The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-10-02
A SOLID ADDRESS.
Second Appeal of the Republican
Anti.0rth Club, of Charlottesville,
to the Republicans of the
Ninth District.
A Document That Ought to Return n
Resurrected Corpse to ITS PO.ftf-
cal Grave.

The following address of the republican
antiOr club. of Charlottesville, to the re
publican voters of the Ninth con-
gressional district was presented to the
editor of the Charlottesville Journal
on Wednesday last with the request
that it be published, but the editor
declined to i've it place in his columns, al
paper had already been made up for this
week. Steps have been taken, however, to
give the document a wide circulation
throughout the Ninth district, and its pc
rusal by republicans can not but have an
important effect on the coming election:
To the Republican Voters of the Ninth Con-
gresslonal District, Indiana:
You will doubtless remember that at the
close of our former address to you we prom
ised If Mr.. Ortiz would explain his connec
ton with the Venezuela frauds, and clear
himself of the charges preferred against him,
we would cease opposing his election. We
have waited reasonable time hoping he
could and would do so. Round and round
the district he has gone with the paddock
upon his lips and the charge basted upon his
back. As yet he has not denied that the
Venezuela awards were frauds of Talmage
and Sulwell; he has not denied his COM
plicity with those men, now of such bad
eminence. or that for their benefit he had
congress pass an act to compel payment of
the bonds the two had wrongfully acquired;
ne has not denied that. in compensation of
his services in that way, he received from
them s., 900 in the certificates awarded, be-
ing the purchase money for his vote and in
huence while member of congress and MEM
Der elect-yet he persists in his candidacy
Twice since our former address was pub
lished, and twice only, he has dismounted
the paddock to speak of the charge-that is
to say, we have heard reliable reports of but
two such utterances.
The first was at Lafayette, the day General
Harrison spoke in that city. The Indian
apolis Journal reports Mr.. Orth as saying he
was on his way to congress, and would put
his foot on the necks of his detractors.
The figure of speech is bad one to use in
a free country like ours and it is questio =
able If he meant it for US. Our charg g
against Mr.. 0rth were all based upon s
own testimony, given under oath in 1876,
and reported officially by the Springer COM
mittee. If so, we can not well be considered
ss one of his detractors. The expression was
simply the half delirious rant of a man made
mad by guilt and exposure. Certainly there
is no explanation In it.
His second utterance paddock off, was last
Saturday at Lebanon, Boone county. The
Indianapolis Journal reports him as SAYING
there that be had been exonerated from the
charges we preferred in our former address
by two democratic congressional committees.
This, it will be seen, is no explanation, yet
as it is the only apology offered by him we
ask attention while we briefly dispose of it.
We deny the truth of the statement, fell
low citizens, and will convince you it is
deliberate falsehood.
,~oA 80 =, ,aI h.
reference to any report by any committee.
In fact there is no such exoneratiOn to be
found. We say this broadly, and challenge
Mr.. Orth or any one of his friends to give
you a sentences from any report which can
be so construed.
Secondly. the charge of completely in the
Venezuelan frauds, and the receipt of bonds
in payment of service in the infamous con-
nection, first appeared publicly in the re-
port made by the Springer house committee
in lS76-the very report from which we
made quotations in our former address to
you. Note the year-1S76. Now you all
know that there have not been two congress
ses since that date. You all know, in the
next place, that it is not the habit of the
same effect upon the same subject by the
same or by different committees. So the
sta'ement is inferentially false.
Tbirdly, we do not stand upon inference,
but proceed to settle the matter by con-
elusive evidence. The last congress. the
only one following that OF 1876, passed the
following act, which we give verbatim and
in FULL
AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE VENEZUELAN
MIXED COMMISSION.
Be ii enacted by the senate and house of rep
resentatives of the United States of America
in congress assembled:
That the act emit led "An act to enforce the
stipulations of the convention of Venezuela of
sixty-six, and the payment of adjudicated
claims" approved February twenty fifth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three. be, and
the same Is hereby repealed; Provided, how
eyer, That nothing herein or in the act hereby
repealed shall be construed as an expression
Of any opinion on the part of congress in re-
spect TO the validity of any awards made under
said convention, or as to the propriety of a
negotiation by the executive OF a new conven-
ton in respect to the same.
Approved June %, 1873.
The signifcancy of the act consists in this:
It repeats the act of the 18th of April, 1873,
which was the one Mr.. Orth had passed in
aid of Talmage aud Stilwell, and for which
be received the s., 900 in bonds. The act of
1873, you Will remember, asserted the valid
ity of the awards, ard required their pay
ment; this last repeating act OF rs with
draws that assertion by congress, and leaves
the president free to enter into new treaty
with Venezuela. Upon what ground, you
ask? Upon the ground of fraud in the pro-
curement of awards before the joint COM
mission, as is made to appear by the report
Of the house committee TO which the matter
was referred, Mr. Hamilton, of Indiana,
making the report The following passage
from the report will make the point clear:
The committee think 1t unnecessary TO ex-
tend this report to the length that would be
required by an exhaustive analysis OF the