The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-09
THE REPUBLICAN PLAFFoRm.

The Chicago Convention, notwithstanding
1t has resembled prizs ring more than a
deliberative body, has found time to fulmi-
nate platform. Blaine and Grant went o
Chicago In about the same spirit that ami
mated Ryan and Goss, with their trainers
and bottle holders, and no prize fight of the
century has excelled the Chicago pow-wow
in disgraceful scenes. We have had recitals
of first knock-kowns and first blood, with
the accompanying shouts and yells of the
"pluguglies' aud dead rabbits surrounding
the ropes We have had exhibitions of
swaggsr and bluff, brag and bestality of
thu most disgusting type. We have seen
Conkling and Frye, Hale and Logan, reach
ing for each others scalps in the most ap-
proved style, OF the most debased repre-
sentatives of the slums, and still thes rep
resentatiyes of political fraud and factionsl
vindictiyeness, partisan depravlty and Ma
tional curses, seek to obscure their inherent
deprsvity by series of resolves, intended
to convey the idea that the Republican party
has a claim to decency, and that Its past his
tory and present policy is something to be
proud Of 1t sffirms, first. that its work for
the past twenty-one years has been such as
to commend itself to the favor of the Ma
ton. In what regard7 1t found the Nation
at peace and it forced it into war. 1t found
the Nation honest, aud it transformed it
into den of thieves. 1t found the Nation"
prosperous, and reduced 1t to poverty, ruin,
bankruptcy, idleness, pauperism and starva-
ton. Such is history, and no resolves to the
contrary by the men who brought about
the calamities can change il. The
platform affirms; second, that "the Consti-
tutlon of the United States is supreme law
and not a mere contract" Well, be it one
or the other, or BOTH the Republican party !
has set 1t aside hundred times as of 10 |
force atall. 1t has treated it with sovereign |
contempt, and then, to justify its crimes,
has debauched the Supreme Court and made |
the judiciary ss vile as itself, the blasphemy |
eliminating with the vote of Judas Bradley.
when, as against the will of the Amer can |
people, hayes was lifted into Office
on derrick OF periuries AID frauds. Re
solves 8, 4 5, and need no comment now.
In No. Hayes comes in for an intorse-
ment. The world knows that Hayes is In
office because Republican peridy triumphed
over every sacred guarantee of liberty; that
truth, constitution, law, and justice went
down, and all that was vile in fraud, and all
that was impious in falsehood, was en-
throned in the White House and in every
department of the Government, and that
more than one hundred men who aided
the nefarious work of seating Hayes have
been quartered upon the Federal Treasury,
and are now drawing pay for crimes that
should have sent them and their confeder
ate rascals to the peniteRtiary. In resolu-
ton we have the following:
g. We charge upon the Democratic party
the habitual sacrifice of patriotism and justice
10 a supreme and Unsuitable lust OF Office and
patronage; that TO obtain possession Oh tne
troi of place and position, they have oostruct-
ed all efforts TO promote the purity and con-
serve the freedom OF suffrage; have devised
fraudulent certificates and returns; have la
bored to unseat lawfully elected members of
Congress; TO secure at all hazards the vote OF a
majority of the states In the House OF Repre-
sentatives; have underworld TO occupy, by
force and fraud, the PLACES of trust given 70
the courage in action OF Names patriotic
sons; have by methods, vicious In principle
Ieoisiation 10 appropriations upon whose pass
age the very movement OF the Government
depends; have crushed the rights OF lndlvlo.
uals have advocated the principles and sought
the favor of rebellion against the Nation, and
have endeavored to obiterate the sacred
memories of the war, and TO overcome It's In
estimable good results-freedom and indlvtd-
nal equality ~ .iy De =i'
BY the yoics OF the American people ths
Dsmocratic party was called to take charge
Iof the Government From 1860 10 1873 the
Government had been In the hands of the
RenubIioan marty Its will was supreme
It's whim ives law. It had lnaugursteds