The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-10-29
THE NECESSITY FOR GRANT.

lican sentiment Is toward Grant as third
term candidate In 1880. We do not think
the field is clear for him, for Blaine and
Sherman have aspirations which they will
not consent to abandon until they are
their will, that the Grant boom
is the biggest. Under such circum-
stances, it may be well for Democrats and
those who desire to live under constitu-
tional government, to note with more than
ordinary care the reasons assigned by the
Republicans why Grant should again be
president. To do this thoroughly, it is not
necessary to read all that is said of
the necessities of the situation by Re-
publican conspirators or their organs,
since they all urge the same reasons, and use
about the same language to express their
views. The Cincinnati Gazette, in a recent
article concerning Grant as candidate"
considers the necessities OF the case at some
length, the conclusion being that the su-
premacy of the Democratic party is danger
Gus to Republican government-so danger.
Gus, indeed, as to require distinguished
soldier" for president That the Democratic
party is dangerous toRepublican government,
the course of the Democratic party in
Congress is brought forward as proof. sit
sought, says the Gazstte, "by lawless abuse
of its lawful powers to usurp control OF
Congress-" which is pronounced "revolu.
ton" Again the Democratic majority. it
is charged, intend ito put out Republican
members enough to make Democratic
majority, and means also to reject legally
elected member from Florida. and TO put a
Democrat into the seat of Mr.. Orth, of
Indiana, SO as to make a Democratic balance
in the delegations of these States for action
in case the election OF president shall come
upon the House."
1t will occur to the general reader that the
organs of the consptrators find it difficult to
make out charges against the Democratic
party worthy of consideration. 1t is not so
much what the party has done inimical to
republican government as what it intends to
do. ii an opportunity is afforded. In con-
firmation of this the Gszette says:
II the improbable event should have hap
pened that Ewing should have been elected
thereby risking the election of a Republican
representative IN his place, which would have
made the Ohio delegation tie. we could
have been certain that the Democrats
would have taken the lawless method
of declaring vacant the seats OF Butterworth
and Young. The Democrats in the Senate are
also looking about for ways to make their
majority secure, by ousting Republicans. Oae
of the designs of all this is to usurp, by Illegal
means, the power to elect a president and vice
president, in case these elections shall devolve
on the House and Senate respectively. 1t de-
signs an act of violence to take the Govern
ment from those the people have constitution
ally chosen. 1t is revolutionary. This is an
other of the places in the structure of our Gov
eminent where Its working comes to point
where usurpation may seize 1t, and the con :
stitution be overthrown under its own forms.
1t would be difficult to properly character
ize such puerile twaddle, but it is what the
Grant boom rests upon, with more of the
same sort, and without which it would col
lapse in an hour. The Gazette intimates
| that there will be no more electoral commits
sions to give legal form to fraud, and 1t
might have added that returning boards will
never again reverse the vote OF States. The
Gszstte, in surveying the entire field, puts
its conclusions as follows:
/ All the Democratic movements, therefore
| point to the seizure of the presidency in def.
| is a threat of revolution. 1t holds up before
! the whole people q declaration that next time
| "a Democrat shall be seated, whether elected
or not. And 1t has the glaring present fact
! that there is no such thing as an election in
| the Confederate States. 1t is threat that any
| election of a Repu5l lcan shall be disputed
| and that the Democratic House will judge any
| disputed election Democratic, and that the
| Democratic claimant shall be seated. This
means revolutionary usurpation, and usurpa
ton means war, for the Northern people will
never submit to this.
The Gszstte article, from which we quote
abounds with more OF such insipid trash
! but we have given fair sample OF the
| whole; and now comes the climax-there Il
war in the near future. The Democratic
party is going to tear down the pillars OF the
Republic. Usurpation will follow usurpa
ton until Republican government will dis
appear. 1t says:
When war is thus threatened is IL not natu-
raj that the people should look about for
leader for such a crisis? True, 1t may be con
!, adenty affirmed tina. any Republican wn,
should bs elected wnuid claim his seat, ana
that the Northern people would stand by him
as they did by the Union In the attempt o
secession; but 1t is natural that when tn,
South and the whole Democratic party threat
en- war, and a war which, IL not nipped early
would spread to the same dimensions as TN,
late civil war, the people should look to
leader who has been successful in war, an,
whose name would call out a great army O
veteran volunteers TO maintain the constitu
ton.
These, as we gather from the expression
with regard to the candidacy OF General GRAM
are the ideas that make SO many look TO hin
as the man for the crisis. When great sec
Iion and party openly threaten the forcibl
seizure Of the Republic, and the determination
to support it by arms, what more naturs
than the people who are loyal to RspubIica
Government should look TO a distinguish
soldier for a leader? When the same enem
lifts up his head and threatens to strike asair
what SO natural as that the people should loo
. for leader to the great soldier who led them
victory? 1t is the Democratic threat of Wa