The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-08-13
THE RECKLESS CAI,KINs

Mr.. Calkins is assuredly one of the most
reckless demagoguss that our prolific Com.
monwealth ever produced. 1t is no wonder
that he prefers this noiseless slip through the
back counties on tiptoe in company with a
brace of chaps of his general makeup and
complexion, making speeches in out.of-the-
way neighborhoods where there is no one to
report his reckless assertions In the public
speeches made in the presence of alert re.
porters he has already been detected In several
grave and inexcusable misstatements-to
call them by no harsber name. As soon as
he was nominated-the fruit of a disgraceful
put up job between him and Eugene Bundy
to swindIe Dudley and Tom Hanna-he
stepped to the front of the English Opera
House stage and proceeded to bubble and
gush. He there deliberately stated that the
Legislature had ruined the Soldiers Orphans
Home-had laid their "blighting hands upon
it, is about the way he stated it.
There is positively only one excuse for
this colossal falsehood, and that falls far
short of the proportions of de-
cent excuse. Eugene Bundy, Spann
and others OF the revolutionary
cabal of the last Legislature may possibly
have whispered it to him. He has no
creative faculty, is not a reading man and
never thinks five minutes upon any one
subject. Bundy & Co. needed "vindication"
before the people, and so this lie was
launched upon the Republican State Con-
vention, and the soaring, thoughtIess, reck-
Tess. superficial glittering Calkins was made
the mouthpiece of this impudent and head
strong CLIQUE of Republican Senators. The
Orphans Home never enjoyed such mag
niicent prosperity as it enjoys to-day.
Never in its history has it been in such
splendid condition, and here we have the
Republican candidate for Governor putting
"blighting bands upon it, and recklessly
asserting that it had been ruined. The next
step on that occasion was in relation to
the Metropolitan Police bill, a measure
| that has fulfilled the expectations of its
friends and projectors to an amazing extent.
Here we have now police force that attends
to its legitimate business, and herein we
have the reason of the opposition of Mr.
Calkins and his gang of disreputable follow
ers. He asserted in his Opera-house speech
| that protests against the passage of the bill
had been sent in from all parts of the State
He gave utterance simply to a lie, Matched
by this same Senatorial clique. As In the
case OF the Soldiers Orphans Home he gave
| it no thought or examination. The only
protests that were made against the Metro
politan Police bill were made by the
local gangs of Republican ward bum
mers, whose occupation was gone with
the passage OF the bill. Marion County
failed to give its phenomenal Republican
! msjorities with the absence of the police
roughs from the polls. 1t was in evidence in
the English-Peelle contest that 224 extra
policemen (all in the interest of the Repub-
lican party were quartered upon the voters
of this city at the election of 1882. No
wonder that Calkins "kicks" at the bill, but
then, he should. not make false statements
regarding it.
This indictment is already long enough.
| We have some other counts" against
! this Laporte County spluttersr-fit compan-