The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23
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otherwise the Bursted Boil on the
Nose Of His Party.
What morton Did for the Great vene-
zuefean.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial, writing from Lafayette, Indiana
says: By the way, how suddenly and how
utterly and entirely has he name of God
love S. Ortiz slipped out of the current con-
versation and the newspaper literature Of
the day. 1t is as though he had been sud-
denly wiped out of existence and out of the
memory of men. / think it has Deen in no
ill-will or bitterness that he has been ignored
he has been treated as we instinctively treat
men who have met with some swift and terri
bic reverse-some great and overwhelming
sorrow-a kind of misfortune that words. are
no medicine for, and silence the only trib-
ute we can pay. Indeed, it was a terrible
experince. To-day the chosen leader of a
great army gathering for a magnificent cam
paign; tomorrow to have your epaulets cut
oil, your sword broken over your back, and
to be drummed out of the camp. To. day
the chief of a great party in such political
contest as the county had not known for
years and years. From one end
turned into day by the flaming
torches, the rockets bursting against the sky
the tramp of the long professions in gay uni
forms, the air full of the drum-beat and
blare of brass and crash of cymbals the roar
of the marching multitudes, the thunder of
the cannon, the waving of the banners, the
seas of upturned faces, the ringing voices of
uiace-all this to pass away like vision
from him who was the leader. and
who now sits apart in silence and OBJ
security with none so poor to do him
reverence, and sees another in the proud
place he occupied and the tickle people roar
ing their plaudits around him. What time
it was then for the making of splendid
names. What grand opportunities the days
offered. What could not the man who car
ried Indiana for the republicans in such
crisis hope for? What good thing the nation
could offer should he not look forward to
possessing? To be on the high road to such
magnificent possibilities, and suddenly to be
sacrificed to within of the people and to be
pushed back to the rear and into the dark
ness, disgraced and dishonored.
How dearly have Godove s. Orth and
George H. Pendleton paid the penalty for
doing just what the men who condemned
them would have done under similar cir
cumstances-endeavorin to get as large a
fee for work done as possible. But peculiar
ly severe hard and bitter was the expert
ence of Mr.. Ortiz. Time will bring him its
revenge In his native place he is loved,
honOred and respected, and to day you can
hardly find republican in the state who
will not say that his withdrawal was
a fatal mistake, and that without doubt
he would have carried the state had he
been kept at the head of the ticket. He
would certainly nave polled more votes than
Harrison Harrison is not q popular man
among the voting masses of Indiana. Right
or wrong they look upon him as cold, sell
fish, "aristocratic' man, and he has none of
the elements of personal popularity to win
with the people. Against such a man as
blue jeans Williams he had not a shadow
of chance, while Orth, to a great extent,
would have fought Uncle Jimmy with his
own weapons, for the German and liberal
elements were all with him. The people in
many cases resented the treatment of Ortiz
which seemed almost brutal, and the Ger
mans took it as personal affront from the
republicans, and thousands of them voted for
Williams in anger and disgust at the action
of the republican leaders. But the demo-
Gratis had cut off the heads of Judges Petit
and Buskirk in the interest of honesty and
reform, and the republicans thought it nee
essary to do something of the same sort and
make some sacrifice on high moral princi-
Piles, and Orth was chosen for the victim.
So Friedley came over here and ordered him
off the ticket, and the Indianapolis ring
showed up the colors of Young Tippecanoe,
which went down at last under the conquer
ing Blue Jeans banner of long, lean, lank,
awkward, unsophisticated Uncle Jimmy.
To-day the very men who decapitated Ortiz
say that the field would have been won had
he been retained, or at least Williams's ma
jority would have been much less.