The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-30
THE INFAMY OFTHE PRESIDENTIAL
FRAUD.

that represents Vlllalny. Claiming 10 De
party of great moral ideas its record shows
it TO have been the most thoroughly de-
bauched organization that ever existed in
any country under heaven. Its declaration
thai it is party of progress is confronted
with facts drawn from official sources as
plain to be seen as the sun at MONDAY,
showing that since it gained power the coun-
try has refrigerated in every essential of
good government. Constitutional safe
guards of liberty have been broken down
acts of despotism blacken every page
of the record of radicalism; thieves, known
TO be such, have been on the most intimate
terms with Grant, and general demoraliza-
ton everywhere prevailed. In the case of
elections. the most infamous frauds have
been perpetrated and advanced to the dig
nifty of creating a president who now dis
graces that high Office.
To those who are at all familiar with the
origin and history of the radical party, its
present anomalous and paradoxical condi-
ton will not excite surprise. While it is
laboring to make the people believe it is
united, facts are constantly coming 10 the
of the most satisfactory character to all hon.
est men. In a word, the thieves are falling
out and the time is near at hand when not
only honest men will get their dues, but
when radical scoundrels will be treated as
their crimes deserve.
A correspondent of the New York Herald,
writing from Washington under recent date,
says:
Ills no longer denied here that there is a
great deal of dissatisfaction, and even demon
alization in the republican ranks, in almost
all the states; one sees and hears enough evil
dence on this subject to enable him to make a
study of it; and think il would be mistake
to believe all the gruInbling to come from the
Office seekers and professional politicians.
These two classes are the most furious; they
feel and say that they have been swindled by
the president; that he'd they suspected what
his policy would be they would have taken
very good care he should not get into the
white house. Indeed, very prominent and in
fiuential men of this kind do not hesitate TO
own to you in private discussion that they
never believed Mr.. Hayes was elected; they
did not believe that he carried louisiana and
they are the less reconcilable on this account,
for they feel that they carried their candidate
in defiance of right and now get nothing, not
see the rage of these disappointed political
specu ators who find themselves caught in a
trap OF their own making.
But il is not the politicians alone who grum-
BILE. n such states as Ohio, Indiana, Iowa,
Minnesota, in some parts If New York, Penn
sylvania and Illinois, the rank and file of the
party, the honest voters in the rural districts,
ar amazed and indignant at the presidents
southern policy. These simple souls can not
See why "the south" is less dangerous now
than IL was during the presidential mpalgn,
when every republican stump speaker assured
them sOlemnly that the union was never in
greater peril. In the northwest the farmers
and country people generally believed what
Blaine and Bristow, Ingersoll ana Morton and
the army of orators sent out by Secretary
Chandler told them about the south they took
il all for gospel truth and voted for Hayes to
save the union and keep down the rebels; in
fact they were quite ready for a new war
rather than not put in Mr. Hayes, and now
they see their president acting AS though the
south was an integral and harmless part OF
the union, and they do not understand 1t.
There is no gainsaying that the case as
stated by the Herald's correspondent is
strictly true, and it serves tc bring into mer
tied conspicuOusness the internal lies which
radical conspirators vomited upon the coun-
try during the late presidential campaign
lies which the democratic party put forth
its energies to render powerless, and over
which it gained triumph at the ballotbox.
Every radical orator knew full well when he
uttered his vile SANDERS against the south
that he was lying-lying for party, lying for
money, lying for office; ready and willing
to perpetuate discord, anarchy and des-
potsm if thereby the party could con-
troll the government and retain its hold
upon the revenues of the country.
And now there are thousands of honest men
in the radical party, who, discovering that
they were deceived, that positive declara.
tons made by such miscreants as Blaine,
Morton, Ingersoll and Others were infamous
lies, are withdrawing their allegiance from
the party, and hold Hayes, the presidential
fraud, accountable for his share OF their de-
&C ption. TIL csc honest radicals have discov-
cred, though late in the day, that their
leaders were conspirators, and that
the purpose in deceiving the people
was of the most criminal character.
The history of radical sway in the south
is also receiving the attention of the couI-
try, and the depth of the scoundrelism prac-
ticed by Grant and the infamous crew who
acted under his authority. The New York
Tribune, which omits no opportunity to
SANDER the democratic party is so complete
ly overwhelmed with the habitual scoun-
drelism of the radical party that
il is forced to confess that 1.-The republican
party in the south is suffering the penalty
of its own sins and follies. 1t has had the
political guardianship of the colored people
ever since the close of the war, and what
has il made of them? They are little better
fitted to-day to frame and tn Judge laws, TO
raise and TO spend taxes. or TO carry on the
other functions of government, than
they we're twelve years ago when Lee
laid down his arms They have learned
something about the pecuniary value of
vote, or a seat on the bench, or place in
the lepislafnre. hut they have little concen To-.