The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-04
THE INDIANA GREENBACKERS.
R. A. Riley COntradictS Some of the Malicious
SANDERS of the Democratic Press.

To the Editor Of the Indiana polls Journal:
request from you the publication of the fol
lowing, not from any special favor to me, but to
prevent to some extent willful and malicious
slanderers from realizing on their falsehoods and
treachery. l allude to the editors of the Han
cock Democrat and the Indianapolis Sun, and
their attacks on me, hoping thereby to influence
others Here the Democratic papers, in their
eagerness to get votes, charge that General But
Ter is running in the interest of Blaine And
whenever he speaks of the disgusting handicap
ing of Cleveland's great sorrow by
rehash of the stale nastiness of
the 8eecher scandal, and his (Beechers)
monstrous assertion that if Cleveland received
the votes of a majority of the violaters of the
Seventh Commandment in that State he would
carry New York by a majority of 100000" the
Democratic papers howl with rage The magni-
tude of this SANDER on the people of New York
can only be matched by Beecher's conduct and
action in his own case. The cergymen especi-
ally who would flaunt their sympathies for such
Generalization and nastiness before the public
as their excuse for voting for any candidate for
President in this, are but ministers of immoral
ity, libels upon the Old and New Testaments
and the shame and disgrace of their
calling. In West Virginia, Michigan
and Iowa the Republicans declare Butler
is running in the interest of Cleveland Mr.. j.
d. Stackhouse former National, is made to
say in to-days Sentinel that Gen. Butler prom
ised to vote for Mr.. Hendricks for President if he
could have been nominated. Mr.. j. f. Speer
says the same. l have only 20 say Gen. Butler
IL
Charleston convention for jeff Davis, and would
not follow his example in either case 1 have
only space to say IA few things that do know,
either historically or personally. do know that
ours is "a government of the people, for the peo
pie, and by the people" That the British gov
ernment is government ''of aristoc
racy, for the aristOcracy, and by the
arstocracy' that the British government has
always antagonized and sought to destroy our
free government; that the British aristocracy by
the aid of unequal laws have taken possession
and ownership of all IA. lands, water and mines
In the kingdom, and by force of starvation and
exposure to the elements, forced the working
people to work for them for wages bare point
above starvation l do know that the British
have been hunting for, and by force and fraud
trying to find free markets for the products of
their enforced and pauper labor. 1 do know
that this enforced and pauper labor is a gigantic
and ineXpressibly wicked scheme Of robbng and
degrading labor and laborers. ] do know that
the late slave States were engaged in degrading
labor by the methods and Observation-Disclosures of
human slavery That the question of protective
tariff was the very subject of the quarrel be-
tween President Andrew jackson and John c.
Calhoun; that, in the interest Of socalIed free
trade and slavery j. c. G. resigned the vice-pres
idency, had the notification ordinance passed |
by South Carolina and law making it felony
to collect tariff duties in her ports
That President jackson, emphasizing with a
stamp declared IF John G. Calhoun went one
step farther he would hang him higher than
Hannah" 1 do know that by the provisions of
the Kansas Nebraska bill, voted for by Il. A
Hendricks, it was persistently sought to extend
slavery all over the Territories and States, there
by degrading all laboring people. Failing in
this, | do know that the slave States, with
only four exceptions conspired with this same
British aristocracy to divide and destroy the
Union, and establish slavery and so-called free
trade in the Southern half, the British to take
their cotton ard bonds, and furnish them cruisers
guns, ammunition. and commissary Stores-all of
which the British did-and eleven States did
secede, organize a confederacy, make constitu-
ton, put slavery and so-called free trade in it,
making, so far rs they could, the robbery and
degradation of labor completes; that it took hun
dreds of thousands of lives, and thousands of
millions of money to defeat this conspiracy. l
know further that the eleven States that were in
the confederacy, and were solid in
the rebellion and conspiracy, are now
party good for l53 electoral votes, and solid for
the old scheme of so-called free trade which
only means the opening of all our markets for
the free sale of the goods wares and merchan-
disc manufactured by their enforced AMI pauper
labor, thus robbng and degrading all the me-
chanics and laborers of our country by enforced
competition with them. All the hopes of the
Democratic party is centered in this solid South |
1t is the body, head, nucleus of this strange
anomalous. malign political comet that becomes |
visible every four years. Its nucleus is in the |
solid South; its long, broad urid tail of sympathy
sweeps over the North-but, thank God, so thin !
and attenuated that honest intelligence can !
detect falsehood and deceit through it, |
of even the sixth magnitude. In view of all the |
facts surrounding the National Greenback La |
Dor party. deem it my duty to say to you,
whether you agree or disagree with me, let each
preserve his own personal honor by doing what
he periodically and conscientously believes to
be right, and for the best interest of humanity |
You are free men. Let no man or set Of men |
dictate to you how you shall vote.
With the hope that under more promising cir !
cumstances in the future, such cogent powers /
and influences may be united as will insure to |
every person the just reward of their own labor, |
| am truly, Il. A. RILEY.
GREENFIELD, Nov. 3, 1884
p. S.-Being denied hearing through the |
Sun, am compelled to seek another paper