The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-02-12
MENDaCIrY VENTILATED.

His course is destitute alike of truth and of
honor. He does not maintain even the honor
has proved himself to be either the biggest
noodle or the biggest liar In America, ana has
left his party convicted of attempting to buy
for him the chief magistracy of the nation.
. What would jury say to this EVIL
dence of Mr.. Tilden If taken In and applied to
a case in the courts? They would be COM
PEELED TO return a verdict from the box that he
haq lied. There would be no escaping it; they
might recommend him to mercy, but the
upon the mind the conviction that he has lied
Journal.
The foregoing is the language of Rspub-
lican organ in Indiana which, in its present
management. has been the apoiogist of par
tisan frauds, the defender of political vii
lainies and the advocate OF methods of parti-
san supremacy which, were they punishable
by statute, would fill every penltentiary in
the land with convlcts, ard as they shuffied
of the immortal coil would people Hades SO
densely that, in the language of the Repub-
lican representative. Overmeyer, their feet
would stick out of the windows of the
abodes OF the damned
The Republican party anticipated tri-
umpb, if by their strategems they could
force Samuel J. Tilden upon the stand.
lucy OciSSC0 icSlAuuOns WOulQ
embody equivocation and prevarication,
aud that hereafter they could point
to Hayes, and to the methods that
made him president as illustrations of vir-
tue worthy of commentator; but in all of
this the Republican leaders, conspirators,
thieves, perjurers and vagabonds have been
foiled, and we Instance the Journals petulant
and fistulent TRADE as conspicuous evil
dence of the fact. The New York Herald,
which is large in its independence, severe in
its criticisms and generous in its approvals,
and withal occupying position in which it
can afford to be just, does not hesitate to say
that Mr.. Tilden's testimony twas clear, de-
'cislve and unequivocal," and that 1.-THE very
evidence now produced proves the infamy
of the men who controlled the canvass of
the States which he feels assured were car
'ried by him, and seems to confirm
the belief TO emphatically announced
by the witness that the votes and certifi sates
of Florida and Louisiana were bought by
The Republicans" and the Herald might
have added with equal propriety that the
votes of South Carolina were obtained by
the same infamous method. Here, then, we
have the case, and it only remains for the
Potter committee to add its report embody-
ing, as 1t will, additional facts with regard to
the proceedings of Republican conspirators
to bring before the American people once
more the perfidious villainies, by virtue
of which the Democratic party and
the American people we're robbed of the
victory obtained at the polls in November,
1876. The Republican party has miscalcu-
lated the temper of the American people, il
they suppose that the remedy for the crimes
is in subsequent slauders of Samuel J.. Til
den, and the tactics which they are now EN-
ploying. only brings into holder relief the
perjuries by which they triumphed. In
1880 the American people, pledged to an ad-
ministration of the Government of absolute
justice and integrity, will examine
with microscopic vigilance every
transaction of the vile crew who
in Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina,
made it possible for bullets and baycnets,
fraud and falsehood, du pllcity and lying,
bargain and sale, to dethrone the right and
bring American institutions into disgrace
and as certain as lightnings execute the will
of God, so certain will it be that the ballot
will hereafter execute the will of free.
men. The time is at hand-the music is al
ready IN the air, when such men as John
Sherman, J. Madison Wells, Il. B. Hayes,
and their co-conspirators. will be compe He'd
to pass through the exacting ordeal of an
Investigation before the high tribunal
of public opinion, and their acts receive the
execrations of all honorable men, and when
the verdict is pronounced, the perjured
scoundrels who are now quartered in Federal
offices as a reward of their crimes, will be
dragged forth, and with their benefactors
made to sit in the public pillory.
Such verdict Is demanded by the
eternal fitness Of things." 1t is in conson-
ance with the ''logic of events" and the
mills of the gods, though grinding
slowly, will grind the men
who plotted the downfall of
American liberties exceedingly small"
We congratulate the American people upon
rhe Investigations which brought Samuel
J. Tilden and the Democratic party upon
the stand. Tllden's character was never
more luminous with truth and right, and
the Democratic party has been made, in all
regards more potential for good by the ma.
jesty of his declarations.