The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14
GOVERNOR HENDRICKS CRITICS.

1t required no seer to foretell that Gov
ernor Hendricks speech would throw the
whole radical army into confusion. The
organs we're knocked hors dc combat, and they
are quite unable to comprehend the situa-
ton. They founder about like electric cells
whose tails have lost their shocking powers;
they talk incoherentIy, like men just recov-
ering from bludgeon blow on the Uranium,
and they continue to illustrate the mascu-
line bovine whose indiscretlon led him to
attack the locomotive. These radical greed
vendors realize that man of power has
spoken; that words of consummate wisdom
have been uttered, and that they are des-
tined to have a marked influence upon the
popular mind during the present campaign.
Some of the radical organs express the opin-
ion that Governor Hendricks speech is not
great" though just what they mean by
that no one knows nor is it material. 1t is
easy said, and therefore answers the purpose
Of the average radical organ.
The Journal, in commenting upon the
speech, says:
As it is his speech presents nothing new or
original, and the old topics which are dealt
with are not handled with vigOr, force or in
c1sveneSs. There is an air ofmildewed states
manship about 1T which is neither agreeable
nor impressive. 1t has the flavor of canned
goods which have been carried over two sea-
sons.
1t occurs to us that Governor Hendricks
brought past events before his audience and
before the people of Indiana and the coun-
try in such way as to revive their impor-
lance and give to them a freshness and a
vividness calculated to arrest the attention
of those who heard the speech and of the
thousands who Will read it. In speaking Of
reform within the party, - which have been
tayorite catch-words with radical organs and
orators, Mr.. Hendricks silences such non
sense by few words which will pass for
both new and original":
1t is a difficult work-aImost impossib1e-for
party to correct its own abuses. The repub-
lican party has wholly failed.
of party favorftism and corruption, that party
now stOops beneath the additional burden of
crimes per oetrated in placing man in the
presidential office who was not chosen to 1T by
the people. Virtue can not be born OF vice;
nor political reform of corruption. The law
was declared Ia the days OF creation tnat eV:ry
living thing shall bring forth after its kind,
and repeated in the new era, that a corrupt
tree can not bear good fruit.
Compared with such utterances the drivel
of the Journal sinks to fathomless contempt
1t is as if an idiot with toy whistle should
seek to drown the roar of Niagara. There is
embodied in the few words quoted from
Governor Hendricks speech vital principle
OF the campaign. They are susceptible of
indefinite elaboration. But the Journal
and every other radical organ that ind 9rses
fraud, forgeries and perjuries are careful
not to refer to this declaration of
the Indiana statesman, and it is not
surprising. Governor Hendricks allusion to
southern claims placed that question in
such an attitude before the people as to
strike every radical organ dumb as an oys-
ter. He brings up Mr.. Morton and compels
him to testify In such a way as to place the
radical party on record as the great southern
claims paying party. These developments
may be "mildewed craftsmanship" but
they are facts nevertheless, and will be
likely to retain their flavor for several years
TO come. They are canned goods" that are
having a remarkably large sale Just now.
Governor Hendricks allusion to the position
/ of Senator Voorhees, upon great leading
questions receives the usual amount of poo
pooing from the radical organs. Their criti-
cisms are too puerile for comment. Governor
Hendricks simply indicates has approval of
Senator Voorhees, course in the senate for
the purpose of contrasting it with Ben
Harrison's expressed opinions, ard since
Mr.. Voorhees, stands souarely. upon the
democratic platform, all the talk about
"infation," Reputation" and 'commun-
ISM as applied to Mr.. Voorhees, is so much
lying, and Mr.. Hendricks puts the whole
matter at rest. No statesman of the times
has been more explicit in his declarations in
regard to the vital issues of the campaign,
and no speech that has come under our
observation is more invulnerable to the
attacks of the radicals.
NEW HAMPSHIRE AND TRAMPs.
Inst WHY a poor devil of a tramp should