The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-20

almost a stranger. yet am received by you
with open arms and cordial greetings. Need
say that am gratifled because of this
sonal significance. Does il not
proclaim that we entertain no sectional politi-
may think that we should have an eastern
policy and others that 1T should be western;
hut It seems to me that a New Yorker
than that, and Cat your legislative and ad.
ministrative polity should be as broad and
and commerce which ii may affect.
Does the trade OF the great cities sof
the Atlantic stop with the mountains?
Does II not reach beyond the Mississippi and
across the Missouri? Every new home that is
built beyond that receding border, every new
farm that is made far In the shadow OF
bale of cotton that is produced In
Louisiana and Texas adds something TO the
greatness and ~ealth of New York and Bos-
ton and Philadelphia and Baltimore. Is there
a New Yorker who, a. he walks up and down
this great Broadway, hears and feels only the
such man break over the. narrow
bounds and habits of his life and
nor let HIM stop until he hears the waves of
the Pacific dashing against the golden shores
of California, and he will be able better to
understand and appreciate the magnitude
and complicated relations of the interests
which are affected by the financial and COM
merc1al policy OF the country. successful en-
terprise and developments in remote parts of
the country are as certainly and almost
directly connected with the prosperity of this
city as are the permanent and valuable
streets. have said this under the influence of
the sentiment that in respect to production
and that a wise and just policy will Ike and
almost equally promote the prosperity OF each,
If your Judgment should be as comprehensive ~,
reaching as the distant lines OF your trade.
At the conclusion of the governors adj
dress Governor Tilden, being loudly
called for arose and said:
Everybody knows that AFTER the recent cleo
ton the men who were elected by the people
president and vice president of the United
States were counted out, and the men who
we're not elected were counted In and seated
disclaim any thought of the personal wrong
involved in this transaction. Not by any act
or word OF mine shall that be dwarfed or de-
graded into personal grievance, which is in
truth the greatest wrong which has stained our
national annals. To every man of the four
of the fruits of their elective franchise
1t Is as great wrong as IL Is TO me,
and no less to every man Of the minority will
its ultimate consequences extend. Evils in
government grow by success and by impunity.
They do not arrest their own progress; they
can never be limited except by external forces.
can in one instance maintain themselves in
power against an adverse decision at the cleo
temptation exists always to devices to give
the color of law to false pretenSes, on which
ground;fraudulent decisions will not be want
ing. The wrong will grow into practice If
once condoned. In the world history changes
in the succession of governments
fraud or force. 1t has been our
faith and our pride that we had established a
mode Of peaceful change, to be worked out by
the agency of the ballot-bOx. The question
now Is, whether our elective system, in its
substance, well as in its form, is to be main
tanned. This IS the question of questions, and
until ii is finally settled there can be no poll
tics founded on inferior questions of admins
trative policy. 1t involves the fundamental
right of the people. 1t involves the elective
principle 1t involve, the whole system of
popular government. The people must sig
nally condemn the great wrong which
example of everything that can attract imita-
tors; they must refuse prOsperOu- immunity
to crime. This is not all; the people will not
wrong to devise remedies, but when those
who condemn the wrons shall have power
repetition of the wrong forever impossible.
If my voice could reach throughout our coun-
try and be heard in its remotest hamlet would
say. Be of good cheer the republic will live.
The institutions of our fathers are not to ex-
Pile in shame. The sovereignty OF the people
| shall be rescued from this peril and re-estab-
triumphantly on the very eve OF it's fail.
Seven years ago corrupt dynasty eliminated
in its power over the million of people who
live in the city of New York. 1t had con-
quered, or bribed, or fiattered, and ven almost
| everybody into acqutescence. II appeared to
be inevitable and invincible. A year or two
| later Its members were in the penitentiaIies
or in exile. History abounds in similar exam
| Piles. We must believe in the right and In the
| future. A great and noble nation will not
/ sever its political from its moral life.
The proceedings terminated with brief
speeches by Governor Robinson, Lieutenant
Governor Dorsheimer and Senator Melon
aid, of Indiana.