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

machinery of the government shall
be stopped to-day unless the House
shall suffer the expenses to 60 on and
high salaries to continue The issue comes
up at an opportune moment. Both politi
cal parties have just entered upon the con-
test for control OF the government with
their platforms and acknowledgements. The
issue proposed by the Democracy Is re-
form. What is meant is clearly defined.
1t is decrease of expenses. 1t is economy.
1t is to stop wssteful extravsgsnce and
permit the reproductive energies of the
nation to recuperate, without being
drained by unnecessary taxation. Can
anything be more simple and plain? 1t q
man is in debt and his expenses are greater
tnsn his income, the only posi-
BILE and rational way of extricsting
himself from certain embarrassment
is by curtsiliDg expenses. This is what
the Democracy propose to do. This is
what the House of Representatives is
trying to do. Our platform pledges this
reform, and our standard bearers will car
~ out these promises. The name OF Mr..
Tilden Is a pledge in itself of what his sd
ministrstion will be. He aided in New
York city TO wrest the metropolitan gov
eminent from the hands OF thieves. He
has made successful battle against the ca
nal ring, that has been a standing re-
proach to that state for years, and he is
just the man to separate the government
of the United States from the hands of
its despoiIers, who have been bleeding
the nation through a thousand separate
veins.
On the other hand, the Repub-
licsn party platform confessss to
these frauds upon the treasure
of the nation by likewise demanding
reform and honesty in official stations.
But what pledge can that party give to the
country of doing any better in the future
than in the past? Simply none. What
ever may be said OF the purity of personal
character in Mr.. Hayes, he is not the man
to make the contest with the leaders of
that party who have for years stood by
and seen the treasure of the nation cor
ruptly wasted, or actively engaged in the
pillsge themselves. Mr.. Hayes was in
Congress during the time when the SUBJ
sidy lobbyists ran riot in the capitol. 1t is
not recorded that he ever raised his voice
against 1t. He had not the courage to
cope with 1t then, nor will he have the
courage now to resist the demands of the
Mortons, the Conklings, the Blaines,
the Logsns, the Csmerons, who will
surround him, and, as in the past,
fill the offices of the country
with corrupt men. The very same
element that surrounds Grant to-
day and defeats in the Ssnate the reform
proposed by the House will control Mr..
HAYES and no reform need to be expected
from that direction.
Can the people of this country be so blind
as to not see wherein their true interest
lies in this contest, and determine the
source from which reform shall conner Do
they want or will they consent that this
corrupt administration, which has so
abused the nation shall be- perpetusted In
spirit and practice by yielding it sgsin
into their hands? If they care
nothing for thsir own interest, moth
ing for purity in government, then
let the plunderers go on. Bnl
if reform is wanted, If light taxes are de
sirable, if honest men are to he placed In
Office, then the way to attain these ends
seems plain and pslpsble. Tilden and
Hendricks means reform-Hayes and
Wheeler, perpetustion OF tho same ex'
travs gancs that has wasted the national
resources for a dozen years.