The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-24
THE LAST KICK OF RADICALIsm.

Those who are at all familiar with the
policy of the New York Times need not be
told that it is the most blatant organ of fraud
and perjury in the entire country. 1t has
advocated every act of scoundrelism that
the radical party has committed, and Has
been the apologist of every species of partisan
villainy. 1t is not strange, therefore, that a
paper of its antecedents should make war
upon the ballot and seek, in the interest
of fraud, to deprive the laboung man of his
elective franchise. Nor is il strange that
radical origins generally advocate this
same vicious theory. Their tory ancestors
had a fondness for aristocratic ways and
deep seated prejudice against men who were
not born with silver spoon in their mouths
The radical proposition which the Times
advocates, and the Journal of this city as
well, is to take the ballot from the hands
of poor men, and by legal enactment revive
the old Roman idea in its most odious form,
by creating distinct classes-patrician and
plebeian; the one powerful and the other
weak, one honored and the other disgraced;
and this move is advocated upon the 'hypo-
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public money demands it.
The Times, in its advocacy of the change
from citizenship to serfdom, says that 1.-The
idea of representation of property in some
department of the city government, so long
advocated by this journal is meeting with
unexpected welcome. No one who proposes
"a radical improvement or change in
our political machinery expects even
"a hearing for a considerable period.
The claim is set up that the
municipal Indebtedness of the country has
been brought about by manhood voting-a
proposition both false and vicious, a state
ment that can not be maintained by facts,
and theory, in all regards, in strict conso-
nance with radical tendencies, which has
always been to make the rich richer and the
poor poorer. Look at the progress radical
ism has made in this direction during the
last fifteen years The land is filed with idle
ness and want and poverty. But the votaries
of radicalism-Grant, Morton, Robson ct al.
are rolling in wealth. The people COM
plain, and hence it is the policy of the radi-
cal party to deprive them of power, to wrest
from their grasp the ballot-frst to steal
their money, deprive them of the means of
livelihood, and then disgrace them by re-
ducing them to a condition of serfdom.
The people have had about enough of such
Improvements as the radical party can
bestow, and the Times speaks considerably
when it says that it requires considerable
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The radical party has made its record. 1t is
the party of corruption, OF fraud, OF plumber
and of usurpations. 1t has demonstrated to
the world that it has no regard for constitu-
tons, law, justice or truth. In all Of
these regards its record is monumental, and
now its organs advocate revolution by
overthrowing the inalienable rights of the
people in passing laws permitting only prop
ertyholders to vote Failing in this these
radical organs would centralize power some
where, and the party protesting to be as
honest as it Is known TO be corrupt, hides
its hideous deformities under the plea OF
economy. There is not a department of the
government the radical party has not de-
bauched, there has been no fund so sacred as
to secure it from thieving greed and no crime
in the calendar, when committed by its
favorites, that it has not stood ready to
whitewash. We conclude that it is too early
for radicalism to inflict upon Indiana the
burning disgrace of depriving the non
| propertyholders of the state of the dignity
of citizenship as broad as that which at
taches to any other class.