The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-11
THE TALL SYCAMORE.
VOORHEES, AND MORTON.

VOORHEES, AMI
THE EDEMoCRATICC CLARION ANSNN k1tss
THE REPUBLICAN KEY NOTE. ~
,r,.p ,x.NcEs scussED-MoRroN's RECORD
OR sREPUDIATIoN-TENPER AND CIVIL.
RIGHTs-CHEAP TRANSPORTATION
t.AprEs AND GENTLEMES:-When .iasS had
,ba tonor to address my neighbors and fraends
a. ,,r sr I.vns In response TO a call made r-
yesDective of party, and in company with my
astaaned friend and distinguished political OPP
,oneut. Col. r. w Thompson The meeting
w.s on earnest appeal to the congress OF tue
limited States for financial relief, and 1t emorac
Oh the business and iaboring men of eyerV shade
of polificai opinion in this community III was
in the earlier days of the financial panic which
all fondiy hoped would soon pass away, leaving
10 fne various branches OF business anu ltpor
tIeir nss,al Vitality and prosperity. SIX months
later however, and we meet to-nIshle VIII hO
percsptible Improvement Inc same scaIcis f oi
money Tor the people, the same paralysis OF
trade among merchants ana necnaIiis = uto
same dincgly 1a ,n labor are still painfully
apparent N all sides. The only cnanee II, thae
in view of the approaching eiectioH, M Sle gues1 @
and discussed by the two great poiiIcal organ G a.
izations. trust nevertheess that Lney may Ia; Ie
country only in friendly AMI patriotic splrlt;
with q single aim TO cJnfeT the greatest sOou
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION IN THE TWO
PARTIES.
In the first paragraph of senator Mortons
speech of July 81, in this city, he arraigned the
democratic party for entertaining dif1erent
views in different States on the finances ana
other public issues. This seemed to him so grave
an onense that he placed it in his opening
chapter. In sounding his promised key note he
began by tuning on this string: have no wish
,oarISed differences OF opinion among individ-
mai democrats on the financial question:. Freely
.adnSit thai 4. NAV take the authority OF ma
9iomai convention to produce the entire harmony
that is desirable in our ranks. But What shail
he said of the unfathomable assurance whleA
os e ,1eosSsarv to enab e Senator Morton, in view
OF the condition of his own party, 10 make SucD
an ACCUSATION agalnSs gam ngand a.s and add 10 them
the great States of New York ana PennSy ylNsnla,
thus comprising the controlling forces Doth IN
and Senator Morton has not friencS enough In
them to procure for him an invitation rom the
republican organization OF any one oL these
States TO deliver the financial views ne dld mere
He speaks Tor his party IN Indiana, out ne
The states I baYe named. He is not only OPP
posed by the republican Organizations anu the
republican press Of the entlre EasI, as ne =
confronted and defeated in his nsancial ideas
and labOrs by his own republican president.
Indeed. the grim reference made Dy the senator
TO the president in this connection is one OF the
amusing curiosities of political literature. tie
Iained i'm hts message at the opening of the
last session OF congress; then proceeds 10 snow
that he labOred all the winter TO carry out the
principles OF the executive by legislation, and
after demonstrating that he was succesSIal IN
he simply savs: sThis bill was vetoed by the
president" Simply this and nothing moe.
Doubtless this is painful theme to the senator;
1t recalls to him the vindcitive, unjust, and
ferOcious assaults made upon him during The
celebrated debate of last winter by the leading
journals of his own party. fefnaps ne sees
again those brutal and infamous caricatuIes in
the journal of civilization-the Pretentions or
paper, in which the senator, with his brother
senators, Logan. Ferry, and others were held up
10 the gaze and ridicuie OF the American people
as foot pads while the president stood manful
guard against the buTglarleS anu roDperleS on
which these senators seemed so determined.
think may safely submit that itwould have
been in better taste for senator Morton to have
healed his own intestine feuds before troubling
himself about those of the democratic party, II
any there are. s.rr s9l
SENATOR SIORToN's PEcULIAR ATTITUDE.
In thus speaking of Senator Morton, DO so
with great respect for mis- abilities and without
unkindness TO him personally. His position at
this time with his own party is different from
what it hes ever been before He attempted a
revolt at the last session of congress against the
power OF the moneyed mOaOpOlies which have
governed the republican party from the hour of
Its birth, ard which control it to-day. He met
with partial success, and then nnai route and
overthrow The consolidated capital was too
strong for him at Washington, and he lost his
great opportunity by falling to appeal to the
people over the head OF q subsidized executive:
He surrendered, and now finds himself 1nVoIYed
in those Inconsistencies and contradictions
which always assail and enbarass man who
standpoint than his own convictions. He ap-
pears now as rather an ap0lOg1St Tor his at
efepder of this tae best political act of his Hfe
While dwelling on the ponderous confilct which
ne %Sgsdi asa division of his party. and
with the president, who belongs 70 this lucrative
division, the Senator's breath is bated and his
tone snbjued. He hurries rapidly overthis field,
however and at once assumes his old mode OF
warfsre-that of assault, in which he is always
formidable, and often apparently reckless OF
danger 70 his own lines OF communication or re-
treat.
'poUBLE REPUDIATIoN."
Under The startling head of "a double repudi-
alton" he attacks the first resolution ef the
democratic platform of July ID. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
the nTe-twenIy bonds in greenbaeks, according
10 the law under which they were issued"
ThIs,then, is denounced by Senator Morton
as a double reputation. presume he means
the democratic party of Indiana should he
beafen AT the polls. but IL he is wrong, then the
party that supp orts HIN Is not ented i isI g ta
repudisting any portion OF our national debt
and aJ the same time no honest man desires TO
nay more than we owe; no honest man desires
10 violate and setaside the plainly written laws
OF his country in order TO impose burdens on the
people that 40 not belong to them; no honest
man desires TO Increase the tolls of the laborer
in order TO bestow a gratuity on the rich. shall
therefore cite the law itself on this subject, for
nv If we must all be judged; the senator on the
one hand and the democratic state convention,
wnictf he assaults on the other. On the 18th OF
EebrIlarv IsS2 the INST enactment on the SUBJ
feet of legal tender notes, now known as green
backs. and on the subject of dve-twenty bonds,
became a Law. 1t will be found on page 3I5 OF
the i2tfl volume of the United States statutes
Tne first section of that act provides for the IS
Of 0<0 green backs. and then
eeeds to define the purposes for which they may
be lawfully used, In the following plain
language:
eeivabie in payn ent of all taxes. Internal duties
excises, debts and demands OF every kind due to
the United States, except duties on imports; and
.I<.s,.,e - flaroauds AGAINST the limited