The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-17
MALICIOUS ~DISTURBERs.

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We find in the indianapolis Sentinel the
following dispatch, reproduced from the col
umns of the New York Tribune, under date
of Indianapolis, May 8:
'"The Harrison campaign has been formally
opened by the Senator himself. He reached
here on last Saturday, and displayed a great
deal of pique over the published report that
Gresham has eighteen Of the delegates against
twelve for himself. His friends advised an
advance movement to be pushed in all direc-
tions, espe cially through the press. Four
county pa pers came out this week displaying
his name for the nomination. Other papers
will follow as fast as the programme can be
extended to them. They have also a special
corps selected to visit Chicago and howl Harri-
son. Every known Harrison man in the State
who can afford to visit Chicago will receive a
special invitation to go there and help swell
the chorus. They are determined to create
the impression that Indiana is strongly for
Harrison"
A like dispatch, in almost if not quite the
Identical language, was sent out from Washing
ton under the same date, and has appeared in a
number of newspapers that seem to be willing
to give access to such evidently false and ma
licious news" Of course, it is eagerly cop
led into Democratic newspapers as an indica-
ton Of Republican disharmony in Indiana.
1t is beyond the comprehension of the journal
why any presumed Republican should desire
to put in print such stuff as this. Its purpose
is so evident to SOW the seeds of discord, that
no word of caution is at all necessary. Such
dispatches have been persistently circulated,
ostensibly from this city, since about
the time of the late State convention for the
selection of delegates at large to Chicago, in ad-
dition to others assuming to give in detail the
p%referen ces of the Indiana delegates for GER
tain candidates for the presidency, among
these their preferences as between General
Gresham and General Harrison, as though
these two were in necessary and open antag-
onism. OF course, these dispatches are not
written and published in the interest of Gen
eral Gresham; they are simply the emanations
of a petty, personal malice against General
by those who know the source whence they
come.
The publication of such dispatches is cruel
to the Republican party in this State. 1t
should be the desire of every true-hearted Re-
publican to maintain the unity and harmony
that so far has distinguished Indiana Repub-
licanism, and has made it a praise and a model
to Republicans the country over. The Journal
has so often said that Indiana Republicans
have no candidate for the presidency, in the
usual sense Of the word, to present at the Chi
cago convention, that the repetition of it is
both trite and wearisome. The Republicans
of Indiana, and the delegates of the party to
the national convention, nave only one pur-
pose and one desire, and that is the nomina-
ton Of a candidate who will command the con-
fdence and hearty support Of the party and of
the country, and, to secure that, every effort
and influence will be exerted, no personal pref
erence for this man OF that man being allowed
to stand for one moment stubbornly in the
way of such a consummation. No delegation
will go to Chicago with freer minds or purer
purpose. So far as the distinguished citizens
Of Indiana, who have been more or less named
i'll connection with the high office is concerned,
the feeling of every Indiana Republican and
delegate should be, that the choice between
them must be indicated outside of the State,
and that whichever one it may be, if it should
come to be either at any stage of the delibera-
lions of the convention, will receive the
cordial and hearty support Of his own State.
We know, personally, that this is the feeling
Of every delegate to Chicago, without excep-
ton; and it is an outrage upon the honorable
gentlemen chosen tospeak fOrthe State in the
national convention to represent that they are
balancing between themselves their prefer
ences as to Indiana men in such a spirit of
hostility to one or the other as would effect