The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-12
THE INDIANA RAIDS IN COUNCIL.

To-day the Indiana "a icals, postmasters,
pension agents and other swag fiends, meet
in council to deliberate upon the outlook,
take observations, repair their political dug
out, nominate state ticket, make aud pub
lish platform, and then retire to be most
goriously thrsshed in October LiDgle, of
the Lafayette Courier, who feeds at a swsg
mill, proclaims that 1.-The republican party
in Indiana has never been more perfectly
If in the great campaign of 1860, when with
Lane and Morton we swept the state, there
was more harmony or better tokens of sue
cess"
With this perfect union, gushiug fraterniz-
alton, bear huggiDg and general osculatory
performance it is to be presumed that all
things will appear lovely, that Hayes Off
Gals, grown rotund while pulling at govern.
ment teats and humping the government
udder will appear smiling, and that those
who want to suck will keep their mouths in
the most artistic pucker while they glorify
fraud as means of party success. Under
such circumstances the radical goose is likely
TO hang altitudelum to-day. These swsg
fiends will concoct returning board plat
form upon which 90 stand, and we suggest
that it may read about as follows:
The swag fiends of Indiana, Office holders
under a fraudulent president, as also those
who want office, in convention assembled
declare
l. That Hayes title, obtained by frauds
unparalleled; forgeries deliberate, premedi-
tated and devilish; periuries the most nefa-
rious and damnable is in all regards as good
as that under which George Washington
administered the government.
2. That J. Madison Wells, Anderson, Cas-
senave and Kenner, who applied the power
of perjury to lift Hayes into power, are
Christian statesmen of exalted worth, and
ought to be rewarded by Hayes, the benef-
ciary of their crimes.
3. That McLin, who with quickened con-
science confessed to the Florida frauds, un-
capped the dens of radical criminals and
shocked the world by recitations of crime so
essentially satanic that the devil himself was
amazed, is no longer in fellowship with the
radical party and ought not be rewarded for
stealing the vote of Florida.
4. That the Potter investigating commit
tee. constituted for the express purpose of
taking the stufing of fraud, lies, forgeries
and perjuries out OF the radical party.
and of showing to the world in their
true light the crimes committed in the in
terest of Hayes and to reverse the will of
of the American people, is too much resolu-
tionary and not sufficiently revolutionary,
and ought never to have been appointed.
5. That John Sherman has been caught
and exposed as a distinguished radical con-
spirator, who went to Louisiana in the inter
est OF Hayes, where he contracted to give
official rewards for perjuries; notwithstand-
ing which, considering the fact that he was
successful, whereby the radical party gets all
the offices, he has our-confidence and con-
dolence, and should be impeached and dis
graced. His scoundrelism shall be remem-
bered, and when he dies we will endeavor to
erect monument to his memory.
6. That i'm as much as the Hon. d. w.
VOORHEES, has added new luster to American
craftsmanship by his mastery arraignment
of Shylockism, and made his name immor-
tai by his defiant stand in favor of the peo-
pie and for the restoration of the business of
the country, it becomes the swag fiends IN
convention assembled TO denounce the said
Senator Voorhees, on all occasions.
IL That the indianapolis Journal made
ass of itself when il truth
fully admitted that the silver bill and
the bill to repeal the resumption law were
distinctive democratic measures gotten up