Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-05

| WASHINGTON, D. C.-With the
Inauguration Of Rutherford B. Hayes
as President Of the United States in 1877
the eleven years reign of terror in the
! southern States came to>an end. Violent
anarchy, supported By bayonets of the
| United States troops, and utter defiance
of law by the Government at Washing
ton, brought Mr.. Hayes to the Presi-
dency. Be II said to his everlasting cred
/ it that he did despise the bridge that
carried him over and mat he restored
free government IN the States OF the
I South.
The Hayes inauguration marked the
/ end OF the most furiously fought polit-
ical contest this country has ever seen.
/ To begin with only eleven years had
elapsed since the end of the Civil War.
and the Democratic party was accused
by every Republican orator Of desire
| to restore the dead Confederacy. Against
this charge the Democrats pleaded their
| loyalty to the. nag and sent Democratic
Union generals over the country, spell
binding. Fires Of partisanship burned
fercelv, and while they added to the heat
OF the campaign, other factors decided
| its outcome.
The panic of 1873 had plunged the
country INTO UndHEldA NteNRtFN aAAN bNoA
ness depression such as II had not known
before. Jay Gould was teaching Wall
street some tricks that have not been
wholly forgotten. The di~srence in value
between the greeaback and the gold dol
lar was the basis OF the widest sDecuia-
ton. ~ which the common people In
vuriably got the worst end Of the bar
| gain. These businesg conditions caused
| the people to want a change for the sake
| OF q change. The Tilden democracy
| promised the resumption OF specie pay
ments and an end to business distress.
| The scandals of the Grant administfa-
| ton. which had resulted in the Greeley
detection OF 1872. had increased instead
! Of diminished The famous whisky
ring" had been exposed. and seape-
| goat or two was on the way o the
| penltentiary The secretary OF war,
! Belknap, was impeached, and escaped
! conviction only by resigning under IRE.
| Said the Democratic platform, the work
/ OF Tilden and Watterson:
1 HIGH CRIMES CHANGED
| AGAINST REPUBLICANS.
"When the annals of the Republic
| show the disgrace and censure OF Vice
| President; late speaker OF the House
/ Of Representatives marketing his rulings
as a presiding officer; three Senators
/ profting secretly by their votes as law
| makers: five chairman OF the leading
! committees OF the House Of Representa-
| tives exposed in jobbery; a late Secre-
| tary Of the Treasury forging balances III
| public accounts: q late attorney general
mis- appropriating public funds; Sec
/ rotary of Navy enriched or enriching
| friends By percentages levied OF the
profits of contractors with his depart
ment; an ambassador to England cen
sured in a dishonOrable speculation; the
/ Presidents private secretary barely escap-
/ ing conviction upon trial for guilty
completely in frauds upon the revenue
| a Secretary Of War impeached for high
crimes and INTERCHANGEABLE demon
stration is complete the first step In
reform must be the peoples choice OF
honest men from another party, lest the
disease Of one political organization In
feet the body polite, and lest. by making
! no change of men or parties, we get no
/ change Of measures and no real reform.
Upon this line the Democrats fought
their battle. II is useless, perhaps. to
go muck raking into the past to tell
OF these scandals In particular; let II
suffice to say that neither before nor
since, in the history of the country. has
the faint of graft been so nolsome at the
seat Of the Federal Government.
The Democrats nominated Samuel j.
| Tilden for President, after sharp, bu;
UNEQUAL contest in which Thomas A.
| Hendricks of Indiana was his leading
opponent. Hendricks was named for
| Vice President.
1.-THE PLUMED KNIGHT"
BEATEN IN CONVENTION.
The Republicans met at Cincinnati
james C. Blaine was the general favorite
for the nomination, and but for the
! chicanery OF the administration. would
have been selected. Blaine had already
become the popular idol Of the Republic
ans. He was placed in nomination at
Cincinnati by the eloquent Robert G..
Ingersoll In the famous speech which
gave Blaine the name Of "The Plumed
Knight" On the first ballot Rutherford
B. Hayes, Ex-Governor of Ohio, stood
fifth. His colorless, although blameless
record, caused him to be selected as the
fhvorite dark horse, and he received the
nomination on the seventh ballot, al
though Blaine had more votes than on
any other count.
Hayes was held up by the Republicans
as absolutely pure and holy, man who
would clean the Augean stables at Wash