The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04
GODLOvE 8. ORTIZ. HIS EXECUTION.
ERs AND UNDERTAKES.


GODLOvE 3. ORTIZ. HIS EXECUTION
ERs AND UNDERWRITERS.
Two years ago Godlove s. Orth was
felO de sc. Prudently, promptly, consis.-
emily and periodically he busted himself,
and was quietly buried, but unfortunately,
not face downwards. As a consequence, he
has scratched and clawed away a hole
through the mud in which he was embalm-
ed, kicked away his coffin, tore to shreds his
winding sheet and now presents his CHASTITY
body as a candidate for congress. Indiscreet
friends, dazed by the hideous apparition, de-
clare that Godlove has come to life and
ought to go to congress. They seem to think
that GodloYe would represent the two
wings of the radical party-those that have
handed il their checks and are luxuriating
in the tropical regions we read about and
the other one on earth, and still engaged in
raising the devil in the politics of the coun
try. These radical fanatics seem to think
that Godlove, having been dead for two
years, has had special advantages for COM
muning with Satan, and that if he could
once more get into congress ne would be
specially prepared for carrying forward such
despicable projects as the radical party
might suggest for the dethronement OF law.
for the protection of thieves, for the use of
bayonets and returning boards for the per-
petuity of radical supremacy, and for sus-
tanning John Sherman should he again go
into the perjury brokerage business
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Journal, of this city, seems to
take this view of the case, and though the
Venezuelan frauds hang to Ortiz like scabs
to leper, the Journal Endorses him with
the same volume of gush that it approves of
every other radical infamy. But strange as
it may appear, it is not more strange than
true, that there are several republicans in
Orths district who will not bow down to the
image that the radical convention set up.
On the contrary they have determined upon
the execution of Godlove. They are in dead
earnest, and exhibit zeal in the highest
degree commendable. Messrs. Lew Wallace
and j. Ensminger, acting for the honest re-
publicansln the Ninth congressional district,
have issued their pronunciamentO. There
is death in every sentence; knife in every
word; every punctuation mark is blud-
geon, and from every paragraph bangles a
halter, the whole production being scaffold,
upon which Godlove is commanded to stand
and explain. Messrs. Lew Wallace and j.
Ensminger, IN making their charge against
Orth, say:
We believed, upon what we thought suffi-
cient ground, that certain men representing
our government under official appointment,
in connection with the republic OF venezuela,
had perpetrated monstrous fraud upon that
REPUBLIC, by which they acquired vast guam
THY of Venezuela bonds or certificates OF in
debtedness; that the Venezuelan government
protested TO our government against the pay
ment OF the ponds SO ooI;nnSu cnsT tgag i trauu
that the officials charged then strove to use
our government to help them in their knav-
declaration of the validity of the bonds by
congress and have enforcement OF payment
by resort to war; and that Mr..
attempt. for that purpose using his influence
and vote as member of congress and member
of the house committee on foreign affairs, TO
which investigation of the alleged fraud was
referred; and that Mr.. Orth, though officially
informed of the faint upon the bonds, and OF
the fraudulent manner of their issuance and
I getting acted with the conspirators, conferred
with them, voted for them, helped them get
payments from the state department., and
so shared their i'll gotten gains, knowing them
to have been ill gotten.
The putting such man guilty OF such an
I innocently done by the convention, made II
/ our duty to oppose his election; and we be-
lieyed the honorable way was 20 on, axe the OPP
opportunity for defense. In other words, II
Mr.. Orth is guilty. we want public opinion to
/ punish him; il innocent, we want the fact
made known, whereupon we will cease oppos
We set about our duty with becoming care
own honor. You must now decide upon the
sufficiency OF the proof, for we still hold to oul
belief that Nj. 0rth is guilty as charged.
After making this charge Messrs. Wallace
and Ensminger set about giving the proof
and it is simply overwhelming. They dc
not leave loop holeSa knot hole, worm
hole, gimlet hole or any other description
of a hole out of which Orth can crawl They
hedge him around with facts so stubborn
that were he a Hercules he could mo-
tear them down; so high that if he had the
power of thousand kangaroos he could no
vault over them, and so deep laid are the
foundations of the proof of Orth's guilt thai
if he had the scratching powers of all the
prairie dogs, ground hogs and wild cats or
the continent he could not undermine them
The character. extent and infamy of the
Venezuelan frauds are set forth, and Ortiz!
connection with them made so plain
that none but knaves will attempt
apology or excavation The matter is OF SC
much importance to the good name of indi
ana that we shall, at an early day, lay the
whole matter before our readers. The frauds
were so fragrant, so open and so impuden'
that when confronted with them in 1916
Orth quickly got off the radical ticket as 9
candidate for governor. From that time tC
the present he has had paddock on his
mouth, and has not attempted an explana
ton. He obtained Venezuelan fraud certifi
Gates to the amount of 81 900, and shas them