The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06

who presented them with their uniforms and
equipped them for Republican duty denies the
charge emphatcally. Many prominent men
differ with the Doctor, and meet his argu-
ments with unquestonable proof that many
colored men did vote the Democratic
ticket II was claimed electionday that eighty
FIVE colored men had voted that way, and DE-
McGill was goaded by the Democrats for wasting
his money aud patience in equipping them. Inc
Doctor lost his temper and came near being
he made in response, He said 1T had always
been habit and principle of the Democrats
to buy and sell "niggers,' and he knew some
tramp niggers" in the community who. could
always be bought for money and whisky, but
for his part he had never bought one and
never would but that he knew the members OF
his guard had stood by the party that set them
free.
THE BAIT OF FALsEHooD
A prominent Republican official told the Trib-
yne correspondent to-day that these Poles were
certainly Republican until large sum of money
was given to the campaign managers, and with
it the Polish vote was purchased This sum
is said to have been exactly $4,000 The same
gentleman said that congressman elect had
started the story that the surplus in the Treas
ury was $780, 900, 900, equivalent to So for each
voter He would then gloat over that sum 1881,
and tell them what they could buy with it,
winding up with the declaration that it ought to
be divided among the people, and that it would
be in the hands of tho people if the Democrats
had been in power all the while. That is to say,
it never would have been collected into the Treas
ury if they had been in power
The way in which some of these facts came to
light is not little ludicrous The day after
the election Polish laborer walked up to
grocer standing in front of his store, and said,
in a dreamy sort of way, II como get me
money"
what money! said the astonlshed dealer IN
ham and candies.
1.-THE money get after election.
81 don't know anything about any money you
were to get What is it forl"
''Dey tell me come see Mr.. Blank and l get
me money was the explanation.
90, you'll find Mr. Blank next door," said the
grocer, and the man went in and came out smil-
ing, as did many others of his race that day and
the day following.
A Republican who had a business call to the
establishment in which the money was being
paid out, asked why it was being distributed,
and received the reply that the men to whom it
was given all of whom were Poles had been
employed as challengers, ticketpeddlers, and
drivers of wagons There were about 800 of
these Others are supposed to have been paid
off somewhere else.
1T is also said that for several days after the
election employees of the postoffice were an
noyed by Poles calling for the IS with which
their needs were to be supplied out of the sur
plus in the Treasury, for which the government
were respectfully referred to the managers of
the Democratic machine.
DIR. McGill, who was encountered in a walk
through the city defended the character of the
co!ored men He said there we're not more than
sixty Republican voters in the county, and they
all belonged to his club. Outside of this there
were perhaps q dozen tramp niggers' who were
always ready to sell their votes. and he had no
doubt they had done So He knew, he said, the
statement that eighty-seven colored men had
voted tho Democratic ticket was false, because
that was more than the total vote of the colored
men In the county. Then he knew the members
of his own club had voted right, because he had
seen most of the ballots cast He declared that
the Poles had voted the Democratic ticket to
man, and for IS apiece. 'They are sorry now,
since the thing has gone against the factories
aud they have been obliged to shut down." said
the Doctor land they have sent to Chicago to
get some eminent material to organize union
and tell them what is best to be done.
Chairman Aaron Jones, of the Republican
congressional committee who was encountered
in The county auditors Office, was asked whether
he, had any more precise information as to how
the election was carried.
He said in response: 81 know exactly how
the thing was done, but don't care to make it
"Why7"
"Weii, we are not ready yet"
what is the value of your information
''We know enough to prevent any repetition
Of the same thing in the future but to state the
facts we know might injure our prospects of
handling the situation in the future"
Such, apparently, were the means through
which the State was won by the Democrats, for
nearly all the gains came from the manufactur-
ing centers, where certain irresponsible and
reckless class can be found among the laborers
who are glad to sell their votes for whatever
they will bring. The lavish way money was
spent by poor men of this class in different parts
Of Indiana Just about Nov. g. and 5 convinces
the most conservative and fair minded men in
che State that the Democratic majority of this
year will be forever remembered as a slur and
reproach upon the Democratic party.