The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-01
POLITICAL BULLDoZING.
How the Democrats Are Succeeding with
Their Intimidation Tactics.

How the Democrats Are Succeeding with
Their Intimidation Tactics.
+. u. ~, in Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The bulldozing business appears to be doing
well IN Indiana. Blaine was successfully howled
down at Fort Wayne, and that infamous outrage
duly condoned and applauded by the Democratic
papers. In Evansville a committee Of Demo
Gratis went about just before the Blaine demon
stration and notified merchants, etc., not to
decorate their houses and places Of business, ac-
eoinpanying their requests with sentiments Of
significance implying the application of the gem
tie arts of the b~oycotter in case of overt acts in
the way of recognizing by decorations the pres
ence of the arch Republican enemy.
Again, over at Cl0ver9ale violence was threat
ened q Republican speaker and speakeress-
General Vandervoort and Miss Nellie Holbreek
and the couple had to be taken to the depot at
2:30 A. M. under guard of an escort, armed with
revolvers,
Last Saturday night, at the great Hendricks
'tc0unteraeting" meeting in Vineennes, the glee
club sang Bonnie Blue Flag" Maryland, My
repeated cheers for jeff Davis. That is the
kind of community old Vineennes is, where
they marched Mr.. Blaine over a barbed-wire
fence. which captured a piece of his pantaloons
and the toe of one shoe.
At Lafayette, track has been obtained of some
big jobs in colonizing of repeaters and Illegal
voters, and many of them are spotted and
watched, after the manner in which that Job
was attended to in Ohio.
Down in southern Indiana the Republicans
entered into a compact with the Democracy not
to appoint any deputy marshals if tho Demo
Gratis would not appoint any deputy sheriffs or
extra police, etc. The Republicans who entered
into this compact are idiots. They must be Of
the ilk of those who go up to the cage and I'M
dertake to pat the sleeping tiger upon the nose.
The animal looks so kind and gentle, and, be-
side. is sleeping so soundly. If the good and
trusting Republicans who made this agreement
find themselves after election in the usual pre-
dicament of the unlueky wights who 60 to the
hospital after their interviews with the tiger,
they have only themselves to blame for it.
Where would the Republicans of Hamilton
county, Ohio, be to-day had they entered
into some such loving and peaceable
agreement with the bloody Democracy of Gin
~cinnatil They fought the devil with his own fire.
To obtain q fair and honest election they stole
from the Democracy some of the tools they had
used to debauch the ballot-bax and hoist them
with their own petard. They quit the nonsense
toned gentlemen to be deputy United States
marshals to obtain a fair vote in the slum and
scum wards of Cincinnati, and used there in
stead appropriate material, believing hat in
desperate occasions the end j~ustihes the means.
This move was unexpected, and 1T settled the
matter, and if kept on will everlastingly pre-
vent the accustomed frauds, and box stufing, and
repeating in the bad wards and precincts, and
hence this yell of rage and horror that goes up
from the outgeneraled raseals.