The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-28
THE AGE OF COMMON SENSE.

We read of all sorts OF ages in the past
from flint to iron, from savage to the en-
lightened, from the patriarchal to the apos.
tolic from the dark age to the full orbed
noon of the present, which, if it is not the
age of steal, should be known as that OF
common sense. 1t is a practical and utili-
tartan age. 1t is telescope and microscopic.
Distant objects are brought near, examined
and analysed, their properties :catalogued,
and their purpose recorded. Little things
are rnagnified until the hopping muscles
OF flea and the boring machinery
Of an earwlg are seen in operation
and understood as clearly as the
simplest machine of the day.
The tendency is steadily towards the prac-
teal. Shams are being universally tabooed.
The shoddy snob whose ambition is title of
nobility because his old daddy ''struck lie"
or was one of Grants. pets and made heap
Of money while he was helping to make
heap of history, such as it isl and who
clamors tor strong governments" is very
properly set aside as q production fit only
for menagerie, to be Gagged with balloons.
1t is this growth of common sense that is
making the people distrustful of the radical
party. Its record is SO vile, its thieving pro-
clivities SO undisguised, its debsucheries so
widespread, Its frauds so colossal, its
forgeries so numerous and its lies and
perjuries so black and damning that,
like the dungeon toad, it exudes from the
pores of its warty hide a poison that will
prove its death. The people look at the
hideous creature, swollen with crime dead
in trespasses and in sins, with gnawing
trichina of infamy in all of its muscles and
organs, serpents of hate in its brain, lies
fostering in Its soul, frauds like tumors COW
ering every square inch of its surface, nurs
ing its perfumes as Indian mountebanks
play with cobras, by which they exc out an
existence-the people see the radical party in
its haggard and hideops deformities, floating
in the pool of its own slime, crippled by the
kicks it has received for its misdeeds
shackled by the righteous yerdicts of truth
its eyes gouged by the fingers of scorn and
its throat full of Kisses and death
rattles, and in the wealth Of
of their indignation they say "let it de-
1t deserves determination, and another Dead
sea in which neither fish nor reptile could
live would be fitting monument to it:
crimes. The common sense view of the
radical party is that there is no use for it on
earth, whatever may be the opinion of the
devil to the contrary. IL an inscrutablt
| providence designed it for a scourge, ther
God knows it has filed to the brim the
measures of its mission, and a common
sense verdict is, remove it. Worse thar
Pharaoh's lean kline, it has deyoured all tn,
fat things of the land until on all sides Their,
is poverty, bankruptcy, business prostratIor
and rum. 1t has proved to be worse as {
curse than the seven plaques of Egypt, al
told, frogs, murrain of beasts, locusts
darkness, hail, hoe and flies, and
the common sense of the people declares thai
the country has had enough of it. The PEG
pie, however see that, like Pharaoh, the
radical party is bent on further ruin. 1t has
tried fraud, forgery and perjury as a means
of success, and no party is so capable of ly
ing, no party is so handy with frauds, nc
party is 50 dexterous with forgeries, and its
throat is a conduit for perjuries sufficiently
large to damn the world. Common sense
proclaims that such party, having played
Judas should hang itself or commit hari .kari
and go - the devil. Still this party de-
mands a new lease of power. Fortunately
this is an age of common sense, and the peo-
pie are industriously hunting for the old
paths, and demanding that the democratic
party shall take the helm of state. They are
in earnest in Indiana. The Orths and
Crosses, Browns and Hsnnas, are not the
men wanted in the councils of the govern
ment. An era of honesty and of reform is
to be inaugurated, and the common sense
verdict is that the democratic party In power
is supreme necessity.