The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-08-30

deed. that he will manfully wrestle with the
ction. The country IN without any proof at all
hat he d assesses %. he moral courage and
sturdy resolu ion to grapple with abuses
which have &C 1uired the strength OF estab-
lished custom, and tn this end firmly resist
the pressure OF his party friends" He has not
on any The Boston @ one
OF the leading organs OF Republicanism
in New England, and now MS warm
is man OF fair ability, correct In his personal
habits, honest, sound In the RepDbu an faith,
but without much force or independence.
This is the exact truth Parke Goodwin is
perfectly right In saying that he was nomi-
mated because IL was believed Ibis neutrality
OF tint would harmonic the most pronounced
colors." He was nominated by convention
containing a majority who favored Blaine,
reformer, and who was only defeated by a
blunder OF his friends. His total strength in
the convention, In the alb ence OF combine
candidate who had an unmistaR able lec0rd as
a reformer, received only l26 votes out OF the
!56 while Governor HAYES was no ,i p at
sylvan q, who seldom blunders in his party
movements. Gentlemen, do not u ter 9 cob.
lecture but eT 'ress perfectly eyice1t
he will be the iDsiru nent of his active and in
huential friends, and the servant of that mis-
chievous party machinery against which he
has never yet made any pubic protest. That
am night In this stand ready TO prove by
the autocrat of the Repuou an psrty in lndi-
elusive. "rhe ad IN nistration OF any presi-
dent" says our distinguished senator. will be
in the main what the party which elected
him makes IT. II he breaks away from his
party the chances are that he Will be broken
down. In government OF parties like ours,
| the pres dent ust have his friends. The men
| to whom he owes his election. who have de-
Tended him from assaults, TO whom he must
look for support in tue future, will ordinarily
control his actions, and he " i'll do nothing Of
fensive to them" This Is the naked auth,
from he highest Republican authority: and
can have 10 application whatever to
viii viii i ne pres dent. Let me ask YOU
my old Republican friends-i ct me ask you If
In YOU hearts you really believe Gov. Hayes,
II ele cted, will enforce the principles an
nounced in his letter of acceptance? do You
beiieve he will turn secretary Chandler adriff,
the con mander in-chief' of the Republican
army in tnis canvass, because he Is now spend
ing his money, Ievying contributions upon
his suboTdinates, aud prostituttng he whole
power Of d office in the int. rest Of a Repub-
| lican victorys DO you believe he will dismiss
nomination at Cincir natl, and who act We
partisan service of Gov. Hayes Is gross Vio-
| la ION of his declared principles as TO the use
OF the civil service? Will he do so decent aed
comedy a thing as To dismiss James N. Tyner
from the postofhee department., placed there
at he bidding of snator Morton, for the pur-
pose OF securing his official help in this can
vass, which he is giving freely? Will be put
son. and Pratt AID Yaryau, and thus invite the
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hostility OF Gen. Grant aud his po werful body
| of friends, and incur the wrath OF the Whole
| army of whisky thieves? Will he sweep out
| the legions of Dlacemen who are now abusiu g
| the public service, and I'LL their places with
men selected solely on the ground OF their Mt
/ tics? Will he make IL perfectly understood that
| S majors and representatives shall no longer
| be consulted in the dispensation OF federal pat
| ronage? To every one of these questions the
| senator gives the answer, No, ana you all uu-
derstand as we'll s 1 do that the orth dox Re-
| p1blicans of Indiana are not the men TO differ
wi him ia opinion.
THE sUPPo OF TILDEN-THE MAN.
And here, at length. reach my final ques-
ton involving the pronriety and honesty Of a
vote for Tilden and Hendricks. 1t must be
quite apparent that what 1 have said
mas co Gsi smrptheh the way to
party is so hopelessy demorslized that its re-
| form Is impossible, It's destruction becomes a
pubic duty ano whoever So regards IL has a
| right 70 lay hold Il the only weapon which
can now be now be employed or the purp.se
| with any hope of success. But do not rest
the case upon this poi I. L propose to deal
| with the question as an independent topic, and
/ In approaching IL / aIready imagine some of
my Republ can friends mentally asking The
i question which has already been propounded
| 10 me several times in words: How can an
old anti-slavery man, who I ught ths Demo-
Gratis so zeaIously In the early days of sboli-
nunciatiOns 20 r-m DfSel ssly during the war:
/ how can you reconcile II TO yourself 10 u port
i Sucn men as II den and Hendricks? Well,
gentlemen, 1 have unde stood l. differ emf
wsys,and have for years believed 1t 10 be facr,
thai the war IS Owe. According 10 my slman-
| &C the last gun WIS fred about eleven and
| a halt years ago, so that we are now
well along IN the twelfth year Of peace.
senator Morton, in common with a number of
| his brethren, does not know this. / presume
| he will 60 down to his grave in the full belief
that the "boys in blue and the boys in gray"
| are still fighting. AT all evsn;s he will hug
the fond thought to his boso m that the people
Of the North and the p-ople of the South
ought TO feel TO ward each Other, now ana here
| after, exactly as they did during the bloody
con fiicI. With sucn men have no contro-
versy. They are given over 20 their madness,
i and il defies all remedies. But ask all men
who love their country and are able to per-
form the operation of thinkiDg, why the sub
Ject IF our iate war should be dragged into his
canvass? IL was bloody and devastating
conflict bstween citizens and states that h d
hveO. together in peace under common flag.
and whose union ne, eafier is their manifest
destiny. Why should any patriotic man see I
TO keep alive its memories? Let them fade
away into the lecso1ng pas, and the old
by the riyalries OF a common brotherhood for
the com mon veal Our civil war has taken
IT'S lace In the past; &c h gone before the
war, toe war OF 1912 or the war OF independ-
| encs; ADD there Il no more propriety in dis
n Il, IN tne Penohng ear Psgn man the
diluvians. There Is ev less propriety, for
we could talk about these ancient wars with
mosities. When our civil war was upon us,
and tue gu sIons when have since been so
grandly Sc tiled on the side OF the Union,
terance to some strong words which /
have no desire 81 recall. If you can set back
the clock OF our politics aud let nact the cir
cumstances in which was placed, wi reit-
erate them. tried TO bresths into the hearts
of the people the spirit OF war, and SO TO
Influence public opinion as TO promote the
triumph OF our arms and the just settlement
OF the great issue then on trial. But why
should 1 repeat my old war speeches in tn IS
CANVASS? Why should Senator Morton repeat
his? How long ara the political waters TO be
troubled b. igraceless demagogues VINO 10 love
the honors and emoumedts of office that
they are willing to Gluten at them at the ex-
pense OF the nations peacsf
THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
! In like manner let me remind our Republi-