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

President CLEVELAND will come into power
finding lilo, 600 Federal offices almost wholly
filed by Republicans, and most Of them
offensive and many Of them insolent and
disreputsble partissus. He will find it q
pressing necessity to prescribe the proscrip.
ton that has excluded Democrats from par
ticipstion in public offices for nearly quar-
ter Of a century; but he Will doubtless halt
far short of the old.time motto: ITO the
victors belong the spoils Philadelphia
Times Ind.l
CIyILsERvIcE reform is going to DO, through
a combination OF circumstances, the crucial
test Of the new administration. By that it
must stand or fall. Mr. Cleveland Is not
prominently known TO the public In connec.
ton with any question Of the day but nd-
ministrative reform. 1t is around this point
that all the expectations or his friends CEN
ter. 1t is en- this point that his enemies look
for his failure. We believe that he has the
firm intention to do right and the courage 10
do it and that he will go about his work
less trsmmelled with pledges than anybody
who has within fifty years occupied the
Presidential chair. No man or body of men
has lien on him OF sny Kindness York
Post Ind. Rep
The pension list is already sn exscting
load, 1t spproximstes 500, 0OO, 600 annually.
There is no thought in the South of increas-
ing it. The boys who wore the gray took
through ticket aud lost. They played
fair, open and manly game. They have
never whined about il, and they do not pro-
pose to foul it at this late day. They ex-
pect no pensions and want none. II ever a
proposition to that end is made, il will
either come from Northern Republicans,
seeking rebel alliances, or from some ire
sponsible Southern demagogue who thinks
to come 1t over his constituents, bat who
will be quickly sat down upon. Be sure OF
Charlottesville Courier-Journai (Dem.).
Ii is no longer questionable that villain
GUS conspiracy existed to steal seat ID the
United States Senate By seating Democrat
in the State Senate on forged returns- In
the midst OF their exultstlon over q great
National victory, and over an immense gain
in their own State, the Democrats of Illinois
were slow to believe this charge, and must
now SHOW LuAJ LnelE aCt1LuOe UoNhru was .
matter Of misplaced confidence, and not OF
a desire to profit by the crime aHd protect
its perpetrators. Such crime as the latter
have committed in this case is the worst be-
cause it is the msst insidious and dangerous
form NJ treason to the sovereignty Of the
people. Il ia stab at the heart OF our 5ys-
tenn of govern msnt, and life imprisonment
would not be punishment too severe 70
mark the gravity OF ssch 8 crime. Those
who have seen the glory of their recent sue
cess stained and its promise cloudsd by this
affair OWE il to themselves to see that no
guilty person escapes ths pitiful penalty
now provided by Law, and that all who
might have exposed the conspiracy are
themselves mercilessly exposed. The honest
and decent Democrats of Chicago should
make it q personal matter, and take such
sction ss will show all the world that their
party has no use for nor sympathy with
mea who pretend to serve it By stufsng bal
lot-bexes or forging election returns St
Louis Post. Dispatch dem