
this he did in bis issue OF Tuesday last, where he
says that lin the 5h district the contest does not
appear to be over vet" quotes tissue OF bare
faced lies from a number OF the Telegram two
weeks old TO prove il. and closes by saying that
1.-The quarrel is likely to be revived" and by re
commencing the dropping of both the late can
didates and the taking up of a new man.
And all this when every man knows that no
fact was ever better established than the fair
nomination Of Mr.. Julian by the peoplel The
nomination OF Gov Morton aud the rest of the
State ticket. is not whit more valid than that
of Mr. Julian
What ought homes, patriotic people to think Of
the editor OF State organ meddns in the local
nominations, and assuming to set them aside
when fairly settled-one who. at a time like this.
when il is well understood that we shall have no
strength 10 waste in disseusions among ourselves
does not scruple to leopard the success of the
State ticket To CRAFTY mean prejudice against
a prominent man OF his own party. whose only
crime Is that he has been twenty years in advance
OF this editor politically. and is sustained by the
people in spite of the venomous, long continued
opposition of all his pigmy tribeI And know
ing. ne he does, that such course can
only benefit the enemyl Certlinly we think the
man. when he penued his article. must have
been-as we are credibly informed he frequently
is-toO drunk TO know what he was about or
else he possesses a recklessness of consequences
which copperhead might envy.
More anon to the Journals kind supervision o..
the affairs of the Fifth District Meantime we
would suggest the necessity of a new Union or
gan ut the capital of the State or n new editor
OF the old one; otherwise the good people of the
Fifth District. at least, owe il to themselves to.
and WE believe will, drop the unprncipIed. vii
famous thing. as at present conducted Center
vile True Democrat