Show DESPE DESCE RATING SOLDIERS GRAVES A g good 0 od deal of indignation is being felt feit s and 11 d expressed at the accounts account which have bare been sent ent out of tion of union sold soldiers lora grave in two counties of indiana it seems memo that immediately after the presidential election the headstones of some owe of those graves were smeared with red paint the motive ascribed being to celebrate cleveland a election lectia a in a manner satisfying to that branch of the democratic party that still holds to the rightfulness of the doctrine of secession the not act itself la Is attributed to the Knights of the goldea circle a coret secret society opposed to the was waa organized during the struggle but la in not presumed to have continued long after we cannot believe that democrats i as an such euch would commit an outrage of that kind any more than we could believe as such they would commit murder arson or burglary it would be a nai commentary upon our free institutions if it could be shown that they were productive of an organization powerful enough to control the government through an enormous preponderance of the peoples votes and criminal enough to debauch or deface the sleeping places of the honored dead such acts may have been committed by Bemo Demo crato crates as aa many other crimes have been A democrat assassinated massIna ted a president dAt of the united halted states state and a few years jean later a bicas did the same thing but it does not follow that one w wui a democratic Demoor aUe and the other a republican ass assassins assassin essina a tion by ay any means they were simply murders murder of which feitner party was wai aware beforehand and at whose consummation both were filled with horror and dismay the man or men who would commit so degraded and brutal an act as mutilating the grave of any human being except for some lawful put purpose pose to is not fit to rank as either democrat or republican designations which have been proudly and honorably worn by the best beat and bravest in the land no matter what such persons may call themselves politically or otherwise they are simply human bye hyenas devoid ox ol human sensibilities or moral restraints stra ints in aoh such oases cases detection should be certain and punishment swift and unerring the longest term of imprisonment which the law will permit should be their portion |