The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-10-02
REBUKE THE FRAUD.

In q few days the people OF INDIANA VIII
determine at the ballot-box whether fraud
shall be Endorsed or rebuked. There are
other issues TO be decided but the para
mount one is to determine whether or not
the people shall select their rulers in a con
stitutionsl way, or whether their rulers shall
be chosen through the agency of fraud and
perjury.
In 1876 the democracy of Indiana put for
ward its most distinguished son for the pres
idency, and asked the st. Louis convention
to indorse its choice, but that convention
decided to give the first place on the ticket
to an eminent son of New York and the
second to him whom our democracy had
vainly sought to place in the van. Indiana
accepted the decision of the convention and
went to work with a will to make that deci-
sion effective. 1t was with deep regret that
the democracy of Indiana saw its leader
made second on a ticket when it wanted
him first, but it sank its regret in
the public good and supported the ticket as
heartily as it would have done had the posi-
ton of the candidates been reversed.
Such was the condition of affairs in InGi
ana when the late Senator Morton left his
place at Washington and came here in the
vain endeavor to stop the tide that was
sweeping over the country IN favor Of de-
mocracy and reform. In speech delivers d
in the then Academy OF Music in this city,
he told his hearers that as Indiana went SO
went the Union; that the election OF VIII
/ liams meant the election OF Tilden apd
! Hendricks and the Inauguration OF the de
mocracy in the executive department OF
the government at Washington. When the
/ 6ercest political contest that ever took place
| in this country was ended ana the electic d
/ of the democratic state ticket in Indiana
accomplished the great leader OF
the radical party knew that the
only hope of defeating Tilden, even
with the assistance of the southern states,
whose votes it W. possible to manipulate in
the interest OF redicalism, was in carrying
the sold vote of the Pacific states for Hayes.
Instead of remaining at home and assisting
his party with his advice and counsel he hied
| himself to California and went to work to
| secure the vote of that state for Hayes OIL
Gals were corrupted, false registrations
were made and matters so manipulated that
more than six thousand fraudulent votes
were counted for Hayes in the city OF San
4 Francisco alone.
BY such means as we have named, Cali
.fornia wss carried for the republican candi-
date and his counting in to the presidency
made possible.
+, We know this charge against the late re-
publican leader OF Indiana is serious one,
but it is true, and justice demands that the
truth shall be told. One who could perpet-
uate his rule in Indiana by voting whole regi-
ments OF Massachusetts, soldiers and forcing
his followers to enact the infamous appor
tionment law which gives to republicans
more power than that possessed by demo-
Gratis, would not hesitate to corrupt the
ballotbox in distant city when the elec-
ton of precinct and the very existence OF
his party were the stakes for which he was
playing.
With the Pacific states solid for Hayes he
yet could not be elected unless the votes of
two states could be stolen for him. This
was done and man who had been beaten at
the polls by over quarter of a million of
votes was given an Office which up to that
time had never been filed by any one save
the elect of the people. The contamination
of the crime was an outrage upon the people