The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-06-22
THE BUCK AND HALF-BREED I'M


Thousands and tens of thousands of honest
Republicans are dumb with amazement in
contemplating the deplorable condition of
their party. They have had faith in the
bosses. They nave believed that a glorious
future was in store for their party. When
it was assailed by Democratic organs and
orators, they have assumed to believe that
every assault was prompted by partisan
~malignity, and hence, the fiercer the
bombardment the more intense be-
came their devotion. The bosses, quick
to notice and to appreciate this loyalty,
have been emboldened to pursue a policy of
duplicity and mendacity that has no paral-
lei in the political history OF any party in
any country within the entire range of
authentic history. While the charges of
fraud in every conceivable form came from
the Democratic party, even well-disposed
Republicans were easily induced to credit
them TO what their bosses were quick to pro-
claim as the malign spirito Of Democracy which
had no higher purpose than to obtain pos
session Of the Government for personal
gains. To hold these honest Republicans
faithful to the party, the War has been
;s1ght over and over again. Falsehood has
been piled up to Andean heights and
passed current for truth, the most stipend
Gus frauds have been perpetrated, which, by
adroit manipulation, have been approved
by the rank aud file of the party as
patriotic measures designed for the public
good. P~erjuries have kept pace with con
g~;roc,oy ard o.. baaN fbo roocIf,orv
at work the most notorious villains
have been appointed to places of the highest
dignity and trust. In the very nature of
things a party. under the control of such
bosses, must come to a shameful end, and
with the Republican party, fortunately for
the country, that end draweth nigh. The
present imbroglio of the Republican party
is purely of Republican origin, a creation
of Republican bosses, the outgrowth of
inherent and superabundant d~epravity.
The examinations and determinations
all emanat from Republican sources.
The thieves, the bribe-takers. the liars and
perjurers are all dragged forth by the two
belligerentfactions of the Republican party
the bucks and half-breeds. One faction at
tacks COnkling and Grant, the otLer, with
equal malice, assails Blaine and Garfield.
In New York Bradley and Sessions, but re-
Gently pulling tremendously together in the
same yoke, are now charged with bribery
and perjury, and these crimes are, by Re
publican organs, made to smirch the
robes of the most distinguished Repub-
hcans in the party. Honest Repub-
licans are making a note OF
these things. They are coming to the
conclusion that their party is hopelessly
rotten-that from the crown of its head TO
the soles of its feet spotted death is every
where apparent. The most prominent Star
Route thieves are distinguished Republican
bosses. In the Treasury Department in
vestigatiOns are likely to smirch the char
acterS of men who claim great prominence
in the councils of the Republican party,
while affairs in New York are involving
men who have been worshiped as demigods
in crimes of such infamous turpitude as
10 shock the moral sense of the country.
Honest Republicans see these things and de-
clare that the time has come for the Repub-
llcan party to disband. 1t has become a
continental strench and nuisance. Here in
Indiana the revelations made by S. p. Con-
ner, with regard to the vile transactions in
the rooms of the Republican State Central
Committee, for the purpose of carrying Indi-
ana for Porter and Garfield, are driving
honest men from the party. The day of
judgment is fastening on and the people are
ready with the verdict. The Republican
party must 20.