The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-09-16
BUELL. IN OHIO.
HE ARRAIGNS THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY.

1 SUCCESSFULLY.
A. c. Buell. delivered his opening address
in the Ohio Convention, at Cincinnati, night
before last. and the Sentinel makes the fol-
lowing extract from his remarks: After
reviewing the record of the republican party
on finances, Gen. Buell. paid his respects to
our own Oliver" as follows:
AN APPROPRIATE APOSTLE.
Among the apostles of this new hard
money republican doctrine, find Oliver P.
Morton, of Indiana, csvorting about in your
state, if may be allowed the term. Mr..
Morton is not out of place in this attitude
On the other hand, he is an accurate repre-
sentative of his party-the most thoroughly
accurate that can be found; for, when ma
iority of his party were for initiation he was an
iohatiOnist; ana now when the fiat has gone
forth that his party must be hard-mOney
party, he is a hard-money man. say be is
an accurate representative OF his l,arty. De
represents its insincsrity. he represents
its lack of conviction. He represents
is lack of scruple. And he represents it's
impudsnce. Therefore, representing all the
qualities which severally enter into the
make UP of his party, ne must represent IL
as a whole. You have all read his speeches
IN the Senate year and half ago, or por-
tions of them. And you have, doubtless,
read his speech at Urbana. / need say moth
ing mora, for Senator Morton sufficiently
answers himself az all points. His speech
at Urbana is either confession that he was
an asssin 1874, or an admission that he is
demagogue now. We have frequently heard
it said OF certain class of narrators that
they can repeat one of their own Inventions
so many times that they believe iL them
selves. But Senator Morton can not avail
himself of this comforting philosophy,
because he does not stick to one of his stories
| long ugh to win his own confidence.
| Now, my friends ask you il any man with
| pect for himselfand with due regard for
| the prophecies of honest controversy can
discuss the question of finance with these
charlatans and bummers, who need only to
be let alone to write themselves down asses
and demsgogues?
REPUBLICAN TACTICS.
| By system of tactics, the adroitness Of
which we must admire, even while we
despise its impudence, the attention OF the
people of Ohio, and of the nation at large,
for that matter, has been distracted from
many important points which are at issue
as much now as ever, largely to the benefit
of the republican and to the detriment of the
democratic cause. The democratic policy
| has been heralded the length and breadth OF
the land as a policy of Reputation. The
republican party sets itself up as the especial
! and only conservator of the faith of the
nation. The republican party sets up for
the only and original advocate of specie
payments and arralgns the democracy as
the party of imitation. Nothing could be
more absurdly fraudulent than these pre-
tensions of the republican party, and it
would be difficult for ingenuity developed in
any other than the republican school to con-
coct q system of more extravagantly impu-
dent fslsehoods than are these impu-
/ tations upon the democratic party. OF
course the sole object of the republicans is
to retain in the government of the nation
| that control which for some time has been
gradually slipping from their hands. Con-
scious that they have forfeited the confidence
of the people, the republican leaders now
seek 10 impose upon their credulity, Taught
by the overwhelming defeats Of lss. fall thai
their old cant and hypocrisy and old preten-
siops have lost efficacy, they have invented
new cant and new hypocrisy and new pre-
! tensions. Let us briefly analyze the present
position of the republican party as conf
pared with the position from which 1t was SO
signally routed last fall. And before we en-
| ter upon this comparative analysis, let us
refresh our memories with the fact that this
republican party, which confronts as In
Ohio to-day, is the legal and logical repre-
sentative in this state of the national repub-
lican party.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY GREAT AND STRONG.
Fellow-citizens, the democratic party OF
Ohio is so great and strong that it can afford
| to be generous even were not its cause so
noble and righteous that it is compelled, for
| the very sake of the fitness of things, to te
| Just. Therefore pause in the midst of this
harsh and unrelenting inveetive against the
republican miscreauts who have debauched
the country and made the party name they
bear hateful and des picsble to all the world
to say that there are good and honest men
in the leadership of the republican party.
But what is the uniform fate OF honest re-
publicans at the hands of their vile assooi-
ates? There is William Walter Phelps, OF
New Jersey, a gentleman whose purity can
describe only by the term "womanly;"
whose sincerity must call child-like; whose
generosity can not be described, and whose
honor is perfect. Mr.. Phelps signed an hon.
state of Louisiana when his party asso-
ciates demanded that he should sign
lie for purposes of political capital. And
he sought to secure the repeal of the gag
law. But to-day the forces of Grantsm are
leveled against him, and he has been crushed
by them. There is Charles Foster, of your
own tenth congressional district. He honestly
and faithfully discharged his duties at
Washington; he tore to tatters scheme de-
vised by Ben Butler to swindle the govern
ment, and he, with William Walter Phelps,
signed that truthful and honest report upon
louisiana. But what befel.Charles Foster?
When spoken of as a candidate for the re-
publican gubernatorial nomination in Ohio,
he was pounced upon by the minions or
Grantism who controlled the party, and his
nomination was made impossible. Charles
Foster is my friend. He is man whom
any one might be proud to call by that title.
But so long as he remains Ia the republican
party he must look beyond its confines for
true friendship and sincere appreciation, be-
cause he is an honest gentleman-and the
republican party of to-day is not the place
for such as he.
THE SENTIMENTS OF AN INDEPENDENT JOUR-
NALIsT.
am republican of the school of Abraham
Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Horace Gree
ley. But shall be democrat OF the school
of William Allen, or of any other school of
honest men and honorable manhood, until