The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-11
GENERAL SATISFACTION. u

everywhere. Republicans do not like it.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
We have not observed any conspicuous
cratic party with joy for some time. We had
the pleasure yesterday of presenting few
specimens of the party exuberance and can
now add a few more. Hon. Allen G. Thur
man says:
''The Democratic clock is put back four
years. and corruption given a new leasehold in
our land. Syndicates purchase the peoples
agents and honest men stand aghast."
General A. ]. Walner-'S ilver-bill" War
ner-says:
"a betrayed people will rebulle this insolent
bartering of their rights, and there is hardly
any hope of the Democracy carrying the State
next fall"
Judge McHenry, a leading Democrat of
Hamilton, Butler county, says
'FWhy, it was no caucus-'twas only sale
with but one bidder. Old Butler had worked
its majority up to 5000, and Elliott's and
Cunninghams playing into the syndicate's
hands and disappointing their constituents
takes off 1000 to start with"
The Columbus (Ohio) Times, the party
organ at the capital heads its account of the
caucus thus:
"THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER
'Bought Judas Iscariot, the arch traitor, but
it cost the Standard Oil-McLean faction "a
much larger bundle to subvert the will of
the people. .a
fReport Of the caucus which elected Henry
B. Payne United States senator, and sold
out the Democracy to the money power"
And editorially the Times says:
Corruption has made rotten the Democratic
Legislature of Ohio. Money has had its po-
tency to drag honor down into the mire. Sa-
tanic temptings by promises of future official
profit have seduced the trustees of the nOblest
estate within the transfer of men. The guar
dams of political rights have betrayed their
wards The news of the heinous crime
will carry gloom into the households of the
grand aggregate of its true members. With
sad hearts will come the reflection that the
people must begin anew with their work
A result has been purchased in which not one
Democrat in FIVE hundred acquesces, OF will
ever acquiesce'
The Washington Post, the Democratic
gan at the national capital says;
"The issue involved was the Standard Oil
Company VS.. Civil-service Reform. The result
will preclude much Democratic talk about the
latter virtue for some months to come. We
can devote ourselves to the tariff without re-
serve"
The Cincinnati News Journal, the Demo
cratic organ and the personal representative of
Governor-elect Hoadly, says; ta'
'Money has been shamelessly used to buy a
seat in the Senate by men protesting to be of
the party which opposes the use of money in
politics" M -,ea m.raa
The indianapolis Sentinel, the organ Of In
diana Democracy, says; t,- .,ar ef
owe hope our Ohio brethren will not feel
disappointed if they fail to hear hundred
guns saluting the nomination to-day in Hoosier
dom"
The Louisville Cowier-J Journal, the organ
of the national Democracy, the Speaker and
the President-maker says:
Mr. Paynes nomination is the result of the
most corrupt conspiracy ever organized in this
country, and was composed by the most ex
travagant use of money known to the legisla
tive history of any State in the Union"
The New Albany Ledger, one of the oldest
and ablest Democratic newspapers of Indiana,
says of the nomination of Mr. Payne:
at is unfortunate for the Democracy that
he was champoned by the Standard Oil mo-
nopoly, the most gigantic corporation in the
United States. 1t is also unfortunate that he
was chosen over George H. Pendleton, who
stood as the Democratic representative of civil
service reform and of honor and decency in
politics. 1t is blunder that may and likely
will lose the Democrats the vote of Ohio and
possibly other States in November"
And the nominee himself speaks with bated
breath His acknowledgement of the nomina-
ton is couched in these remarkable terms
Hon Elmer White, Chairman:
please express to the members of the eau
Gus my grateful acknowledgements for the
honor of the nomination, with an assurance
that If is my hope and will be my endeavor
that no harm or discredit will result from it to
the party or the State. II. B. PAYNE"
We commend these expressions of general
satisfaction" to the earnest attention of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, and also to Mr.. Payne
who may possibly be able to CLEAN from them
an answer to his "hope" that mo harm or
discredit will result from [lny nomination. to
the party or to the State"
in the meantime we should be pleased to
see a collection of the evidence that "Repub-
licans do not like it. As citizens, with the
honor of the country and the publication of
politics at heart, they may deplore the Column
bus shame, but, as Republicans, certainly
they could not have asked anything better
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