Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1887 — REVOLUTIONISTS, HALTL; [ARTICLE]

REVOLUTIONISTS, HALTL ;

An As»le Democratic Newspaper Tells the Whole Trulli —Turpie’s Election Void. Chicago Tiiiie-: This revolutionary contention of the Indiana Bourbons is perfect nonsense. It ignores not only the reason, but the plainest facts of the case. * * * * The political question whether the vacancy (in the office of the Lieutenant-gover-nor ) should be filled was thus decided by the highest political authority—the authority of the electorate. Prom tnat political decision there v.as no right of appeal to iln? judicial part of the Constitution —so the Indiana court lias unanimously decided. The only possible appeal from that political decision was. in tiie nature qi an election cbntt’.-i to be determined, not by the Senate, not 'by the House, but “by the general assem-bl-v’” Such a contest haying been instituted, its'determination “by the General Assembly’’ was necessary to the constitutional organization of that body, and, therefore, a condition precedent of the regular and legitimate election of anational Senator. The Indiana General Assembly has not yet determined that contest. It is not yet constitutionally organized. A regular and legitimate election of a Senator to till the vacancy that will occur by the expiration of the tenure of Mr. Harrison, March 4, has not been made. '..T, ................ ' q This is the situation that a constitutional view on the subject presents. That is the view that will be taken by the national Senate is extremely probable. Not only is it probable, but the probability ought to be encouraged by all friends of constitutional government. Not for any partisan or •jaeLbecaiiae. it i§ of the least public importance whether the successor of Mr. Harrison be stamped with one or another party trade-mark; nor because Mr. “Dave” Turpie is not a fair representative of the kind of '”sTatesmeii JA Indiana politics produces ; but for considerations higher and more respectable than the historic partyism of this country—for cousjdexiitions of the national welfare ano The repeated of self-seek-ing demagogues to prostitute the jmticiary to the gratification of the party lust, whether in the manner of “government by injunction” or any other, are manifestations of the revolutionary spirit that has been in all ages and lands the most deadly enemy to popular political institutions. By whomsoever praetided, proposed, advocated, or defended, it is essentially revolutionary. The welfare, decorum and safety of the Republic require that this revolutionary tendency of our degraded partyism shall be condemned and restrained by all means and ways. The refusal of the Senate to admit Mr. Turpie on the ground of the irregularity of his pretended election, would be such a condemnation of the attempt of the Bourbon revolutionaries in Indiana to overset the decision of a political question by the political authority, as they and all like revolutionaries would not soon forget This is the reason - for hoping that the national Senate will employ its deciding power against those revolutionaries.