The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-15

w y OUfnteS anu JuuEc IOAlAAl VI TIC DuA
congressional district, are the UIUst pr0mi-
nenJ candidates spoken of. Mr.. IcDOnald's
is urged as a deserved recognition
OF his services in behalf of the democratic
claim which We doubt not Joe
esteems of secondary Importance 70 the
grave and weighty questions which enter
into the election. Ills financial views, !
which were enuncisted so freely in his
speech at the opening of the campaign in
this city, we regard as eminentiy
sourd, and may be briefly
epitomized in opposition to all imitation or
contraction schemes, and in favor OF the
substitutiono of &reenbacks tor national bank
currency. We need not add that the inha-
tionists are afraid of him, and the hard
money democrats are suspicious ofhim. Mr..
Voorhees, has developed an extraordinary
strength with the people-at least in this
"neck Of woods''-notwitnstandiug The gin
a vote,p assam Gardner said of Jim Hanna,
which stands as a blot upon his congress
sional record. Having resolved against the
salary increase, and the men who
aided IN its passage, the moral gran,
deur of our late victory would
turn 10 Dead Sea fruit in tha event
of Mr. Voorhees, election at this time. TIL
people, no viewer. are no less fOrgiviHg than
Just, and Mr.. VOORHEES, having announced
mis- Fntention to retire from public life, he
csE well afford to await a more convent
euteessOn." Judge Holman, the old watch
dog OF the treasury" has just been reelected
toaCongress by a msjority largely in excess
q. his party ticket-a victory that no other
man in his distric5 could have achieved. HIS
81 lection to the Senate would nseessitate a
special election for representati' @, and Rut
tor this fact We doubt not JUICE Holman
would be the unanimous choice of his party
2s the successor OF Senator Pratt.
From the Sullivan Democrat.]
On the second page of this paper viii be
foAnd a letter from an esteemed friend and
correspondent, taking US t. task because
we do not favor tho election of Mr.. Voor-
bees to the United States Senate at
this time We thank our CORES
poudent for his csndor in giving
us credit for good motives in our course,
and not impu:ing opposition to NJ. ". To
personal considerations, as TOO many OF his
friends are in the habit of doing. Without
designiag to make any argument with
our correspondent on this subject,
OF attending any extended reply,
there WIS one remark in his letter
that we felt called on to notice. 1t was in
regard TO our representing the democracy OF
this county. We wish our correspondent
and xll others to understand that we do not
profess to represent the views of
any personsVbut ourself. Still, we presume,
indeed we know hat many others
think as we DO about this matter. Every
4 aGttlDCI newspaper III NAO Aoha Voc
flied with denunciations of the "salary
gra5,'' every candidate OF the party
frcm the highest to the lowest denounced
it, end condemned the perpetrators. The
policy of the party was TO set aside
al the representatives who participated
in lit, even to those who lawfully took
the back pay, although voting against 1t.
Under this policy the present representative
from this district, the Hon. 1Vm. T.. Nibiack,
than whom there is no purer and better rep
ressntative In Congress, was compelled to re-
tire, although he voted against the grab in
every-shape in which it was~oresented. Mr..
Voorhees, on the other hand, voted for it allthe
time. If1ir Niblack was to be shelved tor
taking only what an odious law allowed
hiE7, how mach more shOald Mr.. voorhees,
for helping 10 pass the law and pocketing
the proceeds! We recognize the fact that
NI-. VOORHEES, has been able and eloquent
in bis denuRciation of the treacherous be
tTayal of the peoples interest in the bond
legislation, but others kave also; and we
have no doubt good men can be found to
ilOsk after the interests of the people in the
Senate "a well as be. IL was a mistake, a
very grave error on the pert of Mr.. Voor-
hees to vote for the increase of salary. We
said so immediately after the passage of the
law and will say so still. fHad he never cen
suEed the extravaganza OF the republican
party and their reckless -ex penditure OF the
II people's money-had he never portrayed the
burdens of tbs people to meet their heavy
taxes with -sach matchlesS elOquence-tbe
reVulsiOn wolld not have been so great. be
ought 20 frankly confess his fault and bow &c
the peoples verdict, instead of partially de-
tending his act and calling attention to the
fact that Others received back pay in
tosnler lines. After repenting he can be for.
given
[Fromk be Fort Wayne Sentinel
The Terre Haute Gazette comes out bn &
pronunciamento nearly two columns long
the greater pat of which s a confession. o
fsbh. 1t has become democratic after hay
,Aing been iE the bonds of iniquity
for. man years, and it feels just like get
ting up and speaking cut in meet
ling, ard it does it. After detailing will
great elaboration the reasons why it We
II induced to abandon the r~epublican iold. /
tuEns guns upon the fall Sycamore. AS
democratic Newspaper published in Teus,
Haute, this a~ntagonism 10 Mr.. VOorlleea
possesses SOME significance. The Ga
~Gette's chief objection to Mr.. Voorhee
y that he is a salary -grabber. Ii
argues the Gazette, the salary grab killes
the republican party, can democrats afford
on thesvory Threshold of what might be
glorious career, TO temporizs with tia
Uhieves? Can thesparty run toe risk of car
Betler inevery step he took IN that infa
mCus trapsactiCuf The defeat of repub
lie2nism Gin Massachusetts, was :
seven days wOudar. People can scarcely
realize even now that it is not all a dream
Massachusetts, was lost mainly because o
Ben Butles's aspirations. And the only
objection to Ben Butler was that he had
bsen foremest in foisting upon hisstste anC
the county at large the cdium oil
the back salary steal If by attempting to
shield a ssla-y gra5ber Massachusetts met
ingloriOus defeat, what late awaits
Indiana if she insists upon loading another
sal~sry~grabber with high honorE7 Tee Ga
zette well asksif democrats of Indiana be.
lieve their hold upon the state TO 6e stronger
than was the republican grasp upon Nfassa-
chusetts. If there were no other reason why
Mr.. VOORHEES, should not 90 to ths Senate,
;his one would DO Sufficient and more than
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