Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1876 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MARCH 8 1876

THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL We doblre to place In the hands of every democrat in the state tte WEEKLY STATE SENTINEL. It Is a lar;s eight page paper, complete In all 'is departments, and second to no paper In the late. Its circulation is rapidly Increasing, and la Vzr than ever before. Tülau the Centennial

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trading poets vacant Belknap's successor will lave no show at them at all.

The Chicago Time) charges tbat the troubles at Ft. Sill were reported to Gen. Coborn, when be was chairman of the am ml! tee on military afftir, without accomplishing aujtbing in tbe way of a erne Jr. New York has dictated the presidential candidate for tbe Democracy for three successive campaigns. It would be well in view of the successive failures to elect, for that state to be alit -le mcdest now and let the West try its band. The disposition of President Grant trwards Belkcap has not been yet developed, but it would be just like him to send him as minister to the Court of St. Jamps, It the Senate declares tlm guilty of high crimes and miedemenrrs. Tbe Republican contention of this state slaugttered Sexton because he favored local option, In temperance legislation, and they slangltjred Hurley and Curry because they favoiel the crusideis. Conslettnt iccocshtsncy. In tbis the Journal was indorsed. TLe a.tir.a of the president In accepting tbe resignation of Secret ry Balknap, and thus embarrassing the proceedings for im peaebment, may Le cors"dred a another evidence of his stubborn determination to protect his frletd', no matter what Is the nature of their offenses. In choosing Robeson to succeed Sectary Belknap temporarily, Presided Grant selected a most fitting successor. Rob son will carry cut all of Belknap's contracts with the pest traders who lave been stand ing in with the secretary on the i rjfits. Now let him make Babcock permanent secretary and the post trading business will pan. On the third page of the Sentinel will be found the comments of the pres upon the latest glaring infamy fastened upon the nation by tbe administration. Pap?rs representing all parties and shades of political cplelon are quoted. The eeneral verdict ot the press is that tbe Belknap scandal is but the natural result of tbe p !icy and practice of tte party in power, acd the lalss social system tbat is founded thereupon. The Journal delights in calling Demo crat "the Confederate Democracy. What about Confederate Republicans? What about Longstraet, and Ackerman, and Alcorn, and.Mosby and a host of other Republicans who once wore the gray? Are tbey Confederate Republicans or Union Republicans? Will the Journal please answtr for the benefit of an inquiring world? Does the voting of the Rfpubli can ticket wash out all of a man's sins and make th&t which was red as scarlet white as snow. President Grant hastens to point out Marsh and others with Belknap as merit ing criminal prosecution to his attorney fcenersl. This, it may be presumed, is only the carrying out of Pierrepont'a former in timation that whoev.er blabs on a dishon est official shall be prosecuted as well as the delinquent on whom he becomes an Informer. If Mr. Grant hopes by this means to stifle toe truth that is coming out on his administration, he will find himself most woefully mistaken. If Mr. Grant is not himself impeached before three months the country may be congrat ulated. A Wrecked Party. The fall ol Napoleon at Sedan did not more clearly indicate the end of his dynasty than tbe recent exposures at Washington city foreshadow the destruction of the Republican party in this country. For eight years the Republican patty bis lived od moved od had its being in Ulyesss S. Grant. At the time cf his first election that party dared not go before the people with cne ot their representative men. They chose a democrat, and risked their chances upon his personal reputation and war record, and with thsse they won the race. Again at his second nomination the exigencies of the party again pointed him out as tbe only man who could possibly hold the party together. The condition of the party Is tbe same tc-day as we approach another presidential campaign. The party has become more and more unpopular every year since the close of the war. Now that Mr. Grant himself has become odious the people and his own former sup porters are compelled to cry out against him, the party has no longer any bond of union or promise ot eaiccess. To-day it Is a wrecked and fallen party, which the people who have adhered to it are deserting by the thousand With Belknap's disgrace Grant goes hopelessly under. With tbe decline of Grant's power and Influence the Republican party dies. Tc-day thers Is no element ol strength in the party. There is no man in their ranks, or out of their ranks who would accept their nomination, who could lead them to victory. There is no record ot glory tbat will inspire tbe people to sup port the organization longer. The wailing voice of Morton on Southern outrages has come too late. With a dozen years of legis latlon on finance, and the. country left at the brick of ruin, a prey to the mercllees grasp ol the tax collector, tbat party has nothing to promise on that subject which tbe pe ple will believe. And aa for any pledge of honeaty or eeonomy, the whim perlng promises of a convict In tbe pen! tentiary, pleading for pardon, would be worth about aa much consideration. The Republican party has forfeited all right to respectful consideration by the people. It has proven itself to be thoroughly and indisputably corrupt and rot-

j ten. Iti leadership has become a stench

to all the best classes of society and will be repudiated, beyond all question, by a majority of the psoplo. The pre sent condiiion of the country under radical rule is most deplorable. Business Industries have been paralized. Tbe weight of taxation, burdensomo and oiiGus. Tbe examples of public plundering have become so numerous tbat tbe people can not but be demoralized. True loyalty can not exist, wlen public thieves bear rule. Who can fetl like yielding up hard earned gains when they know that tbe majr part ot tbes) public demands gees to scs ain in reckless extravagance and dissipation a herds of pets ot tbe administration, who are Eimply rogues and common scoundrels. Tbe time has cow come for the p3cple to simply decide whether they will sustain and suppcri longer a corrupt pirly. Tbat the administration is corrupt there is no doutt. The civil rvlca is rotten. If public plundering Is to be stopped, the shi r.est way ta do it Is to lot the Republican party die. It ouht t be abandoned by every honest msn. It is in the hands of dishonest mer. It is controlled In tbe interest tf p'undtrtri. The honest adherents cf the party can not save or reform it. They have nothing elae to do than leave tbe rotten wreck to its merited fate. Presents and Bribes Who 1h Responsible for the Aatlonal Disgrace? The prfs of tbe country has been so much appalled by the humiliating disclosures at Washington that It seems to have ovtrlooked tbe true inwardness of the Bolknap disgrace the distinctive cause which led to It, the lesions to be drswn from It, and the responsibility to tbe country of Gen. Grant's administration and tbe Republican party for it. And first as to the cause which, in al human probability, led to so lamentable a lapse from official duty, personal honor, publlo patriotism, social decency, private purity and common honesty. Cupidity and vanity have each had a part in it no doubt, but the main factors are to be sought in the contaminating influences by which Gen. Grant has surrounded his favorites, his pernicious example of present taking, and his all powerful protection of convicted public plunderers and thieves. When the couit Is rotten to the core it Is worse than folly to look for honesty among tbe courtiers. If the president may with grace accept presents from would-be cfflce-bolders, it is not a matter of astonishment ttat his subordinates should expect to take bribes with Impunity. Is it to be wondered at that a cabinet officer should take a bribe, distinctly offered as such, when his chief has been virtually guilty of the same offense upon a larger scale and honored in the face of it by a renomination at tbe hands of the party of great moral ideas, and triumphantly elected by the people over a statesman like Mr. Greeley? Wbat difference is there In principle between the two offenders? General Grant condescends to accept pecuniary presents lrom A. T. Stewart and Murphy, and others, and all aorta of "moveables" from every one else who offers them and rewards the donors pan passu with publlo oillces ol trust and profit, lrom cabinet seats and port ooilectorsbips to pes' master ships; and Gen. Belknap, his shoulders'rap satrap, accepts a part of the emoluments of an appointee for his Influence in procnrlcg an appointment. In one case tbe present precedes the reward, and in tbe ether the reward follows the appointment. Tbat is the whole of it in a nut shell. Bot the pernicious and contaminating example, be it said with all humiliation, does not stop here. Mrs. Belknap is also a guilty partner, and comes in alike for a share in the prent and shame. Has Black Friday, and Brother-in-law Coibin and the ?20.000 Investment for Mr. Grant's benefit been forgotten? Is not Lmdaulet Williams at large defending, with a fellow feeling which makes him wondrous kind, other offenders against decency, to 6 ay the least of it? Was not Bass Shepherd re-appointed by General Grant after conviction of tbe most shame lul peculations? 13 Moses, the felon, et id omne genus, supported by the administration, and have not the thieves who have been plundering the South for years been systematically encouraged by the administration, and suttalned by federal bayonets In places purchased ty bribery, and dishonored by tbe most brazen corruption? Has not General Scbenck, in the lace of tbe protests ol the Brithish people and ol the remonstrance ol honest men of all shades of political opinion, been retained as the representative of the honor of the nation at tbe Court of St. James, notwithstanding his notorious prostitution of his high office for private gain? But we are gravely told that the president is outraged by these disclosures of his favorite's malfeasance, and wishes he were dead. It is ludicrous enough, did it not move the nation to tears of humiliation. to make it laueb despite tbe disgrace, to see . the pot so bitterly Incensed at the kettle's - black necs? No fair minded man can deny the guilty responsibility of tbe admit iatratloD, and no one at all familiar with party principles will for one moment ques tion the direct responsibility to the country ot the Republican party, which has twice honored Gen. Grant, and is at this moment standing at hia back. ' And nothing short of the rebuke of a relegation to original obscurity ol tbe whole ship's crew ot public pirates can relieve even measurably the nation from the disgrace with which this disclosure has over

shadowed it. Let tbem step "down and out," and let a statesman be again put at the helm, and we may bcp9 for a rctcrn to national honor and personal bosetty in th9 administration of te governman. Defence of Corruption. It was some graütieation to read in tbe Journal, the day after the exposure of Belknap, an article reprobating his oSet s?. The news came suddenly acd the cringe was such a bold one, tlai it could not do less on the rpur ol tbe incmant. But the effect cf thatex'poeure has been so deleterrious, that t L9 Journal now comes to the defense of Belknap In a meisure, and present8 tbe m.tlgating let torts of tbe case so softly and mildly, tbat one is taught to consider the delirqaent secretaty much like a naughty child, erring by reason of the lntluencs of other spoiled children around. This then is to "be the course of the Republican jouraa!s ovr tbe exposuie of a dastard y and flagrant crime tLat marits, if it had boon committed io private life, a term in the penitentiary, and es it was, a confliCitioa of p.-operty acd ban isbm?at from the counir, Tsero is no possij'e niU!gatiu ch euros' auce connected with this waole affair. The biibory has been goiag oa fur yesr. It was a matter of deliberation, t jough executed la a very clumsy manner. 13 jl knap was called into the cabinet without any of tbes) qualities tat iudicata statesmanship. He had no reputation. Iiis appointment to the high position of cabinet cfli;er surprised the whole country. At the time General Grant called him into tbe cabinet be was au applicant begging lor the position, (and, doubtless, accompanying his application by a present,) of collector of internal revenue for his district in Iowa. The president found him to his taste and for six years he has been hi! favorite secretary. lie bestowed upon him the position that gave the best opportunity lor rascality. He had nearly two hundred such positions as Fort Sill at his disposition. The amount

of rascality tbat has been connected with these p'aces can ba imagined when it is rein mot red that hi wife wer a thousand dollar dresses, and never appaared twice in the same tttire. The reckless social extravagance of the Belknap establish ment has been proverbial for years. He has burled one wife, who died without confessing her partnership In his crimes, and now reduces another to the position of abject and hopeless infamy, begging with servile humiliation Icr concealment ol their degradation. lie erne to the president, and plead lor dismissal to avoid tbe severer penalties tbat would surely fall upon him, confessing his corruption, and owning that he was unworthy to remain in his place. With the scorn of friends and foes resting upon him, the whole nation reprobating his acts, de spising him for his base betrayal of a high trust, this fallen man now finds an apolo gist in the Indianapolis Journal, and the first Just words, admitting his rascality, and that he bad disgraced himself and tbe Republican party, are now toned down and the people taught to lock upon bis acts with leniency. Can it be tbat the Journal will still adhere to the plank in tbe Republican platform that expresses the fullest confidence in tbe administration of Grant? Does it propose to carry auoh a terribly dead weight into the coming campaign? It would seem from the course of the Journal that the Republicans propose to do that very thing. Well, it is best tbat tbe p9ople shall know it. It is well to be frank, eo tte people will not be deceived. The people can see what trey are Invited to Indorse in voting the Republican ticket. It indorses Grant. It excuses Belknap. It de clares Babcock worthy to be tta chief secretary of tbe president. In short, the Republican party, as set forth In the platform, Indorses fraud, bribery and corruption, and the Journal stands practical on tbe plank in lta soothing excus s for the infamous conduct ot Belknap. Governor Hendricks's frip South. During his recent trip South Governor Hendricks received the greatest consideration from the people whom he met. His visit was in no sense a political one, but was undertaken in the material Interest of the people of the Mississippi valley. As ia known to the readers of the Sentinel he went to New Orleans on the Invitation of the managers of tbe Southern Industrial Exposition for the purpose of deliv ering an address before that association. His address was published tbe morning after its delivery and has been extensively commented upon by the papers of . the country. It betrayed careful thought, an Intimate acquaintance with tbe commercial interests acd needs of the people ot the South, and broad, statesmanlike views en many subjects of great interest to the people of the whole country. Governor Hendricks was accom panied South by a few personal friend?, among whom was General Love, of this city. He traveled by the Nashville route, and on reaching that city stopped off for a lew hour?. The governor of Tennessee called on him, acd escorted him to the executive office in the state house. Here he was called upon by all the Judges ol the Supreme Court, who adjourned court Icr that purpose, aa well as by many leading lawyers from different parts of the state. The several officers of state and many of tbe leading: citizens of Nashville paid their respects to blm, and ail seemed to vie with each other in their efforts to make his stay at the capital of Tennesson as pleasant as possible. Leav ing Nashville, the governor and his party proceeded to New Orleans without stop ping. They were met at the depot In the Crescent City by the mayor o! the city, by

I delegations from the Board of Trade, the I Cotton Exchante and of tbe Industrial Exposition, and escorted to pleasant quarters

. tue or. msr.es iiotei. uere he received calls from many of the leading n of the South, and his parlors at tbe hotel were comtact'y crowded with prisons anxious to py Lim their respect. 11 drlivtrad his speech to an appreciative audience on tbe Exposition crcunc's. st tte time cLce-cu Icr tbat purpor, and a:tererj spjut some time in cxamlnirg tbe grounds and tbe maDy new and novel tblLg3 cn exhibition there. He' remained ia New Orleans until after tbe Mardl Gras carnival, and sttended the king's ball, and the one dedicated to tie Mystic Krewe ol Comm. He left Now Orleans on Wedneeday last on a upecial car, which bad been p'aced at Lis disposal, snd proceeded to Mobile. Here he Btopped a short time lor re; t and observation, and was careful that bis rest and quittude should not be broken or disturbed. Leaving Mobilo Lo went to Montgomery, tte capital ol Alabama, and ramaned there from Thursday eveclcg to earTy Saturday nicming. While here te was treated with tbe greetest consideration. His old frie ml, George S. Houston, is governor of the state, and from him Mr. Hendricks received every possible attention and courtesy. The legislature, beleg in session, invited him to visit the Senate atd House, which invitation be accepiedi being introduced to tae members by Governor Hou&tor. Iu the evening he was serenaded at his hotel, and returned thanks to the tbocsands present in a happy speech. While at Montgomery be was called upon by most ol the leading citizets of tbat ciiy, and by many visitors of eminence from different parts ol tbe state, who were present at the capital. He left Montgomery on Saturday morning and reached home yeeterday morning. Goterncr Hendricks and bis friends who accompanied him South are much pleased with tbe treatment he received and tte consideration shown him, and heps the trip has net been without benefit to tbe country. It proves tbat the citizens of the Southern sUtes are ready to welcome to the land of flowers and sunshine one who is held in tbe highest estimation in tbe West and North, and whom the people ol bis own state will urge upon the country as a suitable man to fill tbe chair ol Washington and Jackson. Belknap and Ills Wive. The prominence ol General Belknap, at the present time, on account ol his confessed corruption, makes his previous history an interesting study. He is a son of a general of the old army, and by profession a lawyer. He never ranked high in his prof sslon, nor earned much money In practicing it. The maiden name of his first wife was Cora LeRoy,who was reared In VIncennes, in this state. His second wife was Carrie Tomlicson, a Kentucky lady ot good social standing and considerable '. oauty of person. She it was who made the bargain with Marsh which precipitated her husband Int? the gulf of infamy which has swallowed him op. Hia present wife is a sister ot his second. Sbe was a widow when he married her, her firat busband bei Dg John Bower, onoe a member of the late firm of E. G. Leonard & Co., of Cincinnati. Tbe Bower family once lived at Madison in this stat?, and emigrated to Keokuk, Iowa, about twenty-four years ago. At Madison they were engaged in tbe milling butinees, iu wh'ch they- failed. The family consisted ot a mother and four sons. Tbe eldest son, Robert F. Bower, married a Miss Leonard, of Madison, for his first wife, who died several years ago. His second and present wife is a sister cf tbe present Mrs. Belknap. When Gen. Belknap went to Washington as secretary of war, in money. He had, however, sufficient means to Bupport his family In a plain and simple manner in his Western home. Had he remained there it is probable be would have been contented with wbat be had, and without attempting to enrich himself by corruption and Intrigue. At Washington he breathed a different atmos phere, and oce which seems to corrupt most of those who Inhale it. He and bis family became leaders In Washington society, his official position giving them the entree to the most select circles at tbe cap ital. As General Grant has generally chosen his cabinet c fillers from among those who have made him the largest and costliest of presents, they have necessarily been men of large wealth, and able to stand the expetsa of leading Washington society. General Belknap had not the money of hia own to keep pace with bis associates in tbe cabinet, and In order to do It bad to sell his honor and his manhood. Both bis wives were society women and leaders ol fashion in the metropolis. They must dress elegantly and give elegant parties, or take seats behind Mrs. Secretary Fish, and other leaders of Washington society. This they would not do, and a the salary of the secretary of war was sot sufficient to enable them to live in the style they desired, they became office brokers and sold their husband's favors for so much current money of the realm. Not being able to Induce one o! these who knew of their guilty tram a to commit perjury and send his soul to perdition, sn exposure of their corrupt dealings was made, and with it came the downfall of tbe house of Belknap. , A sad lesson is this, and one that' mutt have great Influence upon the American people. If it causes our public men and their families to live more plainly and with less pretence it will not be without Its good effect upon tbe country. Society everywhere, and particularly at Washington, needs purifying. It is rotten, and ongbt to be stripped of its gilded covering. Tbe

discovery of Belknap's rascalities will help to do this, so the cation's disgrace may in tbe end prove to be a blessing. . The Administration's DlsfiKC. We do not eavy the fdfllrjgs of any

American ct'zsn who can read tbe account i.ubl's'itd this morning of tte disgrace of S-jcretry Re'.knap wlthother feelings than of profound regret. Not regret that crime i exposed, bi.t that so high a position aa cabinet effteer of the government should ba filled by a man so corrupt i s Secretary Belknap has been proven to be. Day after dt-y thes exposures are made until there Is ft red upDo tbe public the conviction that tbe pieent administration is utterly, corrupt and deprived. There seems to be an atmosphere In which the office-holder moves that poisons all conscientious convictions, and when temptation bastts them they fall before It. in what department of the governmi.t are we to look for honesty no ? Is tbre no final res4-vnsibillty anywhere to which t tie people can lo.k for r6liei? Just now tbe chief eubr rdinate of the departmett of statecoraes back from England under a cloud. For mctths there has been a series of expoiurjs in tbe treasury departmett. Tte revelatiors in the interior department have developed auch an odious condition of things t aat nobody believes there is any honesty in the management of the Indian afiairs. The country has for years d i trusted Ribeson ol tbe navy department Ths odor of tbe Williams disgrace l as net yet been clearei away from the depar -ment of justice. Wbat is cow le;t to tbe country of the administration tbat is worthy of credit? Who of Republican officials are to be trusted? Is there no honesty anywhere? The Republican pr ss have scoffod at the present House ' and their ivestlgatln? committee. It haa been declared that nothing has been developed impoachlng tbe civil service ol the country. It can not but be expected that nine-tenths of tbe rascalities that have been perpetrated have been covered up and can not be brought to light. The Republican party, until the assembling ol the present con&rets, has bad everything its own way. Committees have been raised by motion ol Democrats, but whitewashing repor;s have invariably followed. The administration did nothing in the whisky fraud prosecutions until , reasonably certain that congress would move upon tbe ring as soon as organized. For this reason public stealing has gone on. It has been covered up, concealed, and investigation stifliad, and tbe rogues have gone on from yeat (o year, and from tbe proceeds of their unfaithfulness to public trast, they have provided corruption funds to debauch tbe people, and continue themselves in power. How loug is such a stats of affairs to . continue? Will the people upon any pretext or pretense sustain a p&rty with such a record ss has been made during tbe last eight years? Mr. Grant's first cabinet officers were appointed upon a principle tbat in real morality differed little from bribery. Their previous gifts to tbe president commended them to his favor. Who knows but tbat gifts, of which the world knew nothing, and perhaps never will, secured the places tbat have been so often conferred upon unheard of men as Akerman, Williams, Robeson, Richardson, Borie, and Bdlknap himself. The same policy . has innumerable illustrations iu subordinate positions. Who upon tbe face of tbe earth could believe that upon principle ot public policy such a man as Williams was appointed chief justice? Look at the matter In any light, even from the views of partisan loy&l-y, and no other houest conclusion can be drawn than that Grant is responsible lor theso acts acd tbat his own honesty is fairly impeached by the dishonest of his subordinate. The nation is disgraced, and tbe people must arouse from indifference, or the whole pecp'.e must be inculpated in conniving at public plundering. Constructive Brltery. Following tbe disgraceful revelat'ons at Washington wherein a cabinet officer ot tbe government is convicted of a meat infamous offense, selling out his official patronage lor a price, there comes to light, here in Indiana, a similar violation of the decencies of life that ought to bury ferever out of sight the party that has attempted it. It was mani'est yesterday that there was trouble in the Republican camp here, and late in tbe evening the rumor was afloat tbat Major Gordon, the candidate for attorney eeneral o the state, had tendered his declination of his place upon the stale ticket. Knowing with wbat cheerfulness Major Gordon bed accepted the nomination, this report awak ened the keenest interest in the city, and as the party is all torn to atoms here over tbe disgrace of the administration at Wash ington, tbe liveliest Interest was manifested to know whether Major Gordon had repudiated the corrupt party, or whether local difficulties bad arisen to turn blm wav from being, as he is expeced to be, the leader of tbe party on the atump in this state. But tbe facts of tne case sp- , near to be of stiil greator importaucs than merely the defection ot one of their can didate, as the Sentinel has discovered by , diligent investigation. It appears tbat Senator Friedley, the chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, has . Issue an order levying a tax of five per cent! upon the salaries of tbe federal offloers In thl state, postmasters and all, and likewise . five per cent on the proap active Income of the state officers nominated on the 22d of February, and the demand la that said levy shall be paid before the first of Jane. It is thought that tbe fund demanded

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