The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-03-26
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obtained control of the House of Represen-
tatives, and commenced that wonderful
series OF Investigations into Republican ras-
cality which brought out revelations of crime
and rottenness that have amazed the world,
there has been a continuously growing de-
nand for white wash'' From the center to
the circumference of the country Re-
publicans have howled "whitewash,"
more whitewash." The demand for
whitewesh has been so great so emphatic and
SO csaseless, that any Republican organ, ora.
tor stump-speaker, official, roustabout, lick
spittle. I'D conspirator, has done little else
but manufacture "whitewash." These fell
lows would, if they could, make the Misss.
sippi and all of Its tributaries roll white
wash floods; they would change the waters
of all the lakes into whitewash; they
would have the clouds rain whitewash.
In fact, the demand for whitewash
has been of such magnitude that the poor
devils never know when they have enough,
for no sooner has one set Of Republican
scamps been whitewashed than another
brood is brought to light,and the howl again
goes forth-"more whitewash." 1t required
an ocean of whitewash to keep Grant in a
presentable shape; in fact, it was impossible
to keep the fellow half white at any time
during his administrations. The proceedings
in his case made saint and sinner
exclaIm, mirabile d;ctu' For while Republican
thieves such as Robson, Babcock, Williams
and Belknap were applying their whitewash
to their boss. the boss was equally industri-
GUS with his brush IN whitewashing the
thieves. But as fast as the whitewash was
applied the Democratic investigating COM
mittees would scrape 1t off with facts
and figures as sharp as eagles claws,
and the whitewashing work would have to be
done over again. Efforts have been made,
time and again, to whitewash the Freed
mans Savings bank steal, but the whitewash
won't stick, and the infamous crime against
the poor negro grows in colossal and hide
Gus proportions every day. To whitewash
carpet-baggism in the South has demanded
whitewash enough to float the navies of the
world; but it was no use. No skill in
the preparation OF the whitewash could by
any possibility make 1t stand the racket and
the haggard monstrosity grew in repulsive-
ness with every application. During all this
tiiAo tAC Dch1OCIdtiC lnNcStiSalfOnS were
going forward, and Republicans were COM
PEELED to yell "mole whitewash." Blaine
and Garfield, Chandler and Hale, with q
retinue of smaller fry, were forever kept
busy with buckets and brushes, apply
ing the whitewash, and they are
engaged in the same business still, watching
and waiting, each with his bucket and
brush, and wondering when the Democratic
party will let up and cease pushing before
the public Republican miscreants who re-
quire withdrawing. This whitewashlDg
business has pretty nearly finished the Re-
publican party. 1t has worried the life out
of it. There is not a solitary Republican
who steps to the front who has not had to un-
dergo the whitewash ordeal. 1t is interesting
to look at them as they pass in review
showing the effects of the political atmos-
phere and storms upon the whitewash-lhe
layers scaling off, until the old sores and
tumors appear more revolving than ever.
But of all the whitewashIng jobs the Repub-
lican party has undertaken, that of white
washing the crime by which Hayes mounted
into Office, is by all odds the most
stupendous. To whitewash Hayes is task
as herculean as to whitewash q continent.
The entire Republican party, each with
brush and bucket, could not accomplish the
job in thousand years-and who, but an
army of maniacs, would ever think of under
taking the job of whitewashing John Sher-
man and his co-workers in the Louisiana
and Florida crimes. They stiak out like
Andean peaks; they are fountains Of crime
-pus that flows like rivers, and
Hls the world with its stencil.
Ga, no; the Republican party
in trying to whitewash Hayes-the crimes
that made him president, and all the band
of rascals who quickened him into Official
life-hsve undertaken job they will never
finish. The Democratic party will forever
keep the Republican stalwarts in the
whitewashery business on the ragged edge,
until the party passes into history as the
great American whitewashing party.