The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-13
THE OUTLOOK.

THE OUTLOOk.
The contemplation of the situation from
democratic standpoint could scarcely be
more gratifying to the liberty loving people
of the country, without regard to their past
party affiliations. 1t is irrevocably true that
the radical party has been weighed in the
balances and found wanting in patriotism.
honesty, ability; in fact, of every element of
character required for the government of
free people. And it is equally true that,
while there is an absence of everything that
ennobles and dignifes government, exalts
human nature, and gives worth to a name
and wealth to a people, there is found
superabundance of all that is vile and
Gespicable in human nature and all that is
venal in government. With loud professions
of honesty, the radical party has been the
prolific parent of fraud rising from bull pup
brides as a means of securing Office from
Grant through every graduation of theft,
fraud, peculation, defalcation and perjury,
until, under the protection of bristling bay
onets, the climax was reached by counting in
Hayes. While these things have been going
forward the people have been looking on,
contemplating the picture. Honest repub-
licans were 10th to give up their partisan
associations. They made excuses and apollo
gies They were unwilling to believe that
their chosen leaders were thieves and con-
spirators; that their craftsmanship was all
embodied in the one word "self;" that their
ambition was simply to plumber and to es-
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facts we're too numerous and overwhelming.
They saw Grant playing Caesar, appointing
to office relatives and thieves without num-
Der. They saw the government debauched
and its very foundation stones undermined.
They loved their country better than their
party, and did not hesitate in their choice
They abandoned their party by thousands
and by tens of thousands, and they are still
abandoning it. Az a consequence the
people once more turned to the democratic
party for help. The country was going to the
devil. The hideous foot prints of crime
were traced to every department, and up to
the main entrance of the white house, where
Boss Shepherds and Babcocks, Belknaps and
Robesons held audience with the president
The revolution began. 1t took hold of the
people north and south. Empire states
wheeled into line, and amidst the widest
enthusiasm the "bloody SHIRT" the flag of
the radical party, floating over such
states as New York, Connecticut New
Jersey, Indiana, Alabama, Mississip-
pi, North and South Carolina, Louis
iana West Virginia, Arkansas and
Florida was hauled down, and the ensign of
freedom, that symbolized honesty and re-
form, liberty and fraternity was flung to the
breeze. In other states that voted for
Grant and radicalism in 1872, as for instance,
Wisconsin, Nebraska, Illinois, California,
Oregon, Ohio and Pennsylvania, radicalism
barely maintained its foothold, and was vir-
tually defeated in the campaign of 1876.
Nor is this all. The democrats have carried
most obtained a majority in the SEN
ate. Twenty-Five states out of the
thirty eight have democrats for governs
and to-day the revolution which is to sweep
radicalism from power into eternal obscurity
is gaining strength. Here, then: is the out
look. 1t is we'll calculated to inspire the
democratic party with courage. The radical
party is virtually dead. Morton's open
letter did not heal its wounds. 1t has gwen
birth to Hayes, and the country can endure
no more such monsters. In Ohio the party
is going to pieces. Blaine stands ready to
bludgeon Hayes in the senate In Pennsyl-
vania the Camerons are on the war path and
the radical hopes are Pickering in their
sockets. Conkling, of New York, stands
ready to unsheath his shining blade and
slash away at "Hayess policy" Garfield,
cheated out OF the senatorship and speaker
ship by Hayes's promises, is as full of venom
as an egg is of meat Butler is out hunting
for scalps. The entire tribe of carpetbaggers,
like buzzards around dead carcass, are
ready to pounce down and with beak and
claw dig out the eye balls of the party.
Chamberlain and Packard are telling to
sympathizing friends their returning
board services, and Wendell Phillips,
Garrison and the rest are bowling
for blood. The democratic party, self
poised, conscious of the right, ready now as
ever to uphold the constitution and bring
back the government to pristine purity, is
full Of hope. The people ere putting their