The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-10-22
WORDS OF WARNING.

WORDS OF WARNING.
Nov for Indiana and a solid North.-Deacon
Smiths telegram TO MartindaIe.
Il is a fact welI.known by those who take
any part in current politics that the Repub
licsn party is getting no accsssions from the
ranks of the Democrats. 1t is also we'll
known that in Indiana a majority of the
voters are Democrats. and always have been,
and that when the Stata has been carried by
tbs Republicans it was the result OF fraud
and iotinidation. No person understands
these facts better than the leaders
of the Republican party. In making their
calculations to carry Indiana these leaders
must assume the facts we have mentioned
as existing, and look for influences that will
accomplish their purpose. Notwithstanding
their existeEos. This machinery of govern
ment in this State. being in the hands of
Democrats TO a great extent, they must also
assume that the fraud and IN tImidation here
tofore resorted to by thsm in carrying
elections could not probably succeed at this
tins. By what means, then, can Indiana be
carried for the Republican party at the next
electionf We believe this question has been
considered By the Republican leaders and
decided, and that active efforts are now be-
Ing made to carry out their programme. We
have undoobted evidence of the existence of
Q conspiracy to colonise the Southern negroes
here in sufficient numbers to enable them
to control the State. Snail it sue
coed? We desire to say few candid words
to the people of Indiana on this subject.
Under 3 policy that embraced the labor
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payments GOULD have been attained without
suffering to lsnor and without ruin to thou
sands of those who to-day find themselves
bsnkrupts But at the demand of capital,
and without reference to the masses of the
people, ths Republican party con-
trsctsd the currency and reduced values
until they obtained an equalization between
coin and the treasury notes. the result being
to immensely enhance the wealth of the
capitalists who held Government and other
securities. With this benefit to the men of
capital also came partial benefit to labor,
As the revival of business is bringing
with it the employment of idle
men. The laboring men of In
diana, after suffering almost starvation
for years that nch men might be benefited
are now finding themselves on the eve of
returning prosperity. Ara they to be per-
mitted to enjoy this long looked for oppor-
tunity, or shall they be cheated out of it by
the rasc.lly procs dure of Republican poll
t1cisns7 Lit them consider well the facts,
and act like men competent to take
care of themselves What laboring man
among the people of Indiana is will
ing to give up his situation to q
negro migrant? If the negroes coma they
must have work or starve. They can live on
less than white men. unless the white man
lives like the negro. 1t Is no use to say
there is rom for all, for there is scarcely
labor for those who are already here. To
day, If there were no negroes in Indianapolis,
white labor would be at least one-thIrd
higher.
The Democratic party has never objected
20 the natural immigration of the negroes
into the State. but why should it become
the camping ground of this ignorant and
degraded popuistions To elect Republican
politicians To office? Gan laboring men
afford to desra lie their calling that few
politicians may get Office? What benefit
will it be to them? Can they afford to play
into the hands of politicians at the expense
OF their manhood and their bread?
The people of Indiana have always had q
white mans government. When they made
the present constitution they prohibited
the immigration of negroes into the State,
and We believe it is still the sentiment of q
greet msjority that the. white man shall
govern the State. While the right
of the negro TO emigrate from one
State Is another Is hos to be disputed,
1t should be regarded Is an outrsse upon the
bona fds residents of this State for associa
tions, Dackef by Governiusnt officers ana
patronage, 70 colonize tbs oauper population
OF the South in our midst to carry out polit
soai end. Is can end in NO good; it is
fraught with many evils. The white men OF
Indiana can attend to their own political
safairs, and they want and will
have. no fraudulent practices to sue
coed in depriviDg them of the control of
their believed State. The negroes of the
South bad better stay where they are.
unless in ahe natural course of events. they
lesve there to better their condition. They
can not do 1T By coming here, and those who
are engaged In colonizing them know Il.