The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-09-09

more Star-rOute frauds; no more whisky rings; in
| snort, breath, strong breeze OF economy and
| honesty is blowing through all branches of the
No more wool win be pulled over the eyes of
| Ohio farmers by tariff nomirally high. but in
/ geniously leveled down at the Custom-houSe by
4 fraudulent invoicing.
| Mr. Sherman has recently boosted that he has
| converted senator Morrill,, of Vermont TO the
| support of the wool tariff of 1867. But is Mr.
| sherman sure of himself on this question? Is he
certain that he viii not again attempt its redue-
ton. as he did in 1872? Is he sure that in his
iety to secure other tariff reductions he will never
| again give the casting vote in favor of reducing
| TO cut down duties on other articles as he did in
ISIS? Is he sure that il ever elected President
ommend "A substantial reduction" in the duty
| ION wOol?"
The three great Republican scare-erows have
been taken in for good, and relegated to the rag
| bag and the dust-heap. There will be no pay
ment OF the rebel debt, no pensions to rebel sol
suits Of 70 tbe warn Which Henco 20 and Ward g
ncr and Morgan, Ewing and Rice, ana thousands
OF other Ohio Democrats fought to secure. viii be
Here in Butler County, you have a memorable
| instance of the beauties of Republican PROBES
| siOns Except for a short time under Andrew
| Johnson there has not been moment since the
| close of the war when Ferdinand Nandeveer, the
the hero OF two wars, could be permitted to enter
the civil service OF his country. lie welcomed
| to light in Mexico, was welcomed TO fight the
| belliOn honored, promoted, made a Brigadier
General. He was invited TO shed his Democratic
| blood for his twice imperilled country. Against
foreign foes and domestic traitors he freely ex-
! posed his life, but under Republican President
he has not been good enough To be even whisky
gauger: Thank God Grover Cleveland has de-
stroyed all this. Democrats. who for twenty
years have only been considered fit TO be enlisted
as private soldiers at sl3 a month, are now. at
least occasionally, promoted from hard tack and
position. AT last il has become possible for the
majority of the American people the majority not
in numbers merely but i'm all that makes Nation
great, in intelligence. virtue. Sobriety, right
thinking and right living. to ofiiccholder
occasionally at least selected from their midst.
Doubtless Mr.. Cleveland seems to some to move
too slowly, but remember, he is the head OF gov
eminent, not of machine for the distribution
of spoils. OF one thing | am sure, and
that is that while maintaining and executing in
all their force as is his duty. every law he finds
upon the statute book, including the law for the
reform OF the CIVIL service he Will III time fill every
Office involving political action by men believing
in the Democratic Chicago platform OF 1881 and
sympathy with Democratic progress For twenty
years the Republican party of Ohio and the Nation
has proved by its action that its single idea of the
public service has been that no Democrat should
hold any civil office whatever. business or poiti-
cal, and that every public place great and small,
should be filled by partisan Republican put
there because, and only because hewas partisan
Republican. All this is now reversed, and "the
mourners go about the streets" 1t is sweet. il is
delicious, brethren to hear the Republican lam
worked the Treasury Department for all it was
worth in 1850 to nominate himself for President,
for civil Office in his life, that
impartial. non-partisan civil service
Is danger. brother
John, there is a beam in thine own eye. Do l say
beam? Yes; cord OF wood. whole forest. 60
thou and pluck it out then come, and after we
out our little notes. and listen to your com
plants. And while these reforms have been in
P T4ggTess, the country has not gone to the dem
has prOphesied for a dozen years past. Ii that
| great and wise leader of the Democratic party,
Samuel j. Tilden that clear-sighted reformer, be-
lore the electro Ilght OF whose penetrating Wis
| ion. fraud and waste shrunk and skunk into hid
| ing places and eXiles, or was driven to prison,
were inaugurated, the country would be ruined
| 50 prOphesed our Republican Cassandras; there
fore. Florida and Louisiana, the latter with Mr..
Sherman'S owe personal cOnniVance were robbed
of their electoral votes. and the Government for
four years handed over to a usurper. If Hancock
the superb leader OF the LOYAL leriOns i'm battle
were elected dire calamity, the carnival of treason
| would ensue. they said. But 10, the hour has
come and the man. Democracy has eifeetually
| What has become OF the disaster? Business re-
| viving stocks advancing. these the tokens Of
| Republican miscoyeTnment Rome was NOT b1iit
| i'm day or year. II is only six months since the
| Republicans lost power IL may be that the re-
| Democratic success. They at any rate coinci-
dent. Republican prOphesy is lalsifed, and Re-
| publican prophets silenced. Let us take heart
| and with renewed faith in Democratic principles.
| and doubled courage, with generous confidence,
| continue our support OF President Cleveland,
| sure and secure that his inhexible integrity,
ms lnvinclbie courage his persistent labor,
| lcglSldllOn OF Il DtmOCTdllc MOUSE OF hep
| reSenatives this year, and a Democratic Senate
and House in 1857, will richly reward his, their
| and our endeavors- The country will thus enter
| upon cireeS OF prosperity Sucl as mas attended
| other Democratic triumphS, such as came in with
| Jefferson. Madison and Monroe. under whose adj
| ministration all political opposition to the De-
| mOcracy ceased, and who gave to the country
| Louisiana and Mississippi, the territory west Of
the Mississippi. and Florida. or with Jackson,
| added Texas and California TO the national do
| main.
And at the election of 1855 Democrats and Re
/ pubicans alike Will have the satisfaction OF vot
ing for the man of their choice, unawed by ruff
| ans drawn from the sums OF distant States and
Territories, armed with bulldog pistols and head
| ed by Powell Clayton, Dudley. Rathbone aud Lot
| Wright. Marshal Urner is Democrat and gen
| tleman and his deputies Will be gentlemen, and
| OF Republican cOlonizers who may be then enjoy
ing the hospitality of Hoghead John.
| Fellow Citizens-Three candidates for Governor
| are presented for your suitrageS. DR.. Leonard
| who argues for Prohibition; your humble servant
WHO believes in license and Judge Foraker
| and not against Prohibition, and who, by taking
this position is Pat into the place OF the sandwich
| man OF politics. and who is under obligation to
carry (as other sandwich men do a piacard in
| front 10 he read over the Rhine in Cincinnati
against Prohibition. and another behind to DC
read in Oberlin for Prohibition.
| Mr.. sherman indicts the Supreme Court of Ohio
for having nullifed the scott law by partisan
judicial decision" They promised the liquor
dealers decision in refunding the tax collected
but got out OF this by another partisan de
| ClSlon. d" by tnelf ACTS the scott law Is q
dead letter, and according to their partisan JIM
dicial decisions there i no power in the Legisla
ture TO either prohibit tax the sale of liquor"
| And his astonishing and shameful remedy is q
| nulify these sO-called partisan judicial dcci
| siOus' by the election OF Republican judges tina
| viii cOnstrue the constitution of the state the
| side of temperance and good order" There was
| once Sherman in Ohio and his name is dear L
| every lawyer in the State. who adjoining the
| bench OF the Supreme Court OF Ohio would have
| scorned to have been chosen for the purpose o
| deciding in any particular direction. and who. i
| elected, would have refused 10 sit in a case ii
| which he had expressed previous opinion. Thi
| great and good mans son now unblushingly ap
pealS for the election OF partisan judiciary ant
| challenges the present Court for partisanshiI
whose conduct in the highest degree creditable L
| that dignified and impaired body. because il :,
scrupulousy avoided the suspicion or appearance
| OF partisanship, What did the supreme Court o
| Ohio do? How iii il treat the Scott law question
That question has been before IL four times. First
| in the case of King vs.. Capeller, ii refused t
| decide because the question argued no
| presented by the record. See Il %. :. 2lS. Sec
| Ond. I'm the case of ButZman vs.. Whitbeck. al
| S. 22S, il decided that the Scott law "A licens
law 50 far it provided for a lien real estate
| and unconstitutional to that extent. and refuses
| to decide whether il was unconstitutional in an
other respect, because the question argued wa
not presented by the record Thirdly, in the cas-
of State Sinks, Al O. S. 3i5 the question bein
at last presented by the record the court held tn