The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-29

| of numerous senators on the newspaper
profession in connection with this law.
The Times further SAYS:
The SENTINEL had hobby for an ap-
preparation to the q. A. K. sneampment,
and although the democratic country
press was almost a unit against IL The
SENTINEL questioned the motives of the
legislators opposed to it. making many of
them feel unfriendly to IL II nothing
more.
THE SENTINEL certainly did no such
thing editorislly, and we think no one
can cite any instance in which it did To-
cally. The Times proceeds:
And when the ballot law came up for
discussion, before final action, Senators
PARKER, hCHUGH ct al. were arraigned
| personally in the columns of THE SENTE-
MEL and maligned. This was greatly to
the detrimcnt Of the country press. The
| Times honestly believes that the cause of
the senate's action on the Williams bill
was that many of its members we're smart
ing under the whip The SENTINEL used SO
dexterously and disastrouslY.
This is pure imagination. Senator
PARKER was never "arrai0ned" in THE
SENTINEL at any time. We think his
name was never mentioned in the editor
ial columns but once. and that on March
4, when We said that the workingmen did
not hold him responsible for the holding
back of the co-employes' liability bill.
No arrsignment was made of MCHUeH
until the same date and in the same con-
nection. The legislature adjourned
March 6. The Williams bill had been
passed long before. And again:
Does THE SENTINEL imagine that it's per-
sonal assault upon WINDY BILL CULLoP"
was TO the interest OF the country press?
Most certainly not. nor to its disad-
vantage either. We have never imagined
that Mr.. CuLLoP was parsonage who was
of the slightest importance to the country
press or any other press. The assault re-
ferred to was upon the appropriation bill
reported by CULLoP, which was an out
rage. and which was corrected in many of
its worst features by tie legislature.
The Times does noI blame the legisIa-
ture for not always sustaining THE SENTI-
NEL's position. Its shift on the appoint
i've power question was so frequent and
~ aRPtN hAAS NJ OhO GOuAO hcop
with il.
No one asked the legislature to sustain
THE SENTINEL's position. 1t is amply
able to do that for itself Ii had
but one position as TO the appointive
power, and that wsa that the power should
be given to the governor by the demo-
Gratis in the legislature, but not by mi
nority of democrats aided by republicans.
In conclusion the TimeS says:
The SENTINEL brazenly confssses that il
is not an adviser, but a dictator. Ii does
not represent the people so closely as the
country press, which is in close touch with
them. On all state questions of a polit-
lcal character it has acted IA with the
legislature and has sought to mold opin-
ions for the country editors The Times
Is sorry to say that too many of them are
bound down by false recognition of pre-
tended superiority by virtue of its being q
daily state paper
This is almost too much when the Times
prints at the same time and in the same
article. our statement, THE SENTINL has
never dictated to any one and never at
tempted 20" We submit further that il
40 = 'A-AAO iASOhoiShOht w Hlnu W bkhte-
ment OF our differences with the legisa-
ture by statement that we have acted
"as with the Legislature" ION all state
questions of political nature" We GER
tainly condemned the apportionment bill,
and also the houses action on the ap-
pointing power bill. Neither do we see
any occasion for the Times insulting the
country editors by saying that they are
bound down" to THE SENTINEL in any
way. The country press of Indiana is as
Independent as any in the Union, and
The SENTINEL has never Sought to mold
opinions for the country editors" any more
than for any one else. 1t advocates what
it believes to be right and tries to con-
vince its readers of the correctness of its
views; and there are few newspapers in
Indiana that do otherwise. II the Times
is defending the legislature merely to
show that it is not dominated by THE
SENTINEL we will furnish it certificate of
complete Independence at any time But
it NAV be added here that THE SENTINEL
never said anything worse about the leg
islature than the Times state ment that
the legislature defeated the amendment to
the Grubbs bill and amended the ballot
law In order to spite THE SENTINEL. If
that was the caliber of our statesmen they
were worse than We had imagined.