The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-06-04

that is, that the Republican party having
passed Infamous laws. violative OK the
rights and liberties of the people, by virtue
of which it hopes to perpetuate Its power,
has determined to retain. them in full force
for the purposes for which they were
enacted. Not being able to do
this by the approval of Congress, 1t resorts
to the veto power now in the hands of the
most desplcable wretch known to American
history. The pleas put forth by Hayes in
justification of his veto are mass of miser-
able sophisms and demagogical lodges, in
which the real purpose of the fraud-stained
and perjury cursed occupant of the White
House is to obscure the motives which prompt
the act, but which only bring into clearer re-
lief the underlying infamy of the proceeding.
1t would be supreme folly to argue this
question here. For weeks both Houses of
Congress have been debating it in all of its
aspects. Facts have been piled mountain
high. showing the deep and damning infamy
of the statutes creating supervisors and
marshals, made up of spies, bummers,
thieves-low, disgusting and execrable crea
lures, who, for pay, would execute any
order OF their chiefs, no matter how nefari-
Gus the work, or whether the victims of
their diabolism were innocent or guilty.
These scoundrels-ruffians by birth and
education-taken from the slums and from
brothels, beetle browed and repulsive, polit
ical footpads by profession, are the kind of
creatures Davenport employed to arrest
innocent citizens whose only crime was that
they dared to vote against the Republican
party. To perpetuate this reign of terror at
the polls in the interest of the party that
cheated him into Office, Hayes vetoes the
legislative, judicial and executive appropri-
alton bill. Hayes clearly intimates that the
laws which Democrats seek to repeal, not
election OF congressman, but of United
States senators as well; and the inference is
legitimate that he designs hereafter, should
the interests of the Republican party war
rant the outrage, to place his marshaIs in
the halls of State Legislatures, with power
to arrest and march to prison such members
as are not inclined to obey the orders of the
executive. But that part of the message
most likely to attract attention is where
Hayes, the creature of fraud and the reward
er of villains, assumes to feel a righteous
indignation on account of frauds perpetrated
at the polls. Such hypocrisy, such bold,
fisgrant duplicity will deceive no one. The
fact that Hayes has rewarded hundred or
more of the most despicable characters that
ever held Office outside of pirate ship or
band of highwaymen gives the lie
direct to any profession of loyalty
to law, liberty or anything else in partisan
politics. of good report The veto of the
legislative, executive and judicial appropri
alton bill creates another issue between the
Democratic party and the Republican party,
and just where Hayes has placed the issue
the Democrats in Congress should let it re.
main. The next move should be to ad-
journ. The Democratic party was never in
better condition to go before the American
people. 1t has done its duty. 1t has
compelled the Republican conspirators TO
map out their programme-to declare their
policy-and since the verdict of the people
is to decide the issue, let the conflict begin.
The issues should not be changed or modi-
fed. They can not be improved. The old
landmarks are still visible. Old theories of
government, old principles, the old path
ways can be found and exalted. Perjury
has gained its last triumph. Truth, right
eousness and justice are not dead. Time writes
no wrinkles on the brow of rectitude
Equity is eternal. Falsehood and treachery
will not win in 1880, as in 1876. Their
votaries, like dungeon toads, will die OF
their own poison. The time has not come
when the people will abrogate the laws of
liberty. Republicanism is false. 1t lives
by conspiracies. Its history is an accumu-
lation of infamies, and Hayes vetoes are ap-
propriate as finishing touches. Repub
licanism pirates of veracity, while
Its tongue is blistered with per-
juries. 1t vaunts Its integrity
while fraudulent president uses his stolen
power in the interest of dishonesty. With
declarations of peace it foments strife. 1t
declares devotion to the Unioa, while it ex
hibits the most intense sectional hate 1t
eulogizss the constitution, while it stabs
like Brutus. On the high seas of politics
q freebooter, in its dens q conspirator, it
seeks to rule like despot. 1t
murders liberty while playing priest at
itS SuIlucS LII 1aSSoS ltS ncuudClty
in the name of religion. 1t dsbauches in
the robes of virtue, practices fraud under
the cover of law, and with an impudencs
that defies exaggeration, offers its wares ID
the open market, with R. B. Hayes as sales
man. Republicanism Is outlined in Hayes
veto message. The Democratic party must
once more mass its strength to overthrow it.
With the issues IS thsy now stand the out
look is suspicious.
DEATH OF GENERAL SHIELDS.
General James Shields, senator from