The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-08-23

amount of the national debt that has
s,ty ior reform a." and u eccnoms s ne Cen.
Huribut OF Illinois, prominent Republican,
In a speech in the House of Represent atives
ii read. a. part of mis- remarks, from which L
gather the folio wing facts: From J ly !, 1851, ,
to June 30, les, there was paid into tue federal
the treasury from the sale OF bonds and the
issue OF legal tender noes something less than
| s3.toO.OJc,Ulo. The debt never re- ched three
billions. There has been paid on the national
deot something over S70O,OO0,U0,. The leakage
In round nuIaDers, is about nine b llions Of
dollars, for which the Republican party do
not pretend 10 account in any other way than
by saying that II ha- been spent in carving on
Inc government. OF course you must take
Into account the interest they have paid on
| me national debt But this amount
Is startling when we consider
/ that for u years preceding the advent OF the
the Federal treasury a1,3 9,977, 81 2 81. In view
| OF these facts 1t Is not surprising hat
REFORM Is DEMANDED EVERYWHERE,
and that IL must be brought about or bank
ruptcy is inevitable. But there are very many
| conscientious men in the Repu olican party,
/ who b lieve that reform can come, inside OF
| their own party; that the party can reform
Itself. This idea has nothing in r. sson or ex-
power, when corruption has seized upon and
possessed 1t can ever reform itself. Reform
| must come from without, in the very nature
or things. The selfish, greedy and venal seek
alliance with the party in power to creep, ii
| possible, into Its high places. Inscriptions,
practjced In all the arts OF demagOguery. We
| IND that they often get into controlling
position in the dominant party. All history
| teaches that when evil spirits get control they
/ do not cast thems Ives our. We read nowhere
| In the go d book of devils casting themselves
out, or casttOg out other devils. When wick
tdness and corruption get hold upon party
| they will Tolerate nothing but that which
| they can use 10 carry out their corrupt pur-
poses. L proof of this, and to prove also that
| the Repub lean party Is CONTROLLED by wicked
4 for / N rofe
you TO The fact that every man who has been
| called in any ~ay 10 administer the govern
| ment, and who expects that the party cry OF
| the republicans is TO be carried oul, which is
Let no guilty man escape" and has tried to
do So has been removed by the president of
the United S,ates. He wants men who under
stand him. When he says "Let no guilty man
escape" he meaus Let no gull y man escape
poses, In every instance where his appoin
ices atteIo pied TO force the law so as IL al
low no suilty man TO escape the penalty of the
private life. Where is the re ormer, Bristow,
who created such stir among the whisky
| thieves: Pratt, his stern supporter; Jewell
postofhce department; Yaryan, the honest de-
| teciive; and Wilson his firm supporter? All
| have been removed; What does all this
mean? 1t is evid-nI that there is no power to
reform the Republican party in the in crest of
honesty, but that IL is To be run in the interest
| OF corrupS party rule. The
THE ONLY WAY To REFORM A PARTY,
long possessed of corruption and fraud is to
overthrow il. But Republicans say by nomi-
mating Hayes ana Wheeler they intend
/ 10 change both measures and men.
do moi intend tn speak against these men
personally. Mr.. Wheeler is member OF Con-
DIR. HAYES is a man against whom nothing
personally can be said. hope during the
canvass thal personalities viii be lad aside
candidates they are genera ly subject 10 so
much personal abuse. They VIII have
| But wish 10 say this, that il any one sup-
poses that by laying aside their acknowledged
| leaders, such as B aine, Morton, Conkliug and
| Grant, the same evil genius anu corrupt, GEN.
| tralizing and domineering class will not con-
| troll that party, is mistaken. That party is q
powerful party, and the brain and soul that
| rules IL are ronger that Hayes or Wheeler or
both together. 1t is The same party which has
controlled Grants administration, dom neered
b IL and henderson, Schurz and even sum
| ner, when they hesitat ed or faltered ia obed,-
/ eDce TO 5 behests Ii has been end is great
| war party. Ii was born during the Kansas
| troubles, and grew with our civil war. War Is
destl uctive; it means destruction. Destruc-
ton OF lite is always attended by destruction
| of property in time OF war. Its mission was
deStructi n it was organized TO destroy. Its
great object was to destroy slavery. which 1T
| has done, and for which all partles give IL
| credit and acqufesce IN.
| SLAVERY WAS A GREAT MONSTER.
Mr.. jefferson once said of slavery, that we had
the wolf by the ears; we could not hold HIM or
safely let him go. The Republican party has
gone. Though many were not disposed
/ 10 attack Ii, since It's destruction
all seem to be grahfied that IL
| is forever Swept from the land. Now, party
| that has been engaged in such des rucion Is
| not likely to be party of reform and ecouo-
| tn ng destroy ed, the Republican party is the
| party TO do IL: but whenever you want econ
| omy in the administration OF the government,
L inv
quiet in the land, the Democ' atic party has
| ever been noted Tor its principles of economy
case that ter the Republican party has had
| control of this government and carried on
| their system of destruction, 1t has been peces-
sary o put the DEMOCRATIC party in power, in
order to economics and bcing bick prosperity
| to the country again. The Republican party
has destroyed the prosperity OF this country
/ They flooded the country with paper
/ money v aIu- were greatly inflated by SUCH
enormous issues OF money. They as suddenly
take this money from the people as they did
the slave from his master, and hav left the
| country in almost a helpless and bankrupt
condition. Ref rm Is work OF neace, and
| the Republican party can never be good
peace party. IL must come from some other
need and mu have, if this humid edith year
we would found anew the solid ba'is OF the
Republic. For the spirit OF war We must have
a conflict OF races, let us have measures of
ljusu and equal rights TO all, white and
black. For carpet-bsg robbery and mi rule,
| let us have the voice OF the people unawed by
bay onets or by mobs, white or black
For military satrapy, let us have enlight-
ened civil judiciary. For a White House
filed with military ideas and practices let
have the quiet dignity and solid strength OF
A CIVIL MAGISTRATE,
one who knows that the civil law will be su-
preme over the military power, and one WI o
has proven himself to be equal to the task OF
reform. The Republican party has claimed
that The rings OF New York were greater than
any rings that they had formed. MIR. Tilden
has shown his capacity to reform those rings.
Il they were greater than Republican rings,
certainly he will be equal to the task of b ring
ing about reform In the administration of the
federal government as he has In the state OF
New York. / do not claim any mo- purity