The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-02
Minor Polltical Matters.


II shall vote for Joe Healing" said a Demo
crat who is connected with Meridian. street
wholesale house. 81 went to school with Joe,
and know him for big-hearted. manly fellow.
Joe's father is a German blacksmith, Demo
crat. l remember when the first Grant campaign
came on Joe and were going to school togeth-
er. lie was then-that was 1S6S-about four
teen years old, and spoke with quite German
accent though | believe he was born in this
county. l wish vas man, l remember hear
ing him say one day, 4 would vote for Grant
" How could you vote for Grant, the boys all
shouted. You couldn't vote for Grant, your
father is a Democrat
" L don't care said Joe, I would vote for
him. Ven 1 get to be man, you bet I'll be a
Republican He kept his word and I'm going
to vote for joe"
g. W. Hollingsworth a son of the old gentle
man whose home the Sentinel with character
istic untruthfulness, charges Colonel Merrill
with having foreclosed upon, yesterday learned
of the publication of the matter, and voluntarily
came to the city from his homo in a distant part
OF the county to have the falsehoods about
the corrected He says that the
Sentlnels story is a. Misrepresentation
of the facts, and that there nothing
in the transaction for which any blame should
be attached to Colonel Merrill. who told his
father that, although the property could be fore
closed upon at any time he might live in it
during his lifetime Mr. Hollingsworth is very
indignant over the Sentinevs published state
ment of the matter, not only because untrue,
but because it does great injustice to Colonel
Merrill
1t appears that Collector of Customs Kuhn
does not intend to be influenced by any
civilservice commission, even by an impend-
ing investigation by President Cleveland, for if
there was active political worker in the city
yesterday it was he. During good portion OF
the day he was on a hunt for unnaturalized
Germans, whom ne escorted to the Office of the
Clerk OF the Supreme Court, whore he had them
take out citizenship papers. The remainder of
the day he was busy peddling tickets and stick
ers for some of his favorite candidates, and beg
ging votes for them. If President Cleveland Is
hunting for an offensive partisan to lecture he
does not need to go past Collector Kuhn.
Among the many baseless falsehoods that the
Sentinel has published during the last days of
the canvass in the hope of making votes for the
Democratic candidates. was one charging that
Arthur Jordan had discharged two of his en-
ployes-John Arnold and John FoeY-because
they were Democrats and intended to vote fer
John E. Sullivan Mr. Arnold is still in the en-
ploy of MIR. Jordan. and has been continuously
When he called at the Sentinel Office yesterday
and asked correction of the falsehood about
him, he was given no satisfaction by the editor
of the Democratic organ.
Many bets we're made last night, and, general
ly, they were in favor OF the Republican county
ticket At Walkers pool-room there were plenty
of men offering to bet $40 to So on Saulcy, and
there were few takers There were, also, sew
era $25 even bets that Harris would be elected.
Not few were willing TO put up $50 to $l0 that
Healing would be elected and not half of those
who we're willing to wager $40 to So on Rollins
were accommodated.