The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-11
THE JOURNAL AND GOVERNOR HEN.
BRICKS.

The Journal on yesterday, in an article
intended TO be witty, announces the politi-
cal death of Governor Hendricks. Our dis
tinguished fellow citizen has met death be.
fore, if we would believe the radical papers,
but some how or other he will not stay
dead, but Phoenix like, arises from his ashes
and again puts on the habiliments of
life. The wish of the Journal is
father to the thought. Our contem-
porary is engaged in whistling
to keep up its courage while passing the
graveyard of the radical dead. While wear
ing forced smile, IFS face betrays its agony.
1t sees Governor Hendricks honored where
ever he goes. 1t sees him in the foreground
of national statesmen, with the people ever
ready to follow where he leads. 1t beholds
HIM as the political Moses who is to lead the
people out of the radical wilderness. Seeing
these things and knowing they presage DEM
ocratic victory and radical defeat the
Journal is mad. 1t strikes at
Governor Hendricks, for it knows
that when the fraud who now occupies the
white house vacates his usurped place he
will most probably be succeeded by Indi-
ana's favorite son. Should that day come
the people will rejoice, but the Journal will
mourn. 1t will usher in new dispensation,
one of peace and prosperity to the country.
But the peoples happiness will be the Jour
nails woe. No longer will it be made fat
with bankrupt advertisements. No longer
will its palate be sweetened with
sugar from sheriff's sales; for sweeter
than honey from the honey comb
are the fat takes and padded advertisements
given it by the marshal, the sheriff and the
bankrupt court. The man who would
snatch these things from the Journals hop
per is an enemy to the hoppers owner, and
the Journal, not believing in the Scriptural
injunction 10 love its enemies, follows the
bent of its desires and strikes at him who
would dry up the fountain from which it
gets its fill. But the Journals loss will be
the peoples gain. What it sucks and alb
serbs of their substance will. if retained by
them, do much to make them financially
strong and healthy.
Governor Hendricks believes in sound
politics, in sound morals and in sound
theology, hence he is ayerse to the Journals
politics, its morals and its religion. But it
can hardly be expected that democrat of
his we'll known catholicity should believe in
a politics consecrated to fraud, perjury and
venality; in a morality whose shibboleth
is that the end justi6es the means, and
in a theology whose bed rock is
gospel hate, and whose symbol is the
bloody shirt. Therefore the Journal should
not seek to kill off our ex-governor for his
not believing in its political heresies, nor for
his declining to assist in bringing grist to Its
mill. Governor Hendricks is engaged in
other work than this, and work altogether
more congenial to his tastes. He is on the
stump addressing his fellow citizens upon
matters deeply affecting their interests, and
from the way the people flock to hear him it
is evident that if he be a corpse, as the Jour
nal would have us believe, the people prefer
listening to Hendricks dead rather than to
Harrison, or any other radical, livingi