The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-14

The news from Washington which we pub
lish to-day will command the attention of
the country. 1t will be analysed and COM
mented upon by politicians, statesmen. law
yers and men of thought, without regard
to politics or professions for it happens to
be matter that interests every voter in the
republic. If there are democrats, who after
carefully reading the telegraphic ac-
count of the first decision, con-
cludo that there Is yet something left
upon which hope for Tllden's
success can take hold and hang on a while
longer, we shall be disposed to applaud their
faith in human nature, however much
we may doubt their ability to
judge between radical politicians and
honest men. We admit the possibil-
ity of obtaining from the commission
an honest decision, but we most certainly.
deny the probability of such result. This
conclusion, however, is not in consequence
of the news received from Washington last
night. We have at no time since the an
nouncement of the personnel was made,
had a thimble full of faith in the ability
of its radical members to rise above their par
tisan predictions. We believed then, and
our convictions are strengthened by the ac-
ton of the commission, that its decisions
would be in all regards partisan; that a ma
jority being radicals, the decisions weuld
favor the interests of Hayes, without regard
to truth, constitution or law; that scOun-
drelism would be Endorsed to any extent
necessary to count in Hayes and count out
Tilden. We have heard much of late of the
ability of supreme judges to rise above the
partisan and vindicate the right, and We
were disposed to hope that the high esti-
mate would be justified by Mr.. Justice
Bradley, but there he stands side by side
with Morton, covered with the slime of
partisanship, with decisions in favor of
fraud upon his lips that ought to burn them
to cinders He might have scared miracle
of light, and made for himself a name and
fame as enduring as the stars, but he pre-
ferred to parallel in his moral organism the
physical deformities OF Morton and besmear
the ermine of his high office with the filth
of radical slums, and to live in
history as the man who betrayed
his trust and let his faculties
and opportunities to the infamous trick of
stamping fraud with the broad seal OF jus
tice, and of emboldening returning boards
to continue their perjuries with assur-
ances that not only the army, but the SUI
preme court as well, will make their crimes
though red as crimson, appear as white as
WOOL The Florida case was from first to last
as infamous as radical scoundrelism could
make it. Falsehood and perjury, aided by
Zach Chambers kilograms and Grants SOL
diers, added indefinitely to the essential
devilishness of all its surroundings. A pur-
pose to cheat in favor of Hayes was deliber-
ately planned and as deliberately carried
out. 1t was discovered and exposed; every
lie was gibbeted before the world frauds
hideous as the putrid carcasses of Aligators,
were exposed to the view of those who were
trying to get at the bottom facts of radical
scoundrelism in Florida. The truth was
brought TO the surface and certified to by
the highest tribunals in the state, but the
verdict by the commission, so far as it has
any significance at all, indicates a
purpose to indorse fraud throughout,
and if it be possible count in Hayes. AS we
have remarked. it may be possible to defeat
the purpose of the conspirators, as final re-
suit is not yet reached. We hope the advo-
Gates of the truth will continue to pile up
the testimony, TO array facts in solid pha-
lanx, to exhibit to the country
the damning frauds of the con-
spirators, and compel the radical
commissioners, if it is their purpose to con-
summate the crime of placing Hayes in
Office, to climb to dizzy attitudes to get over
the truth, so that in the fall they may all
break their official necks. 1t is some salts
faction to know that democrats, in favoring
the arbitration plan of settling the
vexed question, believed that there
were radicals who would be governed
by an overwhelming array of truth, but
failing in this, that radical supreme judges
would be true to themselves, their duty and
their country. If in all this they have been
disappointed, as now appears, their deep
humiliation may be somewhat modified by
the reflection that they have gained deeper
insight than ever before into the democrat
lied effects of radicalism by which they may
profit IN future contests with the curse.