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

but bluudeting and greed. The demand for
an indefinite extension of such misrule was
too much for good nature. It needed the sharp
answer 1t 1t has received. This is the end of
Grantlsm. 1t is not the revival of the re-
Dellon nor the definitive rehabilitation of
the democratic party. 1t simply eliminates
GraDtism from politics as an impairment
factor, and leaves the two parties confronted
so evenly matched that both must hereafter
be careful to make no mistakes. The future
belongs to the one who shall earn it.
The New York World is jubilant, and
scriptural IN its holy exultations after this
style: Let then the iubilant democracy as
they 'strike the loud timbrelp in undis-
sembled exUltation over the splendor of
their victory call upon all the people
to rejoice with them in this ''crowning
mercy" For it Is in the name of the
people, and with deyout prayers to AL
mighty God for deliverance from our chief
est national calamities that the democracy
have set up in the contest their banners in
scribed with the legend "Free Trade, Hard
Money, Home Rule" So that if, amid
this chorus of national rejoicing, it
falls to the lot of democrats to lift their
voice the highest, it is only because they
have been honored to be the leaders of the
people in this prayer for and this work of
national regeneration. But the grounds of
our eXultation are shared in common byal
good citizens. The victory won is a victory
duu uOG x woe 10 IQ6 CON
quered. Our deliverance is republi-
can deliverance just as much. The
patriotic masses of the republican party may
indeed be hankful that the mad riOting of
their leaders in the insolence of Office has
been rebuked and arrested. The suffering
whites OF the South, so long ~plundered
in their property by radical thieves
and harried in their persons by federal
emissaries, may lift up their heads to greet
the rising of a better day for them as well as
for the nation at large. The poor negro, even
he who cast away his ballot refusing TO vote
because voting had brought him thus far no
higher wages, may take his share in the gen.
eraI joy, for with the advent of the demo-
crazy to the control of the nation will come
the real "year of jubilee" when he shall no
longer be made the parish of radicalism but
enjoy his rightful liberties without becom-
ing the pest of the nation. Grants pretOrian
phalanx has been broken. His third
term banner has been captured and re-
versed for a scoff and a Kissing. The bum
mers of his army, the spoilers of the South,
have been compelled to slacken their hold
where the prey has not been wrested from
discover that Mortonism has lost
its power for a delusion of
the defenders of the republic-the
people at the ballot box. Yet this is only
the first great battle in a long campaign. 1t
is won ~triumphantly. Yet there are Others
TO Dc won. N1CtOfN has D66n lleQ, Win dlt
her garlands on, to the standards of the de-
mocracv by faithful hands which have sue
cesstully planted those standards in the fore
front of this great battle.
The New York Times is indignant and
caustic. 1t is quite other than a party organ
when it speaks thus of the result: The re-
suit of the elections yesterday in this and
other Eastern States will not be a surprise
to anybody, except, perhaps,to a few persons
at Washington, and 1t certainly will not sur
prise any of our readers, who have been
kept tolerably we'll informed as to the
causes which inevitably tended to produce
the present overthrow OF the republican
party. ALI that could be done honorably to
avert this defeat has been done by US, but
since the last presidential election, many
of the party leaders have been deaf alike
to advice and remonstrance. They
have apparently believed that the
people would quietly submit to
anything and everything, and that
the party which they represented was
indestructible. Nothing short of the events
which we record this morning could have
opened their eyes to the truth.
The great and signal defeats of yesterday
virtually began last year: The panic did
much to injure the republican party, but
the effects of that disaster might have
been greatly lessened had a wise course been
adopted by Congress in relation to the
finances. All through last winter we begged
republican congressman to do something,
and to do it quickly, and we pointed out the
certain consequences of their mistakes and
delays. In return for performing that
unpleasant duty, we were simply
told that we were TRAITORS" to the
republican party, and that we should
be instantly stamped out of existence.
The m-ismanagement at the treasury, the
blunders in nearly all the public depart
ments, were in the meantime causing meal
culsble mischief. The first two nomina-
tions for chief justice were shocking blum
ders, and Disguised the whole people. The
administration was making enemies
and losing friends every day. The
party was handed over to the Platts and
Buffers. And just when the disappointment
and irritation of the people became most
marked, the paper at Washington. which
has come to be known as a mere speaking
tube OF the white house, was set to work
crying out for General Grant for a 'third
term" What could any sane man antici-
pate from such astounding folly except the
overwhelming defeats of yesterday. . 8
1t would be useless to dwell on these OBJ
vious lessons except in the hope that they
will be thoughtfully pondered at Washing
ton and elsewhere. If the greatest party
ever known in this country is to be saved
from utter destruction two years hence, and
if it is not to pass from history disgraced as
we'll as defeated, the leaders and managers
must make a thorough change in their
policy. $ : = $ The history of the
rebellion and its consequences is by
no means completed. For the sake
of the country, it is to be hoped that the
democrats will use their victory in a spirit
of moderation and prudent craftsmanship.
We doubtless see to-day the democratic
presidential candidate for 1876; and If the
republican party is not conducted with
greater wisdom and good fortune during the
next two years than it has been during the
last two, Mr.. Tilden is the most probable
successor of Gen. Grant.