The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-10-13
Tine %anfDg OF IL.

The defeat in O6io and Indiana is GER
tainly the greatest disaster that the republi.
can party has yet encountered. Amid the
hustle and confusion consequent upon the
receipt of returns, which takes place in In
diana the second night after election, it is
difficult to pause and consider the full
meaning of this democratic victory; but a
Jew hasty words on the subject may not be
out of place.
The result of the state election in Indiana
is due in The first place to the excellent
character of the ticket put in the field and
to the vigor and enthusiasm with which the
candidates threw themselves into the can.
vass. Their personal efforts deserved and,
in a great measure, won success. They
equsled their opponents in character and
surpassed them in energy.
Another powerful influence at work was
The active assistance given by the leaders OF
the party not directly interested in the cor
test. Governor Hendricks, Judge Nc
Donald, the Hon. j. B. Ryan and Others
flung themselves heartily into the field at a
time when the issue seemed doubtful, and
did gallant service.
mel has maintained from the beginning, was.
in some respects, miserable blunder and
there is no reason now to change that deci-
sion. The Reputation resolution is not sus-
! aimed by any respectable politician in the
stats or country-except the author OF il
and even Pendleon hims If has sal
the seal of his condemnation upon the
neresy t. which be gave popularity. AS far
~ il fl alton is concerned, the parties made
20 issue in their declaration of principles,
both of them advocating the congressional
control of the currency and the manufacture
funlimitpd amounts of il. But Hendricks,
Mcdonald and Kerr boldly reasserted the
time-honored financial principles of the
len ocrscy. and fought it out on that line,
- that the hard money party may claim =
partial success. In state matters the
superiority of the democratic Platform told
ffectually, and the declarations in favor OF
conomy in ate government and in favor
f license law were especially influential
The and of the party against sumPtuary
egis u ion secured ihs alliance OF the Ger
mans. to whom a share OF the honor IF
vietory is due.
More effective, however, with all due res
peot be it spoken, than he sound principles
with which the democracy identified itself
and the able men who were the cham
pions of those principles, were the crimes
of the republican administration. Their
own sins fought against them, and
overcome them. This safe has
not heretofore had an opportunity to speak
its repIobation upon the wonderful rascali-
ties which have come to light since the de-
feat of Horace Greeley in 1874. The Credit
Mobilier, the San5orn contracts, the District
of Columbia frauds, the Salary Grab and
the plurder of the Southern States
all ;htse villainies have been exposed since
then. The people have seen men like
Greeley. Sumner, Seward and Chase die in
opposition, one after another, to the domi-
1 ant parry which tlcy bad, as it were,
crea'cd. rfey have On men like Judge
Hoar, Judge Wilson. DaVo. and Freeman
Cla Ike withdraw in d ssu-t to private lite.
They have seen oren dishonesty aud incom-
peiency assuming con.rOl III public affairs.