The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
WHAT CARRIED INDIANA

His Excellency Governor Porter, as the
readers of the Sentinel are advised, recently
visited Ohio for the purpose of instructing
the people of that State, particularly the
Republican people. The Governor, after
opening his mouth few times, performed
the remarkable foot feat of putting both feet
INTO it. The Governor did him great credit
by the exploit. We doubt if the india rub
Der man could have gone through the per-
Torrance more creditably. When the Gov
ernor informed his Greenville audience that
the Republican party does not believe the
suppression OF wrong doing the best for it
he stated fact of giant powder power 1t
was a bugle blast. equal to whole
brass band playing the rogue's march at the
funeral of the party. But His Excellency
managed TO extricate his feet from his
mouth and proceeded until he came to his
peroration. He had built mountain OF
wonderful materials, kind of a Junk shop
assortment, secondhand articles, thread
bare arguments, Rocked hat theories, odds
and ends ideas, dilapidated conceptions, an
tiquated notions that had been ulasticated
and digesteda thousand times by Republican
organs and stump speakers until they could
not be made to furnish an ounce Of nourish-
nent to the ton. After building that sort of
a mountain Governor Porter concluded to
put peak on it-something pretty for the
sun TO shine on-something as beautiful and
as captivating as Indiana in her dawn"
The Governors listeners we're doubtless all
anxiety to see the peak-to hear the peak
1t came at last, and here it is:
Do you ask what carried Indiana? 1 answer
such organization and personal efforts 1 have
described Every man did his part everywhere.
There are ninety two Counties in the State. The
candidate for Governor spoke in eighty-six of
them. and the good feeling ran so high that be-
ieve fall far below the mark when / saw that he
shook hands at the speaking places with more than
50 900 persons The tide set in for us at very
early of the canvass and it stayed with us to
the end. We have "a long border upon Kentucky
and Illinois, and from few days after the canvass
began we had fears of the result, IL we
could prevent an extensive importation of
voters from those Sites. will not say thsre was
scheme for such importation, but will say
that we had heard and firmly believed there was
and whatever willingness we had TO receive pecu
MARY aid almost wholly for the purpose of
being able to thwart this scheme The organization
we had was almost as complete as a perfect mill
tary organization, and for my part. while willing
TO give due credit TO Committeeman, and to caudi
dates, and to the speakers have always believed
the largest credit is due to the priyates in the
ranks.
ii in The State of Ohio you have organization
like this. If the people alive and doing chief
part Of the work. your standards will certainly be
borne to triumph.
By all the gods of the Greeks was there
ever such peroration since the day when
Dorsey, the convicted liar; the brazen, impu-
dent robber; the execrable briber; the uni
versally acknowledged, thrice damned villain
was feasted at Delmonico's; eulogized by
Grant. Arthur, Beecher ct al? Ithas been
known and recorded that Dorsey carried
Indiana. S. p Conner, Jan unimpeached Re-
publican, discloses over his own sigma
ture that Dorsey proposed to
him to import voters from Illinois and offered
the money required to make the Aagitious
crime success. Still Governor Porter. in
Ohio, attempts to find some other reason for
carrying Indiana than the Penitentiary
crimes perpetrated by Dorsey and his pals.
Hon. w. p. Fishback, a Republican official.
pliying in the same city with Governor Por-
ter, proclaimed over his own signature in