The Indiana State Sentinel

The Right Man in the Right Place
[Brownstown Banner.]

The Banner never has had but one opinion upon the question of the Lieutenant Governorship. It was plain to every sane man that there was no Lieutenant-Governor to elect last fall. Democrats simply acquiesced in the opinion of Attorney-General Hord because they expected to carry the State and had nothing to lose. Republicans simply acquiesced because they expected to carry the State and had that much (the Lieutenant-Governorship) to gain. That's the whole truth in a nut-shell.

But, as matters stand, we rejoice to know that the Presidency of the Senate is vested in a man so brave and determined as Hon. Alonzo Green Smith, the Senator of Jackson and Jennings Counties. We admire him for his nerve and pluck under trying circumstances, and henceforth Green Smith can reckon the Banner as one of his most ardent admirers and inflexible supporters. Until the Senate, by a majority vote, elects a successor, or the Supreme Court renders a decision declaring the election of Robertson as Lieutenant-Governor constitutional, let him "hold the fort" as presiding officer of the Senate, in the full assurance that the whole Democratic party of the State and thousands of honest and fair-minded Republicans believe he is in the right, and therefore sanction and admire the Jacksonian firmness with which he maintains his position.