The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-26

grand inspiration that guided the fathers Of tho
Republic when, a century ago, they formed the
Union and the Constitution.
While Blaine is absolutely impartial. sparing
neither friend nor foe, he records the fact that
not q Democratic vote in the entire United States
was cast In favor of that crown jewel of the
United States Constitution, the fourteeth
amendment. To change the metaphor. thig
amendment is the high-water mark of American
history, and is the exclusive work of the Repub-
lican party. Every Republican that ID growing
weak in the faith should read these books. and
the closer he reads, and the more he investigates
the more grateful will he be that he Is a member
of that party 10 whom, under God, this Republic
is indebted for its second birth. Such books as
these prove how idiotic is the talk about the
Republican party having had its day and donu
it's work. Universal suffrage exists only i'll
name in the cotton States. Taking
United States Supreme Court, that the great
constitutional amendments act only upon
States and not upon individuals, the Demo
cratic party have by force and fraud so manipu-
lated the vote south of the Ohio river that an
ex-rebel vote counts as much as two loyal votes
in our presidential and congressional elections.
The work of the Republican party will never
cease until a vote in Indiana is Of equal weight
with a vote in Mississippi. Whenever the Consti-
tuition of the United States is observed and
obeyed equally in all parts of this Union it will
be time to talk about the Republican party step
ping down and out.
An6fe arc some serious QerectS In these vol y
umes. The last half of Vol. III bears the marks
of haste. There is no index of topics and
events, a most inexcusable neglect. Mr.. Blaine
should have found place for some of the scabg
and scandals that have afflicted the Republican
party. If. for example. he had devoted a few
pages to the truth and untruth of the Credit
Mobilier he would have relieved himself of the
charge of partisanship. 1t is better to give the
facts than to ignore them. No good reason is
perceived why Mr.. Blaine should be so severe
upon Mr.. Bayard. Grant that he tells nothing
but the truth, why should he not do the Same
by half a dozen others as eminent and as
falible living statesmen as Bayard?
Apolitical party accomplishment is measured by
its esprit du corps. When that is low, it's work is
small. The great reason why the Democratic
party so signally failed for fifteen years after
the close of the war was that its record was so
bad that all of Its members were ashamed of it.
If anybody boosted, it was of something that it
did half of a century ago. On the contrary,
their splendid record has always been the
standing pride and boast of the Republicans.
Even the blood-curdling taunt Of G. o. p. does
not dampen a Republican any more than the
pathetic expression you are waving the
bloody shirt" stops him from exposing Demo
cratic past and present. The strongest argu-
ment for ReDublicanism Is that the more truth
fully history is written, the greater becomes the
debt of gratitude of the American people and
the greater the need that it should complete the
work it has begun. D. P. BALDWIN.
LoGANsPoRT, March 20. 1886.