The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-24
NURSING ANOTHER MOB.

and the people, more or less organized, appeal
to the only thing that assassins fear and
make a law for the occasion which towards,
and thieves, and cutthroats learn to respect.
There is no tyranny more oppressive than
that which, through the form of law, robs So
ciety or individuals of their lives and prop
erty, and most sacred rights. 1t is bad
enough when the machinery Of law-the
courts and the officers of law are rendered
powerless by the terror which the lawless hold
over them, as was the case, few years
ago, in Jackson county, in this State,
where witnesses, and juries, and courts did
not dare to visit punishment upon thieves and
murderers; but it is infinitely worse when
this element shall have placed their accom-
plices in the seats of power and these grow
strong enough to boldly defy the right and to
construe the law so as to make the greatest
possible outrage lawful. For years the bum
mer element of Cincinnati, acting through
the Democratic party has been fortifying it.
self for taking the entire control of the city,
through the machinery of its municipal au-
thorities. In 1884 the greatest possible out
RACES were committed at the October election,
for one of which, and that not the greatest,
one Of the agents, mere tool of the gang
was sent to the penitentiary by the federal
court. But among the very first things that
Mr.. Cleveland did was to pardon him out, at
the request of Governor Hoadly and others,
and he was given a chief place on the city
police force as an acknowledgment Of his fit
ness for the ends sought.
1t was reserved, however, to the late cleo
ton for all these years Of preparation to ex-
hibit some of the ripening fruit-not the
greatest nor the last by any means, for such
sowing of wind always produces harvest of
whirlwind, compared with which the riot in
Cincinnati last year, which burned the
courthouse and its records and resulted in
the death Of scores of good men, will be
small affair." At the late election the most
glazing outrages were perpetrated In some
wards Democratic majorities, greater than the
entire voting population, were returned, bold
aud acknowledged forgeries were committed,
all of which was clearly proven before the
court but the Supreme Court itself Great
ure of this same system of elections has
decided that the clerk of the court must issue
certificates Of election on all such fraudulent
returns, even though he may know them to be
fraudulent. This ends all honest elections in
Cincinnati. The bummers have control of
the entire election machinery, and the law
right and authority to the most daring out
rage.
We await the result with much interest and
no little solicitude. We have faith in the
manhood of the people, but with their
hands tied by the authorities at
Washington turning loose the men that
may be convicted, with the court at Columbus
deciding that manifest forgeries are to be
counted, and backed by great party that re-
out blushing, but with manifest satisfaction,
what can be done9 The men who are de-
frauded by Acknowledgement are largely the
reading, thinking men of the city-the sober
Taxpayers. Will they permit that forever2
There has been no honest election in Cincin-
natl for years, but never one so dishonest as
that of last October. A primary object of
this was the defeat of John Sherman; hence
it was practiced on smaller scale
at Columbus and elsewhere, but the
clerk of Franklin county had not the
grit to report the forged 800 votes that were to
elect the ticket; and this object will not be
reached.
We repeat that we await the outcome Of
this state of affairs with solicitude. Of one
thing we are certain-it cannot be long contin-
ued Americans will never submit to such
condition Of affairs as is implied. The bum
mer element cannot govern this country, nor,
permanently, even our great cities; and for
gerry and fraud cannot be accepted as lawful
methods, as is taught by the Ohio Supreme
| Court. The men most defrauded are not the
element that committed the riot in that same
city because the courts connived at murder;
they more nearly represent the element which
rescued San Francisco from the rule of gam
blers and highwaymen, third of century
ago, or those who, few years ago, ere
moved the Renos from jackson county
without awaiting the action of courts, owned
and controlled by law-breakers. What course
will be taken it is not possible to now foresee,
but the right to free ballot and an honest
count will be secured, in spite of presidential