The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-05-31
INDIANAPOLIS, May %, 1876.
SIXTH OPEN LETTER.

TO THE EDITOR OF TEE INDIANAPOLIS
JOURNAL
In reply to the answer of the Sentinel
you say: "Then again the old court fur
nished the new rooms with carpets and
furniture. which would, with ordinary care
and economy, be in use to-day, and
which are in use in the court room,
consultation room and library" Inls
you have said before. Ia the former arti-
Gle you displayed the porciDe snout when
you said of your paper, 'it thinks that the
the election in 1S7O) for the express benefit
OF their successors were utterly uncslled
for; that their action was an indefensible
piece of generosity tor the beneht OF their
successors. But the fact that they fitted
up luxurious quarters for their successors
makes the action ofthe latter less excusable
IN refitting them In less than two years
afterwsrd in a much more luxurious man
ner, while falling to account for mora tnau
one hundred dollars worth of the furni-
ture removed or sold by them." What
you have said in these sentences quoted
Is not only unbeco ming a respectable Rs-
publican newspaper, but Is utterly and
shsmelessly false, and you must certainly
know il to be so. After your judges were
defeated in the fall of 1870 the business OF
the court gave them no further Interest,
and
ARE BEHIND RAPIDLY.
The official statement of the clerk pub
lished this morning shows that during the
fractional term, beginning on the fourth
Monday of November, they disposed of but
twenty-five cases, most of which must
have been already prepared and reserved
for announcement during the first three
days CT opsn session. The rest of the
time was devoted to the disposition
OF bills amounting, as shown, to
IS 6IS AZ for November and December,
1870, and leaving S4,245 So TO be charged
upon the present Judges, in all nearly
$4,000. Governor Baker, in his message
of 1869, after reporting the completion OF
the building, said: "It may be proper to
add in this connection that the building
has been occupied by the state OF
acers end. and Judges judges 1odn.r OF the ,sss sua y
The csrpsts used by your judges and
the mating on the floor OF the consultation
room was very generously left by them to
their su uccessOrs. It is said that two men,
bers favored q little OF the generosity"
which you consider indefensible, but the
other two were of your style, and refused !;
generous" the proposition TO refurnish
failed. The present court used the old
worn-out carpets in the rooms and the
MANILA mating in the consultation room
until they were
WORN THROUGH TO THE FLOOR,
when decency demanded new ones, and
they were purchased. Except the librsri-
ans room, the rooms have been once de-
Gently carpeted by the present court. 1t
was entirely refurnished for the fifth
Judge, added in 1872. Will you confess
that you have lied, or 90 you require
proof? II so, ask Mr.. Gall. You and your
allies have assumed to constitute your
selves jury OF six before the High Court
of Public Opinion, and have
yourselves made the charges, using
gross and indecent epithets. You
are first to be tried. The triers must all
be, in theory and practice, exemplsrs of
"whstsoever things are true, whatsoever
are honest, whatsoever things are Just,
scever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good report" Are you, and
John ii. Holiday, publisher of the News,
and ID. s. Alexander of the Gaz9tte; Geo.
G. Harding, publisher of the Herald;
Enos. B. Reed, publisher of the People, and
Bert HibbeD, competent jurors, when tried
by the standard fixed by the spostlesf
Would not all of you be Immediately set
aside for cause7 How do you like your
company and your false witnesses as to
public documents? That your purpose is
to publish falsehoods is shown this morn
log. In one column you confess to MEM
ber of the court that you lied about him,
while In another, with but q column rule
between the type, you repeat the lie.
As late as Saturday morning last you
said: ''Tbe fact that the old court expended
only $l7,l ,l59 81 in five years, while the
present court expended $50 ,8l1 81, Is itself
an argument against the administration
of the latter. There has bs en- no IL ncrease
of business to warrant such an increase oil
expenditures" You sent that neat of lie s
TO the country press for absorption last
week. Will you dare repeat them now?
ANXIOUS.
INDIANAPoLIs, May Is, 1876.
cEuUrJrrI nDUN0 TETTER