The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-10

0AAiAo "a IL q lttulH CHOICE nHN 10 De
made between opposite evils and opposite
dangers. We had TO save our country from
dismemberment fl st, and afterwards TO save
its liberties from subversiOn. It is the ca
lamiiy of our country hat the men who
have swsyed its counsels for the ten wears
since the war have been steadily changing
the substance of the government at the same
time that they nave been wasting the re-
sources and blighting the prosperity OF our
people.
THE THIRD TERN.
In most countries of the old world The
mere machinery of government has been
able to subjugate the unorganized masses of
the people. Even in our w time. with
universal suffrage, half a million of Of
flee holders and half a million OF soldiers
moved from the center, have been able to
control the elections among 100000 OF the
French. and to obtain immense majorities
for all the usurpations of the Third Ma
poleon. In the reaction in favor of central
ism, caused by the attempt at secession, our
government has been going on in a career
of usurpation tra~nscending the dreams OF
the monarchists of 1900. Add to so 600 Of
nee holders the existing power over the
banks; add to this, the power to be derived
from an absorption of the telegraphs, rail
roads and schools, and an administration
would be generally sure to re-elsct itself or
to designate its successor. Break the sacred
tradition against a third tenn, and YOU will
nourlsh an ambition mOrs fatal to liberty
than the treason of Arnold or of Bur-.
The president might then as we'll be for life.
or be allowed TO transmit his trust TO his
helrs. III our government should be so
changed In substance, il would not matter
whether 1t should continue 10 be called a
republic, or whether our Caesar should be
decorated with the imperial purple. The
waste of the war was great enough at best.
Its cost in human lives was doubled nv a
disregard of the principle of the military
art. which requires the concentration on a
decisive point OF our threefold superiority in
numbers and our ninefold superiority in re-
sources. Its cost in money was doubled by
an unnecessary de basement of standards of
value and the aymen at fictitious prices.
In government promises, to be redeemed
after the fiction had passed away. When at
last peace came the helm OF the
ship of state should have peen turned hard
in the opposite direction. But notwithstand-
ing the loss of a million of our young men
who went to untimely graves, and the waste
of at least s. 5000, 000, 600 worth of property.
1t was pretended that we had actually grown
richer. Under the influence of treasury
finance and the teachings OF treasury phi
losophy ensued a period of false and de-
llolNO BlOcpCIllH. 1ut cUOIulOUS IdXnIlOn
OF the federal government continued, and by
lis example, and by the stale of things, it
created enormous taxation by all State and
municipal governments, extravaganza in
private expenditures, gambling specula-
ton in the place of industry and
frugality were the natural results. L
coDjecture-I have not time to care
fully estimate-that the new waste and the
r~etardation OF the repair of the old waste in
these ten years would be equal to the cost of
two years of the war. At last the system
falls by its WI reaction. The illusion
breaks. Property, for the time, loses its
circulating quality. Resources are dried
up. Means disappear. Labor IS unem-
ployed. The issue of S44,000,0O0 of new
Greenbacks does not sustain prices. / said
at the time that if Grant should sign the in
flation bill he vetoed it would have no eff
feet. Everybody feels poor. The waste of
war and the waste of ten years of nominal
peace are stern realities.
In a speech by Senator Thurman, he thus
alluded to the importance of the victory:
The election of Samuel j. Tilden TO the gov
ernorship of New York is the announce
ment everywhere in this republic that the
man who has the boldness to encounter dam
ger in the throttling of vice and fraud
against all odds will be supported by the
people. (Cheers) Never. my friends, in the
history of any country. was this lesson
needed more than at this very time. Il was
needed not in New York hal so much as it
is needed elsewhere. 1t is needed in every
State in the South, and. L am sorry
to say, needed in the State of New
York. The news that this champion
of truth and honesty in government
had been elected by 1900 majority in the
great State of Ne v York will be an ~incitive
to effort in every State of the republic.
look. therefore. to the election
of my friend Ti!den as 2 fact of this peculiar
significance, and in this respect far more
beneficial in its consequences than the cleo
ton OF any other man in the city, however
worthy he may be. (Cheers.) For / nave
said throughout the election that it is our
duty to look TO the future and see what are
the responsibilities that are resting upon us.
After 4th of March next the House of Rep
resentstives will be democratic by a large
majority. 1t might be supposed that that
would devolve responsibilities upon us. 1t
might be supposed because the Senate will
remain republican and the presidential chair
will be occupied by Grant until the 18th of
March, 1877; but it should be recollected
that the fact OF the Senate being against
US will not relieve us from respon-
sibility or from the necessity of having a
clear and we'll defined policy for our party.
During the greater part of General Jsckson's
the majority of the Senate
were opposed to him in politics, but Jackson
never faltered for a moment in presenting
the policy which gave him q right to urge il
all the strength of his mighty will.
(Cheers.). Though we shall not ave the
or the presidential chair until the 4th
of March, 1877, the people of the country
will look to the House of Representatives to
present that united front " hich will lead us
to victory in 1876. Therefore, it is of the
utmost Importance that true doctrines shall
be taught, that true principles shall be in
that error shall I've eliminated,
difference of opinions which
are not fundamental shall be harmon
lied, and that THIS mighty democratic
~ Y frNna Maine TpoT,1fn@ hfoCoonIr
etts)-lIaughterl-sweepiDg clear TO the Rio
shall march in solid column, not
discordant banners, not with discord-
ant music, but to the same music and under
the same flag that has assured us victory.
-Cheers.1 Let us settle upon principles
.--1l - - 49, 1901 Il