The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-31
Comments of the State Press.
EQUALS THE SOUTHERN RuLLnozERs.

aldermanic district in question.
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of the State Press.
EQUALS THE SOUTHERN BULLDozERs.
Bloomington Telephone.
indianapolis comes forward with another
Democratic outrage that is equal to, if it does
not overstep. the Southern bulldozers. Last
Monday, a Democratic politician, led on by his
comrades, took an ak and burst open a ballot
box and counted in an alderman in that city.
The Importance Of this is better understood
when it is known that one more Democratic vote
would defeat a proposed saloon tax that the Re
publicans had passed, and which is not only very
offensive but very injurious to the whisky Dem
ocracy, as it cost an additional 800 for every
saloon each year. So. with that desperation OF
a whisky-soaked Democrat, a ballot box was
stolen and broken into.
THE POISONED CHALICE.
Greencastle Banner.
The Banner has often said that when we per-
mitted the South to count out the Republicans
of that section it would only be a question of
time when the same poisoned chalice would be
held to our own lips. That prediction is now
fulfilled. If permitted to succeed, free govern
ment will soon be at an end in this country.
There is great excitement and Indignation at
indianapolis, and also at Cincinnati and Cleve-
Iand, where similar outrages have been commit
ted.
TOO HOT EVE FOR ICE.
Kokomo Gazette-Tribune
INF. STERLING 10. HOlG, ice dealer OF lnC1dOdDOilS
and Democratic commissioner appointed by the
court for the recount of ballots cast in the recent
city election, will find, it is sincerely to be
hoped, that while he was laying on with his
little Ratchet and %chopping open the ballot-boX
he was placing himself in n mighty hot box. He
will be in a frame of mind that will prove ex-
cessively destructive to ice before he gets
through with the courts.
CONFIDENCE IN JUDGE AYREs.
Hendricks County Republican.
The conduct of Sim Coy and his gang in burst
ing open the ballot-boxes in indianapolis is
high-handed and outrageous violation of law,
and if they are not properly punished it will be
for the reason that Judge Ayres is not sufficient
ly careful of the dignity and power of the court,
and this we are not yet ready to believe. Judge
AyreS is a Democrat, but is also an honest man
and we believe will do his duty without party
fear or favor.
sTERLING Hollis PARTNER
MartInsville Republican.
Who is this man Sim Coy, who thus lords it
over a whole city. who sets himself up above the
law, who rapes the ballot-box. who hampers with
the ballots. who subverts the will of the people9
he is a characterlesS hummer, a staggering
bully, a saloon keeper and a gambler, a known
criminal and a ~violator of the law every day.
A PREDICTION OF BLOOD.
Spence's Paper.
The day is not far distant when the purity of
the ballot will be fought for, if the Democrats
respectable and law and order-loving citizens of
Indianapolis will submit to the rule of Sim Coy
and his mob of cut-throats remains to be seen.
SIM CoY's THUGS.
Greencast!e Times.
Sim Coy and his crowd of indianapolis thugs
are taking the same route as the Mclean gang
of boodlers to the penitentiary. indianapolis
Republicans are not made of the stuff we take
them to be if the law does not havefull swing at
tie ballot-box outrage of Tuesday morning.
THIS INCLUDES THE HATCHET.
Peru Republican.
Unless crimes against the suffrage are pun
ished and made odious there remains no secur-
government of the people and by the people, and
becomes a government of rascals and swindlers,
for thieves and plunderers.
HE is FROM THE SUNNY SOUTH
Madison Courier.
The man who broke open the ballot box at In
dianapoiis with a Ratchet is a carpet Dagger"
from the sunny South. and fought with Lee and
Jackson for four years. The introduction of
confederate election tactics is becoming monot-
OnouS.
HooDLUMs N HATCHETs.
Shelbyville Republican.
Since our last report the Democratic hoodlums
have not broken open any more bailot-boxes
with q Ratchet. Z. S.-Come to think of it
this is because they cannot find any more ballot
boxes that have not been debauched.
THE BEST EVIDENCE.
Upton Advocate.
The best evidence that Indiana is a Demo
cratic State is the rape on the ballot-box at In
dianapolis. last Tuesday. A few real good PEG.
pie at indianapolis are responsible for the Sim
Coy dynasty of that city.
THE ~BALLoT-Box
Logansport journal.
1t is to be hoped that the scoundrels implicated
in this crime will follow their co-workers in
other States and finish their labors of reform"
in the service of the State.
ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY CUTS.
Liberty Herald.
The recount of the ballots at indianapolis was
embeIlished with the usual Democratic cussed-
ness that characterizes that party in election
matters.
A CLOSE CALL.
Greensburg Standard.
1t is a close call between the Democrats of
Cincinnati, indianapolis. Chicago and Columbus,
which have been guilty of the greatest political
outrage.
THE pENITENTIARY YAwNs FOR THEM.
Madison Courier.
The outrage upon the ballot-box at Indianapo-
lis is most villainous. Every man implicated in
1t should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of
the law.
COME TO SPEEDY JUSTICE.
Plymouth Republican.
Let the perpetrators of the recent outrages
upon the ballot-box De brought to a speedy trial
without regard to party, wealth or position.
C~INCINNATIS RIVAL.
Richmond Palladium.
The Democrats of Indianapolis seem deter
mined to rival their Cincinnati brethren in bull
doing elections in their own interest.
y BUT THEY SEEK TO GOVERN OTHERS.
LaPorte Herald.
1t was a high-handed outrage, and plainly
shows that some people in this country are not
fit for self government.
THE DEMOCRATS WILL STAND BY THE RATCHET.
ShelbYviile Democrat.
The Democrats of indianapolis will stand by
Mr.. Holt and will approve his Ratchet act, and
encore it, if necessary.
WING WITH OTHER DEMOCRATS.