The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-01-05

not been very great success. The express
sions of opinion by the press of the state are
decidedly uniayorable to the election of Mr..
voorhees,.
deeper into thai; We only want TO show
in few words which effect this election
would generally have.
It's self-understOod that the victory Of the
democratic party at the last election would
not have been possible without the aid Of
the independent element, which formerly
stood on the side of the republican party,
and turned around under the belief that it
had to expect from that party only puritan
hypocrisy and suppression, but no earnest
reform.
Reform, not from above but up from be-
low, was the tocsin of the last cam
paign. Reform, not on account of the
state, which naturally could not
be better than the mass OF in
dividuals of which it consists, but
reform of the individuals, in as far as we
hold every body severely and without in
diligence responsible for his actions. This
was and is popular device.
The republican party has always under
stood to beat the opposition in promises
reform from above. But the people have
become tired Of this kind of reform, consist
ing in the credit mObIlier swindle, in the
Wholesale stealings in the southern states,
| in bribery and corruption, in temperance
and other hypocrisy.
So it turned away Of these promises OF
reform and decided for the other system,
which promised reform from below. Then
| the salary-grabbers were emerged from con-
gress. Butler, Parsons and others were COW
cred with the political pail.
But, what effect would the election of Mr..
| voorhees, have for the opposition in Iudiana2
| Would it not amount to confession that
| the promise of reform was used by it only
as a trap to catch the voters? Would it not
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/ their opponents, if speaking of individual
| responsibility, intending not to measure
their own representatives by the same
measure.
Mr.. Voorhees, political career is one which
must make him impossible TO the democracy
| if this party ex poets future. he does not
stand upon the fundamental principle of his
party and never did. His first debut in high
politics has shown this, and he has never
| departed from this way. He commenced
| his official career as United States district
attorney for Indiana, with the outspoken
and generally known intention to influence
| and lead the people in the sense of the dy-
nasty at Washington not TO give express
sion to the ideas and wishes of the people,
but to influence the people in such way
that at elections it would simply proclaim
the will of those governing. And theideas
/ OF the government at that time eliminated,
1 as is well known, in considering negro
slavery as the greatest blessing for the
United states and in Matchmaking it.
In the Southern conspiracy, following
shortly afterwards, snd leading to secession,
VOORHEES, was so much suspiciOned OF a
secret understanding with the cOnspirators,
that he was never able to purify himself
perfectly.
His congressional activity Is further
proof; nobody has been absent as often as
| he when important questions were dis
cussed or important votes taken. But al
the time of the salsry-grab he was there
4 seven times out OF 10 different
votes which were taken before il
passed Voorhees, voted in favor
of it, and only three times was be absent
anu this persistency In voting for the salary
grab was Mr.. Voorhees, last official action.
His term in congress had ceased, the people
had elected another man for his successor
and the question was, whether he should in
the last moment, transfer by his vote, So, 00(
to bis pockets or not.
In which light would the opposition party
of Indiana, which has used this crime in
the bitterest manner against their oppo
nents, stand, if they would recompensC
with the office OF United States senator
the man who, besides Butler, has done all in
his power that this crime was committed
Would they not tramp into the ground fol
the next ten years all confidence, all belief,
and every hope on the honesty of their in
tentions for reform.