The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-07-05
The Two Tickets.

favorable to benefit the country, and the
question now is, "Was the convention
true to the trust confded to it
by the people?" We hold that in
an eminent degree the convention
has met every reasonable expectation.
IN this discussion personal preferences
must be dismissed, collateral issues ig-
nored and sectional rivslr1es disregsrded.
The work performed, the principles de-
clsred and the motives that prompted the
final action of the convention only should
insure defeat. To take a calm sur
vey of the field, to map out fu-
ture operations, to take counsel to-
gethsr for the purpose OF insuriDg harmoni-
Gus action are the plain duties devolvipg
upon Democrats in all of the states. If
thore are divisions, heal them; and for dis.
appointments, let the panacea be work
and victory. The Sentinel had its prefer
ences, and worried with becoming zeal
and fidelity to secure their recognition
but we do not propose, now nor here
after, to indicate a purpose to rule
or ruin. On the contrary, having
submitted all the questions sur
rounding the presidential campaign
to the national council of the party, we
propose to abide its decision and work for
success. In Sthis, we in common with
Democrats throughout the country, need
not hesitate for incentives calculated to
arouse the largest measure of patriotic zeal
and determination. The platform demands
reform and boldly sets forth in what re-
CARDS reform is the supreme necessity OF
the times. The people, never more
oppressed, were never more in earnest
in the matter of reform. Having made q
platform singulsrly free from meaningless
words, the convention proceeded to place
upon it candidates whose names are IA
miliar as household words, whose private
lives and public records challenge scru-
tiny, whose integrity is above suspicion
whose patriotism is not doubted even IN,
the councils of the enemy, and whose lives,
characters and official acts, give ASSURANCES
that admit of no misgivings, that If elected
Co the Offices for which they have been
nominated, reform in every depart
ment OF the government lie Sc
cured Beyond persdventure.
More than this, as result of the delibera-
tions OF the National Democratic Conven-
ton, it would have been Supreme folly 10
have demanded or expected. 1t was
largely within the range of possibilities
for the convention to have committed
serious, IL not fatal mistakes, to have
enuncistee a vulnerable platform and
named candidates who would have in
spired neither respect nor enthusiasm.
The Republican party prophesied mis-
takes, prayed for mistakes aud rejoiced in
the belief that mistakes would be
made, but instead of mistakes, the
enemies OF the Democratic party and
the enenies~of good government are con.
fronted with platform that is their death
warrant, andSwith candidates who IN their
lives, private and public, represent those
exalted virtues and abilities calculated to
add new luster and dignity to the rrespon-
sible POSITIONS they will be called upon to
fill. The ticket, Tilden and Hendricks,
could hardly be improved upon. Hen
bricks and Tilden, or Hendricks and
some other distinguished Democrat would
have been preferable to the Senti-
s7el, but as we have before said dismiss
ing all personal preference. and view
dag the ticket from q standpoint more
elevated than mere personal oopsi6era-
ton, we feel free to declare that, AL things
considered, we DOUBT if more formidable
ticket could have been made. More than
this, we challenge for the Democratic ticket
q comparison with any that has been SUBJ
mitted to the Amerie an people for fifty
years past. And Just here we take occasion
to AJAX the attention OF our readers
to few strikingly significant facts
Illustrative OF the 1ide difference
In the motives that prompted the
nominations at st. Louis and Cincinnati.
At Cincinnati representative men of the
Republican party were Slaughtered, thrust
aside, for no other reason Than that they
were distinguished. Nor ON and Blaine
and Conkling were living emhodimsnts of
Republieanism; they had drank at it's
fountains-bloody and muddy. they had
breathed an atmosphere impregnsted with
1t; they had grown with its development,
and were great and influential just Ia pro-
portion as Rspublicsnism had be-
come a power in the land. They
asked the party to indorse them,
to place upon their foreheads not the
brand of Cain, but the diadem of approval.
The result is known. These great men of