The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-10
EHGllSH'S INTERVIEW /.
How Indiana Was Lost 10 nan
cOck-Selfish Treachery OF Hen
drtcks-The Democrats Had Five
Times More Money than They
Needed-Jay Gould Contributed
$4,000 to the Democratic COrrsup-

$4,000 TO the Democratic COrrup-s
ton Fund.
New York Cor Chicago Tribunel
[ have read the interview with Mr..
William FL. English, of Indiana, pub
lished few days ago in the Cincinnati
Enquirer, protesting to give the real
reasons of the Democratic defeat in his
State at the elections In 1880. He ex-
plains why coalition was not formed
with the Greenbackers to re elect the
Rev. De La Matyr, fiatist, to Congress,
and lays the bulk of the blame of defeat
on Hendricks for influencing a majority
OF the Democratic Judges of the Su-
preme Court to overthrow the amend
ments which the people ha@made to the
State constitution, in order to keep In.
| diana as an October State. and thereby
make himself an indispensable candidate
for President at the Cincinnati Demo
cratic Convention, as the only man who
| could carry it. Let me quote little
from his lick" at Hendricks, who in.
| fuenced the court to decide as it did:
" l was never confident of success
after the decision of the Democrats
Supreme Court overthrowing the amend.
ments to the State constitution, the
effect of which, among other things.
was to bring on the State election in
October, instead of deferringit until the
time of holding the Presidential cleo
ton in November. This unfortunate
decision was made short time before
the Cincinnati Convention; but mo-
ton for rehearing had been entered.
and sixty days given for its consider.
alton. So there was ample tima, if
reversal could have been secured, to
have avoided the October election, and
the injurious effect OF the orr ginal de-
cision, which, it will REMEMBERED, had
been made by vote of three Judges
against two, and the tenure OF one OF
the three had but few months to run.
=" had hope that one of the three
Judges could be induced to resign, or
that In some legitimate way the decision
could be reversed on the rehearing. The
party was committed to the decision: it
was affirmed on rehearing and thus the
Democrats of Indiana were forced to
fight preliminary but decisive battle
III October with what was in effect the
whole Republican party of the United
States.
&C. 1t was risklng ali on all uncertain
battle, which ought not to have been
fought at all. Ii our State election had
been on the same day as the President
1al election, Republican men and money
Of other States would have been needed
at home, and would have been kept at
home, and not sent into Indiana to carry
the October election, as they did do
from the very necessities vf tlI1 vrvsc.',
After thus putting the knife into
Hendricks, Billy gets down to the ques-
ton OF ways and means, SO important
from the politicians standpoint. He
admits that his party "bar'l, which was
rolled about the State where it would do
the most good, was a big one-bigger
five times than it need to be--l hog head
in fact, filed with cash, from which
needy and greedy Democrats could draw
!heir fill. This is what he says on the
subject of finances. The interviewer
asked
But, Mr.. English, how was it on the
subject of money!
E." Well, sir, the misrepresentation
upon that subject has been even greater.
More money was used by the Democrats
in the Indiana campaign Of 1889 than
was ever used in any previous canvass.
More was used by the National Commit
tee, more by the State Committee, more
~. I III r.. n
ernor, and more by the party generally"
The money used on the day of election
and few days befole came from abroad,
almost entirely through the National
| Committee, and was discussed among
the counties by the Chairman of the
National Committee, as he had done in
1876, and at the same period before the
! election.
"phe National Committee did all il
this lnatter anybody had Il right to e.
| pect. SO did the State Committee, and,
in the main, SO did the candidates.
could make an approximately correct
| statement of the amount discussed by
the Democrats in the canvass, how it was
] distributed, and into whose hands it
primarily went. If I did so land may
! if it becomes necessary, 1t aOould aston
ISL q great mdny people, and would
show conclusively that there was no lack
of money to prosecute legitimate cam
paign in the most vigorous and effective
name. Ny own judgment now is.
that it was largely in excess of what was
needed, and fire times more. than /
/ should recommend the Democrats to
! aise in any campaign hereafter.
"The Democrats were forced to meet
the concentrated effort and means of the
| whole Republican party of the United
! States in the unwise and unnecessary
fight in October they had to encounter
the united influence and election ma
chinery of the Federal Government !;
! they had to encounter the opposition of
great manufactures, railroads, banks
and moneyed corporations and had to
| contend with an enormous corruption
fund drawn from these sources, and
| from the plumber of star-route and other
| treasury thieves. This would seem to
! be enough, but in addition the country
was just then comparatively prosperous
under Republican rule, and great many
workmen and others who were doing
! @CrAoOAtdOlJ well ACOpCNibilJ llIOSO Ill
manufacturing districts) had a vague
fear that change might not be to their
interests, and SO voted the Republican
/ ticket under the idea that it was best to
let we'll enough alone. Beside, Indiana
was constantly flooded by an enormous
issue of able and jealous Republican
newspapers from Chicago, Cincinnati
and elsewhere, and there were not Dem
ocratic papers enough to counteract
their influence, aud some did not even
try"
Such is summary of English's three
/ columns of reasons to account for the
two defeats of his party-October and
November-in Indiana. It will be seen
| that he admits that the Democratic party
managers were furnished with abund-
ance Of :" corruption funds" He says
they had five times more money than
they needed. He intimates that rail-
roads and moneYed corporations sub
| scribed to the Republican funds ; but he
is careful to tell nothing about railroad
subscriptions to the huge Democratic
corruption fund. Mr.. English withholds
the interesting piece of information that
Jay Gould, the boss railroad monopolist,
/ cave so OGO to the " corruption fund &