The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01
oLBAGINOUS ORTIZ

HIS KNOW-NOTHING RECORD.
HIS EXPLANATION CF IT AS REPORTED BY
A BROTHER REPUBLICAN-oTHER EccEN-
TRICITIEs.
To the Editor of the Sentinel:
SIR: Well, well! and so our great man
has got the republican nomination and is
going to try to be governor, then maybe
United States senator, then may
We feel proud OF our great man, Godlove,
we do, and shall expect much of him
in the way of talking down record that
would otherwise be apt to opersts too
much against him. A cataplasm he must
have for the lscerated feelings of the Ger
mans and Irish of republican proclivities
when told that they must now vote for the
president of the old state organization of
know-nothings for governor. This csta-
plssm, think, he hes get already fixed
up, to a certain extent. he says he has
changed his mind In regard 10 the princi-
pies of know -nothingism, especially since
the enfraDchisemenJ of the negroes. He
now is of opinion that German or an
Irishman is
sCsr AS GOOD AS NEGRO,
if he behaves himself, and is entitled to be
placed upon an equality, politically and
otherwise, with that savory species of an
American citizen. He says further,
understand, that know -nothingism, so far
from having been the Objectionable bug
bear that foreigners generally suppcs',
was, like the Sons of Malta, more matter
of fun and recreation than anything else;
| that although he was president of the In
stitutiOn for q while, he was never reallv
much in earnest in enforcing it's Iroscrip-
tive principles, and finally changed
his mind and droppsd the whole thing just
as soon as he discovered that 1t was
| getting unpopular generally, and
Any reasonable foreigner ought to be
satisfied with this explanation, and If
they era not all so satisfied 1t is only
evidence that there yet remains some
disloyalty in the couutry. There is =
good deal of complaint that Mr.. Ortb,
being in the last congress, voted for the
| resumption act, which the very conven-
ton that nominstss him for governor
now unanimously votes to repeal.
think Mr.. o. will contrive to make that
all right when he comes in from Vienna
and
GOES BEFORE THE PEOPLE AND SPEAKS
HIMSELF.
suppose Mr.. Orth's friends and ad =
mirers will, of course, en- jesvor to make
something out OF his military history dur
lug tuo WdTs Lucy Will Ioli US uOW 10
was commodore of the Ram Hornet, which
| fearful war vessel pstrolled the Ohio river
for 30 days, or thereabouts, the terror OF
rebelliously inclined women and children
| by day, and the uncompromising avenger
of every species of dislOyslty to be found
among the feathered tribes, the
geese, turkeys, ducks and chick
ems, upon KentuckY's neutral shoers,
by night. 1t is amusing to see by the In
dianapo]is Journal that some enthusiastic
writer boasts that Orth has "the whole Of
Tippecsnoe county at his back" and all
| that sort of stuff. For the information OF
this writer and those who may be dispose d
to swallow his nonsense, Will st ate that
Mr.. Orth was beaten for circuit Judge in
this county about doZsn years ago, by
poor old Andy Ingram, and that the last
time be was elected to congress from this
district, Notwithstanding there was a
fair and square republican majority of at
least thirty in the county, he was
beaten about one hundred votes
by John Purdue, and 1 predict that he
Will be beaten in this county next Octo-
Der by whoever runs against him, be IL
| eth Holman, M anson or Landers
That's ne WY he'll shave Tippecanoe
county at his back" next fall. UBET.