The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-08-22
lie WrestIes With a Great Financial
Problem.
He Goes Up Like q Rocket and
Comes Down Like Stick.
he Sees Visions, Dreams Dreams and
Carries Too Much Pressure TO
the Square Inch.
Law, Jaw, Chew, Flaw. Claw and
Straw Too Much Mixed In the
MaW-An Serene.

Hon. Mr.. Jayhawker's mind developments
regarding the condition of the funds belong
ing to the State of Indiana Those who
know Hon. Mr.. Jsyhswker are possibly
aware that he Is always deeply concerned
about the way things are managed in this
gsinsaying world where the flesh and the
devil wrestle continually for the mastery
in human sifiirs, particularly in financial
matters. 1t is rumored that when Hon. Mr..
Jsyhawker finds things going wrong, to an
extent that melancholy comes on, he HES
himself away 10 some secluded dell and
soliloqujzes:
''Truth crushed 70 earth shall rise again;
The eternal years OF God are hers"
And such like enthusiDg and inspiring
thoughts of poets and philanthro-
pists. until his mind is composed,
and then he again goes forth on
his mission to bring men to the knowledge of
the truth. Those who know Hon. Mr.. Jay
hawker best never tire of extolling his devo-
ton to veracity The eternal veriies are his
stronghold Just now he has struck the
question of finances, and the way he is going
ahead is likely to end in a calamity to him
as serious as that which happened to New
York mule The hybrid broke its back by
trying to scratch its tail with its ear. jay
hawker. if he is the attorney OF the State
House contractors, If he is working in their
interest If he has set about the work of in
fuencing Governor Porter to call an extra
session OF the Legislature, should, with his
accustomed frankness and freedom from dis
stimulation, tell His Excellency just what he
is driving at and as he is on the most init
mate terms with the Govern or, he may
have already done what we suggest.
Hon. Mr. Jsybawker may be deeply con-
cerned for the safety Of The StatAs funds. A
gentleman of his acknowledged public
spirit and devotion to the welfare of the Be-
publican party would naturally be consider
ing the financial situation. That is what
gave Mr.. Jay Hubbell and ex Senator s. w.
Dorsey the largest part of their FURNISHED
fame. Hon. Mr.. Jay hawker not only cham
pions truth, but he wOrships with equal devo-
ton at the shrine of law. He loves statutes
with all the warm tn of mis- poetic nature, and
is as devoted to them as was Miched Angelo
10 statues. Hon. Mr.. Jsyhawker in his COM
munication 10 the Cincinnati Enigma in a
qray tackles His Excellency, Governor Porter.
In fact he makes charges against his Excel
lency.
representative of the Sentinel called upon
Governor Porter in his Office to learn now
seriously be was affected by the charges. 1t
was thought possible that the explosion of
Hon. Mr.. Jayhawker's dynamite had injured
His Excellency, or came damnighit. Such
was not the case. Every charge had been a
flash in the pan, aud when the attention of
the Governor was called to the plot to destroy
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late him, TO politically decapitate him-he
laughed heartily. one by one the charges
were disposed of-taken out of the office on
chips as il were, and sent where they could
be decently inferred. Governor Porter, to
charge No. >, remarked that he was a small
stockholder in the Indiana Ma
that il had ever held one dollar of the State
funds. He had had nothing to do with the
management of the bank aside from q desire
TO see its business management in the hands
of safe men. The truthfulness of Hon. Mr..
JsyhaTker after that, looked lees rosy.
Then came charge No. >, about Mr. Treas
uTer Hill having $4,000 with Frank Ken
Dedy of the collapsed Central Bank. This
charge could no more stand alone than
Henri Watterson's brass hooped pigsin'
after the hoops had taken their departure.
1t was Indignantly denied. Governor Por er
neve heard OF such thing As champion
trt0btciier it must be confessed that Hon. Mr..
jsyhawker began to look very much like
Colorado grssshopper after ii had been Ca
ressed by Kansas cyclone. Now here
comes charges six and seven as follows:
&. That Governor Porter mas, ever since be has
been in Office, ignored and refused 10 obey the
10 have the yauls Of the Treasury made absolute
y burglar and fiTe-proof.
. That Governor Porter has declined, ia the
face of all ia Information and reports which have
been current 10 the effect that tue money of the
state was beng loaned, 10 order an investigation
OF the TTeasury
AS matter of course Governor Porter
never heard IN his life from any source that
he was bound to respect; never once from
any business man in the community that
anything wrong was being done with the
funds of the State, and had never declined to
do his full duty in the mstter of the States
finances. Such statements from the Gov
ernor completely upset Hon. Mr.. Jay
bawkers charges as printed IN the Cincinnati
Enigma.
The Governor referred particularly to the
safe keeping of the funds of the State, and
said most emphaticslly that the State
does not possess a safe place for the
keeping Of large amounts of public funds.
He referred TO the law passed quarter of a
century ago. and TO the action in the matter
10y Governors from Governor Morton to him.
self. The present safe of the State is neither
fire proof nor burglar proof, and If it were
both, the funds would still be unsafe in il
unless it should be constantly guarded.
Hence Governor Porter was emphatic in his
declaration that Treasurer OF State Cooper
has the right to place the funds of the State
where he believes them to be safe.
Governor Porter said he would not be gov
erned in his action relating to such matters
by any partisan spirit whatever. Illustrious
men had preceded him in the Office of Gov
ernor. Their term of service was nearer the
time when the laws relating TO the subject of
building fTe-proof and burglar-proof safe
was enacted, but that he was now giving the
subject attention.
Here we have il that Hon. Mr.. Jayhawker's
tornado rs scarcely tempest in a teapot
and. viewed from any standpoint, Is not
worth considering seriously. 1t would
be well for this Community to
know If Hon. Mr.. Jayhavker
is working in the interest of the State House
contractors It might be well enough to IN
quire IL be now at any previous time in
bis history could be influenced by q money