The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-30
HANCOCK AND ENGLISH.

From all Quarters-NOrtn OOutns East dnC
West-come thunder tones of approval Of
the Democratic ticket-Hsncock and Eng
lish. The shout is grand. From the pine
forests of Maine to the Pacific Slope, from
Mackinaw to the Everglades, from the center
to the circumference of this ocean-girt
Republic, there is storm Of rejoicings. The
watch fires of liberty are blazing high the
flag of our country waves in every breeze IN
token of united country. Patriots, with
hearts swelling with emotions of loyalty to
the Constitution, see the victory from afar,
and by faith in the integrity and wisdom OF
the people bring 1t nigh. The beacon lights
of liberty dispel the darkness that,
under Republican rule, has for
many years cursed our country
and the crooked paths, leading to Republi-
can dens of iniquity, worn smooth by polit-
icsl reptiles as they cIaRled from hiding
place to power, are mapped IN lines as vivid
/ as lightning. The Democratic party, in
counsel at Cincinnati, solidified the DEM
ocratic party of the country. 1t spoke, and
/ the storm ceased-the waves of passion sub
sided. Instead of notes of discord and strife,
/ the country was saluted with the hsrmonies
Of peace, fellowship, goodwill, fraternity
harbingar tokens of victory. The waves OF
the Pacific tossed their white caps high
as they sent their greetings to the Atlsntic's
pillows; the snow-clsd SUBMITS of the
Sierras threw back the kisses of the sun to
the Alleghanies; Niagara roared its
applause, inviting all the cascades of
the continent to add their voices in one
grand National symphony in honor of an
event foreshsdowing era OF peace and
prosperity. The Mississippi, with all of its
mighty arms, embracing an empire all its
own, in flowing eloquence pledges it's aid in
adding wealth and prosperity to the land
under the new regime. The song of the
plowmen of the prairies blending with the
music of the planter, reaper and mower,
loins with the melodies of the anvlls, shut
ties and spindles of New England in the
grand shout of welcome to the new era
whose glorious dawning floods the land
with hopes Of reform. Never were
the hearts of American patriots more
profoundly stirred; never were the
party saluted with such burning, impas-
stoned devotion; never did the currents of
patriotic thought rise higher or flow out and
over the land with such majestic sweep.
The ticket, Hancock and English, is unlver-
sally accepted. If further encomium were
required. it Is supplied by contrasting the
Democratic ticket, Hancock and English,
with the Republican ticket. Gar.
field and Arthur. The Rspubli-
can party insulted the Republic.
Garfield and Arthur srs pronounced politi-
cal lepers by the testimony of Republicans.
The Republican party proposes to place these
men in the highest offices known to the laws
of the Republic. In discussing such an i'm.
pious proposition all the igures Of rhetoric
confess the meagerness OF their powers to
fifty portray its atrocity when 1t named Gar.
field and Arthur as its standard. bearers.
The people, regardless of party, had right
to expect the Republican party would name
honest and honorable men for the highest
Offices within its bestowal, but it did moth
ing in that line. In seeking to avoid Grant
and the Empire on one side, and Blaine
with his Nulligan record, and Sherman with
his Returning Board infsmies on the other
side, the Republican party. as if its evil
genius presided over its deliberations and
intensified its partisan blindness, selected
two of the most VIGOROUSLY corrupt men TO
be found within its jurisdiction; and, as if
TO sink the party to soundless depths of
Infamy, the verdict which establishes the
guilt of Garfield and Arthur is based entirely
upon Republican testimony. The Poland
Committee and the declarations of Hayes
and John Sherman place Garfield and Ar
thur in positions where, as the days come
and 90, will make them more and more
conspicuous as men whose official
robes are stained with corruption,
Garfield could scarcely be more degraded.
With pretensions of purity that would
shame Pharisee, he stands charged and
convicted as bribe-taker and perjurer.
The Chicago Convention, by unanimous
vote, made Garfield the Republican candi-
date for President, and the Poland Com
mittee, by unanimous vote, convicted him
of bribery and perjury. 1t would be Infin-
itely more creditable to reward patriotism
with a dungeon, or feed the scaffold with
the votaries of virtue, than to exslt con-
victed criminals to places OF honor and
power. Still the Republican party. disre-
garding its own verdicts, select men, whose
crimes admit of no equivocation, to sit in
judgment over the people, and shape the
destinies of the country. Fortunately the
people have the right, and will have an OPP
portunity to decide between the Democratic
and Republican candidates for President and
Vice President Awaiting that decision, the
Democratic party permits no doubts to mar
its serenity. 1t offers the people ticket
that will grow in public favor the more it is
contemplated, and in proportion as it rises
in public esteem, the Republican ticket will
sink. The wisdom, the prudence and the
patriotism of the Democratic party is SYM
bolizsd by the Cincinnati nominations and
to itly characterize the per6dy of the Re-
publican party in naming its candidates, it