The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-05-05
COMING AT THE CALL.

COMING AT THE CALL.
cd 9iI SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
coxsIDERABLE PROPORTIONS
From the Miami sentinel. b. "a
The Indianapolis Sentinel, of the 10th inst,
contained call for q Farmers State Con-
vention, to be held on the 10th day Of next
month. No name was attached to 1t, and it
would doubtless have been q still born
affair, IL treated with silent contempt. But
the radical papers took fire. and published 1t
far and wide, denounclng the whole thing as
a cheat, forgery and swindle, until now, the
matter seems to have attained considerable
proportions. Any one man, two men,, or
three men, have the right to call q conven-
ton, and no one need attend unless they
choose, or be bound by any of its acts. The
party is responsible for none of its acts. If
the radicals are in any way injured bv the
call, they haye only their own stupidity to
blame In advertising 1t. fs. .ns..-
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From. the Evansville Herald. +"
The extent to which the, republican and
democratic parties have impaired their use-
iulness, suggests the propriety of the non
partisan voters-workingmen, grangers and
independent citizens generally an
independent ticket in the field this fall. Let
them nominate good men, and then, If the
Political parties choose to endorse any of
those nominees, let them do 80. 1t is not
best for the independent voters to wait on
the parties again; rs by doing so they may
be compelled to take men on whom 1t Is not
safe to rely, and who win sell them out, of
give them away, as has been done recently,
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nominate good men, those men will, in all
probability, be endorsed by one or the other
of the political parties Whether they are
so endorsed or not, If they are the best men
for the respective offices that are in the field,
they will have the best chance of election.
LET REFoRMERs WORK TOGETHER.
From the Ripley County Journal.
The independent or farmers movement
bids fair TO assume considerable proportions.
One hundrtd and nineteen citizens of both
parties have signed the call for a
convention in Henry county, and I29
citizens of Hancock county have attached
themselves to the movement. The farmers
may be the means of doing much good, even
in their 10th of June convention. Let
them adopt a declaration of principles and
then stop. They can have no hope of elect
ing ticket of their own, and must, there
ed political organization. They can't afford to
make any rash experiments, because in the
mean time the country might 60 to ruin.
A reform is demanded by all classes except
Grant office holders. Let that reform be ac-
complished promptly and by all reformers
working together.
THE ACCEPTED TIME.
From the Terre Haute Journal.
If there ever was a time in the history of
this republic, when men of all parties shouIs
come together to consider the public good
that time is now. everywhere, whenever
the party In power has the patronage, off,
cial corruption is discovered in more or
less degree. Rings, combinations and
cliques are formed everywhere for the pur-
pose Of preyiDg upon the honest masses of
the people. Such things are not right, and
such things must have an end. Let, then,
the people come together on the 23d day OF
May and in dispassionate, calm and proper
manner, take such steps as are necessary to
correct the evils so seriously complained of.
DIVIDED AGAINST THEMSELVES.
From the Evansville Courier.
There are not 10 democrats in 100 in the
state of Indiana who propose to let a party
organization that has been beaten in every
contest since 1860 stand in the way of the
efforts being made by the producing classes
to hurl the money lenders of the East and
the corruption that is eating the vitals of the
nation, from power and place. Neither the
republican party nor the democratic can
come together on a national platform.
Western republicans and western democrats
stand shoulder to shoulder on the currency
question. -
AS CITIZENS. 8. .-.
From the New Cas- lie Times
The Sentinel published a call some time
since, for Citizens State Convention. The
Journal said it was a fraud on the grangers.
The ultra democratic papers declared it was
a fraud also. But the grangers now come to
the front and say that although as an order
they cannot and do not call political meet
ings; yet as citizens desiring, reform most
heartily endorse the call.
NOTIONS OF THE STATE PRESS.
p TYRANNICAL POWER.
From the Terre Hsute Journal
Perhaps the whole history of the country |
does not present an example of the exer- |
else of this most odious executive preroga- |
tive on a measure which has been so care |
fully matured and so profoundly consid- |
cred. Imperial despotism never exercised |
greater stretch OF tyrannical power.
WRATH AND INDIGNATION.
From the Evansville Journal.
President Grant, in returning the currency |
bill with his objections, has placed himsel |
in antsgonism to three-fourths of the repub-
icans of the west and south and a large
minority of the party in the east. Indigna-
Jon meetings should be held at once in every
part of the west and south, and the voice of
an outraged people be made to ring in the ears
IF the president who repudiates the doctrine
hat be has no policy to urge in opposition
% the wishes of the people.
READ OUT.