The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-02-23

THE ADMINISTRATION AND ARE DECRIED
BY THE PARTY AS ATTACKS ON THE Gov
ERNMRNT.
Especial Correspondence of the Sentinel
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. Is, 1876
Whether or not Darwin's missing link Is
discovered by scratching a Frenchman, GER
tain 1t is that by gently probing the numer-
Gus sore places of the republican party and
abradipg the cuticle of the various and null
titudinous thieving rings infesting the party
of splendid civil service, the back ofthe ad-
ministration comes directly to view. When
the gold panic, that scandal of the nation,
was investigated by a committee of congress-
and twenty-five thousand dollars was Il aced
TO the White House il was discovered that
the whole shameless transaction was inau-
gurated in order "to move the crops /"
Then the subject was dropped and CLOSED
over, for fear the "party" would suffer
And in fact the investigation was a blow at
the administration. When the irregular
practices, commonly called frauds, of Leet,
Stocking 81 Murphy, at the New York Gus
tom house, were proposed to be looked into,
again the investigation was stigmstized as
an effort 10 injure the party and cast odium
on the administration. When Shepherd and
his plundering rings were overloaded and
all the surface indications pointed directly
to the west end of the avenue and the trail
was leading straight to Hiram immediate g.
the hounds were called of. Too close inspely
ton implicated the purest admin c.
trstion since the days of Washington
Again, when the fostering csrbuncles fairlyi
blooming, in the interior department, under
Grants darling Dslano, were supposed to
need little airing,the bare suspicion of cor
ruption was an infamous attack on the grace
less figure head now orname1ting the Office
of president. Murphy, Shepherd and Delsno,
all OF Hnsavory memory, were duly certified
no0 tn ii ae~sD
yet cherished as worthy friends of that
patriotic stupidiIy-his excellence. And
fDally passing over the depredations of
Creswell, Robson and Belknsp, now under
Investigation by committees of the House,
we find the latest reflection on the admins
tration in the developments of whisky rings
" Let no guilty man escape" was doubtless
intended as joke and as q campaign clap
trap by the man on horse back. But luckily
the present head OF the treasury-not suffi-
GENTLY skilled In political jugglery-has
pushed the joke too far to retrace his steps.
and as consequence he has brought upon
himself the dlspleasure of the administra-
ton.
WHAT A sPECTAcLEl
The president of the United States, in this
centennial year of grace, not only consort-
ing with and harboring infamous scoundrels
against whose appointment he was duly
warned, but standing in with them on the
eve of their conviction, and manifesting
unseemly disapprovsl of honest officials
whose sworn duty 1t is to send the thieves
to the penitentiary. No wonder 1t is
thought necessary to investigate the cleo
tons of Mississippi, get up howl over JEFF
Davis and wave the crimson banner, in
order to amuse the American people and d.
vert their attention from the frauds thefts
and putr1d sores Of party and an admins
tration which for organized corruption may
challenge comparison with anything in re-
corded history. 1t is needless to cucumber
the columns of the Sentinel with
rehearsal OF the small gossip touch
ing president making, or Of the
rumors afl0st res arding immaterisl subjects
In passing, however, il may not be smiss TO
note the fact not disputed in sources well
informed, that the administrations back is
up-thst the political goose, from the repub-
lican party standpoint, does not, in the
classical language of Mcdonald, "hang alti
tudilum," and that the "true inwardness"
of the party of power and plunCer is being
uncovered and its hopeless Decentralization
assured Could our unsophistlcated Hoosier
grangers reslizs the bottom facts of the in
famous corruptioDs pervading every branch
of the government, they would unite with
cheering unanimity, regardless OF their past
condition of party seTvitude, in visiting
upon the doomed party, ga section OF the
day of judgment" 1t would be amusing, il
the subject were not too serious for levlty, to
listen to head sschems of the party grsvely
telcitstiDg themselves that the a1ministra-
ton is purifying itself, that the republicans
are the only partisans who have ever at
tempted to cleanse their rottenness. The
truth is, the party being essentially saturated
with the virus of rottenness, the sporadic
shedding off of effete corruption, no more
proves a cleansing process than the falling
off of small maggots from aputrid carcass
e. do, asNfro or fncr 10
publication has either been the result of
merest accident snd unintentional, or has
been only seeming, from the fact that the
phenomenon has only been the sloughing
off Of surface putresence, owing TO the
interior being in like condition. No post
norton is needed to reveal the true condi-
ton OF things. Only very slight vivi-
section does the business. Harper's
Weekly seems to reflect some lucid
moments, and a return to partial sanity.
Its editor not only admits the facts herein
charged, but gives as their cause, Morton,
ConkliDg, Chandler, Logan, Blaine and
that
BEvY OF swEET-sCENTED PATRIOTS,
and insists with patriotic arder upon the
"closs retirement" not only OF Ulysses, but
of all the fraternity named, seemingly
forgetting that its suggestions carried out
would leave nothing desirable Of the party.
Its most cherished friends would not recog
nize the organization deprived of it's idol
izsd leadrs. The Chris tian gentlemen desig-
mated have the party by the throat, and
seem determined TO hold on with death
grip, and the only remedy left for the suffer-
ing public is to amputste the dogs tail by
putting in the knife just behind its ears.
The displacement of Barclay, late journal
clerk of the Bouse, has given administra-
ton organs occasion to do little gratuitous
bowling. When any government official
persuades himself that the stability Of the
universe depends upon him then is the
time for his judicious retiracy. be seemed
determined to load himself down with the
heavy weight of very Often
sive assistant by the name of Clay
ton, who has had the reputation
of infamous lobbyist and general utility
man and caves dropper, from Maryland