The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-30
THE POOR OLD JOURNAL.

nal, OF as SOIne VI us quOnudhh lAiOhuS OoAi
it, ''poor old Journal" is in fix. Without
policy, without ideas, without party,
without "bloody shirt" without an admin
istration, without president, and without
pretty much everything except determin-
alton to sit on the shirt tail of radicalism,
puerile praise of Morton, and wait for such
portions of returning board and electoral
commission dividends as may fall to its
share. The poor old Journal is
in a fix, sure enough. 1t dare not
defend Hayes, the presidential fraud, and it
dare not denounce him. During the cam
paign the "poor old Journal was specially
engaged in proclaiming the beauties and
glories of the bloody shirt" 1t was ire
mendously(?) down on the south. 1t echoed
Morton. 1t tried to be Morton's shadow. 1t
limped like Morton, and was so much in
sympathy with the great COW feed governor
that it spit like Morton, growled like Nor
ton, cursed like Morton, and like Morton
tried to make it appear that it had sound
legs and healthy spine. Like Morton it
got pretty decently thrashed by the Indiana
democracy, and then like Morton it
looked around for an opportunity to
retrieve its fortunes, and like Morton
applauded the returning board swindle and
the electoral commission deadfall, and all
this because success, achieved by fair means
or foul, gave to the party not only power but
swag. Still, as we have said, the poor old
Journal is in a fix. 1t can not indorse
Hayes. Still it must pretend to bee pleased
with the fraud, for il it gets any swag at all
there must be quasi approval, and an aver
age radical organ would leap from train
going at the rate of sixty miles an hour into
a lake of fire and birthstone to defend the
principles of its party, which may be
summed up in the one word-'swag and
the 'poor old Journal is average. The
poor old Journal sees John Sherman, the
presidential frauds secretary of the treasury
preparing to bankrupt the country, but it
does not chirp for fear that when the time
comes to feed the animals its rations will be
cut short, which would be terrific. 1t sees
the presidential fraud remove the troops
from southern states and tries hard to APP
it were vomiting up its intestines or jerking
out it's molars with jack screw. 1t pro-
fesses to be in receipt of communication
from a southern republican" possibly j.
Madison Wells or Packard or some other
carpetbag scoundrel; it may be that
Eliza Pinkston has addressed the
poor old Journal" note which
contains "bitter arraignment of the south
'ern policy and administration of the pres
idential fraud. Nothing could be more en-
joyable than to note the way the "poor old
Journal squirms in its etfors to show the
southern republican that Hayes Is right and
that Hayes is wrong. 1t is in bad fix. 1t
talks of "rebel whites" of Yankees" "pow-
'er of the government" "ruling passion"
persecution" financial ventures" social
condition, anarchy" republican princi-
pies" carpet baggers," thieves" chang
ing panorama ''ostracism, /" and other similar
hapdoodle adj nd,tseam, hits Grant, the despot
and bride taker, a whack; tells its readers
that the democrats had possession of the
army and that Hayes had to submit to the
inevitable, and damns him with the faint
praise that his. purposes were good, what
ever may be said "of his methods, when,
in fact, since he had to submit to the newt
able he could have had no purpose-he sim
ply had TO submit-but he might have
changed somewhat his methods, and these
the ''poor old Journal" don't indorse with
that gusto which the presidential fraud had
right to expect from a swsg fiend, and it is
quite possible that the "poor old Journal
will have to get down on its belly and apollo
gize or go hungry. After such an exhibition
of fawning. cringing, crawling sycophancy,
and such an outpouring of twaddle to please
the southern republican" and not offend
the presidential fraud, it is refreshing to hear
the poor old Journal say that the "repub-
'lican party has not forgotten ITSELF its prin-
'ciples or its duty" Not bit of it. IL will
never forget either as long as there is a
custom house. a post Office or any other de-
pository of government revenues to rob and
il has the power to put thief in Office.
The principles of the party are being daily
developed by investigations of the New York
custom house, and the duty of the party, as
Hayes, the presidential fraud, Is demon
strating, is to feed with the public
revenues those who helped him to swindle
the people out of their choice for
president The poor old Journal calls
the present. the experimental era" The
radicals have tried numerous experiments,
in some Of which they have been successful.
They tried the experiment of robbing the
south by sending forward carpet bag thieves
aud succeeded. They tried the experiment
OF carrying elections by military interfer-