The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-03

GOVERNOR PORTER'S KEYNOTE.
BY this time it is reasonable so suppose
that the Buckeye Republicans wish that His
Excellency, Governor Porter, had remained
away. His Greenville speech tore hole in
the side of the Republican tug which defies
plugging. When Governor Porter announced
to his Greenville audience that the Repub-
lican party beliered that the exposure and not
the suppression of tVrong doing lcas best for 1t
the bosses got up, hurried around corners,
and got off more dynamite explosive express
sions than were ever before heard in that
town. We should like to reproduce some of
them, but it won't do. The civilization
of Indiana forbids. The reader may, if he
can, imagine gilt-edged, double edged. dia-
mond-pointed, iron-clad, steel plated, double
jointed. high-pressure, back-action, thunder
bolt profanity, and then some idea may be
had of Republican CONSERVATION when His
Excellency, Governor Porter, announced the
belief Of the Republican party that the sup
preston of wrong doing was.not best for its
success in the future. Governor Porter told
a great truth when he made that declaration.
Take the Republican party and chop it into
chunks an inch square, put a mouth and
tongue in each chunk, and if by any possible
combination of circumstances the chunks
can be made to tell the truth,
they will repeat Governor Porter's
Greenville observation that the Republican
party holds fast to wrong doing" as the first
and last hope for its success. We congratu-
late Governor Porter. Like the man who
rounded Peters dome and groined the aisles
of Christian Rome, he builded better than
he knew. He declared a great historical
fact-grim. haggard, repulsive, infamous and
colossal. 1t straddles continent-East and
West, North and South. 1t was eminently
fitting that Governor Porter, of Indiana,
should make the announcement that the Re-
publican party is opposed to the suppression
of wrong doing, because such suppression is
not 'best for it," Republicans OF
Indiana, we call upon you to take
into consideration the deliberate declaration
of your Governor-you men of the g. o. r. p.
Your Governor tells you that the Republican
party "has believed that the exposure aud
not the suppression of wrong doing was best
for it, What does that mean? Expose
frauds but continue their practice? Expose
stealing but encourage the thieves? Arraign
Dorsey, but acquit him? Show up Hubbell,
but don't suppress foot-pad assessments?
Thunder anathemas against purjurers, re-
peaters, ballot box suffers, bribers, and the
entire gang Of villains, but be sure that
lightning never strikes them and that their
hell-deserVing infamies are not to be suppress
ed? Why? In Gods name, why? On! because
it is not for the good of the Republican party
that wrong doing" should be suppressed,
Why does Governor Porter remain day an
hour longer in such party? What excuse
can he offer? Why don't he run, fly hop,
skip, jump, take a railroad train, mount
mule, horse, bicycle, tricycle., call for
balloon-anything to get out of party
which does not believe in the suppression of
wrong doing" bribery, perjury, fraud, ras-
cahties scoundrelism, villainies large and
small? Governor Porter, having publicly de-
clared that the Republican party is opposed
to the suppression of wrong doing, because it
is not "best for it," owes it to
himself to get out of such party; owes it to
the great State whose Chief Executive he is;
owes it to law, to all things of good re-
port; owes it to the Church, the school, to
virtue, to civilization, and to the Constitu-
ton of the State which he is sworn to uphold.
Governor Porter, among his prerogatives,
has the pardoning power. He can unlock
Prison doors and bid crime-stained criminals
go free. But he belongs to party which he
says "has believed that the exposure and not
the suppression of wrong doing was best for
it," and this is the party which faunts in
the face of the people it's banners inscribed
with GOD and morality mottoes-the party
of great moral ideas" A party that opposes
the suppression of wrong doing" because it
does not believe such suppression is 'best for
it," ought to go, must go, and is going