The Indiana State Sentinel

GOVERNOR HOADLEY AND NOYES,
We guess that Ex-Governor Noyes has come to the conclusion that he has been something of an "offensive partisan." A Columbus, O., telegram says that Governor Hoadley is being vigorously criticized for the part that he took in recommending Noyes to the consideration of the President for one of the Pacific Railroad Directors. The Governor had been to Cincinnati, it is claimed, to get Noyes to decline the appointment and thus relieve both himself and the President of a very embarrassing situation. Governor Hoadley generously takes upon himself all the responsibility attaching to a very questionable appointment. In June, while at the National Capital, he learned from the President that he wished to have a minority representation on the board and wanted to appoint a Republican from Ohio, and he recommended Governor Noyes as being, in his opinion, the Republican to whom the Democrats of the State would find the least objection and also from the fact that he had been a lifelong friend of Noyes and intimately associated with him in business. He says he did not think at the time of Noyes' connection with the Florida election case, and if he had that he would surely have called it to the attention of the President and Secretary Lamar as a matter of good faith. The Governor says Noyes declined the appointment at his own suggestion, and for the reason that he thought it would subject the President to unjust criticism. Noyes has manifested prudence in thus getting out of the way and allowing the President to appoint a Republican of a different stripe. Let the appointee be ever so "straight" and radical, but for the honor of the country and the Democratic party we hope that in cases where the President must appoint from the opposition he will draw the line on the gang that went to Louisiana and Florida in the disguise of "visiting statesmen," and swindled Tilden and Hendricks out of their election.