The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
A DANGEROUS GAME.
Notes of Warning to Jay Gould From the
New York Press.

New York Press.
New York Times Leading EDITORIAL
For the past forty-eIght hours Mr.. Jay
Gould has been using the Western Union
Telegraph to spread abroad through the
United States false information as to the re-
suit of the election in the State of New
York. The proOf of this Is well known to
every intelligent journalist in New York. 1t
is the same thing that Mr.. Gould did in Octo-
Der with reference to the election in Ohio
when not one specific statement capable of
verihcation or exposure was allowed to pass
over the Western Union wires, and when the
statements that were sent were shown within
two days to be conspicuouslv and intention
ally false. AS to the vote OF New York, the
plot has been nearly identical, and has been
carried out with the same persistence. The
returns are sent out in lumPs of election
districts" which are not named and can not
be identified, and the publication of these
has been made In sums and at times
to suit the schemers. Occasional pro-
nunciamentos from the Blaine Commit
mittee have shown the returns from COM
paratively remote points have been used
promptly, while those from points within an
hours ride of the Western Union Building
have been held back. Meanwhile there have
been long breaks during which no returns
whatever have been given out, and these in
tervals have been used to issue Boosting
bulletins in vague terms as to the general
result. Ali the time the dispatches in the
offices of real newspapers, from county COM
mittees of both sides and from county
officers holding the official returns, have
steadily contradicted both the doctored fig
ures of the Gould men and the bulletins of
the Blaine managers.
The motives of the Gould Blaine combi-
nation are obvious. They have determined
to keep back the truth, to confuse the public
mind and to inflame the passions of their
foil in hot hu nj
and corruption in Virginia. in West Virginia
or Indiana they could secure enough elec-
tOral votes to dispense with New York.
They have also dared to think that there
would be an opportunity to falsify the vote
in this State, and if every device else
where failed them, TO steal the Presi-
dency here. Besides this was the plan to
hedge on the heavy bets which their
confidence in their ante.election plots, in
their alliance with the arch trickster Butler,
and IN the corruption fund raised at the
Field-Gould dinner had led them to make
There was also the chance of recouping their
heavy election expenses by the manipula-
ton OF the stock market. But the main
purpose was to carry out the desperate
scheme which was to place Blaine in the
White House, put Gould's judges in the Su-
preme Court, and open the rich leads of Of
fetal patronage to the principal partners IN
this blind pool, Gould and Blaine, and to
those whom they should choose to admit to
a share of the profits.
This scheme was obviously rottenIy cor
rupt; it was plainly desperate; it was, more
over, dangerous to its authors to a degree
which they could hardly realize. Shut out
from in tercourse with honest men, surround
ed by plotters whose necks were in the same
halter and whose greed was fired by the same
hopes, and by hatterers who thought that
thrift would follow fawning. neither
Gould nor Blaine, who is subordinate
to Gould, could realize the depth
and heat Of the Indignation which
their base designs aroused in the
public mind. Nor, accustomed to listen
only to those whose wits were hired by
themselves, did they conceive of the sharp
inspection, the untiring vigilance, the
trained acumen OF the honest journalists
and the political leaders who were upon
their track. They thought, in their blind
pursuit of their own gain, that the men
who for months have been following them
at every step, exposing their false
hoods, laying bare their tricks and
battling their best-laid plans, would now
humbly veil their eyes and stand silent while
the people were robbed of the priceless
victory for honest government which bad
been so laboriously striven for, so gloriously
won. They have already seen their terrible
error. Another day will not have passed
before they will drst pause and then retreat.
If they do, the people will allow them to
pocket without moleststion such compensa-
ton as they have been able to pick up for
their reckless expenditures and wagers But
If, in their madness, they choose to go Cd,
the people will know how to deal with them.