The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-01-13

A secret conclave met in council in this
city Thursday, the historic sth of January,
and after much wrestling. adopted the fol-
lowing amusing distractions:
ReSOlrcd, That 10 is the undoubted will of the
republican party OF Indiana that congress shall
Immediately and Internationally repeal the
bill passed at the last session increasing the sala-
ries or the president, congressman and other Of
ficerS, ana that the members from this state
will fully represent their constituents In urging
fScsoiee6i, That it is the voice of the people of
Indiana that the acts OF the secretary OF the
treasury in using the greenback reserve 10 meet
the eXigencies OF the government should be APP
proved by congress-; that the uneNpended bal
ance OF the forty-four millions should be issued
as rapidly as practicable, and that some mode of
supplying currency which VIII conform, by its
elasticity, TO the wants OF business, should be
ResoIred, That Che CORPORATIONS, created By the
people, either by congressional or legislative
charter, should be held responsible for the pro
per use of ihe franchises granted them: that they
are created TO be the servants, not the masters,
Of the people: and that we favor such appropri-
ate legislation as will correct the abuses In their
management, and restrict their power within
the legitimate sphere of their service. We re-
peat the declarations Of the republican national
convention of 1872, and of previous years against
other companies, believing that private enter
prise and private capital SHOULD be left 10 sup
ply the demand of the country in that behalf.
ReSOtUed. That a proper measure, which VIII
give better aud cheaper facilities for tranSporta
ton OF freight TO the seaboard than now exist,
We believe 10 be demanded by the best interests
OF the people
Nobody has the temerity to put his name
to these little strokes of political satire. The
first little paragraph under the head of re-
solved is too funny. You remember what
Oliver said about the grab, and oliver is the
republican party. lie didn't think the sal
ary grab an evil. He thought indeed that
he couldn't live on the mean little sum,
81 800, which the people are now clamoring
against. The vacuous little resolve about
corporations is as insinuating as oil in apple
sauce, and will be greatly appreciated by
divers friends, Scott and Clews and Jay
Cooke, and the long line OF good fellows
who "run" the legislative branch of the
government which our own Oliver "leads. -
The "resolves" OF the important personages
who come together in back rooms to frame
the soft sawder of political campaigns were
never more clearly brrlesque than these
meaningless and oratorial emphnesses put
forth as the holy conviction of the estate
committee" But very probably these
iokers see no "ridiculosity'' in this bust
ness. They probably go through the form
ula with gravity, thinking that they have
the same sodden prejudice and dull partisan
hate, to appeal to which have upheld them
in the past. From the signs of the times
just now, it is very much more than prob
able that the committee will find that slip
shod twaddle of this sort don't fill its old
Office. That people once given to service in
that fold are looSed from bondage and beut
on pastures green and new.