Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1878 — Page 2

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19. Brmah,ck will tx -ibe .rating spirit C the peace congress. Jons siiERMAN;n.l write that letter. Let him be impeached,,.., , r Ohio rads are,at a discount Shermao, Matthews and Hajes, . ' - . .- Sta.nlky Matthkws is willing to getofflf they will do no1 more than vote Mm a fool. It appears that Hayes hail. an aver.-ion to meeting Anderson, lit; feared to face his tool. John Shkbvik is jast now undergoing a shrinkage compared with current estimates before his tcoundrelism was exposed, and he is not worth five cents on the dollar. The admisIon Is now made by the' conspirators that the certificates upon which the ; electoral commission based its action were forgeries, and, as a consequence, . Hayes' title restJ upon crimes confessed, ' Last year some of us were for Pan I, some for Silas, and some for i'ier, but in'ghty few for -Christ, f Applause and laugbterd-Iudge West to tiie Ohio radio! convention. .. That's so. 'In Florida and Louisiana the xads were for. fraud, for forgeries, for per juries, for the devil, and (or office; and they were successful.. They placed Ilajes in office,' and he has rewarded the entire gang of scoundrels. Both senate and housj deserve to.be congratnlated on clearing up a lot of unfinished business ' yesterday. Mainly through the persistency of Senator Voorhees the senate passed the amended bill making United Ftates .holes receivable ' for Import duties after he 1st of next October. .. At midnight, After innumerable amendments had been passed upon, the house finally passed? the civil sundry appropriation bill. Two Important measures are thus cleared out of the way of an early adjournment. . ElsTwrterk we publish a series of interviews furnished the Cincinnati Commercial by Miss Laura Ream. We congratulate the lady upon her success in placing before the public the opinions of a number of our leading citizens. The Sentinel does not indorse all that the gentleman interviewed are made to say by the Commercial's correspondent, but in the main the views expressed will find a heaity Indorsement throughout Indiana. leaving ltayes' title out of the question, there is a general agreement that the iovtstigation ought to go forward until the last crime is exposed and the whole gang of conspirators placed in the pillory. There is not the least apprehension of revolution or the protration'of business growing out of the investigation; indeed, business seems to thrive in proportion as truth triumphs. ! V KOLIDIFTISU ISO JIARffOXIZIG TIIE RADICAL PARTY. For some time pas the country .has been informed that the democrat party had tnaged in doing lust those things necessary to "toMdify and harmonize" the ralical thief party of the country. Such declara-' lions are equivalent to admissions that the radicil thief party had btcome divided, split, burst, and generally torn to fragments; that reunion within the party was impossible, and that disg ace and death were inevitable. Reduced to soch deplorable straits, possessing no self-solidifying or bar raonizing power, a mass of wrangling, discordant, self accusing, crime plotting elements the leaders of the piratical gang men with perjuries in tceir throats and forgeries in their hand?, professed to be overwhelmed with joy when Montgomery Blair made a sovereign state, one of the "old thirUen," put forth her sovereign hand acd touch Hayes, and by touching him awaken a profound solicitude throughout the land to know how he obtained office when the American people, bya m-ijority of more than a quarter of a million, declared for another man. The chief men of the radical thief party thought they cjuld see in this movement a solidifying and harmonizing ingredient that would bricg honest republicans into the affectionate embrace .of forgerj, perjurers and crime stained scoundrels of high and low degree, and oace more put the radical thief party on its psgi. When McLin, not entirely given over to the devil, feeling the tortures cf the damned, with remorse eating into his soul like fire, made his confession showing 'how the leaders of the radical thief party stole the vot? of Florida, then again radical conspirators and the organs of the radical thief party declared that the movement was engineered by the democratic party, and would aid materially in solidifying and harmonizing their organizttion. When the Totter committee was appointed a howl about Hayes title was set up from the center to the circumference of the land, and the solidifying and harmon izing process by which radicalism was to obtain a nw lease of power was regarded fairly under way, and radical conspirators and knavea were jubilant. To help the matter on we bail from day to day barrsngues about "revolution," -"Mexicanizing" the government, "business depression and ''civil war," all of which were gotten up to help bring order out of radical thaos, obscure radical crimes, whitewash radical villainy and harmonize tbe radical thief parry. The Potter investigation goes on, radical scoundrels are exposed, their frauds, their forgeries and their perjuries are classified auJ it in order before the country. New leads are discovered, and the investigating lightning fa striking an army of miscreants hi tbrU unknown. And these are the facta and furcej that radical leaders expect will solidify and harmonize their party. The proposition la simply uonstroua. Such hopes could live only in the minds , of the most abandoned and - depraved. Indeed, it is assuming " that the government of thia country , shall , bo , hereafter conducted upon a- policy .which without any stretch of the imaginat!oa may be fcujpcsidj'la regulate, the affairs of the devil's dominions. .It is hardly , eupposabie, however, that J tbe cloven footed autocrat of perdition would recognize a fraudulent title to any place within his realm, though the criwe of obtaining lucti a title hero would

be llkelyto be' rewarded withVIa comfortable situation by the archfiend as Hayf srtmferred upon Anderson. It might be possible to solidify and harmonize the inhabitants of the " in Teroar regions upon such crimes as radical conspirators committed in UHilsiana and Florida, brA the time . for solidifying rand harmonizing even the radical party. .'upon,'; suCh'a ""'bsva in this i country , has . passed! away ' forever. Stanley Matthews and John Sherman may rally to their support men equally destitute of Integrity, men 'as willing to bargain for forgery, and purjury, but the fragments of the radical party . will 'not 'solidity and harmouiie on fraud any 'more. Stanley Matthews and John Sherman stand as warning again! solidifying, and harmonizing. Have?, who has rewarded wit Ii office every crime stained scoundrel who helped to adjust the machinery of fraud by which he was lifted into - office, ; , will , not help to consolidate and harmonize , tbe radical . party. The rotter investigating committee has reduced tin radical paity to a pulp that no art can change to solidity. Under such circumstances' the radical thief party had letter be looking around for some means other than the records of its crimes to bring about hardness and harmony in its ranks.

TIIE RADICAL PABTT ETROPEiMZI3U AMCUICAX L4UOB. ' We have heard much of late of a purpose on the part of the democratic party to Mexican ize the government, predicated upon its patriotic purpose to expose radical frauds and . to punish radical criminals, but since John Sherman has been gibbeted before the country a a conspirator for bargaining with a radical parjurer.and exhorting him to "stand firm" by his blasphemous oaths; since Stanley Mathews stands trembling be fore the country with a Totter halter around bis neck, and since it has been made public that Hayes ''gave Andersan an offiee as a reward for his ecoundrelism, the "Mexican" hobby is not trotted out quite as often as it was before the investigating committee got under way. The investigation is going on quite satisfactorily to the democratic par.y and to the country. In factr it is grow ing in popularity every day, and will accomplish blessings of incalculable magnitude and of far reaching benefits. We can therefore dismiss it for the - present while we turn our attention to another phase of radicalism scarcely less inamous than its frauds. The purpose ef the radical i arty.to Europeanize American labor is distinctly shown by its infamou9 financial legislation and the policy it has ucdeviatingly .pursued. Tha condition of business, the prostration of industries, acd the vast number of working people out of employment are effects traceable distinctly to measures advocated aud the policy pur sued by the radical-party for years pas, and when the friends of labor have sought to improve the situat on they have been told that laborers inv' this ' country i must not expact to fare better than their brethren in Euiope, and have btcn denounced as little better than "dumb, drtyen cu'tle,". who ought to be shot down for proU sting against the t curses radical tuprtmacy had foxed upon them. It is well, in view of. the de plcrable situation in which American mechanics atd laboring people find themselves p'aced, to make some prudent inquiries with r.giid to the condition of working people of . Europeau countries, where, under kingly rule, their , lives are of little coLequence, and their cmfort and happiness are matters that are sjldom or never discus?d, until great popular demonstrations awaken the aristocracy to a sen.se of their danger. Hon. William A. Ward, of Pennsylvania, in a receLt speech delivered in the house of representatives, brought out with great vividness the condition of tbe woiking people in Europe. Mr. Ward in the course of hi remarks introduces the following statements1 A correspondent of the Iron and isteel Ihiiletln gives graphic account of the dietre In one of the manufactariiia districts of J real Britain, quoted below in his own wo da: Acconi iJinlel by this clergyman, lion. Mr. Brace and myself made vUll into some ot the houses of the distressed ones, dc! for tlu-fliKt time In my life I stood face to face with pjv. erty and distress, misery and wretche Inesn, utterly beyond the owerof man to describe. So intensely painful Is It to look upon that ita reality become almott a question of doubt. To tell you that taere were no furniture.no food, hardly nny clothe, and only the dying ember of tire, I the vlmpltst laneunw ihut could be used to convey the Intensity of that Inde-erlbable iuiery that must be seen to le la any way understood. You must we the human things that Inhabit these weather sheds and have fast -ned on your souls expres sions from eyes that speak that hope Is dead; you must tee the human form divine hangIns on u it were, to ltsowu particles, out of sheer, depression: you must hear the human voice utter the words, The parish allows me 2s. a week; out of that 1 iuve to pay Is. M tor rent, and &1 for tha burial nub, which leaves me 3d. to live upon; and witn the exception cf a little soup from the kitchen mid fcoiuellme a little tea and nogar Mrs. Crawshay gives me, I have not had uy tiling else to live upon for months.' All this you must aoe if you would realize the sorrows that surround the aching woe of that sutfei t.ig that must exist wlia her who says, 'Look at my a m, sir; let it tell if lam hungering!' or you mnt hear a mother say, 'If Iha l ouly bread to keep the children from crying, sir, 1 could bear It;' or the wife saying, 'lt' bad enough to have your husband ill, sir, but to have him ill and starving at the same time It is very harJ; it's awful hard !" tt)NDITIO OF' LABOR IK HKEAT BRITAIN, AMERICA' CIIlaK RIVAL. In Glasgow the average pay of mecban'cx such us blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, tat ors, etc., la not more than 2s. r r week, equivalent to io.bA in United States gold. And Scot and la the country UIackow 'he priuetf.al port that for the year ending June 30, fTO, sent I m porta to America amounting to SlMil,72, of which there were: Cotton manufacture.. .. ..IS.OH.'JJo 1 lfil011 , - , " " " 1 r f t r 1i i 1 1 i i i ii jolX) 1 1 Here are smie home pictures extracted from Dr. Young's reliable work, and bused upon consular rr porta: 'The condition of tbe laboring men of this city can not be fully understood witlout a glance at their homes. In this respect, ( erhaps mora than in any other, la the greatest comrnst presented between the British and American mechanic. II ine comforts. In the American sense, are but little known to the laboring man In 01mjxw living for the raotit pvrt in great tenement buildings, where ten or adoztMi, sometime uu or 30, famine occupy a single tenement ;ech fatally possessed cf lut one. or at immt twu ill-vent Hated, dreary, dirty rooms. The official statistics noon this subject are startling. The city chamberlain, In his report for !., says; 'It is quite aside Imm thenubject to complain of slnxta apartmenlH being each occujjed by a family, for such u.i.( always been the case, and apparently will continue to be the ease, much as It Is to be retrretted. The chief evil aie when a dwelling house becomes subdivided Into single apartments, eneh entering through Its neighbor, in, place of each opening only upon a well ventilated staircase or corridor.' " In a report prepared by Mr. (Vmant Webster, "on the condition of the working eopJe of Sheffield," ho says: "The mother In many cases being away from borne at work, consequently neglects tiie family. The bn.baud, knowing that there 1sno comfort for him at home, resorts to the nearest dram shop lor refreshment; the wife, In many case. doln.T the same. Hence the Cad neglect of the children. ''la the matter cf their tl welling and fo.ru

tore, their dress, their sleeping sccomuiod actions, and almost everything that goes- to make tbe home, the Comfort of the faintly In seriously abridged. And yet vast numbers who earn good wages, say thirty, forty and fifty shillings a week, seem tone satisfied with tbe scantiest supply ot the most common absolute necessaries of life. In very many , itsw t large.' fa mil ies ' do-' U ve . In one and two rooms. - Tats moo Id not be trsie of a majority, but it la too common. In a large proportion of their homes family comfort la touviiy nnknoaa... Tbe tenements of the laboring class are but poor apologies for homes, in multiin'tes oi fases their whole furniture not being worth more than a lew aiiilUngH. Pawnbrokers Io a thrlvlDg bu-1-ness, and the only part of the week wben comforts are introduced is on Saturday evening and Huuday, after the wages of the week come In. Monday usually begins with the poverty and pawning of the previous week, hu-1 thus the perpetual round continues. The tenements are generally auiall and dirty." - The following extract from tbe Cambrian News shows the nncora fort able lodgings of working people in Wales: . "The newly appointed Inspector of nuisances for the rural district of Aberystwlth has made two reports, which reveal an almost ineoucelvable state of degradation among the people. A large number of the houses are altogether until lor habitation, and those hove's are terribly overcrowded, adults of both sexes .being beided promiscuously together. In one caae sixteen men sleep In eight bedtiu two small rioms, and In an another instance four meii occupy the beds during the night and four during the day. the day occupants frequently having to wait nntil the night men get up. In one place a family lives In a hut whkrh is also used as a slaughter house, skin room and butcher's chop; and In unother a woman, her grown-up daughter, a cow, a heifer and nine Jowls occupied one room, which has no tire place, no window, and no light or ven. iiatlon beyond that provided by tbe door.'" Dr. Griffiths, the medical officer of health for the borough of fcihetlie'd. In his annual leport issued In 171, t -ua refers to the saultary condition of the dwellings of the oor: "Many of the dwellings of the poor are unfit for them. One room frequently erves the threefold purpose of bed room, dwelling room, and work room, and the cubic space for air is totally inadequate for the health of the tenants. When to this Is added that the windows are generally what are termed Yorkshire lights, or casements, many of which can not be opened, and that when panes are broken the deficiency Is supplied by wost or psper, excluding the light, and that whole families, without regard to sex or age, the bingle and msriied, are promiscuously mingled, thero need 13 no surprise at the existence of diseaso nor at the spread of in feet ion." Look at tbe farm laborer of England. Today emancipated, his condition is no better than when In sirfdom. 'In 171 the average wagesof Kugiish farm lsborers were 12nlullinns per week. In the southern iarts of England the wages were only eight or nine shillings; in the north about l On such pay it was impossible for a marrltd man to provide proper food for himself and family; meat was a iiirity to be tasted once or twie a year: a little bacon might, perhaps, be indulged In once a week; for the rest of -the time dry bread was tlie chief fare. Ment ot all klnd.s which tn the United SUtes forms so large a proportion of strengthening and healthful food, constitutes but 19.6 per cent, of t lie worklngmau's fare In Ureal Pritain, and in Manchester and HiiddersGeld it is but little over 10 aud 14 per cent. Bueh fare causes physical degeneracy, and the habitations, in many cases "hovels in which their employers would not stable their horses; hovels without ventilation, drainage, or the surroundings necessary for ordinary decency; hovels which have bred a race of men who, from want of do nicotic comforts, srtend eveiy spare hour in the pothouse, and who have nothing to look forward to but the pauper's grave; hovels wh eh have bred a race of women whose maidenly modes' ly vanished unborn In consequence of the fcenes they were obliged to witness through the want of, proper sleeping arcc nidations," tend to a state of society that the statesman who Is now- framing a law to break down American wages will contemplate only wli h terror, nulcs his heart is barren of every sentiment of patriotism and philanthropy. May the great strugfle now in progress in England to Improve tills state have full fruition. United States Consul Jenkinson, writing from Glasgow In 173, logically sums up the sttuatlon u tbe following words: "High wages are impossible. And Ill's ex plains in a word the lamentable condition of the working man and his ntter Inability to elevate his condition. He must work for a mere pittance to enable hts employer to reil his goods abroad at low rates or there will bo no work for him to do and he will be left to starve." In other European countries tbe situation is still more aggravated. The present condition of thousand and tens of thousands of American laborers is as deplorable as anything Mr. Ward presents, and this state of things has been brought about by radical legislation. It has turned thousands of peo pie out of comfortable homes upon tbe high ways. It has closed thousands of factories, shops and other industrial enterprises, and made it inipo?sible for the poor to obtain bread in a country where fool is in fabulous abundance and prices are almost unprece. df ntroly low. This process of Europeanizing American Tabor has been" going forward for years, and success has at last crowned the eflbrtaof the Shylocks. The country is full of idleness, hunger, atarvation and rags. Desolate homes era in all the cities anion all the highways of the country, and to offset these calamities we arc told that John Sherman can resume specie payments. There is but one way out of the wilderness of curses that radicalism has imposed upon the country but one way to arrest the work of Europeamzirg American labor, and that ia Udijmisa the radical parly from power. When this is accomplished, business will revive, idle men and women will have work, the era of fraud will expire, and prosperity will be once more enthroned.

TIIE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. After the 4th of March next the ' democratic party will have control of the United States senate. So much of good fortune is certain. The question that is now of commanding Intereet relates to the political compleiion of the next house of representative?. It is certain that the radical party will move as much of earth, heaven and hell as they have the power to influence to secure the control cf the house. The leaders will resort to every known stratagem, nor will they hesitate at any act of villainy calculated to secure succtss. With the radical lenders the camra'go has already commenced, as a Washing'on special to the New York World clearly indicates; tbe first step taken being to ecure the necessary funds. Tbislsaccomplhhed, as the Wold's correspondent shows, as follows: The departments to-day were flooded with a Circular letter from the republican congressional committee levying au assessment on ail of the omcials for campaign purjoses. - It is ealle i a voluntary subscription, but that was the term used under thetirant aumiuisiraiion As these an personally addressed through the mail every clerk feara tbe reaultoi any failure to contribute. Tbe amount solicited la 1 per cent., and the demand was made to day on a.l the omcla a, from the scruo women, wtm get filia month, to the secretary, who gets -IS.iioO a year. As u upeclmeu of civil service reform It fully equals that of the late administration. The following is the letter: ItKATMjr AKTfcR ItKPl'HI.H'AN CnXIUUS ) MIONAI. COMMITTEJt 1H7S, 1,31 f ST. N. W-, Washington, D. C, May 27.) EroF.NB Half., Chairman. . Okokoe C (vokham, Secretary. Kir This committee, charged with laboring for the succevs of the republican cause In tie coming campaign for the election of members ot congress, call with confidence upon you as a republican for such contribution In money as you may feel willing to make, hoping that It mar not be less than . The committee deem It proper In thus appealing to republicans generally to inform those who happen to be iu federal empl v that there will be no objection In any oillclal quarter to such voluntary contribution. The Importance of the pending struggle can not easily be exaggerated. That tiie senate ia to be democratic after the 4th of March, loTU, is very nearly a certainty. In view of this the election of a democratic bouse of representatives would precipitate upon the country dangerous agituVlyus wlUch would Inevitably add 19 present

distresses. Foremost among their sehemes the opposition already announce their intention to attempt the revolutionary expulsion of the president from bis office. If by tbe Sresentatlon of three candidates for the preslency In 18M0 the people should fail to choose, the bouse mast elect, each state delegation casting one vote. From what is now known, n d witli"the growinr dissensions in the camp of tbe enemy, tbe committee huve good reason to enter upon tneir work with courage. Please make a prompt aud favorable re iponse to this letter, and remit at once by draft or postal money order to Sidney K. Austin, treasurer, etc., Werraan-America i national bank, Washington. I. C. By Older of the committee. iEo. C. liOKH am. Secretary. This notification of the employes of the government that they must come down to the extent demanded means business, and Hayes, who has consented to contribute liberally, ssts an example which every subordinate will not hesitate to follow; or if they do decline the bleeding process the leaders will see to it that their places are filled by others who will promptly obey orders. Evidently the campaign in all will exhibit more than ordinary earnestness, while in closely contested districts the battles will be fought with a desperation equal to 187&' .. The Philadelphia Times prints the following tables, showing the political division of the last three congresses, which will "enable those who take an interest in the subject to arrive at conclusions more or less satisfactory. The tables give the year in which each house was chosen: 1872. - 1S74. 187B.

New England. Connecticut Maiue................... .. Massachusetts........ New Hampshire Rhode IslandW rm on t . Totals...-. , Middle States. New Jersey . New YorkIlennsylvanla.-. .. i Totals ...... ......... TheW-st.

It. D. K. 1). R. D ill ; 13 5 0 50 5 0 11 0 " 6 5 9 2 2 11 'J 2 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 3 0 O S 0 20 2 li 10 E 6 6 12 5 3 4 24 9 17 hi 17 1 22 5 10 17 17. 10 03 r 29 SS 37 30 0 o 6 o o i 14 5 8 11 11 8 10 3 5 9 4 0 H 1 H X 0 .2 ' 1 3 0 0 . tf 3 8,1 3 0 3 0 3 0 4 l U It 4 1 0 10 1 0 13 7 7 It 18 6 2 5 i 5 3 72. 2ti 13 5-3 tio S4 h i 2 6 0 8 .22 0,4 0 4 1 0 3 10 1 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 7 0 0 0 10 1 9 . 0 10 6 0 .2 4 !0 - 2 4 o 0 5 1 ' 2 4 0 3 5 17 17 5 0 5 0 3 2. 7 3 1 9 2 s 0 ' 0 6 Q 8 4 5 18 1 0 3 0 3 0 3 41 4!) 17 70 8 81

Colorado Illinois...... Judiana Iowa. Kansas., Michigan , Minnesota Missouri Nebraska ...... 'Milo Wisconsin'i Totals " The .South. Alabama-.-....-.. Arkansas Delaware. t lorldafJeorgla Kentucky-.... Ixmislana... . Maryland Mississippi..., North Carolina South Carolina. Ten nessee...... Texas.. Virginia West Virginia.. Totals . "One vacancy Judge Leonard, deceased. ' ' Taciflc Btites. - California-. 3 1 1 3 2 2 Nevada.. . 0 1 1 0 1 0 Oregon . . 0 1 0 1 1 0 Totals 3 3 .2 4 4 2 ' . KEC-AP1TI LATION. . ' 1872.

1K71. ; 1870. n.D. r. i. 18 10 22 6 25) ; 37 SO 4.1 .'".V." C5 84 17 76 8 SI 2 4 4 2

New England...... Middle States.... ... 20 i... i ... 11 .... t .... 8 15 2H 4! ' 3 The West. The South..... Pacific States Totals -..197 95 111 1SI 136 156 A full hous3 conUIns 203 members, and a dispesMonite eurvey of the whole field gives assurances that the democratic party will not only maintain its supremancy but largely increass ita majority in tbe house. This would be the conclusion under ordinary circumstances, bnt when we lake into consideration the infaniom record of the radical pari) it is fair to assume that the people Will not rally to its standard. The Times, which being independent, an! not given to favorable estimates of democratic succtss, siys: The republicans will doubtless p'ek up Colo rado, but their chance of getting anything else out of the we-t u very meager. And the sout ti presents a still more gloomy prospect through republln ii glasses. It Is hardly reasonable to hope that the party can do any better now without control oi a single state government than it did In 1S76, When it was in nbsolu.e possession of three and used them all to Uie utmost advantage. Of the nine republican districts now credited to Uie south tiie party will be fortunate If it does not lose at least four. The Pacific states delegation will unsettle .nothing, and the first return from there, which Is also the first to the Forty-sixth coagresH, 1h a democratic gain. To the Impartial observer it la not altogether aprarent wtere the republicans can expect t" make their gains, If, as the Indications are, It is tbeir intention to conduct an ordinary party canv- as for a purely partisan victory. Feople are so indifferent to simply party matters that it is not too much to say that the democrats j,murht be defeated in enough districts In the iniauie ana western siaies 10 tow mem uie next house if the republican nominating conventions cou'd give the voters candidates who had Homthing more than party, ends to subserve. But that Is something too much to expect, and the party now having the advantage will be able to retain It. - . i The outlook, all things considered, is cheeriDg to the democracy of the country. But in this fact danger may be lurking. Over confidence is not calculated to encourage hard work, and democratic success means indomitable will and indefatigable exertion. These, with tec favorable surroundings of the democratic party, will achieve success. TIIE RADICAL PARTY ON TRIAL. It should be remembered that the radical party is on trial before tbe Totter committee now holding its sessions In Wa'hiogton city. Tbe attouud'ng revelations of crime, if it be conceded that 'they only touch the individual villains who plotted against the rights and liberties of tbe people, dwarf the w hole proceeding to "comparative insignificance. Matthews, Sherman, Noyes, Garfield and the rest of the conspirators acted for the parly, were indorsed by tbe parly, und the party, by placing Hayes in office, reaps all the benefits ' directly and remotely derivable from the system of fraud planned and perfected by them and their agents. In this high neon of revelations when the national vision is taking in whole ranges of frauds and forgeries that rise brood based, black and desolate to their summits, like mountains that vomit fire, it would be gratifying to the indical party if It could throw the entire responsibility upon a few of ita convicted miscreants and have the country exonerate it from responsibility. This will not . do. The fang of the viper is no less a part of it than are the crimes committed by radical conspirators the legitimate outgrowth of the radical par ty. A leopard might ns well disown its spots, a cobra iu hood, or the devil his cloven foot, as for the radical party to duown the crimes now coming to light: The fact hts been disclosed that among "the prominent 'actors in the Florida- election crimes of 1S7C

'the following have been pkrovlded for: Gov,'ernbr learns was appointed on the , Hot 'Springs commission; J. W.Howells, who 'got np Drigger's return in Baker county, is 'now collector of. customs at Fernandina,' 'Florida; Joseph Bowes, election Inspector, 'charged with manipulating ballots in Leon 'county, is in the treasury at Washington; William IL Vance, clerk t f Archer precinct Xc. 2, has a federal position at Washington; 'It. B. Black, inspector at tbe tauje precinct, has a federal clerkship in Philadelph'a; 'Ball, inspector in Jeffer-on couoty, had received a federal appointment, but wa.s since 'removed; George H. Leon, inspector in Leon county, is a clerk in the treasury at Washington; Dennis, of Alachua county, had re 'cently a position in the treasury; Moses J. 'Taylor, one of the returning board of Jeflerson, is in the land plfice at Washington." Those prominently connected , with the Louisiana crimes have alobeen provided for with lucrative federal offices, and Anderson, the man who is now producag the documents that go crathirig through the party like chain shot, was alo apjoiiited to represent the country m a foreign port, but declined the offica because it was not equal to the services he had rendered the party by performing acts- cf scoundrelism ; without a parallel. If the appointment of the- men who were chiefly instrumental in swindling Hayes Into office to lucrative and irrportant federal offices does not connect the radical party with the whole system of fraud now being revealed, then indeed is fact n belter than fiction, and the conflict between truth and error might as well cease. ' But fate wills it otherwise. The radical party is doomed as cjiUinly as that Jehovah is angry with the wicked. It was never designed that the sun -of the American republic was to" set in the closing year of ita first century in the fcgj of 'forgery, amidst the fierce glare of the lightnings of perjury and the waitings of an outraged people. In the providence of God, who;e laws are immutable and irrevocable, the radical party with it i crimes must disappear while the democratic party takea the helm of state and pilots the good old ship, from the breakers which row surround her, out into the broad tea 'of prosperity and peace. -c t POLITICAL, POINTS.

The c jngressional convention of the Twelfth diitrict. will meet at Fort Wayne June 26. General Butler teems to consider his mission to be to "go sloshing around promiscuous like." . Of the five Indian agents nominated by the president on Tuesday, only two were from Ohio. ( "Stump-tailed, yellow haired pup," Is what the Cynthiana (Ky.) News calls Senator Lamar of Miss'asippi. Stanley Matthews is informed that he can get cremated in Pennsylvania for $13.50, traveling expenses only one way: "Two heads are ttter than one," as the late Mr. Morrissey used to say when about to put the extra one on a neighbor. . - A rural newspaper tells of an editor in Il'i nois who has "set in the editorial chair for 39 years." He mcst be. the nester of the press. Burlington Hawkeye: The president should at least furnish Stanley Matthews with a coffin. He ought to have that much regard for his old friend. Tbe republican convention of the Fourth district will be held in Madison on the 25ib. It is thought Governor Sexlon, the present representative, will be re-nominated. Verily, it is cheaper to go to a meeting and yawn about the rigats of labor than to give the laborer a job, e7en though thy house be out of repair and thy grounds in disorder. ' Burlington Hawkeye:' Senator David Davi8 says he would climb down from ofl'n the fence in a minute, if the pitiless fates would only tell him on which side to get down. . The , republican convention will meet at Bedford on Saturday, June 15, and the independents meet at tbe same place June 22, for the purpose of nominating candidates for tbe various county offices. Samuel J. Tilden Is fond of drivinc, but is the worst driver in New York. His I horses always act ai if they had been trained oy Horace ureea-j wmie id Tiia iuusi, suulime heights of philosophical abstraction. Congressman Frye says in a letter that the people of Maine would not consent to any modification of the ' prohibitory liquor law. and that tbe democrats have been compelled to drop the subject in their platforms. Governor Bradley, of Nevada, was recently asked whether he would run for another election, and he replied, "Walj you bet, my son; 1'magoin'to stand in. with the boys agin. I' I they want me, and 1 think they does, I'll stand them a racket." Richmond Independent: Ben Harrison, in his speech before the Indianapolis conventied, insuHed nine-tenths of the republican party of tbe state, whom he denounced as. idiots and advised that they be confined in a ttite asylum. Ben belong! to the kid-glove aristocracy, and hts nosympathy nor respect for tbe common people.. One of Mr. James E. Anderson's editorial associates has been interviewed by a reporter of the Detroit ji.ven'ng Aews, to wnoni he described Anderson as "a medium s'zed, red hf aied, florid, energetic roan, without an atom of principle beyond what is absolutely, necessary to get along with; of keen business instinct,- atd a first class practical printer." Crawfordsville Star: Ben Harrison, the grandson of his grandfather, . has always been praised by his friends as a straightout politician, uncorrnpted ' by the vile slime of tbe ordinary orator, but be made a sad exhibition at the recent state convent'on when he characterized the greenbackers as a set of Idiots. " A resort to abu e invariably belittles an orator, and at the stme time shows Ins cause to be weak. Ben's speech didn't do the republican patty any vest deal of good. Mack, of the L Louis Globe-Democrat, tben of the Cincinnati press, is luid to be the only witness who ever thoroughly discomfitted burly Ben Batler. Mack was a witness on tbe impeachment trial of Johnson and, knowing full well Batler wonld bullyrag him on crosi examination, prepared to meet him. His' direct testimony in, Ben was about to ilay him, when Mack, searching in the pockets of his coat as if for a handkerchief, bought forth a large silver soup ladle and innocently laid iton the table in front of him." The fpoon story was fresher then than It is tiow, and, considerably disconcerted, Ben cidn't rally sufficiently to arm Mack as thoroughly as he designed.

ON TIIE DEFENSIVE.

Tbe Radical Party Beating the Air. r i Washington Post.l By far the most important result of the great investigation thus fr is that, for the first time in twelve years, the radical party has been thrown completely on the defensive.' It is tot possible to over estimate the importance of this fact m a general political sense, while ita beariug upon tbe future of tbe investigation itself Is of -almost equal moTQent Kver since the war the tactics of the radical 1 party hare been those of the h'ghest-handed aggression, and its strategy the most recklessly ofTets've. Never covering a base of operations and never filling back, tbe radical party has pushed its way through history by the sheer momentum of its attacks. The strategy of Grant's campaign in the Wilderness ba been followed up in the politics of his party since the war, and the present is the tirst real check 1 hat has been imposed. Beginning with iis attick upon Andrew Johnson, tbe radical parly hss maintained a steady aggressive ever since. Vainly has the democratic or conservative element of tbe country intrenched inelf behind the constitution, the laws and the doctrines of retrenchment and economy, for whenever the issue has been jolrei the radicals have concentrated their strength in charges along the whole line, with the bloody shirt for their bann?r and "remember the rebellion" for their battle cry, and by these signs they hare invariably coaqn red. Essentially a military party, both by orginizstion and by tradition, the red'cals have never regarded the constitution as anything but a fortification of the enemy to be mined and blown up by legislation or taken by executive ttorm whenever it stood in the way of their designs: while tbe laws of the nation and of states have been of no more consequence in tht-ir eyes than so many outlying nfla pits would have been to a general in the fiald. . Year after year the radicals have moved to the attack, and the democrat! hive fallen back upon lines of defense. No matter how the campaign was planned, that has alwavs been tbe fate of it But at last the radica'ls reached the limit of their offensive capacitv. Beaten in the campiign of 1876 in fair combat, they rallied all their entrie s for a desperate tiank movement of fraud, ahd barely snceetded. But Ihe effort exhausted them, and now, when they are availed in turn, they waver. As if to demonttratj the tenacity of instinct, however, it is noteworthy that even after the psssice of tbe Potter re:olution, and in the face of certain investi. gation and exposure, tbe radicals made one last effort to assume the oilensive as of old. But the attempt was feeb'e and desultory. They raised the ancient banner ar d shouted the old war cries, but the troops did not advance as they used to". - Then the sanguinary gonfalon was farlf d the war cries bushed, and, as we remarked at tbe outset, for tbo first time in history the radical party tc ok up its line of retret and bean to defend itself as best' it could. Its veterans are dead cr disabled, and its ranks have been filled with mercenaries like Schutz and comcripH like Key. Tbe leaders who knew how to organize victory are silent in private life or sulking in their tent?, and their places have been taken by a nondescript crew of seutimalists, psalm singers and sneak thieves, who have neither the tact to comprehend nor the conrjge o confront an emergency. In this situation the temnaots of the radical party.once irresistible as the hordes of Tamerlane , ire now quaking and dissolving nnd?r atttck in a way that is almost pitiful. t These facts are of immense tigiuficunce Apart from their political niiI ortince as foreshadow ing the final fa'l and collapse of radicalism, they convey an intimation to the democratic managers of the investigation that should not be ignored. The radical party has been thrown into its present sta,e of rout and demorallztion by the firmnfs?, vigor and rapidityof the democratic attack. Tactics which have a'rfady produced such a gratifying res alt should be p-rsevered in. Let the democrats stick to every point they have gained and purii ahead relentlessly. Let net the imputation of partisanship disturb the nerves of anydmocrat. Leniency to the persons implicUd in the frauds under investigation will be a blunder, and mercy a inifrtke. The country, almost as one man, believes them guilty; the popular prejudice is all to the advantige of the prosecutorj, and no opportunity should be given the defense either to rsllyor to make good tteir retreat. We have got the enemy at last on the run, and the business of the democrats now is to push thing. ' A Pair Oay's Werk. Chicago Times. A chapter of tbe secret histoay of the Louisiana commission wis unearthed by Glover's committee, yesterday, which makes a rather more s:rious showing for John Sherman tban any thing which has yet been developed. It seems that Sherman, et the setting out of theMacYesghcommhsiona year ago last spring, applied to the First National bank of New York, a member of the syndicate, for ' the sum of $5,000 to pay the expenses of the commission, promising that the amount would be restored to the bank through an appropriation Of course he obtained the $5,000, as the First National bank expected to have, and hts since had, very profitable dealings with the treasury department To borrow money in thi3 way in anticipatioa of an appropriation was, however, an unlawful proceeding, and Mr. Sherman can be made to buffer tor it in the way provided by the constitution -and the laws. Furthermore, the ehtck drawn by the bank was cashed at the sub-treasury in New Orleansanother illegal act The correspondence in the matter is published, and constitutes a good day's work for Glover's committee. . . Ren Ilarrlton'M Idiot. Richmond Free Press.1 The republican newspapers are exceedingly free in the use of the word "idiot" applying it to the nationals or greenback men. General Benjamin Harrison, who is regarded as a model gentleman in republican circles, denominated them "idiots" in bis speech at Indianapolis, when acting as president of the republican state convention. 8uch language does not indicate the gentleman in the person who indulges in it. There is no argument in euch language. And, as we unders'and their principles, tbe greenbackers are far in advance of republicanism in both common sense and common honesty; aDd therefore more worthy the confidence and respect of tbe public. And it is undignified and unmanly to call them "idiots." Mlgbt Soaad strange. ICliieago Times. Anderson's brother was appointed to a position in the Baltimore custom house in consideration of Anderson's relinquishing his claims. Batter milk Smith, then appointment clerk of the treasury, but now foisted mm 41. m mm " .m1 I k n n via .. .i . . .$ A 4s VvM on I ! I c BillJj paj-iuu u a moiiuki iu m ret :ied in a. year, arranged the matter. If this were not an administration pledged to reform the civil service, these things would read oddly enough. . Tbe Way It Work. Lafayette Dispatch.l Indiana elects 13 members of congress. In 1870, under the infamous republican gerrymander, 213,219 democratic votes elected oniy four members of congress, while 207,020 republican votes elected nine members of congress; to state it differently, while it took 53,300 democrats to elect a congressman, it only required 23,009 republicans to elect a congressman. Ioea Nt Want Fraud Mentioned Either. ITerre Haute Express, National.! The republican party, whose best d-ys were given to bold and ceaseless agitaticn, and whose triumphs all sprung from agitation, has become the foe of discussion. It has found a question too sicred to be talked about. It is the holy question of money.