The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-02
YOUNG MEN AND THE CAMPAIGN.

LIE pOiltlCdl pdlBu llOldnd AOI 1910
has commenced. 1t involves considerations
of vital importance, and will be far reaching
in its consequences. The government of
the country has been for many years abso-
lutely under the control of the radical party.
Under Grant radicalism was unrestricted
and unequivocslly supreme. State and
general governments were radical. ALI in
terests were under radical influences. Rad
icalisn set up and knocked down. adj LJitum.
Obstacles TO its despotic sway, however formi-
dable, were beaten down as things of straw.
Constitutions were stabbed in the presence
of the people-rights secured in many hard
fought battle against tyranny were cloven
latures chosen by the people were dispersed
by mailed soldiers at the point of the bayo-
nets-federal soldiers, TO secure partisan
triumphs, stood guard in the rotundas Of
state capitols, and reign of despotism was
inaugurated. Grant, educated to the profes-
sion of arms, abandoned the army for posi-
ton in lanyard, and sinking by the low
instincts of his beastly nature from glory to
grease, was at last aroused from his scottish
habits, and floated into the presidential
chair on the blood red waves of civil war.
What next? Everything good in government,
everything honest in politics, everything
decent in civil polity and everything
ennobling and dignifying in human affairs
was debauched. Thieves took possession of
fiscal affairs; mendaclty battered down
truth; the bloody shirt displaced the coun-
try's flag; duplicity pushed honesty to the
wall; bayonets usurped the place of ballots;
the Shiny tracks of fraud were seen every
where upon the records of the government,
and finally, as the climax of all this deep
and damning depravity, the leaders of the
radical party utilized perjury, and, making
a record of blasphemous lies unparalleled in
the archives of he'll, placed r. b. Hayes in
the Office of president. The people, who love
country better than party, seeing these
things, have concluded that a change is
required; hence state after state has cut
loose from radical moorings and drifted to
the democratic party. Radicalism in its
multiiorm scoundrelsm not only robbed the
revenues of the general government and of
the country, and by violation of solemn COM
pacts sought to make the people the slaves of
a moneyed power more cruel and lie potic
than the government of car or sultan. Cold
as an iceberg, callous as petrefaction, soul
less as a toad, the radical managers, in the
interest of bondholders and money sharks,
have brought upon the people widespread
ruin. The people are now waking up. They
realize that they have been believing, not
one radical lie, but ten thousand radical lies;
that they have been lulled into repose, while
the money sharks have robbed them OF their
substance; that they have been the victims
of a cruel delusion, and that every considera-
ton of self preservation and self defense
demands that the radical party shall cease to
control the destlnies of the country. In
Indiana the managers, TO perpetuate the
power of the party, disfranchised thousands
of citizens by disricting fraud
which the more it is examined
the more despicable it becomes.
The Journal dare not attempt its defense.
It's silence is ominous. 1t sees the general
waking up of the people, and for venal
considerations IS trying to tighten their
letters by advocating the veto power. The
young men of Indiana are closely scanning
the situation. Thousands of them will cast
their first vote in 1878. What will be their
decision? The occasion with them is one of
vast moment. They can not ally themselves
to party whose chief distinction is that of
roguery. They will hesitate to identify
themselves with party that employed the
Louisiana returning board to defeat the will
of the people. They will not consent
to raise their unsoiled hands to prop up
party that is tumbling to pieces by the
weight of its crimes Their future success
and influence as citizens confront them.
Their sense of integrity forbids such a
course. Their young and manly hearts and
their noble purposes revolt at the idea.
They will not tie themselves by their votes
to the corpse of radicalism. Its bloated and
distorted carcass is too repulslye. 1t is be-
yond redemption or resurrection. The
democratic party is in sympathy with the
people. 1t is battling for their interests. It
is against fraud. 1t is for honest counts;
against returning boards. 1t is for the peo
pie against the bondhOlders. 1t is for pros
perity against adversely, bankruptcy, idle
ness and ruin. The young men of Indiana
will be likely to take these things into con-
sideration and cast their first vote in 1878
for honest government
THE INDIANA DEMOCRACY SOLID.
Tho dnmncrafic Marty of Indiana vas neuer