The Indianapolis journal., 1884-08-23

an act OF the Legislature allowed some schools
districts to tax themselves by popular vote to
assist in the establishment of school system
In Indianapolis the vote was 406 for the tax
1929 against it The State revenue previously
suficed to maintain the schools only one quarter
in each year. The addition from the local tax
and private contributions started greater activ-
ity and lots were bought and houses built and a
very fair preparation for the system under the
old Constitution made before the constitutional
convention of 1850 was called. The reader can
make his own comment on the infinite ignorance
that could assert the creation of the whole school
system and its funds by the convention of 1850.
ANOTHER INTERESTING OMISSION.
Mr. Voorhees, forgot to tell how his party killed
the asylums in 1857. He also forgot to tell how
it killed the schools in 1853 We have filed one
omission Now we will attend to the other.
Without the aid of local taxes the avails of the
permanent school fund and of the State tax were
not enough to keep the schools in operation the
usual time. The Democratic Supreme Court, cor
daily supported by every Democratic paper in the
State, decided that this local tax was unconstitu
tional, because it was not uniform" with other
means of support This was the first thing the
new Democratic Constitution did for the schools,
and the first thing the Democratic party unani-
mously approved It killed the schools in the
State capital and all other localities that helped
the State fund with local taxation They were
kept open as long as the means in the hands of
the trustees would allow, and then they were
closed, some of the houses rented to teachers
of private schools and some of them turned into
brothels and store houses of stolen goods It
4oOly -
the Democratic sympathy and support of the
free-school system.
POINTS IN HIS RECORD
This exhibit of the Senator'S means and meth
DDS of political management may be ftly con-
cluded by glance at one or two conspicuous
points in his record when he knew less than he
does now possibly-but this is speculation of
such infinite sublety, with material so elusive
and impalpable that itcan never be satisfactorily
settled. His attitude at the opening of the war;
his repeated professions Of admiration for the
system of slavery, in literary and other speeches
in the slave States before the war; his promise
to his uncle to help the South, if nee
essary, with hundred thousand
men; his malignant hostility to the
soldiers, which would have made them hang
him more than once, if they could have got hold
of him; his traffcking with rebel agents in Can
ada, and his present ludicrous assumption of the
character of the soldiers friend, are all familiar
to all citizens of period as early as 1860 There
are not SO many who know that in 1868 ga he
ardently supported the exemption of whisky in
stock" from the tax of So a gallon, imposed on
all other whisky. This measure gave to large
distillers and jobbers about fifty million
dollars which amount the people had to make
good by taxation on other articles The ring
of distilers is said to have spent more
than s. 0O0 600 in Congress to secure that profit
able exemption. Who got it is only known TO
the lucky and rascally recipients In 1873 Mr..
Voorhees, followed the lead of Ben Butler in
voting The salary grab, years pay of $1,000
extra, for nothing, with no pretense Of extra
service. It was simply an impudent robbery of
the people. Itput S., 600 into the pocket of Mr..
Voorhees, against the resolute resistance, all
through, of Judge VIM. E. Niblack. He
also made himself unpleasantly promi-
nent in some of the early landgrabs
made by great continental railway
lines. Finally, the very first time that
he appeared as public man in the capital, in the
Democratic convention of 1858, as a delegate
from Fountain county, he took eager and per-
sistent part with the Internal slavery villainy
of the "Lecompton Constitution" /" made by mob
of pro slavery horse-thieves and counterfeiters,
from Missouri, to establish slavery in Kansas.
He wants to goto the Senate for six years more.
He needs to go to primary school for few
years, and to be hauled off to Catholic confes-
sional every week in the term to get his head
filed and his soul cleaned