New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-06-13
INDIANA,

No action could be more satisfactory to the
friends of Reform than that Of the Indiana
Convention yesterday. 1t demonstrated more
plainly than that of any previous event of the
canvass the fact that the Cincinnati movement
has become a great popular national move
ment, entirely beyond the power of pro-
fessiona politicians to control or impede.
The Administration organs have INDUCED in
more Misrepresentation and more unfounded
prophecy about Indiana than about any
other State. They have told us about
the enormous power and following
of Mr.. Voorhees,; they have claimed
that ex-senator Hendricks was opposed
to the Cincinnati ticket They have brazenly
repeated day after day that there were no
Liberal Republicans in the State, and that the
Democrats demanded a straight ticket. Salts
fed as we were of the falsity of all these
statements, we preferred to let the people of
Indiana answer them in their own way.
There can be no question of the definite
ness of yesterdays answers. A large and
notable convention of prominent citizens
came together, consulted with each other and
with the leading public men of the State,
and resolved that the Cincinnati plat
the aspirations of all the men who desire
reform, and the election of the Cincinnati
ticket the best means of putting these prin-
ciples into practice. The Convention NOM
mated for Governor the ablest and most
unsullieC statesman whom the State has in
recent years prOduced-the best man in the
State to embOdy the new and powerful revolt
of the spirit of law against the spirit of law
lessness. His acceptance of the nomination
is the happiest omen of the canvass His
name has been for the last few years the
one most prominently mentioned for
the Presidency, among those intelli-
gent Democrats who have wished to
reGstablish the regular and normal
reign of constitutional law. He is a man with
whom legality is religion, and it is men such
as he who are best fitted to cure the country
of its lingering fancy for government of
general orders and aides-de-camp.
These are the open, the evident facts demon
strated anew by the Indiana Convention:
l. That the sound and solid men like Hen
bricks and Buckalew are really stronger and
more available" before the people than the
tricky politicians and mounting demagogues
who gain the ear of conventions in
quieter times. 2. That there is
warmer and more earnest aspiration for
peace, for reform, for regular legal govern
ment, among the honest masses who do most
of the voting and least of the talking than
the old-fashioned politicians haveany concep-
ton Of. The Democracy of Indiana have been
usually considered especially intractable to
reason and susceptible to prejudiced de-
clamation. But here we see Con-
vention of thousand Indiana Democrats
scouting the counsels of their most
popular orator to place themselves under the
lead Of the purest and most unimpassiOned of
their lawyers; welcoming with cheers the
speech of the oldest and most consistent Abo-
lidOnist OF til" West, and accepting with de-
liberation, and yet with enthusiasm, the
platform and the candidates of the
Liberal Republicans, simply because this
course is the only one through which
the great objects of peace and reform
can possibly be obtained. Nothing could more
clearly show the rapid aud substantial progress