The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-24


The condition of the radical party il most
deplorsble. Such papers as the New York
Times see distinctly that the party is
doomed, and are preparing for the event of
its being overthrown, knowing very well
that soldiers and returning boards will not
again work together to reverse the will of
the people. and that John Sherman will not
again be permitted to barter federal offices
for periuries that a fraud may occupy the
office of president While the Times de-
clares that the radical party has terrible
loads TO carry, it processes to see that the
democratic party lacks solidity and is in
danger of going to pieces The democratic
party was never more united than at pres
ent There are no dishntegrating influences
at work upon it. With regard to radicalism
the Times is in q position 10 speak knowingly.
The New York Express, IN commenting
upon the Times diagnosis, says:
The radical party is disintegrating. 1t is
hope lessly de moralized. Its original stock of
"moral ideas" is gone. Its principles have be-
come obsolete. Its character has rotted away.
There is nothing left but the shell of an organ
IL who are trying TO get control OF IL are quar-
reling among themselves like so many pirates.
To hate each other like two republicans has
become a byword. COnkling and Hayes are at
each others Threats. Blaine would tear the
eyes out of Carl Schurz. Three-quarters of the
| party leaders despise Evarts. Bill Chandler Is
Snubbed by one-half of the party, and Zach
| Chandler would be kicked into the basement
| of the next world by the other half If they
/ had the power to do so. 1t is so all over the
] country Butler is despised in .Massachu-
sets as badly as Robson Is in New Jersey,
ard the contest for the senatorshlp in this
| state between Conkling and Morgan is re-
/ peated in Illinois between Logan and Ogle shy.
/ Not only has the party lost the cement of a
great cohesive principle, as Wendell Phillips
| truly says, but its component elements are at
war with each, and its leaders are full OF jeal
ousy and spite and ambition, and are trying
| to pull each other down and eat e CHI other up.
| The Times fails to tell but half the truth, proc
/ ably because IL is so unused to dealing in that
article. But 1t throws the principal part OF
| the blame for the demoralized condition of the
party on Hayes. 1t matters not that Hayes
''means well" it says. 1t remembers that the
streets ofhell, according to the Spanish proverb,
! are paved with good intentions. "A weak
president is one of the worst presidents" 1t
says, with a terseness almost epigrammatic
1t f0rgetS TO add that when weak president
/ is also fraudulent he becomes burden and an
| offense. When a weak president is paralyZed
by the suspicion that he bought his office by
promising federal appointments to the rascals
| who helped to count him in, and has been
stuffing these creatures into office ever since
/ his inauguration, he becomes a dlSintegrating
/ force in the party and a stencil in the nostrils
/ of all honest men. The Times very truly re-
marks that "the infirmities of the president
| and the wiles of his secretary OF the treasury
are a perpetual source of party embarrass-
ment. They excite Tidicule at the expense OF
/ principle, and they give rise to plans in which
! the humiliation OF the administration Will be
| linked with the success of the persons and
schemes IL has rfven to crush" This is the
| exact truth. "The wiles of John Sherman"
are doing the business. And when the cOro-
ner's inquest is held over the lifeleSs remains
OF a once great party, the jury Will report the
verdict "died of John Sherman on the brain"
The financial policy pursued by the rad
ical party has had much to do with its in
famous record and present dilapidated con-
dition, but there are other reasons why the
American people deplore the existence of
such party. 1t is distinguished for steal
ing. 1t will live in history as the only po-
litical party that was ever organized and
held together by considerations of public
! plumber 1t is the only party In this or in
any other country that has been able to steal
itself rich and perpetuate its power by per-
| jury. 1t has had its day. The people are
tired of its rule, and henceforth radlcalism
will take Its place among the monstrosities
the world has produced, and its chief actors,
having achieved an immortality of infamy
and earned right TO conspicuous places in
the rogues gallery OF the world, will be dis
missed from further participation in pubic
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