The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

we can manage it. The main thing is to
satisfy and keep with US the bondholders,
banks, financial and general business inter
ests of the country, and this we intend,
keeping head to the windward, while hug
ging the shore. We shall do something to
bring the Mormons and Mormon polygamy
under subsection to the laws; but we shall
not attempt any dangerous sensations in
anything. Cuba can wait little longer,
Mexico is all right; but we may have to
look into that seel-skin monopoly of Alas
ka. With the programme suggested, these
republicans say, we can 20 before the peo-
pie, and fight a square little battle along the
whole line. and carry the next congress in
the fall. This philadelphia election, they
say, finally breaks up the attempted reunion
of the democrats and liberal republicans.
The democrats will adhere to their old party
organization; the liberals, as guerrillas. will
not be able to do much mischief. The gran
gers are mostlyEgOOd republicans and we can
manage to keep them in the ranks. But
how about the presidential succession? There
Will be time enough to attend to that yeaa
hence. AT present, whether General Grant
is or is not candidate for another term, and
whether the party is or is not not inclined
to take up new man, 1t Is
sufficient that the party and the administra-
ton one-that they are working
together, and that General Grant does not
desire the acendancy of a new party in the
trouble, and he likes to get on quietly and
without any fuss or embarrassments. Such
from the views expressed here among the
republicans-are believed to be the prevail
ing opinions among them as to the party
program in congress and their calculations
touching the next tall elections. They say
in this crisis it is well to 'let well enough
alone" and hence they, among other things,
will not tamper with the tariff to any extent
calculated to disturb the integrity of the
party in the old Keystone state.
SCHURz'S SPEECH.
THE SCENE IN THE SENATE.
While Senator Schurz was delivering his
speech on finance the Chicago Tribune's
Washington correspondent thus describes
the scene: Whenever Senator Schurz gives
notice that he will deliver a set speech on
any subject, at the appointed time the peo-
pie crowd around him, feeling perfectly
confident he will say something worth lis
tening TO. lie announced just before adj
journment Friday evening, that he would
discuss the finances when the senate met
again, and, Notwithstanding the threadbar9
of the subject, the galleries were
crowded to-day. Even the diplomatic box
was filed. To use theatrical expression,
the largest and most delighted audience OF the
season greeted the distinguished senator.
Mr.. SchurZ has been credited with making
several great speeches since he be-
came prominent in American politics,
but his effort. to- day fairly surpassed all of
his previous successes. His bitterest oppo-
nents acknowledge its brilliancy and re-
markable force, and say they never listened
10 such strong presentation OF the specie
side of the financial problem.
At the finish. Mr.. SchurZ was warmly .om-
plimented by Senators Howe, Sumner, Fen
ton, Hamlin, Thurman, BOgy, and others.
That the expansionists were taken by sur
prise and their cause badly damaged, was
evident from the frequent consultations held
while Mr.. SchurZ was speaking, by Senators
Morton, Logan, Cameron, and Merrlmon,
and the bad temper shown by Mr.. Morton
while attempting later in the day to reply to
the argument of the MissOurian. Several
times during the delivery of his address Mr..
SchuTz was loudly applauded, and no effort
was made by the chair Mr.. Ferry, of Mich |
gam to restrain the audience from express
ing their appreciation of the good points !
with which the speech fairly bristled.