The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-03
MbRE SQUIRTING

whatever relish our neighbor may find in
throwing an Eye over its pertys path we
would have fnly congratuIation IT, only, it
would not fs{ into habit against which We
have already cautioned it: II, only, it would
not squint. 1T is solely for the purpose OF
squarirg the tiases and trimming the bowels
reflected by sac Journals squirting. back
ward eye thjt we copy and comment upon
one or two If the heroic passages of the
editorial mens oned. It's opening sentence,
though d;fidsntly, comedies truth which
after weary months of uncertainty hes
finally fouRd Judgment in the Journals
head. 1t reass: AT present the days OF
Republican yscendency are numbered"
That is no..an abrupt statement calcu-
lated to stun f.le Journals patrons. 1t is
gentle, feathI.' -bedy letting down. II is q
soft and p0Sic-not unakio in style 20
Mrs. Leo Hulter's lode TO an Expiring
Frog This us followed by no less
sylVsn como SESSION that: when tie
sun shall havl risen and set and risen aud
set sgaIn, the: affairs of this great Nation
will have passsd into other hands" Though
in more melsifuous language. and with
sweetness lOntr drawn out, the last sent
ment is doubtless inspired by the inscription
beneath the Sentinel rooster, which, by the
thousands, croixe over the State after the
election, in twp brief words namely: Got
emp
From the Journals Pegasus review OF
Republican plst-war demi-gods we extract
this allusion & the election of 1876:
Again the Republican party chose for Its leader
sn sp snd ses eF and as ade DE th
Democratic nonsnee and his tools TO rob him oil
his election.
This refereI.oe will at least revive 8 ait-
ting memory d the husband OF a once dis
tinguished LADY of the White House, now
engaged in I.,Opsgsting chickens over in
Ohio. But, proceeding, our nelghbor says:
The armies tnat rescued the Nation from DEM
ocrate treason and rebellion were essentially
Republican F:om the Commander in chief to
publican ideas az d wholly cOnseclated to the &C.
complishment Ct the aims of the Republican
party Every sTmsh every battle fSIght for
ard against Democrats Those who died for the
immortal PRINCIPLES upon which the party was
founded. died Republicans: Republican blood
dissolved the csains OF slavery and recemented
the shattered UIsion.
1t is here that the Journals backward
optic squints. 1t may be that the Journal
does not comprehend the meaning of plain
English words. such, for instance, as les
sentislly." 1tgmsy be that the Journal has
no regard for sne truth, and, so, squints de-
signedlv at Misrepresentation. at any rate,
these latter statements are unfair, biased,
unjust and untrue.
To begin with, the movement to suppress
the attempt al secession was not a party
movement. bat a national one. When
Sumter was fred upon. no question OF
Whiggery, Democracy or Republication
weighed in the alRcrity with which the men
OF the North volunteered to preserve the in
tegrity OF the Union. 1.-THE armies that
rescued the Nation" were not essentially"
Republican; they were composed OF citizen
soldiers who had, largely, voted for John
Bell, Stephen A. Douglas and John O.
Breckenridge. From the Commander
in. chief TO rank and file they we're men
imbued with the national idea that
the Union must be preserved, but it is
squint, this, that Generals w. s. Hancock,
Slocum, RosecJans, John @. Black, Mshlon
D. Manson and other heEoes OF the war were
wholly oonsesrated t. the aims OF the Re.
publican party They and scores Of thou
sands Of Democratic privaies fought with
Republican officers and soldiers for the
national idea that the Union must be pre-
served, which was no less strong in Joseph
| f. Mcdonald, Democratic candidate for
Governor OF Indiana in 1854, than in Oliver
| 2. Morton, the Republican candidate. as
| false a squint at fssehood is the assertion
| that every skirmish, every battle fought
for liberty and Union was fought by Repu0-
| LEANS and against Democrats" and that
| ether, that those who died died
| Republicans etc. The truth is, there
was not a battle, nor even an important
skirmish, fought during the war by Union
| soldiers, in which Democratic valor was not
prominent. Nor were all who foughton the
Southern side Democrats. There were
| thousands of the Confederate soldiery who
were Wings up to the beginning Of the war
| throughout the war, and declared themselves
| Wings still upon their return home in 1862
| And demonstration of the fslsity OF this
sweeping claim for the Republican party in
| the war Is had in the considerable aumber
| OF Democrats who are members of the Grand
| Army of the Republic to-day.
Such squirting as this to which We have
taken exception may be orthodox partisan
ship, but it certainly has not the merit of We
rscity. Ard we submit that it is by just
such Misrepresentation as those quoted that
| Republicans have been made to lose faith in
their party organs and speakers. 1t Is this
largely to which is due the fact that at
present the days OF Republican asCendency
are numbered Again we counsel our con-
temporary; Do not squint
A GREAT DEM AND.
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