The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-08
THE OUTRAGE c~oNsuMMArEp.

THE OUTRAGE C0NsUMMATED.
What the Journal announced would be the
result, in part, of the passage of the infa-
been accomplished, and DIR. Rogers is no
longer superintendent of the Hospital
for the Insane. Under the inpul-
sion of the desperate band of
bummers, who have persistently
raided that institution, the Board yester
day removed him, and appointed DR.. ". B.
Fletcher, of this city to the place, he to take
charge of the hospital at 5 o'clock this
morning. While DIR. Rogers is a
physician of ability and culture, a gentleman
OF character and force, and has made a first
class superintendent and executive manager,
it is to be remembered that. four
years ago he was the beneficiary
of II similar raid, under the same impulses,
and at the beck of the same party hacks. So
that, in its direct personal aspects,
giving DR.. Rogers credit for all he
deserves, and it is much, the present outrage
is but commencing the chalice to his own
lips that he assisted to prepare a short time
ago for another.
But there is a broader view of the mat
ter, and that is, the interests of the in
s~titution and the care and treatment
of the hundreds of poor people, the
wards of the benevolence of the State.
Twice within a period of little more than
four years have the benevolent institutions
been raided by a hungry horde of Demo-
cratic Office seekers. Twice has the Insane
Asylum been tranpled upon by the
brogans of the party bummers, who
swarmed the Hobbies of the Legislature and
dictated to the liquor-league majority how
the laws should be assaulted and the chart
ties of the State despoiled. That the first
effort at prostituting these institutions to
the lowest and basest demands did not
succeed is due solely to the personal
character and good faith of the men elected
to make room for the former trusted
and efficient officers, and who so conducted
themselves as to secure prompt reputation
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president of the board, was kicked out
of his place, and a creature elected whose
reputation is very fragrant, and who, so far
as the Insane Hospital, at least, is concerned,
is conclusively proved to have pursued a
course of falsehood and malicious cowardice.
DIR. Harrison told a representative of the
Journal yesterday that the resignation of
DIR. Rogers was not requested, that it was
voluntary, whereas, at the time, the
letter of the board, which we print
elsewhere, had been delivered to the Doctor
and the board had received the verbal and
indignant resignation OF the superintendent,
embellished with some %impromptu remarks,
the force and relevancy of which all respect
able people will concede. Not only is this
disgraceful raid made upon the Insane
Hospital, but it is extended to the
deaf and dumb and to the blind asylums
as we'll. The Journal has heretofore
published the removals and changes contem-
plated in these two latter institutions, and
though for the present active hostilities are
suspended, the purpose is not given up. The
Blind Asylum SUPPLEMENTARY is to be
changed, and the Deaf and Dumb Institute,
already little more than a prison under the
ignorant and mercenary management which
has disgraced it for a long time, will be still
further degraded. After the Insane Asylum
board had completed their work yesterday, a
conference was held at the Bates House at
night with the eminent workers of the party,
such as Jim" Cropsey, at which what other
outrages were outlined cannot now be def
nitely told. We greatly mistake the temper
of the taxpayers of Indiana, without regard
to party, if the action of Mr.. President Har-
rison and his complacent tools, in the degra-
dation of the great charities of the State, be
not so Indignantly rebuked that an ~effectual
lesson will be taught partisan bummers and
strikers Of all grades.
THE decision of Judge Freeman, of Ney
York, in accordance as it is with that of
Judoe Tulev 0f Chicaon will or far fou,o.d