The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-04
Tie Political Ice Dissolving.
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With the end of win ter the foundations Of
the party that won the Presidential election
last November by so narrow a margin are
breaking up into fragments One of two
things is clear from the almost universal
dissolution. Either the majorities cast
against Hancock were false, or the conf
dence in Garfield is gone. Certainly the
first reason is conclusive, if we recall the
terroized vote in many of the business
centers last year, and the present deep ana
loud discomfort in these localities. In Phil
adelphia, which was the first stone of the
column to fall on the first honest succeeding
trial, after the declared election of Garfield
1t Is clear from the recent experiment that
nearly enough counterfeit votes were
counted for Garfield to make his majority in
the whole State. Republican examination
boldly pursued has proved by the aid OF
bought election officers and forced returns
the voting in the Presidential contest
was fragrant farce, and when VIC include
the organized patronage in the Counties. the
surmise ripens into fact. The Indiana Octo-
Der election was a proclaimed auction in
advance. The State was purchased in open
market. The same revelation il true of
New York and of other quarters. The proof
was not only in the meagre Republican
strength in Congress, illustrated by the
present degradation of the United States
Senate, but in Unprecedented Republican
defeats in most of the great Republican
cities since the Presidential election The
first sign since the Republicans of the Senate
have attempted TO make party in that
body by an open bargain with a Repudator,
is the failure of the disruption of the SO
called Solid South. The Malone coalition
has made the South granite against that or
ganized ingratitude. 1t has even disguised
the colored vote, and has placed the North
ern men of honor who preferred Mr. Garfield
in the worst of all attitudes, helpless apol-
ogy. No party can live that is ashamed or
afraid to defend ITSELF This element, added
to the proved dishonesty of the Republican
rings in most of the great cities, has
whatever conference there
was last November. That conference
in the Republican column was always
hollow. Ii was forced confidence. 1t was
a combination of fear. The employers feared
the employed, and the employed marched
forth in manacles and frowningly voted
with their despotic masters And now that
these very employers do not hesitate to show
their horror of such arrogance as that of
COnkling, and such shameless corruption as
the bargain with the bullying Repudiator
is it surprising that the men they
forced to vote against Hancock should seek
the first occasion TO return to the Democratic
party? There is another ingredient in this
dissolution OF the Republican party. There
are not places for one out of hundred of
the hungry expectants. Reform has seized
the cities. 1t will control the departments.
IL will force economy upon the bureaus.
The first to suffer will be the colored men,
and they will be kept more resolutely out in
the cold, now that the whites, who are in,
will labor with might and main to stay. An
army of mercenaries will soon tire of fight
ing without plumber. and when the gas
rings are broken, and the water-rats are
made to work, and the street idlers are made
10 do honest chores, the romance of party
oses its gliding, and men come down TO the
prose OF common life.