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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-14
SHALL 1T BE PORTER OR conuRN


A telegram from Washington states that
Albert G. Porter, of this city, will probably be
offered q seat in the cabinet of the returning
board president, and a writer in the Journal
advocates the selection of General John Co
burn to similar position. Candidates for cab
met offices under the usurper will be as thick
as leaves in Vallombrosa," and as all can not
reach the coveted station. care should be
taken to choose those who did the most to
count in the fraudulent president. AS be-
tween Porter and Coburn, the latter ought
to be selected. Mr.. Porter proposed three
cheers "for Governor Orth, and also three
cheers "for Governor Harrison" when
these gentlemen were but candidates, and
for this is entitled to political recog-
milton. If neither of them
elected it was not his fault, and man who
ould rise to his feet and propose cheers for
governor who is merely a candidate,
surely is entitled to consideration. Had
Indiana been possessed of radical return
ing board, one of Mr. Porter's governors"
would have put on the robe of Office, for it
would have been easier to reverse the $500
ludlOIlb1 VI UONcInOI bhdi ~ " &c
to set aside the II 900 of Governor Nichols.
In addition to his activity at the republican
conventions, Mr.. Porter made many speeches
during the campaign. and did other work
emitting him to radical consideration. But
General Coburn performed one act which,
of itself, ought to give him the in
side track for cabinet Office
and lay out his bland and blonde
competitor upon the political cooling
board. At the call of the radical leaders
General Coburn went to New Orleans to hold
up the hands of Wells and his associates on
the Louisiana returning board while they
stole the votes of the people and reversed the
decision of the ballot-box. He was one of
that band OF innocent men who went TO
New Orleans in the interest of a fair
count" and stood by, or sat by, while the
count went on. One of his associates in that
| commissioned was not joint one-John
Sherman, is to be secretary of the treasury
under the usurper. and if fidelity to fraud
| is to be recognized in Indiana as we'll as in
| Ohio, surely General Coburn is entitled to a
portfolio. Next to Wells aud Anderson
! and the two negroes who sat with them are
Bradley and Miller and Strong entitled to
| their choice of offices, and next to these are
the men who upheld the hands of the thiev-
ing rascsls while they were robbing the peo-
pie of president. General Coburn is one
| of these men, and after the robbers are pro-
vided for, those who watched while the
theft was going on ought to be rewarded.
Therefore, if Indiana is to have but one
single member of the cabinet, Mr.. Porter
must stand aside for General Coburn.
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Now comes the Cincinnati Commercial
and pokes fun at Dick Thompson's genius
for making radical platforms If it wants
to hurt the feelings of the average Indiana
radical it could not have taken any shorter
cut to do So The radicals hereabouts think
Dick Thompson was sent them from heaven
or some other place as a special radical plat
form maker. At every state convention for
years back the answer to "who wrote the
PLATFORM has been "Dick Thompson, Dick
Thompson" The Commercial talks about "a
monumental mass of rhetoric in connec-
ton with the radical state platform OF last
year. We are no defenders of such creations
radical platforms, but we will venture to
say it was fully equal if not superior to the
national platform adopted at Cincinnati, in
rhetorical arrangement, though perhaps
Dick Thompson wrote that platform also, as
we understand he made the Chicago plat
form Of 1863. on which Grant was nom
mated, and on which the Cincinnati Com
mercisl nearly "wore itself out'' in eulogiz-
ing.
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Where there is SO much rivalry as in the
manufacture of family medicines, he who
would succeed must give positive and con-
vincing proof of merit his Is age of
inquiry. PEOPLE take nothing for granted.
They must know the why's" and where
fores' before acknowledging the superiority
of one article over another. among the
few preparations that have stood the rest
those manufactured by X. v. Pierce. NJ L.,
of the Worlds DispenSary, -uffalo. N. v,
have for many years been foremost. The
truth of any statement made concerning
them can be easily sscertsined, for DIR.
RACES Catarrh Remedy and DR. Pierce's Col
den Medical Discovery are nov prescribed.
by many physicsns in curing obstinate cases
OF 'atarrh and incipient Consumption The
Discovery has no equal In curing Coughs,
Colds, Bronchial and Nervous fection&
tt allsys ali irritation of the mucous me m
brane, aids digestion. and when used with
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets read
lily overcomes torpid liver and Consti patton,
while the Favorite Pr scrip'ion has no rival
in the field of prepared medisine m curing
diseases peculiar to females. n you wish 10
know thyss-if" procure a copy of The
Peoples ommon Sense Medical Adviser"
an illustrated book II nearly 1000 pages,
adapted 10 the wants of everybody. Price,
81 so. hostage prepaid. address the author,
4. v. Pierce, Buffalo. n. y.
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Considerations as high as heaven and
far reaching as eternity demand their ex-
posure and denunciation. No grave deep
enough to bury them can be dug, and no
wave of oblivion will ever obliterate their
record. The sublime mission of the Demo-
cratic party now is to hold the devas-
tating current of crime in check,
and at the earliest day possible
rescue the country from the grasp of vandals
who are making the temple of our liberties
den of thieves. This can not be done by
excusing or palliating the crimes by virtue
of which they have obtained power. On
the contrary, as the days roll on the duty
becomes more and more imperative to make
crime odious. Let Hayes send out his
doves of soft words but let it be
understood that they find no rest
countrymen, whom he essays to rule by
credentials stamped with fraud and perjury.
The signs of the times presage aid in this
direction. The radical party is giving evil
| dence of inability to outride the storm
which the crime fends have aroused.
| of power, and shakes its CORY locks in their
eyes and rattles its bones in their ears and
demands to sit around the council
board of the nation. kellogg haunts his
crime-blsckened credentials in the face OF
the American senate, and Blaine and Nor
ton pronounce them bearing all the evidences
OF returning board crime that made Hayes
| Il
majority. Other senators shrink back
and the whole country stands amazed
at the spectacle of brazen impudence
and unmitigated villainy. IL the senate can
not swallow kellogg. upon what ground OF
authority should the people accept Hsyesl
Both are known to be frauds; both are the
representative possibilities of perjury
neither has a right to office. To this lowest
level of degradation has the country come
| at last. There is no escape from the conclu
sion. In the past the democratic party has
nobly fought fraud and triumphed but in
the day of its sublime victory its trophies
were stolen. To regain them is its high
duty. The radical conspirators are even
now beginning 10 learn that crime does moi
pay. Thousands of honest republicans are
dumb with shame and confusion. The time.
are suspicious for finding the old paths
The country is even now turning to the
democratic party for assistance. 1t will re
spond in due time and when again the Amer
lean people proclaim their will it will be un
derstood that returning boards do not re
verse the decision.
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land, and President Grants proclama alton con.
vening special session was read.

land, and President Grants proclamation con.
vening special session was read.
WHEELER PUTS IN AN APPEARANCE.
After the organization of the senate Vice
escorted by Senator McCreerv of Kentucky, of
the committee OF arrangements, and his ap-
pearance was greeted with applause. Proceed
ing Immediately TO a chair on the right Of the
presiding officer he at once began his address
tothe senate and was warmly spplauded.
HE TAKts THE OATH.
At its close the oath of office was then adj
and his first official act TO direct the ser
geant-at-arms 10 proceed with the programme
oil The inaugural.
THE PROCESSION FORMED.
The procession was accordingly formed ana
proceeded to the central poTtico of the east
front of the capitol i'm the following order:
Ma shal Of the supreme court; the supreme
court of the United States; sergea Mt alarms
OF the senate; committee of arrangements:
the president of The United States and the ex.
president and the secretary of the senate;
members Of the house OF representatives and
members elect OF the Forty fifth congress:
governors OF states, and other persons adrnitte
TO the floor and the senate chamber and TO the
reserved seats at the left of 'he diplomatic
| gallery. Among the latter were the assistant
secretaries OF the executive departments,
assistant postmaster general assistant attor-
ney general aud judge advocate general, the
heads OF the bureaus OF war and navy depart
ments, comptI oilers, auditors am register OF
the treasury, solicitors of the several depart
mems OF me Un ted states treasury, and a
num- er OF judges of the federal courts and OF
the supreme courts OF the several states.
Among the prominent persons Copying
| seats on the floor of the senate chamber during
| the inaugural ceremonies were Governors
Rice of Massachusetts,, Hartranft OF Pennsyl-
vania, Young of Ohio, Ex-Governor Morgan Of
New York, William 81. Evarts Stanley
M tthews, Hon. &. =. SheilabaTger, Hon. B. II.
| brewster of Pennsylvania, hon. freeman
Clark or New York, General B. +. Butler, ex-
Governor DennisOn OI Ohio, Honorables l. O.
u Lamar, Benjamin Hill, and the republican
members of the ohio Legislature who accom-
panied President Hayes Washington.
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New York Tribune.l


Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is in state OF
mind. She SAYS that the report given in
a ST. Louis paper of an interview with her
during which interview her remarks con-
corning divers other literary people were
very frank, il not gracious-was wholly
unauthorized" by her, "it san scarcely be
made incumbent upon her to defend and
explain any particular point contained in
it," And she says further: The most
harmless, nay, the most friendly CONVEX
sation may in this way be made matter of
grave offense, both by giving to its state
ments the emphasis of publicits, and by the
inevitable substitution of words and
She also declares that she has
never been refused admission to
any hotel, although in the course of her late
Of lady who told her that the landlord of
the principal hotel in the place had. through
his wife, expressed his unwillingness TO re-
ceive her Mrs. Howe adds: 1T must he
said in explanation OF this that those who
applied at the hotel in my behalf carried
with them a woman suffrage petition, which
had no connection with my intended visit
and lecture. but which might have aroused
the luminosity of the person in question.
And lastly, Mrs. Howe asserts that no lndi-
annapolis audience has been impolire to her,
and that she never was rude to an lndianap-
lady misunderstood the circumstances and
Mrs. Howe asked mutual acquaintance to
explain them. All this and much more in
large and loaded type. in conspicuous
place, In her own paper. Poor Mrs. Howell
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THE STATE PAIR GROUNDS

We are gratifed to note that Governor
Williams in his message recommends action
in the matter of the valuable estate now in
the custody of the state board of agriculture.
This, however. might have been expected of
Governor Williams from the fact that he
was one of the originstors OF the board, and
for several years was its president. Besides,
the movement was originally in the in
terest of agriculture, of which the
governor is Justly regarded an honored
representative. Considering the overshad-
owing importance of the agricultural inter
ests of Indiana, il would be calamity of no
ordinary magnitude if the representatives
of the people permit the lands and build
ings of the board of agriculture, valued at
be sacrificed for the comparatively small
sum of $40, o00 The report is in circulation
that those who hold the mortgage are exceed
ingly anxious that the legislature shall take
no steps to rescue it from their grasp.
Their interests demand silence; they see in
the apathy of the general assembly where a
heap of money can be made. Thirty-nine
acres of land adjoining Indianapolis, with
buildings costing $50, 900, all for 100000, is
speculation worth looking after, and the
spectators are quite willing that the people
of the state and its agricultural interests
shall be sacrificed so they make a
good thing out of it. But fortunately the
representatives of the people in the legisla-
ture are not called upon to help
spectators eat up the substance of
their constituents, and since the governor
has called the attention of the legislature to
the subject, it is fair to assume that the val
liable estate will be saved and agricultural
interests thereby promoted. We confident
ly look for such action.
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A Mechanical suicide.

Detroit Special to the Chicago Times.)
George c. Wheeler, who attempted sni-
eide, was successful and is dead. He was o
hard student, and the direction OF bis inves-
LEGATIONS was toward chemical mysteries.
OF late his friends suspected insanity, as .
few months ago he claimed to have
discovered the secret of raising the
dead by chemical compound, which
wrs to be sprinkled over the body after
death. He built q machine with which
to kill himself in order that his friends
might restore him by means of his discovery.
This machine is marvel of ingenuity. A
stout wooden framework supports a large
balance wheel, to which are attached knives,
portions of scythes and an axe head.
Back of this is complex ar
rangement Of small wheels and pull
leys, all operated by powerful steel
spring. When set in motion the machine
is capable of running itself at a fearful
speed for 10 minutes. Close by is q three
sided trough, i'm which he placed himself.
After setting the devilish arrangement in
motion his head, which he laid under the
wheel, was slsshed and cut beyond recogni-
ton.
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THE DUTY OF THE HOUR.

Is the danger past7 This is the question
the American people are now propounding
to themselves. 1t is pregnant with conse-
is the question of the hour. Fraud has tri
umphed. Is that alp The virus of perjury
has poisoned the fountains of justice.
What more7 The oaths of the highest Of
fcials Of the republic are cursed with the
crime of usurpation. Are there still other
hideous pictures in the panorama of villainy?
Political assassins, with the malignity of
fiends have buried their bayonets deep in
the vitals of sovereign states. What more?
The ballot-box, around which cluster the
fondest hopes of the votaries of freedom
and republican institutions, having served
the vilest ends of crime-stained villains is
reduced to the level of dilapidated rat
trap and made thing for filings and jeers.
And the query is still heard, Is
this the end? In Gods Lame
are not these calamities enough to bring the
nation TO halt, enough to compel the peo-
pie to clothe themselves in sackcloth7 Are
they not enough to make the national heart
stand still? Are they not like prophets on
the battlements of the republic proclaiming
its obstruction? A usurper in the presiden
tial chair, placed there by striking down
every political truth, every national
virtue. every constitutional barrier,
placed there, not by military PROV
ess on fields where brave men crossed
swords, and liberty, though cloven down,
erected imperishable monuments of valor,
but by the chicanery of thieves, the hypoc
risy of villains, the frauds OF conspirators
aud the perjuries of witnesses. With such
president, what more? Fraud negotiating
in every department Of the government,
every oath of office blasphemous insult to
patriots dead and patriots living, and
to every landmark of liberty they
have erected; every government office
from the crime polluted capital of the ma
ton to the remotest outposts of power.
made station OF fraud, and from the homes
OF cultured civilization to the wag vans OF
savages, in city, town and village, the canker
of fraud, like rust upon iron, gnawing at
the pillars of truth, justice and law. that
were designed to uphold forever the super
structure OF American liberty. Every
thing that Rutherford b. Hayes
touches with his scePter of power,
more hideous than scorpion tail or
devil-fish arm, turns black as Plutonien
darkness with crime-for crime, like leprosy,
contaminaies that with which il comes N
contact-snd by this law. which he can not
eyade, he polutes every department o. be
government, and makes the republic itself a
pest house.
1t is supreme folly. 1t is madness, TO sup
pose that the country can escape the penalty
of such q combination OF violations
Of law. of right, and OF justice.
To assume the possibility of such an sxemP-
ton Is 10 deny all history and declaim
against the immutable edicts of deity. Duty
to the past, the most solemn obligations to
the present and the future forbid hat the
crimes Of the conspirAtors, which have cul-
minated In the Inauguration OF a fraudulent
president. shall be obscured from public view.
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THE NEW SENATE.
The Members Chosen 10 the Upper
Branch of the FOrty-hfth Congress-.

The following are the United States sena-
tors in the present body. The number, re-
publicans, 80; democrats, 35; independents,
/; vacancy, l; total, rs. The figures before
each name indicate the year in which the
senator's term will expire. Those who
were senators during the term of tbs
forty fourth congress are marked with
star (#l The seat of Rustis, DEM
ocrat, of Louisiana. will be contested
by William Pitt Kellogg republican, and
that OF N. c. Butler, democrat, South Caro-
lima, by d. T. Corbin, republican. The va
cancy held to exist in Louisiana for the
term ending in 1879 has not been filed by
the democratic legislature of the state, but
James Lewis has been chosen for the placs
by the Packard legislature.
1879 q. +. Spencer. Rlssls b. K. Bruce, r.
1888 ]. T. Morgan. d. 1888 l.. Q. c. Lamar, d.
1879 s. W. Dorsey, R. 1879 L. V. Boyd
CALIFORNIA. NEW HAMPSHIRE.
1881" N. Booth, r. 1883 z. H. Rollins, X
1889 H. ". Teller. r. 1883 JR McPherson.D
1879 W. Fl. Barnum, D.Is7ss r. ConSiing, R
1887 w. w. Eaton, d. 1881" II. Herman, d.
,ss,1 pE 3 y hsEs,d 1881. sEsR4 pndd
1855" Z. salisbury, D. 1888 A. saunders R.
FLORIDA. NEVADA.
1879" =. u. COnOver, X. 1875 =. 4. Jones, X.
1881 G A. Jones, d. lSSl~ w. Sharon, X.
GEORGIA. NORTH CAROLINA.
1879" ]. p. Gordon, d. 1879 A. =. MerrimOn,D d.
1883 b. II. Hill, d. 1889 NJ. w. Ransom. d.
ILLINOIS OHIO.
1872 r. .. Oglesby, r. 1875 j. Sherman, X.
1888 Law Davis, l.. 1859 A. q. Thurmsn,D.
ls 1851: B. 1889 1883 L f SSsSss B.
IOWA. PENNSYLVANIA.
1879 w. b. Allison. r. 1879 =. Cameron, X.
1888 ST. Kirk wood X. lSSIs w. A. Wallace, d.
KANSAS. RHODE ISLAND.
1872 John Ingalls,R 1881 A. z. Burnside, X.
1888 p. b. Plumb, r. lsS3a H. b. Anthony R.
KENTUCKY. SOUTH CARoLINA.
1879 T. y. McCreery,D d. 1872 ]. ]. Patterson, r
1883 Jas. B. Beck, ID. loS3 NJ. c. Butler, ID.
LOUISIANA. TENNESSEE.
1879 (Vacancy1 1881 j. +. b ilev, d.
1882 ]. b. EustiS, d. 1888 /. q. Harris, ID.
MAINE. TEXAS.
1881" H. Hamlin, r. 1SSls q. b. Maxy, ID.
1882 ]. q. Blaine, r. 1888 Richard Coke, d.
MARYLAND. VERMONT.
1879" q. r. Dennis, d. 1879 j. s Morrill,, X.
1881" w. p. WHITE, ID. 1879 q. j. Edmunds, R.
MASSACHUSETTS,. VIRGINIA.
ISIS II. l.. Dawes. K. 1881" X. r. Withers, ID.
1853 Geo F. H0ar, r. 1889 ]. w. Johnson, ID.
MICHIGAN. WEST VIRGINIA.
1885 l.P. Christncy r. 1881 r. HEREFORD, ID.
1888" I. w. Ferry, X. 1882 ii. G.. Davis, ID.
MINNESOTA WISCONSIN.
81" ST. RIM Mill'n, r. 1872 L. o. Hover
1882 VIM. Windom,R. 1881" A. Cameron, r
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Il is said that the chief fraud win deputlze

IL IS sad that the Chief iraud viii deputize
fhe secoDd fraud, Wheeler. to go to Louisi-
ana and arrange matters as he didin 1872 At
that time Wheeler said the returning board
style of doing things Eas fraud, and be-
moaned the time when he result OF q presi-
DENTAL election would depend upon it.
Now he finds himself the Eice president, or
vice fraud rather. of the republic. made so
by the very agency which he denounced.
He wilt take it all back nov, pat the little
darkey, Csssanaye, on the head and tell him
GOOD boyi Good boyr Poor wheeIeri
You couldn't stand up against nldical ras-
cality aud defend your own convictions.
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Colonel Thompson ought to have been ap-
pointed secretary of the interior. as he is
peculiarly qualified to manage Indian affairs
Could he control that department it would
not be necessary for him to get up rebel
lion in Indiana in the republican ranks as
he once did in order to get 900 fee al.
lowed him as lobbyist for the Indians
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Packard Blaine is icsician and his logic
leads him to reason thus: L. Hayes and
Packard we're both defeated by the people Of
Louisiana, and Hayes by larger vote than
Packard, anu Hayes is declared elected, how
is it possible for Packard to be defeated
HaYes2
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The st. Louis Globe Democrat is down on
Hayes for giving Carl Schurz place in his
cabinet and says: "Mr. Schurz has been a
disturbing element in the ranks of the re-
publican party of this section for several
years. His conduct in the last campaign
was LIMITED ia its destructiveness only by
-its limited influence" There are pleasing
Indications that the thieves are beginning to
quarrel ever their stolen plumber
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Hayes in his inaugural talks about the
vote being ''close." There was nothing close
about it. Tilden's majority was over a
quarter of a million. Then too, the electo-
raj votes of four states, South Carolina. Flor
ida, Louisiana and California, properly be-
long to Tilden. There was nothing very
close or small about it. Even the radical
rascality was majestic and colossal in Its
proportions
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The first act of the new secretary of the
nsvy-Colonel Thompson-is expected to be
the sending of ship of war to lombard the
vatican The pope of Rome will be the OBJ
jectiye point of his administration Of the
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In 1856 Colonel ThompSon-the usurper's
secretary of the navy-organized the Fill
more party in Indiana, and stumped the
state against Fremont. By this movement
Indiana was assured to Buchanan and Will
lard and Colonel Thompson's claim for SER
vices to the Indians was allowed and paid
by Howell Cobb, Buchansn's secretary of the
kraasnru
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Blaine is right, he Is kicking up row al
ready in the senate. He intends TO de fend
the Louisiana returning board and has no
notion Of letting Hayes 90 back on his beat
friends. He wanfs TO know how the cleo
toral commission could count In Hayes and
then the United States senate 90 back On
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Hayess cabinet, if he ever gets one, will
endeavor to convince him that a receiver
Of stolen property is not as bad as the thief
Morton, it is thought will oppose this
mOyemPnt