The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-12

do with government. In the beginning
of the American Government there were
those who favored independence, and those
who favored British rule. The Tories did
not succeed. The independence of the Col
when the Tory party ought to have obtained
power. Since the Constitution was adopted,
there have been two parties no matter what
their names may have been, they existed
from the time when the alien and sedition
laws were advocated down to the present.
One party has favored policy in harmony
with the Constituaon-wih peace, pros.
perity, fraternity, the broadening of the area
of suffrage, recognizing the rights of man, and
the grand destiny OF the Republic. The
other party has opposed the Constitu-
ton. Is has been fanatical and
distruslful. 1t has retained the blear-eyed
ideas, prevailing in the days of witchcraft.
1t has. from the days that the odds and ends
of all the isms that ever cursed the country
were gathered together, been the foe of con-
stitutional government. 1t has been party
OF faction, of hate, of fraud and theft, OF
forgeries and perjuries. 1t is the agglomera-
ton of the iniquities OF a century, and it is
called the Republican party of 1880. 1t has
a President seated by the most infamous
frauds TO be found in the archives OF Sstsns
dominions. 1t has dispersed Legislatures at
the point Of the bayonet. 1t has trampled
upon constitutions in broad daylight and in
view of all the people. 1t has stolen the
ruhlio f,,pdo hu rnilliops II has demanded
that troops shall be ready, with fixed bayo-
nets, to stab citizens while exercising the
right of suffrage. 1t has demanded
that Deputy Marshsls, selected from
the most abandoned classes-thieves, cut
threats, burglars, footpads and bagnIo
pimps-should be clothed with authority to
arrest voters without warrant, and imprison
them without trial. 1t has sent its states
men to supervise fraud at elections, and to
barter Federal offices for partisan perjurers;
to maintain power; and, when the crimes
were perfected, it has rewarded the criEi-
mails with important offices and compelled
honest people to pay them their salaries.
This Republican party has debauched every
department of the Government, and, to
cover up its frauds, has 30 mutilated the
financial records of the Government that it
will require years of patient toll to know the
extent of its robberies. This Republican
party now asks the American peo-
pie to place it in power; to
continue it at the helm. II
confronts the Democratic party. With the
Democratic party in power the country has
had peace throughout its borders, and pros
perity from ocean to ocean. As soon as the
Republican party gained control of the
hate, despotism, crime and universal cussed-
ness. To be a partisan now, is to march
under the Democratic flag or the Republican
bloody shirt" Democrat and patriot are
synonymous terms. To be Democrat is to
be in favor OF the Constitution; to advocate
to hate fraud and perjury, and to seek by
every honorable means the Inauguration of
a new era OF peace and fraternity. The Re-
publican party has never gained a triumph
without appealing to the prejudices
of the people, by utilizing fraud
and perjury, and the employment
of the most nefarious means that could be
devised. We challenge the record. 1t is
blsckened all over with the most infamous
crimes. Look at three prominent men, now
candidates for President-Grant, Blaine and
of whom, by the testimony
of men of their own party, are pronounced
unfit for office-disqualifsd by their own
corrupt acts. Parties may exist-doubtless
they will always exist in this country-but
by all the gods of the Greeks, it is not posi-
BILE to show that the Republican party is
either useful, ornamental or honest, or nee
essary to the peace or prosperity of the
JJnited States