The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-12-27

the drift of events They are now con-
WINGED that the radical managers intend, if
possible, to carry out to the letter their pur-
pose, and by fraud and the show of mill
tary power, reverse the will of the American
people as declared at the ballot-box in No
vember. The people are calm, but the evil
dences are overwhelming that they are in
earnest.
There can be no mistaking the language of
the resolutions the people are placing on re-
cord. They do not talk OF war. There are
no bloodthirsty expressions. There are no
words of bravado But the language is
earnest-there is determination in every
resolve In all of this the radical managers
will do we'll to take heed. 1t is generally
conceded that if Hayes is inaugurated it
will be because Grant has command of the
army; because Washington will be filled with
troops, each with loaded musket, and
that some tool of the drunken despot,
like Ruger,9 Anger or Sheridan, will obey
orders, enter the capital and march off to
prison such members as refuse TO crawl or
put on Grants dog collar. There is no
longer room for doubt in regard to the pur-
pose Grant has in view He has already in
timated his plans. He talks of his recogni-
ton of his successor, and who he will "see"
inaugurated. 1t is tins disposition OF Grants
to NEEDLE with what is none of his business
that is intensIfying the alarm throughout
the country The people of Indiana
and of every other state in the Union are fully
advised that Grants term of office will ex-
pire at noon on the 4th of March, 1877. "Af-
ter that hour" as the Washington Union
terSely puts it, she is private citizen of the
republic, no more and no less; his official
responsibility is ended. No matter who may
then be president, one thirg is certain, it
will not be Grant. 1t is hard for him, per-
maps, to realize this fact but it is none the
less true, and the sooner he recognizes it
the better, both for himself and for the
country"
nize anybody as his successor any more
than any other private citizen of the coun-
try. And in thu connection the Union
adds: Ellis 'recognitions' heretofore have
mot been fortunate. He has knack of rec
'ognizIng' the wrong man. In face of the
opinion of the ablest men in the republican
party in both houses of congress he persisted
in recognizing kellogg as governor of Lou
'isiana, and hence all the present trouble
and difficulty in that state. Probably in
January he will eat his own words
of apology and contrition con-
tanned in his message to congress
of January 1s, 1875, and recognize Packard
instead of Nichols, the governor de j,tre
elect. He is now recognizing Chamberlain
in South Carolina, and maintaining that
'usurper in power by the force of bayonets,
by the means of troops of the United States
loaned for the OCCASION If Grant were
insane enough TO contemplate the possibil-
'ity of seating Hayes in the presidency
by the force of his own recognition
'as he has seated kellogg in Louisi-
ana and Chamberlain in South Carolina, we
do not think the republican party either
weak enough or wicked enough to embrace
any such suicidal policy. That plan might
suit Chandler or Jay Gould; it might find
AN apologist in Taft. and a willing execu-
tive tool in Don Cameron; but we do rot
believe that the republican senate would
sanction it, or that a patriot army would
contribute TO its accomplishment"
This recognition business by conspirators
and usurpers will have TO stop somewhere
and at some time, if the liberties of the peo-
pie are TO continue. The people of Indiana
are in no mood TO tolerate such designs.
They are for honesty, for constitution, for
law and for fair count. They are resolved
to MAINTAIN their rights against fraud,
force, usurpations and all the internal
plans CT the perjured scoundrels who
now plotting their overthrow.
We like exceedingly their plain talk
We like the gravity and seriousness Of their
resolves. We like the sturdy declarations
they are placing on record. We IKE the
square. manly. stand-up independence that
everywhere distinguishes the democratic
party in council.
1t is possible that the radical managers
will comprehend the abyss into which they
now seem determined to plunge the country
through the agencies of fraud and force and
hesitate before the great crime is consummat-
ed There are indications that the fair minded
men of the party will refuse to do the bid
ding of Grant. Norton Chandler and the rest
of the bulldozing conspirators. that in the
interest of peace, honesty and free institu-
tons they will resist the Vaccinations of
the eonspirators. Be this as il may, the peo-
pie of Indiana will do their duty, and the sth
OF january will tell how firmly they re
solved TO meet the issues of the hour
NOBLE RADICAL UrrERANCEs.
Here are a few noble sentiments uttered