The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23
THE RADICAL PARTY AND BUSI-
NESS INTERESTS.

IpTTalnIV, THERE !
he can prosper either politically or CONNER
clally oy protraction of the fon ent ana dis
cord that have prevailed throughout ihe south
during he past decade and hat Certainly,
there is no one who would, If he could 80
prosper. Certainly, the north and west are in
timately interested in the prosperity OF the
south.-Journal.
Some months since the people of Indiana
were engaged in hand to hand struggle for
the simple purpose of inaugurating an era of
reform in the administration of the affairs of
the general government. The democratic par
ty in Indiana took the high ground that the
policy of the radical party towards the south
was that of the highwayman, the foot pad,
the garroter, the sneak thief, the pirate, the
assassin, the incendiary, the burglar; in
word, policy of villainy generally, and it
was compelled to beat down, with other
obstacles to its success in the state, the In
dianapolis Journal. The Journal was the
accredited organ of Morton and his ''bloody
shirt" policy. 1t approved every act of
radical scoundrelism in the south 1t was
the organ Of radical conspirators. No radi-
cal infamy was too big for its gullet. 1t
could swallow them without grimace or
an effort. When Morton took snuff the
Journal sneezed If Grant ordered troops
into southern states to protect infamous rad
ical governors and radical plunierers and
carpet-bag thieves, Morton indicated bis
wishes and the Journal, like trained
dog sitting up on its hind legs,
barked it's approval. When Morton, Bob
Ingersoll, Ben Harrison, Fitzpatrick and the
rest OF the pack. native and alien, sought to
arouse the passions of the people against the
south. against peace and fraternity, which
promised revival of business and the inau-
| guration of an era Of prosperity, the Journal
chimed in with every other organ of the rad
ical party, and.ernployed its abilities to post
pone the suspicious event And when at
last the democracy of the country prevailed
over fanaGcsm and fraud, and the shout
went forth that Tilden and Hendricks
had been elected by majority OF
more than quarter of million OF votes,
and that the country was redeemed and dis
enthralled from the damning policy OF rad
icalism, radical conspirators, by returning
boards and electoral commissions reversed
the decision of the people and committed a
crime without parallel and without name.
The Journal then, as ever, true to its
instincts and t. Morton, applauded the
crime But the public sentiment aroused
by the democratic party in spite of radical
villainy came to the rescue of the PROSTATE
south, and the presidential fraud was
compelled, in obedience to that senti-
ment, to do an act of justice to her
people, and now the Journal and other or
gans which are hungry for swag, and are
ready to divide the spoils resulting from the
Louisiana returning board crime, are ex.
ceediRgly anxious to make it appear that
they have been the opponents of discord and
the advocates of southern prosperity. For
nearly fourteen years the business interests
of the country have been to very large ex-
tent under the control of the radical party
When radical carpet-bag thieves were rob
bling the southern states of their substance,
was the Indianapolis Journal ever known to
protest against their acts of piracy and con-
fiscation? We challenge the record. The
Journal, which has like Morton, cultivated
the most intense hatred toward the south and
southern interests has on all occasions ap-
plauded the most infamous acts of its party.
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5ayoneted legislature protected thieves
and scoundrels in perfecting frauds in the in
terest of the radical party. the Journal ap-
proved and applauded, and this course Of
villainy vas pursued until business of all
descriptions was PROSTATE and paralyzed.
confidence dethroned and the country filled
with bankruptcy and idleness- This hostili-
ty to the general prosperity o. the country,
difficult of explanation by any ordinary
method, is readily understood when it is re-
membered that radical officials were every
where stealing, not only from the south.
but from the revenues of the country and
that about one hundred thousand OF them
were drawing pay from the public revenue.
During all this reign of despotism, of corrup
ton, of fraud, of yillainy, eliminating in
stealing the presidency. the Journal has
been the mouth.piece of the men who we're
engaged in the daAning work. When the
south groaned under its burdens forced upon
its by the radical party, the Journal had
no word of protest against the policy of its
lparty. When the south plead for its right
, under the constitution, and was spurned by
the radical party, the Journal approved of the
calous disregard with which Morton and hi.
eoconspirators treated its appeals, and when
Grant ordered troops 10 stand guard over re.
iurning board thieves and Perjnred villains in
the interest of Hayes and crime, the Journal
: did what it could to secure the approval o
the people With this damning record the
Journal would now have it appear that il
{ has been the special advocate OF peace and
' prosperity in the south. aud says that 'Oul
commerce and industries languish, manu-
; features are sluggish; the wheels nlachin
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