The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-08
DEYoCRaTS- CONE HOME.

We will not humiliate ourselves by beg
cling any citizen to vote the democratic
ticket, but to our democratic friends with
whom we have stood side by side for eighteen
years of radical rule and radical ruin. we
have a right to speak. We have a right to
come to your freside and talk, not with a
forked tongue, but as a member OF the
party that loves good government, that
loves contentment, happiness and prosper
perity: that hates oppression, venality and
corruption, and say come home to the
democratic household. When we hear an
honest democrat, endowed with reasonable
intelligence, in these days of enlightenment
with ali the glarng outrages borne by the
lightning over the world that the suffrages
of states have been stolen, that
a president had been counted into office
through perjury, the confession coming
from the lips of the victims themselves, say
there is no difference in the old political
parties, new organization must take the
field" we are amazed.
If some unwashed rascal, who properly
belongs to the republican party, has crept
into an official position under the name Of
democracy, and proved recreant to his trust
can he be compared with radical villains
who have robbed forty-five millions OF
people of their choice for the presidency?
Can it be said that a party out of power for
a generation responsible for having your
homes swept away by the robbery and con-
traction of the eighteen years of uninter-
rupted radical rule? Democratic friends, when
the recollection of honest government
of better days, OF discriminating by the
power of the ballot from every branch of
your government the fattened frauds the
moths of honest substance, the thieves of
your happiness, the assasSins of liberty, the
filters of poor houses, the bankru piers of a
country, the destroyers of religion, the
dethroners of mind, the housebreakers of
family circles, the concentration of every
thing repugnsnt TO American craftsmanship,
will you desert the democratic household?
Let us hoist the curtain and look behind the
scenes and see the workings of the leaders of
the national party of Indiana. Who are
they? What are their political antecedents?
James Buchanan, "the Plan, radical; Ezra
A. Olleman. radical; Arson B. WaIcott,
radical. What did this trio of leaders do two
years sgo, few weeks before the election?
They attempted to transfer the independent
party to the republican. Walcot withdrew
his name for governor in a card requesting
his friends to support Ben Harrison against
Governor Williams. IL was then charged
that Olleman handled the filthy lucre
and failed to divide fairly. Now the
PLANS" arrangement for the campaign is to
organize thoroughly in democratic town
ships and counties, and go through the
election, to the end that if the draw is large
enough from the democracy to secure a
republican victory, Hayes is TO take care of
Buch., the "Plan," by giving him a terrific
rial judgeship The republican party refuse
to invest any more money in third party.
Can democrats be led longer INTO the camp
OF the republican party by corrupt and
designing schemers? Or will they say, Thus
far we have followed. and no farther will we