The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25
WHO Is BEING ABSORBED
The Cry Of the Radical and the No Party
Organs.
IWashington POSI-.

Washington POST
All the radical organs and all the no party
bobtail newspapers like the Chicago Times
are screechlng in the shrillest possible key
that the Maine election has undOne the dem
ocratic party; that the greenbackers have
absorbed, swallowed, eaten up or gulped
down that ancient and honorable organiza
ton. and that henceforth the party issue in
this country will be between the republicans
and the greenbackers. In support OF this
complacent theory the radical organs and
the no party bobtail newspapers parade the
figures from Maine, showing how the repub-
lican party has lost only a few thousand
votes, while nearly two thirds of the demo-
cratic vote has been absorbed" by the green
back movement. To all of which We re-
spend: Certainly, of course; and to which
we will add that we hope and expect to see
the same thing done over sgaIn in Massa
chusetts. in Iowa, in Minnesota, in Kansas
and in Nebraska, where the republican party
has everything to lose, and where the expe-
rience of years has shown that the demo-
cratic party can not hope to gam anything.
But before these journals pronounce the
final beneiiction over the remains. of the
democratic party they should wait and see
how beautifully it ''absoros' the greenback
movement in those states and districts where
it has something to lose. The threatened
absorption of the democratic party appears
10 alarm the radicals great deal worse than
il does us. 1t may not be exactly the right
thing to reject all the sympathy which is
being offered us by the radical organs over
our dreadful tate up in Maine, but really we
have no use for it. III the greenbackers
should absorb" us in Indiana, Ohio Ken
lucky, Missouri, Maryland, New York, Now
Jersey, Virginia, Texas, Tennessee and Ar
kansas as they did in Maine then perhaps we
might feel bad. But go long as the net re-
suit of the process of absorption" is the
defeat of two radical congressman out of
five we shall not rend the air with
our walls; not, at least so long as
the radical organs and the no party bob
tails will do our wailiDg for us as cheaply as
they have taken the present contract. We
have observed that for long time it has
been poor year for death and burial when
the radical organs aud the no party bobtails
did not kill and bury the democratic organl-
zation from one to three times. But, at the
same time, we have observed the democratic
party per Sc, as the metaphysicians say,
gradually getting its grip on houses of repre-
sentatives, senates, state legislatures, and all
that sort OF thing, very much like party
does when il is alive and In the enjoyment
of toIerabIy robust health. And vet all this
time the radical organs and the no party
bObtails have been emulating the tactics OF
salaried mourners at a Celtic funeral over
its supposed remains. We presume ii would
be wasting space and squandering good
nature to address sense or reason to such in
corrigible blatherskites IS the radical organs
aud the no party bobtails; but for fear
that philanthropists may accuse us ct
neglecting the heather we will furnish them
with a little reliable information in the
premises, tO-wit: The democratic party
that is to say, the combined democracy of
the west and south-is managing this thing
in its own way. The thing to be done is to
break the head of the radical party in
the few states where that ugly pro-
tuberance is still visible We are not
particular about the shape of the club
employed to do the breaking, nor as to
the wood it is made of, except that we want
it stout and heavy. We are abundantly sat
isfied with the results of our experiments
thus far. There is no apprehension in the
democratic camp that our greenback allies
will be strong enough to overpower us after
helping to slay the common enemy. On
the other hand, they will be observed to
coalesce with US beautifully in all our en-
deavors to punish the frauds and crimes and
undo the financial swindles and robberies of
radicaIism. Perhaps, after all, this is really
what the radical organs and the bobtails are
weeping about. At all events their tears
are entirely lost on us. We were never in
less lugubrious mood in our lives.