The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
A NEWSPAPER LIE.
Falsehood Manufactured by the Editor OF
a Democratic Paper.


Democratic Paper.
Was hington Special
This mornings Post contains the follow
ing editorial about the Indiana campaign Of
1880:
Some of the ruffians who went from
Washington to Indiana, under the command
of the District detectives to carry the Octo-
ber election in 1880, have admitted in the
presence of persons whom they supposed to
be safe repositories of such secrets, that they
voted the Republican ticket as many as
eighteen times, and in several cities and
towns. IfJohn l. Davenport were willing to
spend day or two in collecting evidence in
Washington, to show how that election was
carried, he might achieve a success that
would partly compensate for his refusal to
push the Morey forgery business to a conclu-
sion. There are Republican officeholders in
Washington, gentlemen of high standing in
their party, who have repeatedly stated that
the repeaters who were sent from this city
put in more than thousand votes for the
candidates of the party of great moral ideas
They refer to this as good joke, just as the
soap was referred to at the Dorsey BAN
quet."
A reporter of the Critic interviewed GER
tain prominent Indiana Republican Office
holders on the subject, with the following
result:
Colonel w. W. Dudley was the first Re-
publican office-holder seen. The paper con-
tanning the editorial was handed him. He
read it slowly and carefully, and then said:
$50 far as my knowledge extends there is
not single particle of truth in it; all the
men who went from here to Indiana were
brought there to prevent the very thing they
are charged with doing-to prevent Demo-
cratic outsiders from voting at all and their
repeaters from voting more than once. In
other words we wanted fair, square cleo
ton, and we had it and won"
Colonel, how about the charge made in
that editorial, that there are Republican
office-holders in Washington, gentlemen OF
high standing in their party, who have re-
peatedlv stated that the repeaters who were
sent from this city put in more than thou
sand votes for the candidates of the party of
great national ideasP"
"Pshawl Nonsense! Rot! Worse than
rot. l know that l never made any such
statement, and l do not believe that any one
else did. 1t is always best, think, for a
paper, when it makes a statement of that
kind, to give names. However, there is no
truth in the article at all, as far as l know"
The Hon. John G. New, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, was next called on and
asked about the article Al fter reading it, he
said: There were but few men from Wash
ington in Indiana, and they were sent there
at the request of the Republican committee,
to assist in preventing Democrats from re-
peating. The men who went there were well
known to the judges of election. They had
been there before. They were so we'll known
and marked, that to do as they are charged
with doing, they would have been recognized
in a minute George Miller, George Neil
fresh, and one or two others equally we'll
known, were the only persons from here, to
my knowledge"
'Then, Mr.. New, there is no truth in the
article at all?'
Not a word, sir; the whole article is a
barefaced lie"
carefully examining the article, he said:
What nonsense! Why didn't the Post
give us the names of the repeaters and the
prominent Republican officials referred to?
There is no truth in it ali, so far as l know"