The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-26

II the republican party has any sense of
gratitude II will not permit this congress to
adjourn without a vote of thanks to the dem
Ocratic majority In the house, for the generous
and self-sacridcing manner in which they
have come to its assistance and relief. They
have done for 1t what it could never have done
for itself, with Anything like the same measure
OF success. 6. They have
cleared MP as no one else could, the fog of their
own creation, and done more in single scs-
sion to remove from the public mind what
ever doubt there was Of republican honesty
and apacity than the republicans themselves
could have done during whole presidential
term. Indeed they have done much more
than this; they have strengthened the repub-
lican party with the people by gratuitous ex'
hibitions of the tnsincerity, incapacity and
untrustworthiness of It's only competitor and
rival.-New York Tribune.
1t is safe to say that the Tribune is alto
gether too jubilant over the vast services of
the democratic majority In the house.
by which the situation of the radical party
before the country has been improved
The gratitude is too gushing to be sincere.
1t is graveyard whistling in which conspi-
rators and their organs are INDUCING just to
keep up their courage. 1t is quite true that
the radical party has proited by frauds and
forgeries and perjuries, and so long as their
crimes were covered up things went along
smoothly. But exposing these crimes Is
quite another thing. and once in while a
radical journal steps to the front and tells
the plain truth. The San Francisco Argon-
ant, leading republican journal, says:
II there is any one in the nation really en-
Hayes is the honestly elected president of this
republic, we suggest that not alone In South
Carolina, Florida and Louisiana should in
qury be made, but also in California and more
particularly in San Francisco. 1t is now
opinion that the electoral urn was Violated In
our city. and that fraud was perpetrated to an
We believe If there had been honest elsc-
ton In the city of San Francisco year ago
last fall that Tilden would have carried the
state of California by as large a'mslority as did
Hayes, and the electoral vote of this state
would have decided the result. We believe
the republican party 70 be as g0od party a.
the country ever had-a party of patriotic
achievements, party Of loyalty and national
honor 1t has been the party OF grand resolves
and high moral principles. IL nas been the
party of intelligence, integrity and honest
political purpose; IL has been the party of
citizens. Its great rank and file to-day EN-
brace a majority of all that is good and virtu-
Gus in the land. The destiny, the perPetuity
and the honor of the American republic does
not hang upon the republican party, but IL
does lie In the keeping of the men and their
shin. These men, these Americans, these vir-
tuous, honest, honorable, intelligent and pa
triOtic American citizens have no sympathy
from wrong. They ask to gather nofruit from
crime. and II Rutherford b Hayes Is president
| by fraud-fraud of anybody-they demand TO
know 1t. Fraud never ripens into law error
never crystalizes into truth A president de
facto does not satisfy the honest desires OF an
honest man; IL is a president de jure That we
want. A president by the technical decision
of judicial tribunal is not what we want.
The life of the republic depends upon the hon
est election of president at the Daliot-Dox
All evils are less than the evil OF violating the
elective franchise. dishonest elect on Is the
precursor of civil war, party strife, 1nterne-
hllati0n.
There are thousands end tens OF thousands
of republicans who know that the men they
trusted as leaders betrayed their trusts and
committed crimes to win q triumph over
democrats, and the fact that democrats have
set their crimes in order before the Ameri-
can people is not calculated 10 change the
manly detestation of honest republicans for
frr.d to an enthusiastic support OF party
that practiced them. If, however, the Tn
bune and kindred sheets will continue TO
thank the democratic majority Of the house
for having nobly and fearlessly done its
duty we shall not complain.