The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-10-04

start, and then it was 50 feeble that he did
not make many efforts in that direction.
Burrows another of their speakers, got up
little enthusiasm, but then Mcpherson not
only cooled the audience off sbut actually
frOZe them out, as at the conclusion of his
speech, BY actual count there were less than
two hundred hearers; During the afternoon
party of leading Republicans were over
heard talking of the meeting, and they
were red hot at their party for not turn
ing out, and were cursing them soundly-
After the tOrchlight procession, and, in
fact. during the afternoon and evening
there were more drunkenness, fighting,
and general disorder, together with out
RACES lawlessness and riOtous conduct,
This is admitted by all the better
classes of citizens, regardless of party affilia-
tons and as a proof of the willful lying and
knowing false representation of the Journal
reporter. | propose to give few OF the many
violations of law and decency that were per-
petrated on that day. But before doing so il
is necessary To say that all our city officials
are Republicans, and witnessed some of
these violations, but utterly refused and
neglected to- make any arrest, as they only
arrested one party during the entire day,
and he was reported To be Democrat; but
when they found out he was Republican
the city marshal and postmaster went To the
The Journal says there was no fighting; let
Us see what the facts show. The first fight
heard of took place during the afternoon, in
Hulsman Il klore's saloon, and a red hot
Republican of this county was the aggressor
and sole cause of the difficulty. The second
fight was at the same place, and Republican
who had previously refused to pay for his
drinks, the party beginning the fight, and
Lue HulSlnan now has an arm disabled by
the bite of Republican that he was trying
to separate from his antagonist in drunken
broil. The next fight was in an alley back
of the old Christian church, but did not
learn the full particulars. as the marshal
hurried off the parties who were all Repub-
Leans Another fight, or rather Republi-
can hoodlum row, occurred in Strahmirs
saloon, which they took possession of, and
rocked the bartender out of the house be-
cause he refused to sell them whisky on ac-
count of their drunkenness. Then in the
ladies room of the depot party of rOughs
wearing the bloody shirt had a regular
knock down and drag out fight over some
loose women. Several other fights could
enough to refute one lie. Then
| might mention that a party of rUughs
while drunk went into the dining room of
the Ricketts, House and were So vulgar and
obscene and indecent in their language that
they had to be put out. Ten or twelve, like
the above, wearing the Republican uniform
went into an eating house run by the ladies
of one of our churches and after eating all
they could refused to pay and cursed the
ladies and made such indecent remarks and
80 outrageously insulted all ideas of decency
that they were put out by force, but of the
whole party only one paid anything and that
one but ten cents. One of the most dis
graceful of the many Outrages perpetrated
occurred on the sidewalk in front of Browns
al
lives few miles south of town, was all
the above place cursing and damning every
body and hurrahng for Hayes, when two
ladies in attempting to get through the
crowd that he attracted, came near him
when he took hold of one of them and
in her attempts to get away he pulled
her cape off and she started off
without il. but afterwards she was induced
to return. and he gave ii up. NOtwithstand-
ing all these outrages, there was no telc-
graphing for assistance To indianapolis, as
was done on a former occasion, when q SIM
liar occurrence took place but was not near
80 aggravated in its nature. To
attempt To give any idea of
all the riOtous conduct that occurred would
be utterly impossible ,as no one person could
see or know all that was going ON. \ treas
urer of one of the Shelbyyille Sunday schools
was drunk and wanting to bet So of the Sun
day school money Ion Harrison. by Cd. -
After the torchlight procession the disorder
became 80 great that all our citizens stayed
in doors but could constantly hear the OBJ
scene language of the drunken rabble. AT
one time all the saloons closed for fear of
violence. and this, no doubt prevented their
conduct from being worse than ut Shelby
vile. One leading Republican. member
of the City Council, stated that the meeting
demonstrated one thing, and that was, that
the Republicans could beat the Democrats
drinking whisky. Several houses out of
town were rocked by drunken parties on
their way home, and ropes cut from poles
and other injuries to property perpetrated.
Several horses were taken, and double set
of harness, belonging TO David laughter,
was stolen during the night
During the night the court house square
was well filled with drunken men, and sixteen
were counted in Axes pasture One wagon
had six. all with red shirts and too drunk to
sit up. Several of our citizens were awakened
by drunken parties on their verandas and in
their yards
The City Council conferred police powers
on several Republicans whom the party Sc
lectcd to act as policemen, but instead of act
were engaged in taking the drunken Repub-
licans out of town and concealing them in
various places to prevent their disgrace
All the foregoing facts are known TO our
citizens, and they laugh at the Journal for
its attempt to deceive the public into the be-
lief that all went off so very lovely.