The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01
A BAD CROWD.
From the Cincinnati EpQT


As Mr.. Orth will come before the people
for Endorsement as the representative of
the newborn hard money republican
party of Indiana it may be well enough to
recall the fact that when in congress he
voted for several so-called imitation
measures. He is a wary, INSCRIPTIONS
politician of the Morton school, and has a
bad personal record. The bifalutiDg"
resolution recounting the services OF Oil
yer p. Morton and recommending him to
the national republican convention is
enough to bring teaIs to the eyes. 1t is
conclusive, and could not be drawn
stronger. We DOUBT whether Morton
himself, in sketcklng his claims upon
tie country, could do a better job.
This resolution must have been adopted
VITA great enthusiasm. The Indiana re-
publican is never 90 happy as when throw
ing himself unds- the Jugger 1aut of Nor
ton. This platform is the embodiment OF
bhe designs OF the republican party at
large. It is made up of bloody-stsrs, war
"reminiscences, appeals to hate aud relig
ious passion, and contains more selfas-
surance to the square inch than any docU
ment we rave seen since the tailors OF
Tooley street issued their address. The
democrats of Indiana have only to adopt a
sensible, practical platform on the cur
rency question to rout these trimmers
horse, foot and dragons.
THE NUB OF THE Who'll BUSINESS.
From the Chicago TmesI
Mr.. Morton's convention in Indianapolis
yesterday got through the work he had
prepared for it with neatness and dispatch.
His resolution, long ago introduced in
the Senate, declaring the United States to
be a nation-a point about which nobody
except Morton has lately thought it neces-
ssry to talk-wss injected into the bowels
oil the conventions platform, with mass
OF tedious platitudes quite as well calcur
/ t sd to wesry as to convince the Hoosler
voters. The financial resolutions also
bear the impress OF Morton's peculiar
genius, with careful setting out of the
merIIs of o. p. Morton as
presidential candidate. That is
the nub of the whole business. Bat
perhaps Mr.. Morton did not intend irony
when preparing for his Indianapolis con-
vention that peculiar resolution indorsing
Grant for prosecuting dishonest officials
SO that no guilty man has been allowed to
escape; but If the president himself is able
to take that sort OF stuff without wincing, he
certainly deserves all the credit Tor nerve
he has ever had. Not 1iDg could be more
absurdly ill-timed than such q compli-
men, at the very moment when the head
center OF the white house ring Is well
known to be watching and waiting anx-
iously for apretext upon which TO drive
from his counsels the men who have been
too persistent for the peace OF that select
circle in prosecuting and driving to prison
the guilty officials In question.
The people of Indiana will doubtless be re-
lieved to learn that she war for The Union
was right and the rebellion wrong" 1t ID
always desirable to have questions of this
sort settled by competent authority, and the
settlement in this case comes from Sena-
tor Morton himself, speaking through bis
Indianapolis convention. Through some
unexplained oversight, the senator's reso.