Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-04-18
Progress of the Campo ign in Ind a.
HON. II. s. LANES REPLY TO HON
IA. HENDRICKS.
LANE ON BIOGRAPHIES.
IDENTIFY of Democracy North q South


From the Special Report to the cina Gazette.
There was large gathering of.thc citi
sens OF Dearborn county, Indiana, at Law
rsnceburg. Friday evening, to listen to tn,
FIRST speech ever made by the Hon. Henr,
5. Lane at that place. Every part Of the
the Odd Fellows Hall. in which he spoke
was densely crowded.
When Mr.. Lane arrived in the city. h,
was met by committee OF reception and
conducted TO his temporary lodging, all
the while cannon firing a salute Of vel
come. During the afternoon he was visit
ed by quite number Of citizens, and gene
raj congratulations passed upon the bright
prospects Of the Republican party in this
campaign.
During the speaking there were mani
tested evidences Of great satisfaction and
equal enthusiasm. Applause was free
ly and frequently bestowed. and at the con
clusion Of The address there was still a
lingering hope that the speaker might con-
tinue, albeit he had already been induced
TO extend his remarks beyond the limits
which be at first designed them to take
Much that he said has appeared in former
speeches reported in the GAZETTE, bot a
portion being in reply to the remarks of
his competitor Hon. T. A. Hendricks,
made at the same place, aud all Of that be
ing new matter, We apend report there.
OF.
THAT IMMACULATE RECORD EXAMINED
Speaking Of the Democratic record, he
referred to the failure Of the Appropriation
Bills in 1878, aud was severe upon Gov
Willard for sending 10 their distant homes
the inmates ofthe State institutions Why
did he net pay them before be sent those
patients homer No democrat will have the
audacity TO say that there was an Appro-
priation Bill passed between the time your
Democratic Governor sent those poor and
homeless wanderers to the countie. whence
they came aud the time whom he brought
them back TO the asylums at indianapolis.
why did he not pay them over before?-
Simply because he wanted 10 make capital
for the Democracy agaist the Republican
party.
Is there no limit to party madness? Is
there no bound To party violences Is there
nothing sacred from the ruthless touch and
blighting hand ofparty? If there is any
object on earth which appeals nightly TO
the synpathias Of the human heart, il is
those poor outcasts, friendless and home
less, for whom your benevolence has provi-
ded retreats and asylums at indianapolis
They might be sleft secure from the influ-
ences Of party and strife and animosity, it
seems to me; yet We find the Democratic
party, headed by Democratic Governor,
tarning those poor outcast upon the chill
ing charities OF an unthinking world, for
the purpose Of saying. Lol behold the Re-
publican party has done this thing. The
poor blind child, who has never looked up
on the glories Of the MONDAY sun, or
glanced toward or in mothers face, is
sent in Tayless light to wander stranger
IN very night and darkness over the face of
the State. For what noble purpose is thisf
Simply that the Democracy may make a
point sgsinstih The Republican party. The
deaf and dumb. who have never listened
TO the voice OF father or mother, or lisped
the name Of home or friends, are sent forth
10 wander. Why? Simply because the
Democratic party wishes 10 make point
against the Republicans. The poor insane
the raving maniac, from whom the light
Of reason has entirely been excluded-that
poor, friendless, homeless, wandering ma
niSc is sent back to the counties at your
expense, and returned again &C your ex-
pense- Why? Because Gov. Willard says
the Republican party has not passed the
appropriation bill, while in his next mess
age he expressly says there is plenty of
money in the treasury, and lie has return
ed them to the ssylums.
Is there anything more mean aud des.
pieable than this? | tell these gentlemen,
"Be We not so FAST We do not suffer YOU
to come from the criminals dock, that you
may make charges against the Court, the
Prosecuting Attorney and the Jury who
haze your case on trial" You, my fellow
citizens. are the jury and | am prosecuting
this case, and this is one of the counts in
our indictment against this Democratic
party; it is one of the counts on which the
people ofIndiana are called upon to pass
at the next October election Immense
applause.)
What becomes of all this mist and un.
certainty In reference to the failure of party
policy in 1852 What was the result of
that failurei Gov. Willard says the result
was that there was not money In the treas
ury to support these patients, and therefore
they had TO be returned; and with his next
breath he says there was plenty of money,
and that it was his duty to apply it, aud
that being so, these poor creatures were
brought back more than twelve months be.
fore another Legislature met.
STATE POLICY.
Gentlemen, this has been part and par
eel of the action of the Democratic party.
Let US lock to tive other measures of State
policy.
We have now a common school fund
amounting 10 upwards Of million dollars;
1t is one Of the richest funds for education
al purposes belonging to any State of the
Union. Ii is always a matter OF difficult
and delicate legislation to administer and
control that fund. so that it may be effec-
taal to do the greatest good to the greatest
number. Ii shall be my endeavor, il | be
elected your Governor, to make that mag
nificent fund most valuable to the sacred
purposes of education. Applause
The debt of the State Of Indiana is now,
in round numbers, a little over seven mil
lions Of dollars. By the present legislation
upon the subject, tax Of two cents upou
the hundred dollars is set apart for the
purpose of raising sinking fund for the
gradual redemption OF that Indebtedness.
Under the or Grafton Of that legislation it
viii take over a hundred years to discharge
The Indebtedness OF the State, and in the
mean tine you will have paid more than
thirty millions of dollars by way of inter
est TO effect that object. You find under
the late appraisement Of real estate and
assessment of personal property in the
State, an increase of more than one third.
Then, without an increase OF taxation
for God knows the taxes are high enough
Il think with a judicious system of econ
omy in the administration Of the govern.
ment Of the State, that every dollar which
san be spared from the necessary expenses
of government and the payment Of the an
nual interest on the debt should go to
swell that sinking fusd for the redemption
of the State debt within reasonable peri
cd: this I would the more particularly urge
in view Of the fact that the very last dol
lar will fall due within ten years.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN BRIEy.
IL has been the habit of some candidates
for State Offices TO take up some consider
able time in parrations-interesting no
doubt-of their antecedenfs. Some Of them