Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1875 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1875

Office of tlio Indianapolis Sentinel. D2ARSIB: "We desire to place la your hands, for Inspection, a copy of the best Weekly Taper published In the state. The near approach of the next Presidential canvass, and the ali-lm port ant subject in connection therewith, -which will be fully discussed la the Sentinel, would suggest that it be put into the hands of every Democrat In the state, and In order to secure you as our agent, we make you the following liberal proposition : Single Cop - - $150 Bve Copies - 1 35

Ten Copies or more, free of post 125 age, - All remittance ihoaMbe made by Express or Postofflce Order, with the Narse, Town, County and State in full, and in a plain, bold band, thereby avoiding all possible chances of mistakes. ( A liberal commission of 13 per cect. will be paid to all who get up clubs. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29. The Seatiatel and tbe KBararIt will be observed by tbe readers ot the Sentinel that it has not been deemed a part ot the present management to extol the met its of the paper, or make lavish promises of what it hoped to accomplish In publish Ing here at the capital an efficient a,nd re liable Democratic paper. Of the hundreds of complimentary notices of tbe press of this and other states that have appeared, there has been but a single one reproduced In its columns, and that one fora different purpose than its commendation of tbe Sentinel. Nor does the Sentinel feel disposed to spealc in any harsh terms of these contemporaries that have differed with its course, the two or three chronic grumblers ol the Democratic press included, preferring to let the Sentinel speak for Itself and work its own way, as we knew it would, into the hands ot the tens of thousands of active Democrats of tbe state, and thousands of Republicans who -would appreciate Its merits and acknowledge its efficiency, as the central Democratic paper in the state. Being now af s ired by the practical response that has been made to our endeavors, that onr efforts have met the approval of the Democracy, the Sentinel feels lest delicacy in saying to tbe party that it will be in the future the best channel of political information that can be secured in the state and that its yet more extensive circulation will be of vital interest to the party. Every Democrat of the state recognizes the necessity of a live, active representative of the party at the capital, where the sources of information are more reaJily accessible than at other points. The Sentinel has now a larger list of subscribers than it ever had at any period of its publication, both daily and weekly, and the facilities that have been provided for a still further Increase encourages the hope that daring the next few months of the centennial year even its present large circulation may be doubled. Tbe political situation at tbe present day xnas.es louder demand upon tbe citizen to become Intelligent in governmental affairs than ever before in the history of the country. Nav is3ues mast be di -cussed and fa2ee progress must be exposed. The country to day witnesses the decline of a gigantic end unscrupulous political organization that has by the manipulations of self-seeking teadeu, plunged the nation into wild and reckless speculation and corrupted every department of the public service. That decline neads to be closely watched, for the leaders will not yield np control wi'.bout dtsporate struggle. Schemes and devices of the.most corrupt character will be adopted for . longer lease of power and tbe people ebottld be prepared to meet them. The Sentinel -believes tl at the defeat of the Republican pcrty at the approaching presidentisl campaign is necessary from every point of .v lew that regards the moral and poliiUoal Interests of the people. Religion, xaorality, commercial prosperity, public peace, and tbe honor cf the country at home and abroad demand that better men shall be charged with public trusts than .now ail tbe high places. There need) to be vital reform in legislation. As a nation we .have arrived at that point when no mpre heavy burdens can be endured. Political rottenness and maliaasance in office have become as great a stench as the frogs of Eypt, ana there is imperatively demanded a changv The minds of tbe people need to testirreilup to an appreciation of the fact that toe pow er is yet within their own bands, that an earn est and united effort to shake off the cormorants vi uestruciiou may save mem many oar-1 decs now, ttat otherwise will crush them

in the future when they have no power to resist. The battle-field of tbe next political contest will be here in tbe West, and lnlew of the fact that the elections of Indiana and Ohio for state purposes take place month sooner than the presidential contest, it renders the situation of our party In this state of peculiar interest, and our duty of a deeper obligation. In a careful surrey of tbe political situation, and the demand of the hour for a proper representative of the true Democratic reform that will become tbe issue in the Impending contest Indiana will -doubtless furnish tbe standard bearer. This is clearly indicated. The vital interests at stake are too broad In their scope for our national convention to suffer any local or sectional representative to lead the Democratic columns. Neither the representative of a hard money ring in tbe Esst, nor tho advocate of inflation in the West will do. Tbe mere sporadic impulses that find utterance In

a quadrilateral of poker-players can not decide now for the Democratic party. The party and the country look for and demind a proper repres9ntative ot reform, a man of broad and comprehensive political views, and not recognized simply as the champion of any local interest, or coterie of politicians. The North, East, South and W6Bt unite in recognizing in Mr. Hendricks such a man, and he will doubtless become the leader of tbe Democratic hosts of the nation. This renders it still farther a mttfsr of special Interest to the Democracy of the state that they shall be alive, wide awake and thoroughly posted and prepared for the struggle. The Sentinel proposes to enter upon the new year with Increased facilities, with re newed energy, and in tho interests of the vital cause that it advocates, it appeals to the Democrats of tbe state to give the opportu nity to bear to them daily the reports from the battle field, tbe best and freshest political information from all along'tbe line. Republicans Satisfied. It was not to be expscted In the organisation of the House of Representatives that even all tbe Democrats would be satisfied, much less that the Republican press should rind words of praise to express their emotions on the situation. Nothing on tbe free of the earth could have satisfied them. Tbey would have carped anyhow. This is proven by the great contrariety of opinion expressed Eist, West and North on tbe merit of the speaker's appointments. The telegraph carried the announcement of tbe committees everywhere at once, and of courss there could be no concerted action and no uniform cause why this or that committee was badly con stituted. Tbe consequence is that one paper West condemns a committee as con stituted in a particular interest, and another condemns for the very opposite. Individual appointees to chairmanships are likewise handled, and the general comment shows either a most lamentable ignorance or a determination to per vert the facta and find fault. The tame spirit of fault finding and carp ing will follow every act of the lower house ol congress. Every movement will be tor tured and twisted into something awlul and devilish, and the country needs to be warned in advance ol the tactics and policy that is being pursued, that, the misrepre sentations shall have no effect upon tbe minds of the people. The Sentinel 13 pursuaded that the policy of reform upon which tols congress was elected will be faithfully carried out. Tbis policy was indicated in tbe resolutions azainst subsidies. It is shadowed forth in tho organization of the committees, and there Is every consideration of patriotism and fu ture success to encourage the Democrats of congress to carry out tbe will of the people. It Is true that, with tbe administration and tbe Senate against them, they will have a hard time in accomplishing anything more than to put a stop to reckless extravagance, and prepare the way for that general system of legislative reform that will be Inaugurated when the Democracy holds tho administration and tbe majority in the Senate. C aght lie be Converted? The Journal, with a spirit that lacks something of being Christian, characterizes tbe reference that the Sentinel made a few days ago to tbe desirableness of Mr. Grant's conversion as blackguardism, and then proceeds to elaborate a tiiade against Democratic papers as slanderers of the president. This is a very cheap way oi covering np tbe known inegularity of the chief magistrate of the nation. The Sentinel does not feel disposed to dwell upon the vices ol Mr. Grant, for the simple reason that he is the president of tbe nation, and for tbe same reason the hope has been expressed, for the honor of the nation, that he may not be inculpated in the whisky bauds, though tbe gathering shadows around the White House make it appear almost "like hoping against hope. But, when Republican papers become so fierce in their defense as to overstep the bounds of truth, tbey but provoke a plain declaration of the truth. Mr. Grant is no saint. Tnis is very W6ll known. He is found much offener est the race course than at the church. IT is associates are not men eml uent for pioty or morality. With those tbe president carouses and drinks. Most of the time Mr. Grant is under the influence ot ardent spirits. At times Le is stupid with drink, and has the personal attendance of friends upon his junketing tours who have to conceal bis debauchery under the specious name of indisposition. Worthy And respectable men of the Republican party know and acknowledge tbis, and be nee desire that be shall retire at the end of the present term of office. Jt is not fitting that euch personal habits )

as are obnoxious to the moral sense of vbe nation should be defended by anybody. The truth should be made plain and every

body should know it. From bis present evil ways it is right that everybody should wish him converted. If Bishop Haven bad enjoined upon his brethren of the ministry, whom he was addressing, to pray for the conversion of the president. Instead of bid ding them pray for bis renomlnation,be would have done a Christian deed and there would have been no ob-ectjon. Nor would there have been such a noise about this ministerial meeting nominating Mr. Grant 11 he had been a moral and npright man. The unfitness of the thing was rendered glaringly apparent by Mr. Grant's vices. Hence so many of the ministers of that de nomination disclaimed the set of Indorse ment as In any way compromising that re spectable church. If, while Mr. Grant bears tbe character he does, to hope be may turn from the error of his ways is blackguardism with the Journal, then the moral andrelijti ous sentiment of that concern has attained a spirituality and sanctity beyond which very tew go and continue to live. Gramt's Son re of Strength. In sötte of the array of serious arguments and the more potent enginery of public ridicule employed by the press of the country against the third term project, it still retains a degree of vitality which must be incomprehensible to those who do not see, or do not allow sufficient weight to the sources from whence its support is de rived. That there are influences at work for the renomination of President Grant which are strong enough to Ignore the cautiously worded disapproval of the party conventions, . and even to disregard tbe more pronounced Opposi tion of tbe bolder administration journals, is evinced by the constant recur rence of the movement when it has been thought hopelessly, defeated, and the fact that it is probably stronger at this moment than at any time since its inception. It becomes, then, the duty of tbe opposition press to search out these powerful influences, to expose their hidden springs of action, and to set forth in the strongest light whatever is unworthy in tbem or their motives, tbe more effectually to arouse public resentment against a rarty which is unable to resist tendencies within itself so pregnant with evil results. There are three chiel elements working with might and main to eecure tbe renominatlon of Grant by the Republican party, and tbey may be briefly summed up as ignorance, misguided religious zeal, and official corruption. For tbe first, the most cursory analysis of tbe vote in tbe House on Mr. Springer's resolution reveals its location and its animus. Of the eighteen members who placed themselves upon record against that resolution, ten are from the South, including the entire colored delegation. In the newlv emancipated race of blacks, come fresh into tbe political arena with the ignorance, and prejudices of centuries of bondage clinging about them, manipulated and controlled by designing lead ers, who have taught them to look upon Grant as their only refuge and protector against tbe imagine! cruelties of their for mer masters, is a third term Influence by no means to be de&pieed? The Des Moinra speech was a bold bid for the support o'f a class, numerous and powerful in tbe country, who, forgetting that we llvo in tb.9 nineteenth century and not in the sixteenth, are tortured by a fear of the renewal ot religious wars and persecutions, from the growing inflaence of the Romish-Church; and it has borne good fruit. The large Republican gains in the Western Reserve, last October and tbe third term resolution adopted by a Beaton ecclesiastical convention show what a power In politics religious fervor may become, when suitably aroused and directed by shrewd political leaders. The cry of "No Popery" maybe raised in the America ot to-day to as effectual purpose as in tbe England cf Lord George Gordon's time. 1 The third of tbe great influences working far the continuance In power of tbe present executive is the most obvious it not the strongest of all. To say that the enormous army of office holders, who owe their places and emoluments to federal patronage, will work valiantly lor tbe retention of their official spoils, is to state the evident truism that self-interest is a powerful incentive to human action but the Incentive in this case is present in no ordinary degree. Rarely has tbe oppor tunity been so great for official peculation and the enrichment of place holders by corrupt means as during the last eight years, and tbose who have profited by It are correspondingly loud in their advocacy of a continuance of the same regime. Gen. McDonald, now serving out his sentence for defrauding the government, In a St. Louis Jail, spoke with well-founded sincerity, If with Bomewtat irjudicious can dor when, in a recent ' interview. he declared his admiration for President Grant and bis advocacy of a third term. These are the chief components of the force which is relied upon to override the better judgment ot the nation, and carry Gen. Grant for a third term into tbe White House. Independent of each other and arising from various motives, each is strong In itself and combined, tbey form a power which will surely make itself felt io the coming contest, and which Bhoald arouse its opposers to prepare for a vigorous resist ance. It must be remembered, too, that tbess Influences, diverse and incongruous as tbey are, do not waste their strength in independent action, but are combined. manipulated and guided by the deft harrds of as shrewd a crew of political wire-workers as ever degraded tho nob'e prerogatives of rulers to serve tbeir private ends. With these thlogs in vie t, we aro surely hardly justified in treating the third term movement as a mere scare crow a creation ol tbe train ot political alarmists. If straws show which way the wind blows, It certainly argues no lack of political Sigaclly to suggest that euch significant , and conslotent facts as the vote In the House. Bishop Haven's resolution and McDonald's remarks may be mere surface commotion, in

dicating a powerful undercurrent of opinion tending toward a continuance of tbe reign of corruption and misrule under which the country is now groaning. Ignorance, prejudice, self-interest; what more ready tools for tbe use of unscrupulous demagogues! Without acting tbe part ot an alarmist, it is surely the part of every

friend of pure government to hold himself In readiness for any possible move by men rendered desperate by ap proaching loss of power, and ready to employ any 'means to retain it. Tbe Postofflce and the Journal. If the reputation of the Journal for truth and fair nets was worthy of consideration in this community, the Sentinel might have some regard for tbe severe allegation that was made In its postofflce article yesterday, that the Sentinel bad uttered an unmitigated falsehood in saying t hart be Journal bad started out with a vigorous defjnee of tbe postofflce employes. It is sufficient for the Sentinel to simply reiterate the charge and leave the comma nity to Judge where the falsehood lies. The matter of the irregularities In the postofflce was the street Ulk for two or three days, and the Journal remained silent. When it did speak, It opened out with an attack upon tbe judge, jury and witnesses, and in the most virulent manner impugned proceed ings of the court, tbe action of the jury and the character of the witnesses. What else than a defense of tbe accused was such a course. It was defending them by endeavorlug to create public opinion and drive the grand jury to Ignore the evidence and intimidate the judges upon the bench. Every lice or sentiment in tbe paper was favorable to the accused, and has bean from the first. It has declared that the Sentinel knew, and that everybody else knew, that W. R. Holloway was entirely Innocent, while at that very time the facts were being investigated with reference to his delinquency in properly fulfilling his duties as postmaster, and also tbe truthful ness of tbe pay rolls of the office. Was this a defense? Was tbis calculated to prejudice tbe case? Was tbis "an expartc statement?" Tbe Sentinel has only given tbe testimony of witneesss in tbe case. Tbe reckless charge that "the Sentinel has coined a thousand new rumors" and published mem, is not true, and we quote simply to show the reckless and ex travagant manner that the Journal Indulges In when it sseks to make a point. Thus tbe whole course of the Journal upon this subject has been directly and pointedly in tbe interest of the accused, and the people will need rome one else to say that tbe Journal will urge the punishment ot the guilty before it will be believed. It will urge no punishment to be inflicted upon its friends. It would have been modest in tbe Journal to have remained silent in this matter, in view of tbe relations existing between one of its proprietors and the alleged frauds. It has, however, seen fit to speak, and the Sentinel was not willing that the court, grand jury and witnesses should be held up before the community with its reckless charges heaped upon tbem, without exposure. It is not to be wondered at that tbe Journal winces and smarts un der the daily development of facts in these cases. They come very near home, personally and politically. There is a political point in tbe cass that the people of Indiana are deeply interestel in. No man should occupy a prominent position in government offices who is not efficient and laithful, and performs the duties of his sworn trust. There is a political point. plain and glaring, and the people see it that men in tbe high posi tion of Mr. Morton should sustain in office men whose official record has awa kened suspicion for Irregularity for years. The people have been inquiring why this mail bag contract fraud was bushed up so suddenly, Tbey have been inquiring why Wood was not tried under tne In dictment for defalcation. Truly a political point is justly taken in regard to tbis affair, a more prominent point than tbe Sentinel baa made or attempted to make. Tbe situation of affairs to-day clearly and plainly point out that Mr. Morton, when he spoke of our civil service as tbe best in the world, and that Democratic charges of corruption were simply . lies, ' that be was uttering a falsehood and striving to cover up the delinquencies that would Injure his party. If the Journal feels disposed to discuss this transaction in its political bearing, the Sentinel Is ready, and it might add that there are po litical corrupliOLB attaching to tbe accused In these cesss that would before sny jury argue presumption of guilt to these alleged civil officers.' The "administration of this state remained in tbe bands o f t he Republican party thronten fraud that has been boasted of, or tbe records of tbe press and the utterances of prominent men are untruthful. The Sentinel Is ready to show the true bearing of this ring coterie in the affairs of the state, and it will not be hindered from doing bo by the solemn and serious twaddle ot ; the Journal. ' Its shabby tricks and pretended independence is a meretriflelng with tbe public, and shall not pass by unexposed. " The Sentinel is willing that the' public shall judge ' of Its fairness in comparison with tbe Journat, in tbis and In other cases a of corruption to which the attention of the public has been directed. - 1 Congressional Investigations. It is generally expected tbat tbe present congress will enter upon a general system of Investigations, and the Republicans are deeply concerned about tbis. A stroll of Randall the other day through the treasury department, with a look of inquiry in his eye, awakened consternation and anxiety, and doubtl ss there will be a general clean ing away of cobwebs and se tticg bouses in order all around. But does tbe Democratic House oi R'pre-oaUtlves really appreciate the magnitude of the undertaking that has been suggested? It would occupy a thousand men twenty-five year,sto properly overhaul tbe nefarious schemes and ring jobs that have plundered the treasury dur ing the fifteen years ot Republican rule.

The great trouble will be to know Just where to commence if the herculean work is undertaken. Each one of the departments deserves Investigating, and tbe White House should not escape. If tbe task were not such sn Interminable affair, the Sentinel would venture to name tbe more prominent matters that need the attention oi congress. Mr. Grant needs investigation. A commit

tee might commence at either end of his presidential career and have work to do. The Republicans thought or pretended to think tbat Mr. Johnson was guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors because be die placed Stanton from tbe cabinet. The proper investigation of tbe dismissal of assistant district attorney Henderson at St. Louis, Immediately alter tbe indictment of Babcock, might show up Mr. Grant as meriting impeachment. Or a committee might com mence at the other end oi his career and make tbe matter of gitt-taking an interest ing study. Mr. Grant received costly gifts and, as soon as he came into power, appointed the donors to high and responsible offices, and when the law for bade the con fir mat loo of soma of tbeje, he impudently asked the repeal of the law that he might reward these making gifts to him. The committee might take another step and Inquire with reference to his complicity in the stock gambling of Black Friday. They could proceed to consider the Seneca sand stone contracts, the relations ot tbe presi dent to tbe jobbers and gamblers of New York; tbe custom house swindles; to the Indian rings; the St. Domingo project, with its corner lot speculations. They might inquire touching his intimacy with Joyce and McDonald, now perjured convicts. On the principle that policemen arrest anyone found among vicious associates, presuming guilt from the association, Grant might be investigated on general prin ciples. His intimate associations have been bad, and his reputation has suffered thereby There has been gold selling at various pe riods that ought to be investigated. But it it useless to attempt to present all, or half, or even a twentieth part of tbe questionable acts of Mr. Grant tbat need looking into. It would be better perhaps, just to convict bim as having a very bad record and reputation, and let him go at tbe end ot his term. What if the postofflce departmend should be looked into? What a perfect avalanch of disreputable practices would be revealed. Our little affair here at Indianapolis would be but a drop in tbe hogshead. Straw bids and contract sales, fictitious pay-rolls, and fraudulent claims stare at us from a thou sand pigeon holes. The department of tbe interior Is also an inviting field. Tbe ghosts of half-starved Indians, robbed by Mr. Grant's officials, rise up, and with their skeleton fingers point out the guilty parties. The treasury department would not escape if justice were done. There is much tbat Mr. Boutwell needs to rise up and explain. A half dozen years of uninterrupted pillage by the whisky ring compromises somebody. Tbe navy and the army secretarias need looking after, and tbe archives under their control would tell many dark tales. And, alas, that it must ba said that the department of justice might be interviewed with profit to the treasury, if tbe attorney gen et als were interviewed with power to send for persons and papers. But when all these departments are overhauled, there would be necessary a review of Republican legislation to ferret out the riDg Interests and jobs at the bottom. Tho euts dies afford an ap palling heap ot rascally transactions that have been covered up. There have been more Credit Mobllier affairs around tbe capiiol than have been exposed, more than have ever be6n dreamed of by the uninitiated. Then to branch out from tbo capitol to the outer branches of the public service, still more and more abuses ot public trusts could be discovered. It is really alarming to think what a general system of publie rascality has prevailed every where so long, the people, ground to death by taxation, peaceably enduring it. It is worth while to consider whether it were not a better policy to let tbe investigations go and proceed with legislation in tbe interests of re.'orm, the lower bouse of congress preparing, as best they may, for a better era, when the whole mass of corruption shall be closed out With the power of the president to hinder prosecutions, as be did at St. Louis, it is more than daubtiul If tbe chief rascals could be brought to punishment and their ill-gotten Kalos disgorged. The rings within rings, which have reached to the president's own household, admonishes tbat it will be a fruitless task to develop and punish these traitors to public trust, and it may be a wise conclusion on tbe part of the house, to only investigate twenty ortbirty of tbe more prominent, and most flagrant and open cases of public rascality, and from these let tbe American people judge tbe rest. Democratic Beform. - The Sentinel of tb)3 morning contains tbe annual report on tbe condition of the state's funds, just presented to the governor by Treasurer B. C. Shaw. It will make citizens generally open their eyes .with aston ishment to see a detailed account of the ir regularities which have been kept up from generation to generation in this important department of , the state government. ! The confusion, it seems, has been confined to trust funds, which are held Inviolate by tbe terms of tbe constitution. These have been neglected, misappropriated and thrown into the worst financial chaos by office holders during the past sixteen years, and tbe result now Is tbat some of - these accounts are in a wretched condition, from which it will take months of labor to free tbem. All tbis has been going on while tbe cash accounts of receipts and disbursement are apparently accurate. Col. Shaw finds that the payments mule upon the internal improvement bor-d in 1S6S were not carried upon the books of tbe offica, nor did tbe custom try warrant Issue from tbe office of tbe auditor of state, nor were the large - amounts of money derived from the United States accounted for upon the books as a credit of

the general fund, and tbe three per cent.

fund, to which tbey belonged. This omission makes a failure to show a small Item of 1432,133 59, parted with by the state In 6S for the redemption ot Internal improvement bonds and coupons. He finds irregularities in the college lucd, not so large but large) enough for a case. The finest nut for bis predecessors to crack is the problem of bow the common school fund reached its present condition. Tbe deficit on this fund was recently stated as 17,562 43. Mr. jSmart remarked there should be a balance to tte credit of tbis food in the sum of f 118,512 59. On examination the treasurer discovers an aching void. An old law provided for the superintendent on certain fixed days adding $25.000 to tbe sum total of school revenues in payment of the state's indebtedness to this fund. These additions were to be made at each apportionment till the whole indebtedness was paid. In 1800 the state owed tbe schools 1303,921 CS. These additions to tbe apportionment were made till October, 1867, when there was a balance of tbe principal in the sum of 15,573 56. Now, tbis being the balance of the principal, and there having been in all apportioned 1265 573 56, and distributed, it would evidently appear that tbe principal ot tbe state's indebtedness was paid, instead of the gradual payment. This principal was really a balance belonging to the fund, and bad been accredited to the fund, and to no other fund whatever. But the Interest tbat the stale had contracted to pay the schools waa Interest on balances on the fund. According to the records, the balance of principal due was apportioned. Therefore, any further amounts added to apportionments, on account of tbe state's indebtedness, were made to pay the Interests, and the record shows that In 19CS, 69 and 70 the regular additions, $25,000, were made to each May and October apportionments, in all f 150,000. Tbis debt should manifestly have been paid out of the revennes of the state, and required that transfer warrants should have been is sued against tbe general fund and the amount placed to tbe credit cf the common school fund as a receipt on account of the state's interest debt. This not having been done, as the books of this office and the auditor's clearly show. The result of the operation Is that the aoiount distributed on that account was school fund money, received from some other source, and not a payment of this interest debt of the state at all. Or, in other words, it shows the remarkable financial transaction of paying a debt to the schools with tbe money already In tbe school fund for tuition. Here we have $150,000, interest on it to dato, $56.250; total $2)6.250, not accounted for according to law. Then, the auditor in 1873, the Hon. James A. Wildman, failed to draw $117,143 49 of war rants for payment of tbe state's interest on the non-negotiable bonds, a sum belonging to tbe school fund. Total balance on the school fund, $344,549 91. Tbis is a mere trifle for a wealthy state, of course, but the present curious treasurer will Uke measures to hunt down this game and thus secure the lasting obligations of certain people in this commonwealth who have cot tbe careless independence of millionaires. Let the drama proceed. Corruption und Ketrlbuliou. The time has come lor the Damocralio press of the country to strike homo at the rascals wbo have for so many years been robbing the people. Moat ol tbem have been clothed in the gaib of loyalty, and stole with their hands, while their lips sung hosannas to liberty and tbe Union. The brood was hatched and feathered at a time when it was treason to call in question tbe acts of tbose who clamored 83 loudly for the death of rebels and the political preferment of the truly loyal. Undjr the pretence of loyalty to the government, they were elected to office, and defiled, with their presence, the halls that . once contained none but statesmen and patriots In tbe early days ot the Republican party the party which Incubated the men we have named three representatives of tbe people were expelled from congress for offenses unknown until that time. At a later day, a whole batch of them were detected in selling their votes and prerogatives for money, and banished from the hall. Then came tbe Credit Mobllier scheme, the Pa cific Mail sub-Idy and other equally nefarious measures which went through congress by the momentum of tbe greenback dollar. Indeed, to carry these jobs through the House, congressmen were bought like cattle In the market. Sam. Ward's big dinners did much to debauch the representatives of the people, but money did more. Things came to such a pass that it was but little honor to be known as a member of the American Congress. But corruption did not have its only lodging place at Washington. It permeated tbe whole country, and many of the state legislatures were as corrupt as the national one. That of New York was particularly notorious for its easy virtue, and for years it was controlled In the interest of jobbers by tbe use of money. Government paymasters became defaulters and went to the penitentiary to expiate their crimes in striped clothes and with shaved beads; whisky thieves, after stealing millions from the government, are brought to bay and made to pay the penalty of violated . law, and now the sword of justice has entered the portals of our pesioffice and its blade made to do service- In taking; off the official head of tbe post master's brother. This postmaster Is a brother-in-law of one wbo has done more to corrupt the political morals of tbe people ot Indiana than any other man in tbe state. Elected governor by the votes ot mei from Massachusetts, be entered office with a knowledge of his crime against the elective franchise, and sought to title tbe workings of his conscience by repetitions of his offense. He gathered about him a lot of men who proved apt scholars for such a teacher, and for years tbe elections in this state were tho veriest of farces. One ot these men was hla brother-in-law, the postmaster of Indianapolis, and another, a man now banished from