The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-23
PARADE OF WRITE

Ii is a change of front. a change that was indi-
Gated when the Sentinel fell into line and said an
investigation of the affairs of the State Treasury
must be had. The appearance of that article was
sufficient to cause the comment that things had
been arranged so that legislative committee
could be safely welcomed to examination of
the public funds, or OF the "collaterals" which
Mr. cooper says ne holds for part OF the money,
The above is from the Journal of yester-
day. The article in question did not justify
any such comment as the Journal indicates
At the time it appeared Mr.. Cooper was I'M
derstood as protesting against an investiga-
ton On the ground that it was uD lust to him
to permit Ex-Governor Porter and his Re-
publican following to cast the reflection
upon him which he deemed to be involved
in an investigation OF his Office While
recognizing the indignation Mr. Cooper
might naturally feel, believing the move
nent inspired by nothing less than political
and possibly by an admixture of personal
and political Ill will, the Sentinel
yet disagreed with him as to
the policy which he should
pursue. as Mr.. Cooper's friend, and for the
interest of the State Democracy, the Sentinel
believed, and believes that he should invite
rather than oppose Investigation. Satisfied
to be an honest and safe custodian of the
States money we hold that by making this
showing he would, at once, place himself on
the highest possible ground, humiliate the
Republican attempts to discredit him and
relieve his party from any possible disad-
vantage.
So, then, the Journals inference from the
appearance of the Sentiuel's article that
things had been arranged so that Legisla-
tive Committee could be safely welcomed"
etc, falls to the ground. But we have
q question for the Journal: Why is
it that only in the instance of Democratic
State Treasurer has its concern as to whether
the money of the State has been kept in the
building temporarily holding the Treasur-
tr's office, been so intensely aroused Does
il not know, as admitted in Governor POr-
ters message, and did it not know during
their incumbency, that Mr.. Cooper's Repub-
lican predecessors did not keep the States
money in the safe of the Treasury? Did the
Journ 81 demand an investigation of the af.
fairs Of those Republican Treasurers on that
account? Does not the Journal know that
II wss understood during the incumbency
of each, that they were drawing interest
from deposits in banks? The bonds of the
Republican Tressurers were no larger than
that Of Mr.. Cooper; each had about as much
money passing through his hands. Why did
not the Journal cry out for Investigations OF
their accounts?
The truth is that neither the Journal nor
Ex-Governor Porter nor the Republicans in
the Legislature expect to find that there is
sny shortage in Mr.. Coopers accounts. But
now that the Republican Treasurers are out
of Office and beyond investigation. the Re-
publicans are seeking to make political
capital by charging, directly or indirectly,
the Democratic Treasurer with what they
know to have been done by the Republican
Treasures. The Journal and the Repabli-
cans have 81 at once become rigidly analyti-
cal in their construction of the law relating
to the State Treasury. They can on that
question
- distinguish snd divide
hair 'twixt south and southwest side"
They would make il appear that they are
q wonderfully virtuous lot, and we will
cheeriully grant them their claim, with the
proyiso that like some other pretenders In