The Indiana State sentinel., 1875-10-21
VIII it Succeed?

Whatever faults may be laid at the door OF
Senator Morton, and they are not few, one
can not help admiring his boldness in the
present advance movement for the presiden-
tial chair. 1t was clearly seen that his trip
to Maine meant business. He was so
snubbed there that a modest and timid man
would have retired at once. But his
purpose was not to be thwarted
by opposition, and he peregrinated
the state in hopes that an increased Re
publican majority would give him prestige
in the East. But the result showing large
Democratic gain left him without laurels in
the Pine Tree State, and he returned to try
his fortunes in wrestling with "the rag
Daby' in Ohio. He has labored hard and
long, with small audiences and little en-
coursgement, but never faltering he stood
his ground to tho last, but just as he
fondly hoped tnat he would
certainly secure the glory OF the
triumph there, the leaders of the party
discovered that the outrage theory did
not make votes, and ere the contest closed
SchuIz suddenly came in with an eleventh
hour service and carried of the palm of
praise for turning the tides of battle and
giving the solid German vote, which Nor
ton could not reach, to the Republican
party, and thus secured for
them the victory. Shorn again of all
rewards of his labor, he returned
home, persuaded that here, at least, he might
be recognized as the pivot upon which the
great interests of state policy were turning,
but he found no lays for the conquering
hero. His courage failed not. He felt yet
strong in the spirit, and then the project
was at once consummsted for securing an
organ to play the proper tunes. The Jour-
nal was purchased and the ratification
meeting called. Then he sounded what all
understood to be the keynote of the tune,
that was and is to be played by his own
organ until the next Republican convention
shall deisrmine who will De the next nomi-
nee OF that party. All this msneuver, we
claim, was bold, and if not decisive, was
yet courageous, and the boldness and cour-
age in it are to be praised. Taking it al
together it was a decided effort to make
sensation to be the subject of
coup d'etat, that would at
once place him far in ad
vance OF the Washburnes, the Blsines, the
Bristows and all other aspirsnts to White
House honors.
But will it win? We fear not. That secur-
ng of personal organ was a weak move
ment. Smaller politicians sometimes may
make local paper useful to him if the peo-
pie do not know that he owns it, but for a
great man to enter upon a contest with
his compeers, and expect to make head
way by the use OF a metropolitan
newspaper like the Journal is to sink both
the paper and the man out of sight. Indeed,
1t would seem TO us that Mr.. Morton would
have stood better chance for being kept
permanently before the country by trusting
to the sundry notices that the Sentinel pro-
poses to give in his behalf. If the Sentinel
had discovered any combination to bring
Washburne from France, or TO place Blaine
in the lead it would not have been slow
to raise the cry of alarm. But Mr.. Morton
has relieved us of this duty which
the Sentinel would have taken upon
itself. He has an organ. 1t will
play all tunes. 1t will especially sing ''the
song Of the Shirt" with slight variation:
Gore, outrage and blood,
Blood, outrage and gore
will be sung again and again in every
key-as long as there is the slightest
chance of an attending auditor We
fear, therefore, that all this courage which
we admire and commend, all this strength
that has been spent by the convalescing
invalid, whose very ambition and the neces-
sity oflegs seem to have renewed his youth
will have been spent in vain. A personal
organ will kill any great man. 1t will not