The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-30
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
Further Expressions of Opinion by the Press
of the State of Both Parties.
NOT A STRONG CADIDATE.

NOT A STRONG CADIDATE.
Richmond Palladium.
Gray is not favorite with the party leaders,
but he has been industriously at work for the
last four years among the people and brought to
the convention large majority of the country
delegates pledged to his support. His nOmna-
ton was inevitable He is man of fair ability
and an Industrious worker, but he is a chronic
office seeker and has been before almost every
Democratic convention ever since he joined the
party, and this has rendered him unpopular with
the leaders. His antagonizing Mr.. Mcdonald
for the complimentary vote of the Legislature
for the senatorshlp has also hurt him with Mr..
McDOnalds friends. On the whole while Gray
will rally the party vote en-rally, he is not a
strong candidate. He will draw nothing beyond
his party and outside of eastern Indiana will re
celve only lukewarm support
HEALTHY REPUBLICAN YELL.
indianapolis Saturday Herald
And they put Myers on the ticket. 1t was not
too healthy without him, but it is positively
loose jointed and weak with him on it. Gray
will be no match for Calkins If the Republic
ans are not able to elect their State ticket this
year, they are less competent for the business in
hand than supposed them to be- There is
healthy and good-sized Republican yell in the air
this year. That means that the old enthusiasm
for Fremont and Lincoln is abroad in the land,
and that the Republicans will sweep on to vic
tory.
A TICKET EASILY BEATEN
Vincennes Commercial.
We can beat it. The Republicans of Indiana
can beat the Democratic ticket. Gray is
weaklng who has not long been out of the Re
publican party-who was taken up by the De-
mocracy because the ignorant old Bourbons
hadn't any one bright enough to fill the import
ant places on their ticket. Manson plays second
fiddle to Gray, and hereafter will be laid upon
the political shelf Yesterdays convention
paved the way clearly to Republican success
RECEIVED WITH DISGUST.
Madison Courier.
The nomination of Colonel Isaac P. Gray is
received with disgust by the Kentucky colony in
Madison. During the war the Colonel was sta
toned in several counties Just south of US, and
the people to this day regard him as one who when
'puffed up with little brief authority, used it
to insult injure and rritate the people within
his jurisdiction. This will be a good year for
the Democratic voters from Kentucky.
AS BRIEF. AS NOTORIOUS.
Shelbyvre Republican.
Col Grays military record seems to have been
as brief as inglorous. During a three months
campaign along the banks of the Ohio he made
it dreadfully uncomfortable for the copper
heads and butternuts" his principal achieve
ment being the throwing of a newspaper Office
into the raging tide
THE MossBACKs HATE GRAY.
Peru Republican.
The old mossbacks hate Isaac Gray with in
tense bitterness. They remember when Gray
DIS d hepuDIlcdn presiding over the Indiana Sen
ate, locked the doors of the chamber to keep the
Democrats in and compel them to aid by their
presence in the ratification of the Fifteenth
amendment
A LUCKY TURNCoAT
National Republican.
Luckier than most turncoats, he has managed
TO acquire fair degree of popularity with his
new political associates. His strength is simply
the strength of the Democratic party, and no
more. 1t is not a strong nomination, compared
to what that of Hendricks or Voorhees, would
have been.
AN EASY MAN TO BEAT.
Fit. Wayne Gazette.
Gray is an easy man to beat He is not
popular, nor has he ever been, even in his own
party. The boys will not throw up their hats
and become enthusiastic over Gray. As rule
people don't enthuse over that kind of too
heavy statesmen whose chief stock in trade is
self.
THEY TAKE THEIR MEDICINE
Losansport Pharos.
While Col. Gray not the choice of the
Cass county Democrats, he is a better man in
every respect than the Republican nominee and
while he is not as strong speaker as Turpie he
is better organizer, and will. in this particular
add great strength to the ticket
TWENTY THOUSAND FOR cALKINs.
Wabash Plaindealer.
That means 10000 majority for Calkins7 said
a Democrat of this city when he heard of the
nOullnallOn OIL Urtty Dy us party. Oray was the
last choice of the mossbacks of Wabash county,
and it will be hard to drag them to the polls in
his behalf on election day.
IN HIS OWN COUNTY.
Winchester Phantasm agorian.
The ticket is, without doubt, the weakest one
ever nominated by the Democrats of Indiana
l. p Gray is personally Objectionable to the citi-
zens of Randolph county, and will fall eight
hundred votes short of the usual Democratic
vote of this county
KISSED HIS WAR RECORD.
Martinsville Republican.
1t is noteworthy that when General Manson
alluded to his war record in one of his little
he was literally Kissed. The General should re-
member to let by cones be by cones in such an
assemblage.
NOT SOLDIER TO HURT
Columbus Republican.
Soldier Gray served three months threw a
Democratic newspaper press into the Ohio river
and when ordered to the front resigned, without
ever seeing an armed enemy His record shows
that he was not soldier to hurt.
sUMPTUARY CROW
Richmond Palladium.
1t is shame that the Republicans ''unjustly
interfere" with the personal liberty" of the
Democrats as to what they shall eat. We insist
that they have a right to eat anything they wish,
even if it is deviled crow
FALLS VERY FLAT.
Lafayette Courier.
The nomination of Gray for Governor on the
Democratic ticket, falls very fat, and the Lafay-
cite delegation was at no pains to conceal its
disgust over the nomination and the whole bust
ness of the convention.
so FoRGETFuL OF SELF
Lafayette Journal.
Hon. W. H. English reported the platform to
the Democratic convention yesterday. But he
ttada mr. 10
"a fairly elected representative in Congress. He
is so forgetful of self