The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-28

mond, in ManSh, 1866, in which he charges that
if the Democratic party had had the Governor
| IN 1862 they would have carried the State into
the rebellion. He said he was in favor of allow.
ing coiored man IN the Southern States tovote,
but that he would forever disfranchise the white
Democrat. He said also that the Democrats
party was not only in sympathy with treason
but that itwas made up of traitors Now will
give you an extract literally:
'But there are some men IN this country who want
law between them and the negro; who afraid of
TINS thing called amalgamaon who if they have not
law between them and the negro think that the
hrst eolored woman they meet the road will rush
IA IA their arms and amalgamate them right off.
Laughter. But | don't think nv COPPER
head head friends need law Of this kind 50
badly as they think they do. For l don't
believe tbat there is respectable negro woman in this
country anywhere that would marry coppsrhead
But viii tell you what kind of law am in favor Of
If were in the Legislature of Indiana would vote
fpr law that would fine and mprson any negro who
night be found in company with copperhead.,
That is the opinion that Mr.. Gray had of the
party that he now expects to elect him Governor
of Indiana. You people, with whom Mr.. GRAY
said it was crime for negro to associate are
the men he now expects to vote for him this fall
And you will do it, too You will do it, though
you have to hold your noses when YOU take the
dose. The Democratic convention has put up
the prescription for yon and you will swallow It
with as much grace as possible under the circum-
stances
WHO is Calkinsq Heis man Just forty two.
IN the v1gor Of his just matured manhood. He
Is man of culture and intelligence; pure in his
private life and untainted by single
suspicion in his public career TAp-
plause. For seven years I sat by the
side Of Major Calkins in Congress / have heard
HIM in debate / have seen him lead the charge
against the enemy. Ihave seen him come lp
from the humble beginnings of new member
until he reached almost the highest committee
position in the gift of Congress- and say to YOU
that when William H. Calkins becomes Gov
ernor, and he will become Governor [applausel
ne will so conduct affairs that every Republican
and every Democrat will be proud of him
Again ask, who is Calkins? He served when
almost boy with distinction in the State Legis-
lature, He won the encomiums of the court and
brethren of his profession in the responsible
once OF prosecuting attorney. At the first bugle
blast IN 1861 ne fell into ranks and served in the
army from 1861 to 1863 Cheers. He served
with honor and distinction, reaching the rank Of
major. That is Calkins, and l am for him
lCries of So am II.
General Browne then spoke at length on HThe
cry that there is too much money in the national
treasury and contrasted the condition of the
treasury with its present surplus and its state
at the close of the Democratic rule in
1860, when there wasn't cent in the treasury.
He spoke of the Democratic party's claim that it
would reduce taxation, and yet, having control
of the Forty fourth, Forty-ffth, Forty-sixth and
Forty eighth Congresses, it removed nothing but
the tax on quinlne. He recommended now that
the tariff be taken off of whisky, and then the
Democratic party could have avery cheap article
of fever and ague
In answer to Hendricks attack on Secretary
Chandler. General Browne said: s'I find that in
the last six years of Democratic administration,
from 1854 to 1860, in this same Navy Depart
ment, there were seventeen defalcations of
Democratic officials amounting to $47S 900, and
here, in twenty-four years of Republican ad-
ministration, there are $4,000 stolen, and this
was stolen by two Democrats
General Browne spoke at length on the tariff
question, taking his stand firmly and squarely
for protection, and supporting his position by
facts and figures which were not to be contro-
verted.