The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-21

DANGER Dull the "Old man" Will De able Tor
some little duty during the coming campaign
hunt, and be in at the political death of Mr..
Garfield in November.
THAT seems to have been a very pleasant
call which the members of the National Com
nhttee made to Mr.. 1ilden yesterday. Can
the Republican organs find in 1t some Of the
germs OF dissatisfaction for which they have
so earnestly sought OF late. Mr.. Tnden will
take an active interest In the campaign In
New York, and Republicans know that means
that the state is irrevocably lost to them.
SAILOR THOMPSON has embarked for Califor-
mia. He did not risk himself on one of his UNI
seaworthy old tubs, but took a parlor car.
This would seem to indicate that he is not so
much OF sailor. after all, and that he still
inclines to the ways of land lubbers. Sailor
Thompson is a conundrum. About the only
place he seems really to ut well In is that of
writer of platitudes for state platforms for the
Republicans of Indiana.
REV. GEORGE CHAINEY, the Unitarian minis
ter OF Evansville, this State, who recently re-
canted his religious belief, and announced his
conversion TO Atheism, delivered long lee
ture in Chicago, Sunday, with Robert q.
Ingersoll" as his subject. He seems de-
termined to prove that a man can descend
AhithCAS MAbhOul CnOIJ Ou utb pdfb III IuTco
months than he can climb up by the hardest
kind OF labor in forty years, and he bids fair to
succeed.
THE Republican papers are giving Denis
Kearney parting kick. They say he mas
lost the little power he once had. They for
get, however, that it was Democrats who
kicked HIM out of place when his unworthi-
ness and demagogy became thoroughly ap-
publican candidate and Committees will be
oickering with him for votes before the cam
paign is gone three months further.
THE latest resemblance which anxious
friends have noted is that General Garfield
much resembles Mr.. Lincoln in his traits of
character. This is a severe reflection upon the
martyred Presidents memory. Who could
have thought the day would come when his
party would compare him fsvorsbly with a
man who was condemned by Committee of
that party as a bribe-taker, without excuse or
reason. Mr.. Lincoln's friends and the people
of the country Will resent this base reflection
upon his memory.
Mr.. PORTER is said to be excellent authority
on the subje, of ties, gloves scarfs, ETC., etc
but who ever heard of him investing even a
single dollar In indianapolis for other than
selfish purpose? How many dwelling houses
has he builte How many men has he ever
given employment, or how many dollars has
he in vested in factories, shops or business?
These are questions he Will have to answer
before the campaign closes, and he and his
friends might as well be ready for them when
they come along.
Mr.. CANDIDATE PORTER came out fairly in
his speech with an Endorsement of the in
famous doctrine that the Vice President has
the right to count the electoral votes. AS Sen
ators Edmunds and Conkling renounced this
theory, Mr.. Porter seems TO prefer a position
along side of William z. Chandler, the little
political manager, rather than with the states
men and lawyers Of his party. These slistin-
guished Senators must have snubbed him in
Washington sometime, else he would have
been following in their wake.
1T is to be hoped the Republican fears lest
those awful, wicked Democrats should get into
a fierce, bitter quarrel over the Craftsmanship
o. the National Committee, are now allayed 10
a limited extent at least. Mr.. William II.
Barnum, of Connecticut, was yesterday unan-
imousIy elected Chairman, and he will now
proceed to lay out Mr.. Jewell with neatness
and dispatch. He is one of the best and most
experienced managers in the country. The
quarrel or two of that sort.
Mr.. HORACE MAYNARD, Minister to Turkey,
who was recently appointed Postmaster Gen.
eral. is delaying his return home becaure the
Sultan is out of town, and he can not go out
and weep on his seck and bid him farewell ia
a formal manner. So the Postoffice is with
out head merely because the man insists on
the most excruciating demands OF
rl,a C,,lr ,,Nf
haps, If Maynard should take the very first
train out of Constantinople, even without
waiting to say -'ta ta!" to him. If only Por-
ter was over there, how well he could do up
that kind of work. He could teach Mr.. Sui
tan many new and important lessons in a
very short time. After October he will be
asking. "Who threw that brick?" and Will
have leisure of a month or two to go over and
teach the citizens Of Turkey how it is done in
Indiana.
Mr.. GARFIELD showed good sense in his let
ter of acceptance, in one thing at least. He
refused to indulge in any apprehenslons con-
corning the "Solid South, )" and the many evils
which his party has predicted would come
from that section. Ii is mild on all sectional
questions, and his discussion of the question
OF Federal powers and State rights, though
by references to the dividing lines of sections
He perhaps recognizes that the South is solid
from necessity-for Observation-Disclosures Ii
desires to force the country to accept the most
profound peace. When that section once finds
It is not to be ground into the dust for the ben
eft of thieves and plunderers; when it can see
that 1t is not to be made into Poland or
Hungary, and thus ostracised and outlawed.
ana when 1t ceases TO be the excuse for send
ing troops and spies into the midst OF its peo-
pie, merely because they have intel igence
enough to know, and pride enough to resist,
oppression-when all these things are assured,
the South will no longer be solid. 1t will then
divide mp its forces in the same manner any
other section of the Union. All these will
come when the sectional party loses power in
the Government, and the only real National
party regains it. When this time comes Re-
publicans may hope to divide the solid South,
but not before.
In re Porter.
As there Is no chance for Porter's election
we submit the following to his consideration,