The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-11-11
The Ensanguined Underwear.


The Ensanguined Underwear.
Mr. Morton has returned from the East,
the Journal announced yesterday, but what
was the use Of making note of it for the
Journal readers. 1t was as clear as noon
day that he was near at hand. The organ
for the past week or so had folded up the
bloody shirt and head lines of the "gcspel of
peace" adorned its columns. The Sentinel
had fondly hoped that enssnguined under
wear might cease to be a matter for edito-
rial comment heres bouts 1t had hoped that
the recent interview of Mr.. Morton with
the president would lead to the adoption OF
some new issue, and that ere this the Demo-
cratic ranks would be reused by
new keynote, in the organs song,
The alliance of John Morrissey. with the
Republican party, is passed over with
simple congratulstion. The threatening
aspect of the Spanish situation has no
power to awaken deeper tones. The re-
demption of Massachusetts alone calls
forth q slight tremulo of melody; the gains
all along the line, that its party claims,
offer no theme for certain triumphal
march in 1876. All these themes are laid
aside, and the everlasting shirt still waves.
The Journals article on Mississippi, re-
tolerated for the ten thoussndth time, is be-
coming nausesting in the extreme. Does
it imagine that its own party friends will
forever be content to endure such stuff as a
food for political sentiment? Does the Jour-
nal think that anyone who has the patience
TO read those bloody dlatribes through can
fail to detect their utter worthlessness?
1t will not convince anybody that Mr.. Nor
ton ought to be elected president, and what
else can be in view it is hsr to determine.
The Journals estimate shows that there
are about sixty thousand Democratic voters,
and ninety-eight thousand Republican
voters, and yet that these sixty thousand
men scattered oil over the state, like the
Republicans, have chased the larger num-
Der off into swamp and canebrakes to save
while the rascally Democrats have stopped
pursuing them only long enough to turn in
and have a pesceable election all to them
selves. What a cowsrdly set of puppies
they vere and this so soon manifested after
Pierrepont's dispatch to Ames, encouraging
the Southern Republicans to try to take
care Of themselves, as the only
ground upon which they could Sc
cure government aid. The very over
overplus of Republican voters in Mis-.
sissippi that the Journal claims shows
conclusively that Its statements about ter
rorism and outrage are clearly false. The
series OF threats and intimidations narrated
by the Journal never had an existence, and
there are now but few other papers of re-
spectacle standing in the United States that
pretend to advocate any such theory as the
cal complexion of the Southern states. 1t
is mere gssconsde and balderdssh.
The fact is, the South has endured the
consequences of maladministration of the
government in grosser form than the people
of the North, and even the uncul-
tured negroes are beginning TO see the
falsity of the protested friendship OF the
Republican party, and the utter uselessness
of suffering themselves to be driven around
to the polls like 40 many cattle by the politi-
cal scalswags of tho South in the interest
of the Republican party. and they are de-
sorting it. They are realizing that law and
order are Of more advantage to them than q
holiday of political contention and fighting,
and throwing off this constraint, laid upon
them by political adventures from the
North, they are uniting with the conserve
tive elements that can alone give them
peaceable and stable government in their
states. ~ sFr
1t is untrue that the late elections were
not peaceable. They were attended
with less of strife and bloodshed
than holly contested elections In the
North. The furious and bloody
OF riot and intimidation are con-
ceived in the brain of Northern newspaper
editors, and have no real foundatton. 1t is
about time, that this silly twaddle were
ended. II Mr.. Morton should once lose his
grip upon his favorite theme and become
enamered of the sounding of some new key
note, the Southern outrage would be heard