The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-24
PRESS OPINION.

New York World: If the president did
not intend by his incoherent and mischiev
Gus dispatch of Sunday night, sent to Cen
eral Augur, to precipitate collision in New
Orleans between the United States troops
and the people of that most unfortunate
city. 1t is difficult to see what he did mean
by it.
Cincinnati Enquirer. Instead of having
cabinet officer to manage the campaign of
his party hereafter the president of the
United States should be called on to exer-
else the functions of chairman of the nation
al executive committee. The power of the
government could thus be better employed
in bulldozing the country.
Buffalo Courier: Who could have believed
two years ago, when Mr. Wheeler denounced
and reversed the action of the infamous
turning board, that he himself would now
be willing to accept from it an exalted Of
flee, and that there would be found even
presidential candidate willing to take the
highest office in the nation from the same
disreputable hands?
New York Tribune Were the people of
Santo Domingo better informed on Ameri-
can politics they would not have been
greatly excited by President Grants regret
that his annexation scheme met with the
united opposition of one political party in
the senate, and with a strong opposition
from the other" Although President Baez,
who was willing to retire in our favor, is
again in power, no one feels melted to re-
new negotiations.
Harrisburg Post: The house committee
on appropriations at Washington report the
legislative, executive and judicial appropria-
ton bill to-day. A reduction of ten per cent
in salaries is proposed for officials OF every
class throughout the country. 1t is not ex-
pected that there is virtue enough in the
radical senate, as at present constituted, to
pass this bill. Nevertheless it is what the
country demands and what it is coming to
as soon as the democrats obtain control OF the
government
New York Herald: Should both houses
treat the electoral perplexities as party
question there is no possibility of an agree
ment upon plan of counting the vote. Any
| plan that comedies to either house the sum-
mary power of absolutely excluding the
votes of any state gives to one party or the
| other the certainty of electing its candidate,
| and the result will be known before the
| counting begins. For this reason no plan
| that does not leave both parties in some
doubt as to the result is likely to be adopted.
Brooklyn Eagle: These three incidents
| are leading ones in the comedy of errors 10
| which carpetbaggery has descended The
! verbal exchanges of fish-wives are dignfled
bv comparison with the conduct of the
| RONeT0OTS anu ltSiSitIuiCo Whoih Joy
nets made and prop up. The court expert
ence of Sancho Panza seems serious and the
perfection of the etiquette of state smanship,
when put in contrast with the style OF
| Chamberlain and Packard. Yet it is a sys-
tenn of unparalleled mountebankism like
/ this which the federal government sustains
and which is relied upon to pass and confirm
the title to the presidency. What do our
republican readers think of carpetbaggery In
| iis last estate2
Philadelphia Times: Thoughtful and law
respecting people can have no word but OF
emphatic condemnation for the duel which
is the last, and, TO the scandal loving public
the most interesting incident of the Ben
nett-May sensation. So far as the
young men who participated in the
affair are concerned, it matters
very little to mankind whether they
shoot each other or not; their death would
not check the world in its revolutions. Blu
society is interested to the extent of exact
ing that life shall not be rated at so low
price, and that the men who brazenly VIC
: late its laws shall be held to strict account
whether they be rich or poor, ignorant o
educated, and whatever may BE- their pos
ton in the social scale.