The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-30
THE INDIANA WAR-CRY.
Protection for American Observation-Disclosures
of the Hoosier Democracy.

Protection for American Observation-Disclosures
of the Hoosier Democracy.
+. d. ~. in Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Protection to American industries is the first
great warcry of the campaign to which the In
dianians time their feet with the marching
thousands and next to and part of it, the
preservation of the results of the war and oppo
stion to the solid South. With these issues, Of
such forco and overwhelming importance so pc
culiarly applicable and influential in Indiana
and so grandly put to the people as they have
been by our presidential and vice presidential
candidates and the scores of the abest Repub-
licans of the country, a most active and efficient
committee and an earnest and enterprising press
with this situation believe the matter might
safely 60 to the hands of the people today, and
of the result there can be no doubt
Great distress has been added to the already
acute agony endured by the Democracy by Mr.
Blane's Allusion to the solid South and his ire
mendons utterances upon that issue His words
have been followed by long-drawn howl of i'm
potent rage. An Ohio orator who cut himself
loose here last night fairly fOamed at the lips
about it, and said that such language an in
suit to the loyal people He ignored III his re-
marks the old rebel spirit that in the settlement
of Indiana filtered by sort of moral or immoral
endosmose across the Kentucky line and back
among the low rich hills and great fertile plains
was there a disloyal utterance from Ohio
through person or press
He must have a short memory. Unless l am
''clear of" the Ashland Union during the war
remarked with excitement one day:
This is a damned Abolition war. We believe Abe
Lincoln is as much of a traitor as jeff Davis"
And the Coshocton Democrat added:
1.-THE North is in direct rebellion against the Con
stitution and laws of the United States, The South
is eontending for rights guaranteed TO them by the
Constitution but denied them by the North. and to
secure these rights have rebelled against Lineolns
administration
And the Ashland Union came back with the
statement that:
They 1.-THE Union soldiersl pack of hired
scoundreIs who have never been aught but nuisance
to the country"
And the Crawford Forum indorsed this
"trooly loyal" sentiment thus
1T 1.-THE administration has put arms into the
hands of outlaws, thieves, murderers and traitors
Did the orator ever see a copy of the Circle
vile Waterman proelaiming that:
This is the motto of the Abolition dogs who are
prosecuting this war-'Booty and Beauty is the motto
ofSuch helians and brutes."
And that:
Support of this war and hostility to it show the
dividing line between the friends and enimies of the
government. He who supports the war is against
the Union"
If am not mistaken the Marion Democrat
during the war expressed its opinion to this
effect
"If the prisoners at Andersonville and Libby were
not treated with the kindness and consideration which
people entitled TO when they remain at home,
minding their proper business, instead of taking
in bloody and desoate crusade against their
neghbors and brethren, have only TO they got
their deserts"
And last. but far from least. did not the Gin
cinnati Enquirer at the close of the war say
this:
'They fthe soldiers] back and find their places
filled-the tide of life running unconscious of their
presence and forgetfu of their absence-ther fami-
lies probably scatered their wives probably under the
of charitable agent of aid society, who
has found that there ways than of admin
stering consolation These pictures only fail of the
truth because they not as sad as the reality"
There were some dark and disloyal dongs in
Indiana. but it was not all sweetness and light
even in Ohio. and nests of the Knights of the
Golden Circle were broken up in the black Dem
ocratiG counties of the northwest