The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-12-10

party must give them for the next
four years. and q manifestiy better
article than the Republicans have given,
or it will step down aud out again in 1888
The time has come for the Democrats
10 treat the Republican party kindly. It is
powerful organization, aud abuse only con-
sOlidates it, and makes its hold on its men,
beFs ali the more fixed"
We inter that our correspondent has mod
fled his views as to what results may follow
the election of Mr.. Cleveland. His letter to
his New York friend, written soon after the
4th, must have foreboded only evil, as ap-
pears from the answer thereto, which reads
es follows:
"Your post-electIon missiye, brief and
gloomy, came in due season, despite the
Democratic triumph. The election of Cleve-
land is lot an unmixed evil, my dear fell
low. It Is certainly time that the war issues
were shelved. can see no way TO hinder
their being banded about at every Presi
dental election save the actual experiment
of Democratic administration. II now the
rebel debt goes unpaid, rebel survivors 60
unpensioned. slave indemnity 60 unprovid-
ed for; IL we have four years of ordinary
peace and prosperity, then Will the entire
North come to realize that Southerners are
Americans believe too that the only chance
for South, beautifully divided into politi-
cal parties, must come under such an ad-
ministration. The menace OF carpet
bag rule hiss been for the South what the
bloody shirt has been here. shall be
very glad to have the bloody shirt tucked
into the 'carpet-bag' and both buried out
of sight, and, for the public, out of mind.
Grover Cleveland and read Virgil and
studied algebra together in the Clinton
Grammar school in 1850. He would have
been of your class and mine had his means
- - lee all
honest determined man. he has strong
nature but not a bad character. Nine hun
dred and ninety.nine th0usandths of the
stories about him are utterly false. Men
who are dissolute do not go on, regularly,
day after day. working from q. N. to 10 p.
m. My son is at Albany, and he says that
CleYelRnd's daily life is a most absolute eu-
sTer to charges in regard to his habits. at
any rate he is the President-elect, aud the
people with the power OF adaptation so
marked in American character viii give him
and his party chance"
1t is hopeful sign Of the times that two
men of brain and character who supported
Mr.. Blaine for the Presidency can at so early
a day after his defeat thus concede the evils
that have cursed their party and accord
their support to the trial effort of the Demo.
cratic President Had the Republican CAD
didate succeeded there would have been no
such relaxation OF partisanship as is appsr-
ent in these letters and in the talk of iDtelli-
gent men wherever met.
We fully Indorse the remark OF eur CORE
spondent that "the time has come for Demo
Gratis to treat the Republican party kindly"
We venture the assertion that at no era
within the last quarter Of q century has
there been that absence OF ill-feeling be-
tween Democrats and Republicans that has
prevailed during the last fortnight. Toward
the masses OF the Republicans the Demo
cratic press accord equal patriotism and in
tegrity with those OF our own party
faith. 1t Is against tbs sinister lead
ers and insincere organs OF that party, who
have sought and still seek, by misrepresenta.
iOcs, to stir up bad feeling between the par
ties, that the Sentinel hiss words of condem-
nation. But We rejoice that there are al
ready thousands of Republicans, and will be
hundreds OF thousands more, to seq under
the lights OF the pescetut and patriotic adj
ministration assured them for the next four
years how wlfolly they have been misled By
their trusted leaders and prints When these
latter abandon their evil wsys-which pub
lie sentiment will inevitably focce them TO
do-then will al narrow pattisanship and
bad blood be eradicated from the people, and
Republicans aud Democrats. North and
South, join hands in the onward march OF
prosperity and progress.