The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-24
4 VICTIM OF DEFECTIVE NUTRITION.

A well-meaning young man up In Peru
why a limited number of intelligent young
men voted the Democratic ticket In 1892,
instead of the Republican, is that the Re
publican party of to-day is no longer "the
Republican party of Lincoln, Grant and
Garfield"
If the young man in Peru had been alive
in 1S60-64 he would have been told that the
Lincoln administration and Congresses were
the most shockingly corrupt that the coun-
try had ever witnessed. His sensitive ma
ture would have been so shocked by the
Imprisonment of patriots like Vallandigham
without jury trial, the freeing of all the
slaves by the emancipation proclamation,
the chartering of the Pacific railroad COM
panies and the giving of hundreds Of mil
lions of acres OF land to settlers who had
no claim upon the government that he
would have gone to the polls in November,
1864, to vote for the patriot Mcclellan in
stead of the "tyrant Lincoln and the cor
rupt war Congresses. In his time Grant was,
in the published opinion of the New York
Herald, the entire Democratic press, and
of such sources of sweetness and light as
Carl Schurz. Horace White and the then
rising Anglomaniacs, the most sordidly
rupt man living or that had ever lived.
There was no blackness which could not
ha hu infar Ac tbo
Congresses OF the Grant period, according to
these authorities, they We'd with each other
in unjust legislation and corruption; the
whisky ring, the reconstruction laws ard
policy, the Pacific railroad scandals, the
salary grabs. and so on. Had the innocent
and gullible young man In Peru been liv-
ing at that period. he would have written
the Journal in 1872 that he must vote for
Horace Greeley to stigmatize the corrup-
ton Of Grant, as he had for Mcclellan in
1864 to put the seal Of his condemnation
upon the brow of the tyrant Lincoln. In
1876 he would have voted for Mr.. Tilden to
reprove the Republican party for using
money in elections, ignoring the proved fact
that no man ever paid out as much money
adroitly to carry a presidential election
as did that much-professing purist, Samuel
j. Tilden. And the Republican party of
Garfield-Great Scotti IL the young man in
Peru had been in the Garfield campaign
the Credit Mobilier and the figures ''329'
with which the reform Democracy pas-
tered the fences and chall<ed the walls and
sidewalks. and the stories of the wholesale
purchase of Democratic voters at 81 per
Democrat would have made him the earn
est supporter of the gallant Hancock and
his local issue tariff In the estimation of
the organs and statesmen Of the party
whose only hope of victory for thirty
years has been in the faithfulness of that
reservoir of political virtue. Tammany Hail.
with it's bogus thousands of naturalization
and it's stuffed ballot-boxes. the Republican
party has always been a bad lot A con-
siderable multitude of men who could not
get Office from the Republican party have
become Disguised with 1t.
Nevertheless, the old Republican party
has kept on Its way. Now and then It
makes a mistake. but 1t has made less the
past ten years than during any similar
period OF its existence Three-fourths OF the
intelligence and progressive patriotism OF
the Northern States rally under It's ban
| ners The spfrft which fnspired the Re-
publican party to give tie pubic domain
to those who would settle 1t inspired the
same party to express its gratitude to tens