The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-07-25

people. if they contained larger per cent.
of insamy than the schemes which were re-
sorted to in 1880 to elect James a. Garfield.
The facts now coming to light have been
limited at and partially written out before,
but they have been to some extent forced in
to obscurity. They are now coming to the
front, and that, too, by Republicans who,
having concluded TO turn States evidence,
are prepared to substantiate their DECLARE
tons by testimony which will force
conviction upon the minds of all men who
are not blind to facts and deaf
to reason. The facts so far developed have
been product We of great decentralization in
the Republican party. The organs of the
party try to explain, but every explanation
requires dozen explanations Some of the
organs resort to the old method of dencuuc-
ing the stories ahoat as so many lies, but the
next day they are required to do all their
work over again. The charges are that Gar
field himself acted corruptly in obtaining
money in many ways eliminating in bar.
gain to seat Stanley Matthews as a Justice of
the Supreme Court for 100000 paid by Jay
Gould. 1t will do no good to denounce these
charges lies. They must be proven
to be lies. All the circumstances go
to show they are substantially true,
and Congressional investigation, it is be-
lieved, will establish that they are absolutely
true. Dorsey still holds the archives" He
has the documents and is prepared to show,
for he was one of the villains himself, that
every allegation has documentary as well as
circumstantial evidence to support 1t. 1t is
humiliating to know that the Republican
party is such mass of corruption. In this
connection the Boston Herald, about the last
Republican paper to give in, as long as there
is hope that whitewash will answer the de-
mand, remarks that 'the charge as to the
agreement under which Stanley Matthews
was appointed to his present condition has
been made many times before and never
denied by any of the parties implicated, or
who are alleged to have had knowledge of
1t. 1t is too monstrous for ready belief.
That seat in the Supreme Court of the
United States, the last resort of the people
for legal justice, should be sold in advance
for cash contribution to known corrup-
tAOh Auhui cuu "
whose mercenary and selfish &C
tivity in politics has beer
brazenly confessed under oath, would be in
credible if the rottenness of our politics had
no history. IL it is true, our elections are a
CHASTITY farce, legislation is mere barter and
justice is mockery. 1t is time for the friends
of the late President to stamp this story with
the brand Of falsehood, if they are able to dc
So" Doubtless superhuman efforts will | e
made to show that things are not as infam-
Gus as they now appear, but the outlook is
nevertheless gloomy. The mills of the gods
were never more busily engaged. CRISIS Of
the living and the dead are pouring in. The
fat of fate has gone forth. Retributiye just
ice is taking the helm of affairs. and the g. O.
T. p, scaly as An alligator, warty as dun
geon toad, venimous as an asp, ugly as tar
antula, and loathsome asa corpse, is doomed
The country is ready for the obsequies.