The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-17
Ohs Semtimel.



The Journal was impudent enough the
other day to speak of the democratic masses
of the north as doughfaces, and charged that
they always had and always would obey the
behests OF the southern wing of the party.
The democratic party is the only party whose
principles can be applied to and made to
cover every section of our common country.
1t is the party OF the people, in their Interest
and not in the interest of the money sharks
of foreign countries or our own. Any man
who loves his whole country and wants to
see the principles of justice and honesty
practiced by all our people toward each
other, politically as well as in private
transactions, is a democrat, and he has
no business in any other organization.
We do not desire to fight the war over again,
but we can not refrain from reminding the
Journal that northern democrats, when the
alternative of war or disunion was presented,
when the government was in danger, ignored
party, and fought gallantly and well until
the flag of the Union was restored and re-
spected all over this land. 1t comes with a
bad grace from an organ that has always
been conducted in the interest of the mon
eyed aristocracy of this country and Europe,
that has defended and upheld rs right the
robberies that the sharks and their tools
have committed on the people of this
country, to decry democrats, and
charge them with being sycophants
and slaves to their southern brethren.
When the war was ended the democrats
beat their swords into plowshsres and re-
turned to the walks of peace. The republi-
can party debauched public morals, OPP
pressed the vsnquished, and in the name of
loyalty robbed whole states, bankrupting
entire peoples, and instigated crimes that
they might bear false witness against their
brethren, who could only protest against
their monstrosihes. The democratic party
began exposing their corruptions, and when
the people saw and understood the whole
sale villainies they had committed they
arose in their might and hurled them from
Office. They can never forgive them or the
democratic party for their loss of
power. We can submit to being called
dOughfaces, for an eplthet from such a
source is only an evidence OF the justice of
our principles. But we would like before
dismissing this subject to ask the Journal to
name any democratic president who ever
bayoneted state constitutions; who ever used
the army in time of peace to sustain his
party in power; who ever joined ring of
unprincipled money sharks to rob the people
by vicious legislation out OF hundreds of
millions of dollars; who ever vetoed meas
ures of relief for the toiling millions that
the bondholders might coin more gold from
their very life blood; who ever to gain place
and power violated his honor as soldier
and the confidence of his superior to
gain political advantage for his party.
Put your finger on one democratic
senator to whose hands have stuck
sordid gold gained by credit mobllier
schemes and throttling state governments
Name one democratic senator who was so
false to liberty and so lacking in devotion to
the principles Of his government that he
advocated the ruling of states by military
law in time of peace, and the subyersion Of
citizens to a state of vassalage. Show us one
who has sought to retain Office for himself
and power for his party by arraying section
against section.
If the Journal would devote itself to show
ing up the enormous thieving of its own
party and exposing the faithlessness of its
leaders, 1t would have no spare time to
spend in endeavoring to fasten false names
on the democracy. We despair of ever see
ing the Journal come out with manliness on
these subjects, and the task, herculean as it
is, of exposing the villainies of its party, we
will continue to perform until the people
will hurl it from all its abiding places in the
government of this country and bury ii in a
grave Of contempt, "unwept, unhonored and
'unsung."