The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-07-30
CRIME AND THE REpuBL1oAN PARTY.

CRIME AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The Journal, one Of the organs of Repub-
llcan conspirators, which has contributed
its mite In defending the infamous record OF
the Republican party, has walked up at last
to the fact that 'crime is on the increase"
The Journal in its analysis of the subject
concludes that war is demoralizing. but as it
is IA years since the war closed, the Journal
concludes that the country has outgrown its
demoralizing influences, from the fact, &C.
cording to the Journal, that most Of the
crimes now committed are by persons who
were mere boys or youths during the
period of the war, and adds:
Crime of all kinds is increasing everywhere.
No newspaper can begin to publish even short
accounts of the daily crimes, and many of
them are of such a character that no conscien
tious and reputable newspaper wants to pub
hsh them. They occur by day and by night
crimes of greed, of lust, of vengeance, of
whisky, of sudden passion, of commercial dis
honor; In short, crimes of every name and
grade. What is the reason, and what is to be
done?
1t should be understood that under Re-
publican rule CRIME has increased more
than 100 per cent. All the penitentiaries
are full to OVERLOOKING, jails are full, and
reformatory institutions are full, the courts
are overrun with criminal cases. and still
there are thousands at large who deserve
hanging or Imprisonment From the day
the Republican party came into power
crime began to increase. The Republican
party started out upon the proposition that
the constitution wssa 'league with hell"
@, 49, A.
"higher law" than constitution and stat
utes. No sooner had the Republican
party obtained full control of every
department of the Government
than stealing became the rule, and honesty
the exception in the management Of affairs.
To such colossal proportions did these pecu-
lations and frauds expand, thata Republ-
can member of Congress, after careful in
vestigation of the subject, placed the steal
ings of Republican officers at $1o0,000,OOO a
year. Grant took brides, and his cabinet
officials plundered the Government right
and left. Belknap robbed the army. Robe
son plundered the navy. Laundelet Williams
debauched justice and rioted in his lll-gotten
gains; Boss Shepherd. a favorite of Grant,
played freebooter in Washington, while
Babcock aided the whisky ring. Laws were
enacted to protect villains, and
the supreme court of the country
was organized in the interest of the party in
power. Crime f1ourished at the capital and
in the capitol-in the White House, and all
the palatial buildings of the various depart
ments of the Government. The fountains Of
honesty were.polluted, and the streams OF
crime flowed out from the center to the re-
hottest outposts of the Government. No
content with this, the Republican rascal,
organized Freedmen's Savings bank, de
coyed the poor enfranchised BLACK into the
snare, and deliberately robbed him of hi
little savings-of his all. Under TIT
guise of friendship they perpetrateC
thefts that have no parallel il
the records of civilization. It wa
an era of crime, a carnival of iniquity. No
content with robbing the Federal treasury
of stealing from the soldiers and the Indi
ans, and taking the last dime from the negro
the Republican party sent its army of car
pet-bsggers into the Southern States, full.
equipped for piracy upon gigantlc scale
Endorsed by the administration, protecte,
by the army, whitewashed by venal part
san press, and declared upright by a de
bauched judiciary, the South, with 1t
remaining treasures, was offered 10 them a
field for operations, and they took posses
sion. Towns, cities and States were banh
rupted in short order. There was n
redress 10 appeal. A protest was disloJ
atty, and suit in court was adjudge
treason. Stealing was In order, robbing a
every day occurrence. The very air VS.
impregnated with crime. To perpetuste thi
reign of wickedness constitutions were owe
turned, Legislatures were bayoneted, ele'
) round off the record, we see such men {
: John Sherman in Louisiana bargaining fl
perjury, and offering Federal offices in e.
change for such lies as would secure ii
triumph of his party; and even now, Il
country is paying out thousands of dolla
, annually to set of the vilest villains Il
3 country ever produced as rewards fl
a crimes. These are the reasons WI
g / crime has so feafulIy increase
r during the last IL year
a To put stop to it is to put an end to Repu
lican control of Governmental affairs, al
:. this is what the people have been doing du
a ing the past seven years. The Republics
}. party. but for its frauds, would now be O.
it of power in every department of the Go
d eminent. But frauds will not avail 1t in Il
5, future. The reign of Republicanlsm wi
/, cease, and with it the increase of crime vi