The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-18

The Financial Policy of the Republican
Party Attacked by RepubftcaD-He
Wants n Change from Present Oppres.

sion.
To the Editor of the Sentinel:
SIR-That large per cent. of the honest
and intelligent republicans of Indiana are
Numerically opposed to the ruinous finan-
clal policy pursued by the national admin
istration is a fact too patent to admit of sue
cessful contradiction. None have been more
familiar with this fact than the satellites and
sycophants of the said administration; how
ever they early determined, in direct oppo-
sition to the wishes of a majority of the
party, to inaugurate and conduct the repub-
lican campaign of this year, in this state,
upon the financial policy and programme
dictated by the Shylock firm of Hayes, Sher-
man & Co., and to depend for sue
cess upon the whipping-in process. The first
step necessary to be taken by these machine
politicians was to select some prospective
candidate for the United States senate;
some one in full sympathy with the ruin
Gus financial policy of the Hayes admins
ration; some person possessed with sufficient
e.frontery to face a financially depressed
people and advocate the suicidal doctrine OF
a contraction of the currency; some one that
could stand before the tax ridden public and
champion the cause of the national banking
system; some one that believed every one
entertaining a financial idea differing
from his own vas an idiot and
ought to be an inmate of lunatic
asylum; in fact some one whose heart was as
little capable of a kindly throb for the suf-
ferIng masses las a last years oyster she'll"
ALI of these qualifications were readily
found in the person of General Ben Harrison,
and he w a nlacPd the track
has been doing valiant work for the eastern
Shy.ocks from that day up TO the present
time and the same can be truthfully said of
large majority of the republican candidates
Tor congress.
The political jugglers and hired menals of
a corrupt and fraud tainted administration
have succeeded in arrayipg what was once
the party of liberty and equality upon the
side of financial oppression and bankruptcy:
now let them prepare themselves to accept
the fruits of their perfidy. The people OF to-
day are looking to the living present for re-
/ lief and a speedy redress of their grievances
| The doctrine of prejudice and hate, the
| Haunting of the bloody shirt, the oft pre-
dicted Imminence of bloody Instructions in
the south, the danger OF allowance Of south
ern war claims, and the silly twaddle Of q
solid south have heretofore been howl
ed In the ears of the people until blatant
] demagogues have too often succeeded in nd
ing into power on the tide of partizan zeal
and sectional prejudices, and once in they
have plundered and robbed the national
treasury to the verge of bankruptcy and
blghted our national honor by n reign
of almost unparalleled corruption and fraud
These things have had their day, and are
of the dead past, and let us hope new era,
one of peace and prosperity. is dawning Let
us have a change. Let US lend our hand
and cast our vote for such men and meas
ures as furnish guarantee to the people of
an entire change in the financial legislation
of the country. Let us give the matter a
trial at least, as there is little danger In a
change, and great opportunities and ikeli-
| hood of beneficial result from the course
advised. REPUBLICAN.
Upton, Indiana, Sept. TO- 1878.