The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-03-13
THE DEM0CRATIC PARTY VS.. THE
RADICAL PARTY.

making comparisons between the democratic
party and the radical party. In the full
orbed light of recent and current events the
task is not difficult one, and we enter upon
it not only without hesitancy, but with real
gusto. The radical party is the only party
in this or any other country that has risen
to the supreme infamy of national thief
party. Such is the verdict of the people,
from which there is no escape. 1t has been
our journalistic duty from time to time to
exhibit the radical party before the state
and country, and bring into the boldest
prominence its inherent deprayity. We are
entirely satisfied with results. The de-
thronement of the party is vir-
tuaIly accomplished. Its exile from
power is inevitable. In this
hour of congratulations at the downfall of
thieves; of the humiliation and disgrace of
public plunderers; of the advancing power
of the democratic party, we are not sur
prised that radical Shylock organs howl.
We are encouraged by their impotent rage,
and rejoice that while they can still hiss
like serpents, they are fangless, and there
fore harmless. In yesterdays issue of the
Shylock Journal the following evidence of
malicious decrepitude and senile flatulency
appears:
Is there an inmate, Unborn quality of deprav-
ity in democracy that ta1nts the moral char
acter of its adherents and makes them do rs
partisans what they would be ashamed of as
would repeI in the parlor? We don't know
but ifthere is not why Is IL that every meas
ure which has made, or would have made,
government, local or general, party 10 a fraud
has come from the democracy2 There is not a
confidence mad, "A pickpOcket, a burglar,
tramp, street roDber, scamp of any degree
or direction OF guilt that is not democrat. To
be sure, there are honest men in the party.
but setting aside the proportion: which might
not be very gratifying revelation, Is IL not
strange that all scamps are democrats?
We could not desire more emphatic con-
fession of weakness than appears in the
fetid expectoration of a diseased organ
whose treachery to the people has made it
offensive to its own party, and whose treason
to every principle of justice and right
admitted it to the councils of those who have
sought to PROSTATE business that they might,
like land pirates, plumber the victims of
their unspeakable perfdy. 1t may be well
just here to note few facts in the history
OF parties. When Grant was elected
president the radical party was abso-
lutely supreme. 1t controlled nearly all the
states, and had such an overwhelming major
Ity in congress that laws were made to crafty
every within and caprice. Federal offices
were indefinitely increased and filed with
radical partIsans. Vast revenues we're col
lected and squandered. The car of Russia
was scarcely more of an autocrat than Grant,
and no matter how formidable the obstacle
it had to give way to his demands. The
democratic party had been completely ostra
cised. Fanatics bad lashed popular senti-
ment into fury. Democrats would not bow
down and worship the images that radical
ism had set up. True to their convictions,
true TO duty, to the constitution and the
right, they defied radical power, and though
forced into the furnace of radical
hate they walked amidst Its flames
uDscathed. During this mad revel of
radicalism every. species of scoundrelism
recorded since Cain murdered his brother
was practiced. U. s. Grant, the great SOL
dier, tasted power and fell into the deepest
slums OF partisan meanness Destitute OF
all sense of shame, brides for official station
ranged all the way from bull pups to man
sions and as a consequence the various de.
psrtments of the government became dens
of thieves. Schemes for robbing the treasury
were concocted and perfected, and the
brazen faced culprits, decked out in gorgeou:
costumes purchased with stolen money, be
came influential IN shaping the affairs of the
government, and were the confidential anG
trusted advisers of the president. At thi.
juncture the radical party won the sobnquet
of the national thief party, title which
it earned by plunderings that can not be es
timated, by frauds that can not be catalogued
and by villainies that defy description.
duped the poor, helpless freedmen, obtained
their confidence, and then robbed them o
their last dollar. In the name of honesty i
lent its carpet-bag representatives TO the
south, Ike so many carriOn crows, WHIT
assassinated States and when PROSTATE rihec
their pockets as footpads do their victims
This purpose to debauch everything pure il
government and everything of good repor
among men sealed the fate of the radica
party. It's best men abandoned it and de
nounced'it. Horace Greeley and thousand
of true men turned their backs upon it anC
bent their splendid faculties to overthrow
il. The work, once begun, has gone
steadily forward. With the declin,
of radicalism there was a cal
for the democratic party. The people haC
seen constitutions stabbed and libertie
cloven down. They had seen the revenue
of the country disappear and thieves grow
rich, hence they demanded change. The.
wanted to see the republic steering by tn
old landmarks, constitutions enthroned
liberties protected, justice administered ant
thieves punished; they had lost all conf
dence in the radical party; they had seen
lay nnholY hands upOn the most sacrel