The Indianapolis journal., 1884-10-28
A QUESTION OF PEACE.
The Louisville Courier ournal of yesterday

says:
"Let but the Democrats of Indiana do their
full duty, as they have so gallantly done time
and again, and Cleveland will be elected and
seated President and the most tenacious and
shameless usurpation which has ever threat
ened the life of the Republic will be shaken
from its throat.
'But to do this will require the constant
alertness and activity of the Democrats Of In
diana, their ceaseless vigilance, their daunt-
less determination and their unwavering in
treP%idity.
One is the prevention of bribery, and the
other the intimidation of State officers and
voters by deputy marshals Let the Indiana
Democrats bear in mind that lawlessness is
none the less lawlessness because clothed in
the insignia of United States authority; that
such scoundrels who disgraced those insignia
in Cincinnati are as great offenders against the
law as those for ths prevention of whose
lawlessness their appointment was pretended.
Let the citizens of Indiana remember that the
same rule applies to outlaws who may be
deputized by United States marshals as applies
to other outlaws and when the occasion re-
quires let them apply it.
''The most watchful, resolute and prompt ac
ton will be necessary to prevent the whole
sale purchase of votes. If there were not laws
in Indiana directed at these special evils, the
stringing up to the first lamp-post of these
vote-buyers would be more than justifiable :"
If the election in Indiana, next Tuesday,
shall prove to be peaceable one it will not
be because of the advice of the Courier-Jour-
nal, nor of the advice of the rebel speakers
brought into the State by the Democratic par
ty. The Courier-Journal has been incessant
in its efforts to stir up trouble, as it has been
incessant in its appeals to Kentucky Demo-
Gratis to abandon their own State and ''take
care of Indiana" 1t has said time and again
that "Kentucky would take care of Indiana"
it has stimulated the systematic raising Of
money in that heavily Democratic State, and
in the other Southern States, to be used as a
corruption fund in Indiana. Not three days
ago it urged all the young men of Kentucky
''to go to Indiana" No one can look at the
preparations being made, read the editorials in
leading Democratic newspapers, or be even
partially cognizant with the details of what
is going on, without being convinced that
thorough, systematic and well-equipped plot
is under way to carry Indiana for Cleveland
by the resort to any amount of fraud, corrup-
ton and intimidation.
This is not an unmeaning election cry-a-
stock canard resorted to on the eve of the ballot
We believe the Journal can appeal with some
confidence to its fair-lninded readers for judg-
ment that we have not treated the Democratic
party unfairly in this campaign and that we
have not been a chick and thin organ" We
ask any candid man in Indiana
to read what we have printed
from Democratic sources, the facts we have
given from Democratic authorities, and then
to say whether we are not justified in assert
ing that the Democracy propose to carry this
State by the use of money and of force if
need be. 1t is no answer to say that the Re
publcans have done or would do the same
That is not to the point We assume that the
fair-minded people of Indiana want a fair
election and fair count and desire every
preparation made and precaution taken to Sc
cure that. We know the Journal wants that,
and that only. If the Democracy have
fair and honest majority of the popular
vote greatly as we should deplore it, we want
to see the administration of the government
placed in their hands But we do not want
either fraud or force to overcome this honest
majority. We do not want the methods of
''the solid South" introduced into the North
The party backed by the sold South" the
party of the cipher dispatches; the party led
by "Seven mule" Barnum; the party under
taking such methods as Carter Harrison
has used in Chicago-this party has