The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-14
MoRToNs MEASUREMENTS.
Governor Hendricks takes Occasion
to call Attention TO a Few
of Them.

| OHIO sPEECHEs-MoRToN NOT IN A CoNDI-
| TON CRITICIsE.
| Especial Co respondence of the Sentinel
| JACKSON, OHIO, Oct. Gov. Hendricks
was present and addressed the democracy at
this place to-day. The crowd was great,
said to be the largest ever gathered here at
political meeting. The views expressed by
the governor upon the issues now before the
people were substantially those stated in his
GAINESVILLE speech, heretofore published by
YOU In the course of his address he took
| occasion to allude to Senator Morton's
speech made at this place September b. and
to reply to so much of the same as was OF
personal nature. In reference to this matter
| he said:
THE GOVERNORS RESPONSE TO MORTON.
Some time since, upon tbs invitation of the
state committee, l addressed the people of
the county in which was born upon some
OF the questions now attracting their atten-
ton. 1 spoke of the republican leaders in
terms of respect. had no occasion or in
| clination to do otherwise, for 1 was con-
| WINGED of the soundness OF the views i eX
pressed, and thought the people would so
| appreciate them. 1 did not need to divert
| their attention from truth and sound argu-
ment by making a personal issue. And 1t
was far from my wish to depreciste any man
felt that home controversies should not be
thrust upon strangers-that 1t would be in
| decent. 1 have never yet found myself in
such close quarters that my only way cut
was through defamation.
MoRToN's CHARACTERISTIC ARGUMENT.
Since then Gov. Morton has spoken in this
state In his speech at this place ne is re-
ported TO have answered my facts and argu-
ments by impugning my motives and my
fidelity to our country. Either his malig
nifty was beyond his control or he felt that
his cause was desperate. In like
manner he has sought to defame me
in Indiana. That was at our home. The
people would not believe him, and placed
the appropriate judgment upon the Islander.
He says that at GAINESVILLE l sought to be on
both sides of the financial question. To
prove it, he quotes me as saying thas specie
payments must come by increasing our pro-
auctions and importing less, and he used
this language: "He proposes to import less
from foreign countries by repeating the
tariff and buying our goods cheaper abroad"
Now, is it possible Tor you to believe me
when / say there is not word in my speech
upon the subject of the repeal, or the Tnodi-
ficstion of the tariff? He also attributes to
me opinions in relation TO the power OF con-
gress over the issue of legal-tender notes,
which 1 never expressed. The condition of
/
driven 70 tabricate or misstate.
IS HE IN A CONDITION TO CRrrICIsE?
But is he in a condition to criticise any
man tor Inconsistency OF views? HIS polit-
ical record covers more than one generation,
} and l suppose that there is but
one single important question which
has arisen during that period IN respect to
which he has not occupied both sides. as Q
| ,a u
prO-slavery, yet he was protested demo
cret az the passage of the fugitive slave law
: of 1850, and remained with the party willis;
that law was being enforced, under Fillmore
? and Pisrce'5 administrations, until 1854
when he lefC it during its contest with thu
know-nothiDgs, the most false and treacher.
Gus party ever organized. At the close O
5 The war, in 1865,
9 BE DECLARED THE NEGROES UNFIT TO voTH
or hold office, and with violence combattet
Mr.. Summers views and policy. But in ls6!
; he made il condition of the admission o
states to representation that the negroes
should enjoy those rights forever. In 1S6!
he introduced bill TO resume specie pay
ment, yet, in 1874 he became the violent
r leader in the initiation movement, and Sc
continued until President Grant vetoed hin
and his measure, and, in January, 1875, h,
, supported the most dangerous measure fo
9 contraction that had been Introduced. / q,
not question his right to change hi
: views and positions as often a
8 he may think his political fortune,
may require, but then he mus
not become i lecturer upon the morality OF
: consistency, nor claim TO be an intallible
Y teacher. AS ne claims to be q leader and K
sound the key note for his party, his con
: slant shifting of position upon important
measures impesChes the soundness OF hi
faurr NaraI
Why, this vice in his political character is s,
well understood that ne is made the obiec
of ludicrous and almost disgusting carica
8 ture by one OF the most powerful periodical
|. OF his own party. | make one exception
from his many inconsistencies. In 1877
q Senator Carl Schurz thus described the con
sequences OF the policy that had been pur
sued towards the Southern states:
= sCHURz Oh THE SOUTHERN POLICY.
"As 1t was, system of robbery and ruin
I Gus misgovernment ensued which ha
hardly parallel in history. Most of thos
i states were with incredible rspidity bur
7 dened with enormous debts, without any
equivalent. Scores of millions disappeared
= as if by magic, in the capacious darkness O
private pockets. Impoverished as thos
states were by the war; they wer
] now stripped naked. The public expense
d became absurdly extrsvsgsnt, the take
D unbearable. Under such loads industry wa
discouraged and tagged, enterprise sank
IS down with hopeless despair, production di
;, ninished and, incredible as it may seem
: while the rest of the country was prosper
: ously progressing, the value of property ii
z many of those states appeared in the census
y OF 1870, after five years of peace, far below
the figures exhibited by the CENSUS of 1860
" Such have been the effects of so-called car
2 pet-bag government in the South. Wht
l. was responsible for this? Those govern
II ments were and are at this moment carried
a on In the name and under the auspices o
the republican party. Some of tn,
very worst of that thieving fraternity hav
; been constantly hanging around congress
- bawllng ana pressing for the extremes
5 measures, with no other view but that ever,
Is such act would be likely to give them a new
" lease of power and extended freedom {,