The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-01
A Neat PoIltIeaI srrategem,

There are some coquettish beauties who,
in their retreating coyness, are particularly
destructive 10 the hearts OF men. Their
feigned unwiIlingness is a sort of dangerous
snare. In the same way the Scythian SOL
der was said to be the most effective, when
he turned and fed and discharged his muir
derous arrows in the course of his flight So
the retarius, in the Roman arena, ran from
his opponent and wound up his net Tor a
more deadly cast. There is a character in
modern politics, who pursues the same
kind of tactics with admirable success and
may be described as the retresting or rather
resigning statesman. This gentleman, whep
contemplating some particularly ambitious
design, is verr fond of announcing his re-
tirement from the cares of public life to
the shades ofs rural home or to tlssunremit-
ting lsbors of his profession. To cover his
Vaccinations he makes proclamation from
the Louise tops that he has flung away am
bition- When Dan Voorhees, announced to
the people OF Indiana early in the summer
that he was about to lay aside all thoughts
of the civic wreath, and henceforth devote
himself exclusively to the study and prac-
tice OF the law it was easy to surmise that he
meant mischief. A few of the more simple
minded democrats, who had often hung
with eager attention to catch the so9nd of
bis eloquent voice, sighed - they thought
that the stately form of the"Tali Sycamore
would never greet their sight again, and
longed for the rustic OF his words, like
the whispering of a thousand leaves in
q pleasant wind. The more skeptical merely
watched to see what Mr. Voorhees, little
game was. 1t is true that he soon after dis
himself at Terrelrs trial, get on
his way homeward, by a strange coincidence,
he was wsylaid by the correspondence the
Cincinnati Enquirer, and gave his opinions
ON the aspects of the political Geld i'm a way
that seemed rather strange for one who had
concluded that law was too jealous,a mis-
tress to brook any rivalry. Bat, stranger
still, in about a week the retired politician
appeared AZ the state convention, where his
former rivals greeted hila heartily, and in
ofthe fact that he was taking a
long farewell of all such scenes of strife and
intrigue, gave him his own way as far as
possible 1t was thought well that he should
make his exit from the stage with all homer,
md therefore the chief work of the day was
rusted TO his hands, and the majority of the !
on resolutions were so eompla-
'ent that, although they differed from the
Tiews which he had set forth, they yielded to
i'm out OF courtesy. And now the curious /
act appears, that Mr.. Voorhees,. after he has
in manipulating the convention,
GEMS unaccountably. to loiter about taking
is final leave. He don't seem to have quit
3D. political life bic more than he eyer did
4 any former year. In fact he is actually
xerting more influence and playing a more
Important part than he was formerly accus-
,med to do. He boldly entered the lists
gainst Morton. and cast down that danger
Us opponent in gallant style, showing by his !
ecurate information in regard to recent po- s
teal discussion, that he certainly must be {
selecting Kent and Blackstone to some ex- I
MT. The whole state was soon filled with t
pies of the speech of the retired states S
an, and the administration papers began L
bristle with attacks on a man who o
ID shaken the dust of public life from his t
ndals. In fact, it has gradually dawned il
,on the minds OF men that Dan VOORHEES, o
Mt get out OF politics if he would. and fl