The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-02-27


every act Of forgery; it Endorsed every inn
pious perjury, and now, when truth and
justice are asserting their right to be heard
and the vile criminals stand shivering in the
presence Of the mills Of the gods, where they
are to be ground exceedingly fine, the Journal
denounces law and justice, right and truth,
and pleads for the perjury cursed scamps
with all the ability itcan command, and when
the Sentinel lashes it for its detestable advo.
cacy as if it were Delaware sneak thief it
gives vent to its anguish in iatulent protests
against newspaper controversies and at
tempts to prove the popularity of its heresies
by appealing to circulation statements that
only add to its reputation for unblushing
mendacity. The people are well aware of
the financial aid business condition of the
country. They know there is widespread
ruin. They know that the courts, from that
OF justice OF the peace to the highest tribunal
in the state, crowded to overlooking
with suits for debt. They know that the
sheriffs are forever selling their property,
that mortgages are being foreclosed, and
that the bankrupt courts are daily extend
ing the list of the killed and wounded.
Under such circumstances the people, the
patrons of the Journal, its political friends
and political foes, had right to expect that
it would advocate measures of relief, that it
would have some words of sympathy for
them; but in this they have been disap-
pointed. The Journal, true to its venal in
stincts, has advocated the cause of the Shy
I he fha ~ he
their policy has inflicted upon the country.
1t has been a sneaking foe of the people of
/ Indiana. The Sentinel has compelled it to
wriggle and squirm occasionally, but the
| Shylocks have been able to hold the concern
I to the advocacy of measures which have
been destructive of the welfare of the state.
| Republicans OF Indiana regard the
course of the Journal as a flag
rant outrage; they no longer regard it
as their organ, and refer to its course upon
| the resumption law and the Bland bill in
terms of the most bitter hostility. With
such a record, the Journals reference to
RowelPs statement of its circulation as an
evidence of the peoples Endorsement of its
course will receive, as it merits, the unmiti-
gated scorn of honest men. 1t is absolutely
true that the people are deeply interested in
newspaper controversies when their inter
ests are attacked and their convictions in
suited by one class Of newspapers and de-
Tended by another class, and the public
| know full we'll that the Journals course
upon business and financial questions is not
| Endorsed by any considerable number of
republicans, and its utterances to the con
trary are as devoid of truth as Rowells
statement of its circulation. We
! have called the Journal ''the business grave
digger" Why not? It's advocacy of the
veto power to arrest legislation for the relief
of business makes the sobriquet eminently
I appropriate. We have called the Journal
''the bankrupt hearse." Why not? Its ad-
vocacy of the Shylock policy by which Indi-
ana has lost more than 10000 900
during the past six years renders
the nickname pertinent and deserving.
No paper in the west has been
more inclined-to employ epithets in its
controversies with other papers than the
Journal, but il has been taught by the Sem
tinel the value of silence in this regard, and
has avoided good many castigations by the
exercise OF prudence. The Sentinel does not
care fg for the Journals statements about
its circulation. Such statements are of no
! value, and since the News has hunt
ed them down a terrier would
a rat. and killed them, they possess
no value to the public. The SsntinePs con-
troversy with the Journal is not upon the
subject Of its circulation, but upon its de.
Tense of the radical thieviDg policy under
Grant; its hostility to the punishment of the
Louisiana returning board criminals, and its
stubborn hostility to measures calculated to
revive the business of the country and bring
in an era of prosperity. In the discussion
of such questions the people are interested,
and the Sentinel will in the future, as in the
past, compel the Journal to keep silent OIL
modify its hostility to measures of relief.