The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-11-04
One Stem More.

Onc step MoEes
Day by day the Journal takes a step back
ward upon the finance question, aud the
Sentinel congratulates itself on the fact that
the Journal has come very near the position
OF the Sentinel, and yet, notwithstand-
ing our labors with 1t. and the general adj
vice that we gratuitously gave about
1t getting down on our side of the fence, it
is ungrateful enough to try TO shove the
Sentinel of the ground where 1t has stood
from the first.
The advice we gave the Journal last week
was to avoid Initiation, and now having been
Taught by the sound doctrine of the Sentinel
the true position 70 assume, it has come thus
far, and charges upon the Sentinel the adj
vocacy of Imitation. II the Journal backs
down as fast in the next three weeks, as it
has since the OHIO election from the doctrine
of it's party, it will be a worse infiationist
than the Evansville Journal or the Chicago
Inter-Ocean. The Journal has unwittingly
used the very language of the Sentinel
in stating its own position. No line
or word of the Sentinel has gone further to-
ward initiation than the Journal uttered in
its Saturday article. The entire West will,
we doubt not, approve the position OF the
Sentinel as the only safe ground in the pres
emit financial distress. Mr.. Morton sees it,
aud he is shaping the policy of the Journal
to meet it. If now we believed that there
was any stability or firmness in the Repub-
lican party, and that they would abide by
the doctrine advocated by the organ of Mr..
Morton, the question of finance might
cease to be a political question between par
ties, and the whole subject might be referred
to the wisdom OF Congress to act upon when
legislation was necessary. But the trouble
is that the party has no stability or honesty
in its political actings. 1t Will promise the
people one thing, and then do the very con-
trary. 1t is the vascillation of Grant and
Morton and other leaders that alarms the
people. They can not be trusted ON this
question. 1t is, as the Journal truly
says, their continual seesawing be-
tween these STANDARDIZATION and
contradictory that has unsettled the COM
merce of the country. The Journal draws
strong indictment against it's party, in the
justice of which we heartily agree. The
country has been alarmed, and the resump-
ton bill is one of those alarming measures
IL was a strict party measure from which
they gave notice that they would not recede.
They have receded; they are now recediug,
and there is no security that they will not,
If they should secure The power, before 1879,
pass initiation measures as utterly ruinous
as the resumption bilfitself.
The Sentinel raises, therefore, note OF
warning to honest Republicans who do want
rest from iniquitous legislation ON finance,
this see-sawing between extremes,
to trust no longer the leaders of that
party. And if our advice appear selfish,
Journal, a tried and true party organ which
upholds what the Sentinel here says, that
the Republican party is not to be trus, ed on
this question:; that IL is sold under the
influence of the bondholders and the money
power. Though it may, to satisfy the people,
profess to yield to their wishes for awhile,
yet when a convenient time approaches for
action, the party leaders will do the will OF
their master. cne money power.
The Journal needs to take one step more
in order to take the true ground occupied by
the people OF the West, and reflected by the
the substitution of green backs for
the national bank currency. Until it
does that, we think honest Repub-
licans may well doubt its present
position. If 1t does not attack this gigantic
in the interest of the people, it
ought not to be trusted, however much it
may profess to desire that the currency be
left alone. Taking a clear view of the see
saving of the Journal on the finance, the
see-sewiDg of Morton on this subject, we
think this effort OF that paper to save the
integrity of the Republican party by
this dodge, that we predicted would
be made immediately after the Ohio
election, will scarcely deceive honest Repub-
licans, and that they will rather, with the
Evansville Journal, seek relief for the dis
tress of the country elsewhere.