The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-04-18

IT has seemed that Indiana has rested under a
cloud during the past two years because of the
fact that its Republicans In their gallant and de-
termined campaign of 1850, bore the entire brunt
of the National contest and made the existence OF
a Repu blican Administration possible: This has
those who contributed 10 that success, and II Will
be qualification to them that at iast though on
,,segaTd feet, Justice has overtaken the state IN
representative position in the councils of the Ad-
ministrati0n. journal.
Was there ever such blending OF mourn
full mslignity? The reference to the gal
liant aud determined campaign" OF Indiana
Republicans in 1880, for downright impu-
dence, is equal to anything in the way of
shameless effrontery that has distinguished
Dorsey's efforts TO swear himself
clear of the Penitentiary. Mr.. w. P. Fish
back, himself distinguished Republican,
who took part in the campaign OF 1880. has
recently told the public what he thinks of
the gallantry and determination of Repub-
licans in that campaign. Mr.. F.shback says
$500 900 was the sum disbursed in the
Denison House parlors to be used in "buy-
ing rotes, hiring repedters, 6ri6ing election Of
fcials to stuff ballOt-bOres and falSify election
retWrils," and that is what the Journal calls
making gallant and determined cam
paign." 1t is not strange that Indiana has
rested under a cloud during the past two
years." And since Dorsey, who disbursed
the 800, 600, has been tramping toward the
Penitentiary, the cloud has grown
in blackness, and Mr.. Fishbacks
open letter has added immensely to it's ebon
hue. The appointment of Judge Gresham
to the position OF Postmaster General in no
wise changes the color of the cloud under
which Indiana has rested since its Repub-
lican bosses, now "high officials" "con-
nived" at Penitentiary crimes, which the
Journal refers TO as an exhibition of gal
lsntry," for it is believed that Judge
Gresham was Indignantly hostile to
such "gallantry." The appointment
of Judge Grisham, may be regarded, there
fore, as an snti-Dorsey movement. True,
Arthur was a boon companion of the Star
Route thief, Dorsey, and supplied him with
soap and eulogized him at the Delmonico
banquet; but to have anything Of that sort
in his Cabinet is Just little more than the
hcpuDlCdu party Cdu bbduu AIIuuI udo III
his Cabinet Mr.. Foyer, whose name is
eternslly associated with forgery. That
is all that Arthur can stand. To put
anybody in his Cabinet from
Indiana who had been intimately associated
with Dorsey in disbursing money to be used
in buying votes, hiring repeaters, bribing
election officers 10 stuff ballot-boxes and
falsify election returns" would be an exhi-
bition of depravity for which even Arthur
lacks the requisite courage. The Journals
disappointment at the way things have
PANIED out since 1880 has added much to
the offensiveness of its mephitic breath, and
Notwithstanding it made haste to declare
Arthur President "by the act of God" it
could not give to the cloud that has rested
upon Indiana since 1880 neither a golden
fringe nor a silver lining; and the appoint
ment of Judge Gresham to Cabinet Office
makes the Journal feel like hiring gimlet
hole and retiring from public view.