The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-09-27
.he SemtimeI.
"WEDNESDAY. SEPT q.
The Radical Demonstr alton.


We have seso the sight by which the
Radical party expected to carry the state
of Indiana at the October election. The
show has come and gone. We can not
longer dignity it by calling 1t soldiers
reunion. It was bitter partisan gather
Ing under false name. AS a soldiers re-
union it was a fraud, as q Radical gather
ing 1t was a failure. With any sort OF
industry the Democracy could have
probably made a better demonstrs-
ton inside the county Of Marion.
The torchlight procession in honor OF
Senator Doolittle last Saturday night was
two-thirds as Urge as the procession that
parsded the strests Yesterday morning,
and larger than the one at night. There
are larger gatherings greeting Democratic
speakers every day throughout the state.
The citizens of Indianapolis were told that
forty or ifty thousand veterans would be
present. C uniting negroes, oficeseekers,
were probably not two thousand strangers
in the city.
But what the demonstration lacked In
numbers 1t made up In partisan mslignity,
and noisy speeches. There was an abund-
ance OF music, plenty of drums, and, in
fact, every thing that money could pro-
vide. 1t lacked only voters. The
citizens of Indianapolis gave them hos
pltable recep ion. TIE freedom of the city
was accorded and they used it. The
speeches, with but few excep-
tions, were OF violent and de-
Garfield, who was writhing under the
scsthiDg whip OF Jere Black, seemed to be
the fermented malice of a gsnQrened heart,
and was type of what followed. There
was all the passion, bus none of the patri-
otism of the war sp rlt In any of them. The
blsck-mouthed blssphemer oil God and re-.
ligion was the hero of the day, and the n al
mobof Ephesus that shouted. "Grest is d.
ana of the Ephssisns" were no more enthu-
sisstic in their cheers TO their heather god
than we're the Radicals who gathered here
yesterday In their praises of the notorious
Bob. IDgersoll. 1t is useless to say what
was the tone of Morton. That same ol6
speech will tell it all. The pOstmasters
and other office holders eheered him more
than he is wont to receive in his canvass
in this state, where penniless and hungry
men in stolid indifference hear his bloody
story which promises them no bread. Xii
patrick, believing that the same story is
still he hope OF success in ILdians, told it
over again. Bot wny mention particular
speeches? They were all of the same pat
tern, psrmested by the same spirit. They
ignored the issues OF the day and dealt
wholly In denuDcistion and partisan bit
terness. 1t was a sorry repast TO set be-
fore the country. This meeting will hardly
carry Indiana tor the Radical party. The
people of this state will not be moved
from their purposes to secure reform by
the presence of eight or ten broken-dowD
political generals. lew dozen squads OF
office-seekers from the East, waving faded
battle flags, or by crowds of negroes
brought from the whsrves OF Louisville and
Cincinr att, or the gathering of eight or ten
political clubs from adjoining counties.
The issues OF the day are too important to
suffer such demons .rations to obscure
them. Tens OF thousands of hungry men
want bread. Business men want trade re-
yived. The capitalist wants demaad for
his money. Manufacturers want to open
their shops. Farmers waat a margin oD
their produce, and all want extrsvsgsnce
and thieving by those In power stopped
The firing of cannon, the rattle of the
drum, and the old story of the war will
not not bring the lief asked. Hence the
people OF Indiana, as we'll as the entire
nation ask something more than this
gathering promised. Il will not make
any votes. II will not check tue deter
mination of the people for reform.
Ina0 L.