The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-11-08
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE AND TTs
RECORD.

The malicious course pursued by the New
| York Tribune towards Governor Tilden is
attracting the attention of the honest pCr-
ton of tse Republican party. The indca-
tons are that in its efforts to out-herod
Herod, the Tribune has overshot it's mark
and that instead of injuring the Democratic
candidate for president, il has improved his
chances of success. A correspondent of the
Tribune, W. A. Ramsey, writing from Kill
bourn City, Wis. troubles it with the follow
ing questions:
!. Did you believe what you said in the cam
pagn of 1872:
2. Did you believe what you said in lS7i:
3 Did YOU believe what you said the year
before MIR. Tilden was nominated?
{. Do YOU believe what you say now:
5. Don't You think We had better let the
South work out its own salvation?
The Tribune affects great eomplacency in
its efforts to reply to the questions OF its
correspondent, but there are evidences OF
great mental perturbation, and in spite of
its desire to advance the interests OF Hayes,
is compelled, by its record and the searching
scrutiny Of the honest portion of its readers,
to reproduce in its columns some wholesome
truths; in other words. it is compelled TO
swallow itself. In response 10 question No.
., the Tribune says:
The Republican party was demoralzed by
triumph. Ii went from bad to worse. The
scum rose to the surface. Corruption bred
corruption. The party needed the discipline
of an overwhelming defeat. We did what We
could to cast il down, and rejoiced in the tri-
umph of the opposition in 1874. We said what
We believed, and we believed what we said.
Here we have the Democrtic doctrine
fully Endorsed by Hayes organ. The Re-
publican party was and is "demoralized." Ii
has gone from 'bad to worse" The scum
of the party rose to the surface" and has
remained there. Ii was this scum" Nor
ton Blaine, Boss Shepherd, Hayes, and hun
dred~ of others who drove decent men such
as Horace Greeley, Charles Francis Adams
and Others equally prominent from its
councils. The Tribune "did what il
could to overthrow this scum-control
it did not succeed. This scum
is thicker than ever before; still the
Tribune has gone back to it. like the SOW
which was washed and having gone back to
the slum and scum of the Radical party, its
subscribers may naturally doubt its honesty
I'm reply to question. No. ), which touches
upon a matter of the most vital Importance
TO the whole country, the Tribune replies as
follows:
After the close of the war unprincipled adj
venturers, by organizing the negro vote, Sc
cured control of many of the Southern states
and plundered them. The government fell
into the hands of those who were ignorant
ana paid no taxes; II was an unnatural con-
that the whites have revolted againstit 1t.
Here is another confession indorsing the
action and policy of the Democratic party
and Southern whites, who have been strug-
Cling to free themselves from the grasp of
"unprincipled adventures" who, since the
close OF the war; organized the negro vote,
obtained control of Southern states and
plundered them. Against this unnatural
condition of political society the people Of
the Southern states have contended. Ii Is
this and nothing else that has brought about
solid South''-solid against plunderers.
solid against unprincipled Adventures,
solid against thieves in office. solid in favor
of good government. And, as the Tribune
says, ''it is not strange that such should be
the case. On the contrary it is natural, il is
honest, and merits the approval of honest men
everywhere. No state has been more cruelty
plundered by ''unprincipled adventures
than South Carolina No greater villain
than Chamberlain has escaped justice. In
no Southern state have the whites struggled
more valiantly for the right than in South
Carolina. What is the result? When there was
prospect of victory over ''unprincipled adj
ventures and plunderers Chamberlain asks
Grant to drive the state back into the hands
OF the thieves and, quick as lightning from
the clouds Grant responds. and. planting his
military heel upon the PROSTATE state he pins
il down with four thousand bayonets. And
this outrage upon the constitution and law
isapproved and applauded by the Tribune.
Under such circumstances and with such
record. it is not surprising that its subscriber
inquiries do you believe what you say
nowg'' The Tribune does not believe what
it says now in defense of Hayes and Grants
Southern policy, and if its throat were not as
wide and deep as Hell Gate the lies that it
tells would choke it to death
DESPERATE.