The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-03

dividual obligation, or has it seemed to give
him any trouble?"
Yes, he has promised the officers time
and again 10 TX it up. He is loose in his
business habits and chronic procrashDator.
While a great big coy, whom to meet
socially is something like a tonic, there are
really many elements in bis composition
that totally disqualify him for the
office to which he aspires, Though In his
explanation he avoids the truth and foun-
ders like all who attempt to deceive, be does
not perhaps realize the full force OF the
moral question involved. Fearing that
Dudley would get hold OF the facts and use
them to his detriment at the State Republl-
can Convention, he asked tc have it fixed
up. offering to give his check for $500, which
if the land could have been sold at the APP
praised value, 500, would have made the
amount required. The matter hung;
he has q hspbaZzard way OF doing
such things and it hoated unobserved
until he became the Republican nominee for
Governor. He may think such things of
small consequence to Republican candi-
date. Anyhow, Laporte County continues
to pay taxes TO the school fund on money at
first, it is no more than reasonable to
suppose, dishonesty secured, and to-day I'M
lawfully held, by Major Calkins. II won't
do for his partisans to say that he is too big
for such thing, for there it is matter Of
record. Suppose he has sold it subject
to the mortgage no purchaser ever became
he values it at $500, 500 or
5000. AS against the stuTs for
which it has been exchanged, car-shop stock
and mining stock, it was perhaps wortL SlO,-
600. Think of that addition to Michigan
City, of lots measuring one by three inches
think OF the blue sky that has been sold, and
of Chicago. lots, lying three miles out in the
lake To command the logic that c0nln a Y
plain this, to the complete satisfaction OF
any reasonable man, does not lay within the
possibilities of Major Calkins, and If a suita-
Die man for the office Of Governor, he would
have satisfied the mortgage and fixed the
matter on business principles long ago."
The fact that the land has been offered for
sale at 5000 since 1876 would imply that it
is not worth the money. So the present ap.
praisement is too high. The land was delin-
quent for taxes at the time the mortgage
was executed. The fact that the patent was
not issued until 1857, when LapOrte was one
of the first counties on this fOotstool, would
certainly 60 far toward showing that it
never had a real value.
The transaction is going to prove great
humiliation to Major Calkins, and even If
disposed could not help it. Bat the con-
troversy, by calling public attention to a
defective law that has already resulted in
vast loss, both to the school and
COlltSe luDut may ny SECURING d
wiser enactment, prove a benefit. Par
tisans may object TO the term
'swindle," but the school fdnd has lost
vast sums on the fraudulent sppraisment of
mOrtgaged lands in various sections OF the
State. as / am am reliably informed. was
asked to-day by gentleman, whose politics
are not unfriendly to the Republican nomi-
nee: "Is Major Calkins coming up to the eX-
pectation of the Republican Darty~
Ny reply was, Il do not know" and con-
tinued, ''Wby do you ask that question:
Because he answered, "when first nOmi
mated, the Republican press put lurid esti-
nation on his ability, and those editors evil
IDENTIFY far oveIdrew him as a stump orator
and the master OF political questions. They
attributed to him OratoricaI accomplishments
that would fatter General Harrison or MI.
Voorhees,. / have heard both, and Colonel
Gray is superior to Major Calkius on the
stump. Major Calkins is a man OF dash, fine
personal address, but, though smart is I'M
learned, and his statemente are wanting in
force and perspicuity. He is rich in
the social qualities that Harrison lacks and
of that leaders strong points wholly and Ia
mentally destitute. So, il the spirit OF the
Republican press is accepted as true. popu-
lar expectation was quickened that Major
Calkins will be unable to reach during the
present campaign"
] have been shown the Photographic mega
tives OF several letters written by the Repub-
lican nominee, while a member of the Hub
bell committee-one that will certainly call
for a new explanation in that Widow Dun
can matter. Mr.. Wadsworth has artists and
eDgravers at work on several epistles that
will throw a new light on Major Calkins'
explanation of his explanation explain
ing his reply to the reply, in reply
to the charge of assessing poor
widow women in the Government employ to
buy of the calamity that threatened to cul-
inmate in Winterbotham's election to Con
gress. Thus Laporte County politics are
dragging their interesting and benighted
length through the last days of August. 1t
will soon be given to the public through the
columns of the Argus. JAP TURPEN.