The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-01-15
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

If, during the past two decades of years.
the logic of events has proved anything at
all. it has demonstrated beyond all national
controversy that the Democratic party of
the United States must rule, or the institu-
lions of the Government, founded by the
fathers, must perish. The rise of the Re-
publican party, its supremacy and its
decline, embody every necessary proof of
the proposition we have laid down.
Quickened into life. under influences de-
structive of all Government, every day of its
existence has served to develop its inherent
infamy, until the people determined in
their sovereign capacity to deshrone it. and
this they accomplished at the ballot-box in
1876; and to-day it is doubtful if there is a
State in which the Republican party has a
majority of the people who favor its policy.
In the days of Grant the Republican party
was supreme; Its power was unquestioned;
its opportunities grand. But being an
aggregation of hates and crimes, it fell,
until in the days of Hayes it is a
thing of unutterable leathing. The people,
outraged and disguised, resolved to dethrone
1t, and the grand work began in the states
which, under the influence of the sober sec
ond thought of the people, wheeled grandly
into line under Democratic banners. and
were ready in 1876 to pronounce their ver-
dict upon the Republican party OF guilty"
This guilt touched with paralyzing effect
every great interest of the country, and
there was but one remedy and that the re-
enforcement of the Democratic party.
Notwithstanding this, the verdict of the peo-
pie, so emphatic in its pronunciation, so
benefcent and far-reaching in its effects, so
entirely in consonance with truth and JUS
tice, the organs of the Republican party seek
to regain its lost power by repeating and per-
petuating the vilest ISLANDERS upon the De-
mocracy of the country; as. forinstance, the
New York Tribune, inherently vile and ven
omous as a hooded cobra, says:
that the very nature of the elements
which form great portion of the Demo
cratic party comrels that party to become
the party of the repudiators and of the
communists" and that ''the Democratic
party Is essentially the party of the turbu-
lent and lawless. And all that is danger
Gus and law defying in the outgrowth of
Communism, trades unionsm or socialism
finds in Democratic demagogues of the
lower order its natural allies"
1t is by pouring such a steady stream Of
malignant vItuperation as the foregoing
upon the country that the organs of the Re-
publican party hope for success. Every allie
cation made by the Tribune is VIGOROUSLY
false and unsupported by any facts worthy
of moments consideration. The Demo
be-
On the contrary, it has been the advocate of
the strictest justice between debtor and cred
itor. 1t has opposed the financial legislation
of the Republican party because the effect
was to increase the wealth of capitalists
while it impoverished the producing classes
of the country. The Democratic party has
been always the friend of the working peo-
pie of the country, and has sought by every
means at its command to remove unneces-
sary burdens and to increase their prosper
ity. A more malignant falsehood Is the
charge that the Democratic party is
the advocate of socialism or commun-
ism, In any offensive sense. Like
the other charges made by the Tri-
bune, it is SO essentially at war with
the history of the Democratic party that
it can not be made available in arresting
its onward march to supremacy in the coun-
try. the Democratic party points with just
pride to its past record and to its present
purposes. After the 4th of March, 1879, it
will have control of the legislative depart
meAt OF the government, and this fact, since
it shows the disposition of the people, is
sufficient Of itself to stamp the Tfihune's
malignant charges as puerile partisan lies.