The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-06-28
Ths SentimeI.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE %.
A Chanter Of History.


can camp. The favorite son having been
showed under, his horde of followers are
looking about for sscape-gost. upon whom
to cast the odium of the defeat. By com
mon consent they have selected Capt.
Friedley, chairman OF the Kepuplcan
Central Committee, as the one upon
whom the responsibility, ought to rest for
the failure of the war governor to get the
Cincinnati nomination. Mr.. Freidley, to
the astonishment of the horde, objects to
holding the responsibility, and to clear
his own skirts will have to let out the
true inwsrdness of the campaign. To
save him trouble in this direction we pro-
pose to give the public some of the inside
workings of the great Republican party OF
Indiana. To go back to the beginning.
Morton's clique elected Friedley chairman
of the central committee as the lesser OF
two evils. John G. New, treasurer of the
United States, wss the Morton candidate,
but was hopelessly distanced on the first
heat. Friedley was friendly to Bristow,
but under compuision would work for the
favorite better THAI the ''other fellow"
and the other fellow Colonel Ruckle)
was sacrificed by the men who
run the machine. This much having
been accomplished, the postmaster was
directed to watch Friedley and exercise a
general supervision over the campaign.
Friedley was SOON made cogniZant of the
espionage to which he was subjected, and
with malice and foretbought mainly abaud-
oned the management of the organization
to Colonel Holloway, who undertook to
work the wires, the Bedford Saul becom-
ing the hgure-hesd of the concern. The
postmaster lost no time in levylng contri-
buttons upon everybody who would sub
init to his exac,ions, and raised large
sum of money, ossensibly for the expenses
OF the campaign.
Some of the more independent
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Gordon among them
-rebelled against this unseemly haste,
and threatened to kick beyond the
traces. Tie major is an eccentric
individual, who believes that there
are other men besides Morton. and remark
able as il may appear, he has large fol-
lowing inside his party. The mighty in
tellect" under the shadow of the bantam
tower, by direction OF the sole proprietor,
evolved lives of the great "war governor"
all going to show that he was the supreme
intellec. Of the country. His deeds OF dsr-
Ing were narrated in terms of stilted
praise and sickeniDg sdulation, and his
patriotic marches from Camp Morton to
the Union Depot were dilsted upon with
holy enthusiasm. A more disgusting
collection of political garbage was
seldom inflicted upon suffering
public than the literature circulated
through the medium of the Republican
State Central Committee to boost the pre-
tentions of Indisns's g" great war COVER
nor" 1t was evident that he saved the
Union. The scores of able generals and
on the fisld of carnage counted as nothing.
Morton, and Col. Holloway, and Gen.
Terrell, and Gen. Lag Noble, and Col
MARYLAND and Gen. Mscklsnd did all the
fighting, and should receive all the reward.
The dose was nsusestlng, and sickened
teemed it their privilege to judge of the
senator's worth by the fruit he had pro-
duced, and this fruit had ripened into a
corrupt and arrogant ring of Office hold
ers, whose servility and obedience to the
mandates of their master has been as ap-
these many years. The Morton chain was
CALLING, and it was only by putting in mo-
ton the full power of the party machinery
that open rebellion was suppressed.
Nothing is so potent to a Republican as
the party lash. and this was applied with
an unspsripg hand. Men who were
openly opposed to the fsvorite SON.
were whipped into supporting him.
While this was going on in Indiana,
Morton's emisssries were travelling
through the South, bargaining for the
Southern vote, and using every possible
equally corrupt were working up the
same field, however, and, as the result
proved, were more successful in securing
the support of the man and brother than
he. Time flies, and the curtain rises on a
bright and glittering scene in Cincinnati.
The hosts were marshsled under different
banners, and every nerve was strained for
the final contest. Indiana had a larger
numerical re presentation OF outsiders than
any other state, and the self-constituted
managers trumpeted their boast through
the organ that the Morton organization
was the pride and admiration of the world
and of all other states presenting favorite
sons. This was kept up until the day the
convention met, when the managers
began to realize what had been sp-
parent to the rest of mankind from
the frat. The truth began to
break in upon them that the Hoosier
crowd was headless body, every atom OF
which was going it blind on its own hook.
Every one was trying to do some startling