Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-17


Hon. J. J. Knox, comptroller of the cur
rency, and Mr.. Nile.
LANDERS-PORTER.
The Joint Debate Between the Indiana
GubernatOrtal Csndidapes-A Speci-
men of HOOsier Political
Journalism
indianapolis Sentinel.
Never in the history of Indiana politics,
in the history Of joint debates between
men of opposing politics, has anything oc-
Cured SO we'll calculated to sink Republi-
canism to sOundless depths of contempt as
the joint debate between Landers and
Porter. Landers is superb. He drives
straight at the mark. He makes his
charges clear, cutting, direct, and then,
turning upon Porter, dares him, chal-
lenges him to reply. Porter is a political
sneak. He relies upon his abilities to
dodge, to get away into dark corners, and
when attacked with arguments to reply rs
coward replies. In no single instance
does Porter reply to Landers. His import
ed prOmpters, his clackcrs, his hangers-on,
his fawning, cringing, servile, slavish fol-
lowers have to help him through. He has
his flunkeys and spaniels about him,
and near him. In every engagement Por-
ter has his lick-spittles and t0ad-eatcrs
around him. It is worth while for the peO::
pic to make note of the fact that Porter
has no confidence in himself; he has 10
sand-no backbone. He is a political mcn-
dicant. Left to himself, he is a partisan
Frank Landers kills between his thumb
and finger. Frank Landcrs, the man OF
farms and factories, the man whose fol-
tune gives work and wages to the people,
the man of toll, who is in sympathy with
the great enterprises of Indiana, takes
Albert G. Porter by his head and by the
feet, and shakes him in the presence of the
people, and makes him odiOus and all the
while Albert G. Porter has ut least two
men to tell him what to say in reply,
and but for such helps Albert G.
Porter would be of no more force
than a dead grasshOpper in Kansas
hurricane. Porter has to bc coached.
He has small heal, a small neck and big
feet. His hair shows that he is weak. 1t
is neither red, white or gray it is not
ilaxcn. Porter is not an Albino-but he is
cffeminate. Put him in pantclettcs and he
would pass for doll. He is parrot. lie
says what his trainers and bottle holders
tell him to say. He says words rs sewing
machines make stitches. He isa machine.
He acts as he is acted upon. lie is in the
hands of Republican conspirators, who
groom him, curry him. feed him, harness
him and drive him. He is never out of
their sight. They doubt him. They rub
the legs of his arguments. They supply
him with fiction, which he is directed to
swear is fact. They think he is a bull
because he can below and paw
dirt. They put the blue ribbons
on him because they say he takes the
first prize as a Republican donkey. They
swine, and invite the people to survey his
SnOut and hear his sOnOrOus grunt. Land
crs puts questions to him and challenges
him to answer. Porter replies with as
much dircctness rs he would if Landcrs'
questions related to heaven or hell, instead
of the record of the Republican party. In
decd, he does not reply to Landers' qucs-
tions at all. 1t is grand to sec Franklin
Landcrs alone, relying upon himself, self
poised, confident and aggressive, while
Porter takes with him set OF promptcrs.
who supply him with fiction, who pull
him, prompt him, prog him, and supply
him with nonsense. These trained boot
blacks, who are expected to polish
Porter; these hired BARRIERS who arc
expected to invigorate Porter by rubbing
and scratching him the quack doctors,
whose business it is to supply him with po-
litical nOstrums, gotten up expressly for the
campaign, corked and labeled. Landcrs
is man. Porter is 4 mouse. Landers re-
lies upon himself. Porterupon his clackcrs.
Landers is statesman. Porter is u dcnla-
goguc. Landcrs asks him live questions.
Porter comes back with old worn-out
bloody shirtisms. Landcrs is direct.
Porter circumlOcutcs. Landcrs is brave.
Porter is coward who does not
meet any issue. lie is = political
knavc. Landcrs is of the people,
with the peoplc-onc Of the people.
Porter had got the dropsy of aristocracy.
abdominal enlargement but in his brain
power his political manhood, he is def
cicnt. His political acumcn is in his
intestincs, and his logic comes from his
liver. lie is fed on salts, ,and his efforts par
take largely of the cathartic style Of ora
tory. His hair curls. 1t is kinky. His
ideas, like his hair arc 4 mass of cntangle
ments. Porter is a political fraud. He lacks
soul. To hear him is like listening to the
ceascless chirp of katydid, the monoto-
nous hOotings of an owl or the rclrains of
a bull-frog. He is as much of statesman
as a bat is all eagle. He is as much of
politician rs jackass is an sArabian
cOurser. He is reported to have discarded
his old father in the days of the old mans
poverty and when that father wrapped
his old coat over his dirty shirt, it is said
that his son Albert discarded him. Such
4 boy-if what is charged is true, and no
Republican organ or orator has denied it
is not the man for governor Of Indiana.