The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-11-27
What Does rhis aean.

The elections OF this year are scarcely over,
but the republican managers are already
marshalIng their forces for the con test of
$780, and their plan for the battle Is already
indicated. That plan can not but be regard
ed as startling one. What the plan is we
will let the organs Of the republican party
tell. The New York Times at the head of
the republican dailys of The country. says
that there are indications that the republicans
of the cotton states hare gone through the last
contest which they ,ciH be obliged to 90 through
,sndSsiSted.'
This is significant, read in connection with
the argument of the Times against demo
cratic supremacy aud the solid south"
simultaneously with this announcement the
New York Tribune, founded by Horace
Greeley" points out the plan more explicit
w. Tue Tribune procaims that in 1880 lit
wiH be considered Whether states Ia Th,eh free
elections are not held and the constitution Of the
United States is systematically diTegdrded and
deted are entitled 20 east electoral UOtes eject
congressman at all If ,Ve 10 hare forced upon
US the tnireicome issue phicit solid south iaev
itdbly raises q patient and enduring north wiH
not be found waI,ting when IL Is settled "
This is the u.ciaia tlon, early made, OF the
organs of the republican party in the east, In
the metropolis of the country. Three days
after these pronunciamento.s Oh the Allan
TIC coast a prominent republic an organ in
the west, in the heart of the continent, whose
ed tor has Just returned FROM Europe, the
land of strong governments and from con
su taticn with the republican managers OF
New York, caught the step. The idra grows
like a snow ball as it rolls. The western
organ says that IF in the great conflict Of 1880
the people of me north are compelled to elect "a
man with an iron hand upJn platform which
wiH declare the FIRST ptTps Of the gorer'i'ne'n 10
be 20 maintain the rights of citizens, epen TO the
extent of meeting force with force, and co1odrdly
brutality Nth utter annhildtion, the responsibility
wiH belong to the people Of the SOUTH
TINS, then, Is the plan OF battle, an
nounced all along he line. This Is the nope
OF the republic This Is the feast 10 which
the American people are invited. This rs
the Iotice fled not merely upon the south,
but upon forty millions OF people. This is
the method by which ceria1 republican
commanders propose to take the next presi-
dency We all remember how the last was
taken. These announcements are not
trihes. When democrats IN the United
States are threatened not oaly with The
iron hand" but with absolute "annihiia-
tom" when notice is gvep that IL Will
be seriously debated whether demo
cratic states will be permitted to vote Tor
president or for members al c5ngress; when
so eminent a republican Journal rs the New
York Times tells the republicans of the
south that they will OF be compelled to vote
| again ''tuithold assistance" If fsis sentiment
finds any Considerable follOting. pair q ic
men may begin TO tremble fof the republic.
When states as free aud peacfui as Oaio are
threatened with acknowledgements II they
will not vote a certain tickeF when the peo-
pie of the country are thresened wilh an
Inhalation" for being democrats, II Is time