The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-14
THE SENTINEL AND THE DE no
CRATIC PARTY OF INDIANA.


tice more inhexible, nothing in law more Sc
cure than the fact that on that day the Amer
lean people, by an overwhelming popular
electoral majority, elected Tilden and Hen
bricks president and vice president of the
United States; and there is nothing in the
records of crime more clearly established
than the fact that the democratic party has
been robbed Of its victory by means which
the more they are examined the moro infa-
nous do they appear.
The democratic party was not defeated.
but robbed. The deformities of the trans
action are being brought out more distinctly
every day. Some new feature for detesta-
ton makes its appearance; some undis-
covered perjury, like deep sea monster
thrown upon the beach, attracts attention
and elicits expressions of horror. The great
crime of the conspirators increasingly grows
in its hideous proportions and its dark and
damning shadow lengthens and deepens I'M
til, like the Egyptian plague, the darkness
can be felt
The democratic party, though robbed of
its victory, is neither demoralized nor dis
Decentralization broken nor bent. Its
sublime spirit is not subdued. The calum-
mics of the venal, the vulgar and the vile
will not change its purposes Democrats
will not consent to be numbered among the
stall fed votaries OF the radical conspiracy:
they will not be found with the venal mob,
cringing and fawning for crumbs that fall
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right to rule is derived from their crimes;
whose souls are like cages of unclean birds,
and whose highest ambition it is to colonize
crime in every department of the govern
ment and reconcile the people to the rule
by professions of virtue that insult heaven,
and with profigacy of opulence character
istic of Satan, take the people to the highest
elevations of their frauds and offer the
wealth TO which they have no title If they
will fall down and worship Hayes.
1t is said that the country now needs rest
However true this may be it is not more
true than that the country has required rest
since the radical party obtained possession
of the government. When Grant was over
running states with his troops and Morton
was waving his bloody shirt. The country
needed rest, but there was no rest for it.
When southern states were trying to relieve |
themselves of the infamous carpet bag incu-
bus, that rest and prosperity might be OBJ
tanned, neither was vouchsafed by
the radical party. What the in
fernal crew wanted was political, So
clal and business chaos that they might in |
the midst of confusion perfect their plans
for the success of fraud, and now, when
crime has triumphed, and when the con-
spirators are enjoying the stolen property. |
they demand that they shall rest undis- |
turbed in Its possession, and that there |
shall be quasi-indorsement OF their crimes. |
With this granted, the conspirators gain |
thing With this granted, perjury walks
the highways of national affairs |
as proudly as truth, and J. Madison |
Wells becomes the peer of the citizen |
whose life has been devoted to every patri- |
otto virtue. Grant this and the damned |
obscured, and every motive to labor for the |
Reinforcement Of truth and honor in the |
management of governmental affairs is |
silenced.
On the contrary, what is wanted now is to |
keep before the people the monstrous crimes |
of the radical party, by which the people |
are defrauded of their choice of rulers as
declared at the ballot-box on the 7th day of |
November, 1875. The indignation of the peo-
pie should not slumber for day or an hour |
The wheels of time will very soon bring |
around another day of trial. Indiana will |
determine whether Oliver P. Morton shall |
longer disgrace the state in the senate cham |
Der of the nation, or whether Daniel W. |
Voorhees, shall take his place, and by his |
matchless eloquence, integrity OF character |
and comprehensive craftsmanship, atone |
in some measure at least for the |
foul contaminations of bloody -shirtism. |
The Sentinel has distinctly mapped out its |
policy. II will make no compromises with |
the party that has obtained power by fraud |
1t will ceaselessly and fearlessly wage war |
upon credentials obtained by perjury. 1t |
will not hesitate to associate r. B. Hayes. |
the fraudulent president, with J. Madison
Wells and the entire crime blackened crew
from whose hands he accepted Office.
We are satisfied that this policy every |
democratic and independent journal in the
country will sooner or later adopt. 1t can
not be otherwise. The alternatives are, in |
dorse radical crimes or denounce them, and |
silence will be accepted as an Endorsement. |
We have abundant reasons for knowing
that the Sentinel is in harmony with the |
masses of Indiana These words IF |
cheer and substantial tokens of appreciation |
strengthen our purposes to make the |