, 1876-10-04

' aa. b'{sId' 81 o1s9 nks .hs1e It va. wsFe Ats dss
St :" heavy cur.ine" at everybody who m!t ht
51ayc a aislStl n getting up crowd, but didnt.
Finally nr. Fuller. Chairman Of the Democsatte
tim At whom tfse "cusslng "was TO be aimed,
besansc be lad rcmnrkcd to the effect that
,bayard was id harl-money man, and they
Gain't want any crowd TO hear him anyhow"
CERTAIN It II that It ernboes precisely tho spirit
that In any crcnt must have nade ths Bayard
dsmonstfation DC ~ failure. The appearance here
q fa.t baya,a m a poIss'ne1 a1 atal!smane e.
!Eatiot', It aroused them IL realizing sensc Of
tho fact that neither Blue Jeans Williams nor
GoV' ucndftcka was running for tho Frcsidcn-
s. saa saa e2ss& saasR. 2aa'e1 .ss o9s ss' s
though ar. RI lat. aalr sna !. tho tsos's tme,
baby party had been sat down upon at St.
den,. tho very man who sat down upon them
Of which fact Dorsheimer's presence was In
particular reminder. The 1ndiann Donor
racy. can't bc made to enthusc foE Tildcn, and
precisely as often ~ reminded Of how they
were treated at st. Louis will not enthusc to
speak of even for Blue Jeans and Hendricks.
Bayard isn't their kind Of Democrat, still less
3d. eYen with Hendricks himself on the plat
Opera House parquctte couldn't be gotten to-
gcshcr. Tho INCIDENT but served TO show the
empty that rankles II The breasts Of Tue sub,
the Indiana Democracy against Tiiden and his
Wall street bond-holding railroad tobblng
trickery.
To give emphasis to Il, on the very evening
that the Indiana Democrac cy thus Bnnbbed Bay-
ard and through him The Tildcn Democracy,
thcrG Was all
OUTDOOR INDEPENDENT ogrgnnAcK DEMON
eTHATIoN
In progress. 1t had been paid for out Of Demo-
torcll.bcascfs who generously turned out for
the. occasion, tile Independent Greenbackcrs
made, on the whole, quite formidable show
ing. and Gen. Cary and James Buchanan ad-
dressed audiences numbering many times TINT
to which Bayard spoke.
Saturday night again was the Opera-Houso
crowded with people TO hear and see Ben
Harrison, who was received with spontaneous
0satlon, such even Is fn thls red-hut political
season is seldom accorted to anybody. While
the old dissatisfaction among the s0ft-moncy
Democrats Of this State at having to support
syea % 81. t Fl FRITZ g s a was as
stirred up the more by the 1aborious efforts
made BY the managers to get up n bic meeting
for Dorshc!mer on Saturday night, tue Rcput-
llcans here arc working with
AN ESTHUsIAsM AND HARMONY
vass. OF course the rigorous drill that has been
maintained BY the Democratic managers hero
day M and and Saturday 81 nishts. But notwitbstandinr,
at this most critical period Of the campasgn,
when there is no time to be lost, the whole las
haa the effect OF casting vet blanket upon
the nctlyc workers, who are all Crccnback mcn.
| and the threats that are made Of removing
Fuller from the Chalfmanshtp Of the County
Committee to atone for tho snub put upon
Dnyard but eomplicates the embarrassment.
| The Grecnback demonstration, though tho
rYrpnkrs nf H. sSprn fnftavrtl rtfy. H not nft0.
gcthcr, by the Democracy, which also furnished
considerable quota Of 1ncn for tho procession
display, nevertheless made aclf.cvidcnt the fact
are hottest, there is body OF devoted Green
hackers numbering some hundreds Of voters,
possibly Thousand, who, as matters now stand,
arc determined to throw away their rotcs
bv casting their ballots for Wolcott, the 1ndc-
| pendent Grcenback candidate for Governor.
| There is such prodig[ous Lying about It, and 80
much sharp practiec, and such difficulty III get
ting at the facts, that Il u impossible to make
al approximate estimate OF
| THE INDEPENDENT 1nEEvnACK VOTE
with reasonable assurance ofany ncar approach to
accurM:y. But, from present Indications, It VIII
t 'aos G1 aen' S Ma1ay Nd may # 1stS s
Cincinnati Enquirer. aud the inventor Of the
Grcenback theory. who was here few days ago,
Is reported to have said TINT oil that was
CAUCUS there as james Buchanan and others
hs, 6oEy g. Eys he es s.st9 pusb.p t3 aS
ment in Indiana viii giro tle state to Williams.
That undoubtedly is what II is being worked to
do; and, II Indiana Is dtsgraccd by tho election
Of Dluc-Jeans Williams, It will be because Re-
! In their theories TINT they cannot see IN Inch
c casting III: ther 6a!iots for Wolsott. when every
man Of them would see, did he but open his
throw tho State and possibly the National Ad.
mInistsation into Democratic control. And yet
nothing would moro provoke the boiling-orer
Indignation Of these same Republicans Of
practically they will be voting the Democratic
ticket when they vote for W0tcott.
OF course the Democratic managers arc mak-
Ing the canyasB for reform nnd ndrctsenchment; and
essary by the Democratic rebellion y the theme
OF every camp.folowcr and spokesman who
shared in thu Georgia" laud-g1ah, tile swamp
land steal, and oil tic other stenls that have
tions. Thls cry Of retrcnchmeDt and reform re-
calls powerfully to the minds Of Indiana tax
payers the sfEnal rctrcnchncnt and
REFORM THAT MAS rxErETnATED Pr THE DEM
oCRArIc LEGlsLAruAE or 1871.
For buncotnbcfs sake, TINT collection Of reform
solons reduced the State tax for 1917 to hvo
cents on the hundred dollars. At the same
time they malc appropriations tor that yesrM M that
necessarily required n greater levy, nnd when
they voted thu iYc-cent levy they knGw they
were legislatlng for deficit whicl, must be met
by loan at high rates Ut interest. That emf.
nept economist. B!ucJeans WILLIAMS, .was, =
member Of that Legislature, and voted for thta
sham retrenchment. and the result was TINT the
| State was compelled to borrow S700, 900 1t pei
cent interest, 10 TINT the cost to the people oi
Indiana Of tll!s sham Democratic retrrnclmcni
was, tor tue tive years Of Democratic asceudepc5
In the Legislature, $685. COO.
Al the snn.e tiHlc, there was 10 tho State
Treasury 500 900 Of the State tax fund. which
might hare bccu applied to other purposes
since thu dchtit was levied to meet had beer
anticipated by the Republican Administration III
1870. But tho Democratic reform Legtsla
turc, with BluoJcans Williams as cue
uf its shinIng lights, omitted all legislation te