The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-07-19
CURRENT COMMENT
ON. ORTIZ AND OTHER RADICAl,
RhFORMERS.
A GREAT BLUNDBR.
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REFORMERS.
A GREAT BLUNDBR.
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1t would be great disaster for the Republi--
can party not 10 carry Indiana in October
next But how this is to be done with Mr..
Godlove &. Orth at the head OF the Republic
can state ticket we cannot see. That Orth has
acted corruptly while chairman of the COM
1894 admits ion. er of the Sigh est doubt.
He enriched himself by bel plug the Infamous
sbn ,iiwS vlsn' i, Anay Ia Jonnson's aPpaintee to
the government OF that feeble South
American republic large sums of money
which II did not honestly owe. In view Of
this fact, g. well as Of the previous bad record
OF Mr. Orth, who, in 1854 wss severely CEN
for oeirau6ing poor German widow woman
OF her small farm, lis IT not the bounden duty
OF the Republican state Committee OF Indiana
date for governor by man such
as the noble young General Benja-
ri r. Harrison, whose moral and
appearance at the head of the Republican
stale ticket would be hailed with burst OF
enInns asm That would Lave no DOUBT or un-
PERPLExED REPUBLICANS.
New York SUM-
The Republicans of Indiana are much per-
picked about their candidate for governor,
since it has been discovered that Orth became
connected with the Venezuelan swindle,
in direct defiance of the act of Congress, after
his election to the House of Representatives,
and that he aided the ring legislation to op-
press and coerce the feeble state i 10 the pay
ment OF rascally claims through his position
as chairman of fore gu affairs. Ii is suggested
In some quarters tnat MS name should be
taken down rom the head of the ticket,
and replaced with another not
obnoxious to charges of corrupt
collusion to cheat a poor and small gov
the United States. OF course this suggestion IS
opposed by the party managers, and in TACT is
only urged by select ci Gle of especta bic Re-
publicans VINO have no weight In the Organi-
zation. Mr.. Ortn is no better and no worse
tnaU The seDeral run Of lead RS in his party.
He had his own way of util Eng his seat in
Congress, and he did ii by forcing Venezueia
to pay fraudulent claims. ssed by a comhf.
nation In which the American minister, the
represe nting the United States were all in
terested. II there be a m0rs scandalOus trans
action on the records OF our plomacy than
this, ii has yet To 0e discovered. 1t Is entirely
consisi enl with the whole career of Grantism,
OF which Orth has been a decided champion.
The people OF Indiana are asked to
choose between this jObber and a plain, hon.
est and sterling farmer, who is known in the
House ss Blue Jeans Williams" because he
wears in Washington the PLAIN dress which
he is accustomed TO wear among his constitu-
ents, and does net isel called 10 ange mis- cos
tune or his character becsuse he holds seat
Is chSlrIn8n OF accounts, and in that capacity
audits the contingent expenses which have
heretnfore figured so discTeaitabIy before the
country. He mas cut off al luxuries, and linn
ifed the expenditures 10 proper uses only in
the most economical manner. Considering
his place a trust, he mas admi listered it with
rigid fidelity. Mr. Foster OF Ohio, formerly
country shopkeep T, undertook 20 ridicule his
economy and his dIeSs at the same
time, but he got answer which
will be apt to end his congressional lite.
These Republican upstars aud vulgar
presenders, who have b sske1 In the sunshine
of shoddy at washington, look down with
affected contempt upon man who has the
preserve the simple habits W tn the stern in
| tegrity, OF the "plain people," as Mr.. Lincoln
called thefn Hence his sueeIing i"Blue J aus
Williams.D VINO in October next will be apt to
give the snobs and the corrup ionis's a lessen
| they will long remember. y ith Orth as the
Re publican candidate for governor AID Tyner
as pos master-general to run the machine
under Morton 5 orders, Pratt dismissed igno-
miniously from office for daring to resist cor
the whisky ring. and all his Fubordinates
in that work turned into the street for try
ing TO "let no guilty man esCape," Jewell
Orde ed 10 connecticut for not bOwing down
before Boss She gherd, aud the thieves restored
10 protection anu favor at the White House
in presence OF ell these things, and others
equally damaging, there can be very little
doubt n regard To Indiana. All that power
and patrr mage AID moEey can do will be done
to csrry that state for the Republicans. Moth
ing will be omitted at a desperate admins
tration can achieve; but in spite of these
efforts, the people cannot be made 10 vote IN
derstandingly for a corrupt candidate like
Orth, or to prolong the ln1amies of Grantism
through Hayes.