The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-30

ground, on the right hand Of the President Of
the United States. When q loyal Democrat
from the North presents himself for Office the
great rebel horde objects, and as a result sneak
or one loyal to the lost cause is appointed These
pictures, presented to us every day as we read
between the lines, is inspiring every Republican
TO renew his allegiance to the grand old Repub-
Ncan party
The Journal representative cornered ex-Sena-
Tor Foulke, of Wayne COUNTY, and asked his
opinion of Republican prospects, The Senator
IS just home from an extended trip TO Cuba In
response to the question Mr. Foulke said:
THE prospect is excellent for large Republic
an gains. The administration has disappointed
everybody. It has disappointed the stalwart
Democrats, for they thought they were to have
the Offices at once, and the President has been
too slowsfor them. Ii has disappointed the civil
service reformers, for the President has utterly
failed to live up to the promises contained in his
letter to George William Curtis that removals
were not to be made for purely political reasons.
It has disappointed all fair-minded men, for the
system of removing men from Office upon
charges preferred against them by secret accusers,
unsupported by evidence, they having no chance
to be heard in their own defense, is revolving to
the Saxon idea OF open dealing and fair play.
Its covering political changes in Office with very
thin veil OF hypocrisy, only thick enough to
blacken just little the characters Of the men
affected by it The removals, especially here in
worse. The efficiency of the postal service in
particular has been considerably impaired.
''The issues in the coming election are largely
State issues In the great labor questions
which are looming up before us the Indiana
Democracy has shown its faithlesspess to its
own professions in very striking way
In its last State platform it favored
the reduction of the hours of labor IN all
public works, the establishment of bureaus of
labor, the use of prison labor not to com
al wi ma ali Of eff
with two-thirds majority in both houses of the
Legislature, it failed to pass any bill upon any
OF these subjects. Does the laborer want a
friend like this2 It favored lin its PLATFORM the
prohibition OF the labor Of children under four
teen in mines and factories. ana yet that very
prohibition was voted down by Democratic
votes, and the bill for that purpose failed to
pass. think it will be long before the Indiana
Democracy will ever pose successfully before the
people as the friend of labor"
Hon. John f. Wildman was found at the
Times Office. The Times is the old Republican
paper of Delaware county, and under Mr. Wild
mans management it bears evidence of increas-
ing prosperity and influence. l asked him to ex-
premeditated affair or a spontaneous authorizing
of the grand old party. He was evidently in q
happy frame of mind, and he smiled blandly as
he replied sit is spontaneous-entirely spon-
that the defeat of the Republican cause in 1884
sense of responsibility The Republicans
OF this district, with their monster
majorities and repeated and uninterrupted sue
cesses, became oversanguine and negligent, and
the reverse which came with the election of
Cleveland awoke them to a sense Of their respon-
sbility. Two years ago convention like this
would not have attracted handful of people,
while to-day the attendance runs up into the
thousands. They understand that the whole
tenor OF the present administration has been to
put the South into the saedie, and they have
turned out, not particularly as the followers of
any one man, but rather to give public procIa-
NATION to their patriotism and to renew their
zeal in the cause. l am thoroughly convinced. !"
continued Mr.. Wlldman, with great earnestness,
"that this district will show the largest MAORI
ty this fall it has given for many years. and
while we are at disadvantage by the infamous
gerrymander of the last Democratic Legislature,
/ am hopeful of the Republicans electing their
entire State ticket and majority of the mem
bers of the next General Assembly"
Eugene Bundy, the last candidate for Lieu
Senant-governor. said to q Journal correspond
ant: 'This convention is only an earnest of
what is to follow In this district this year. The
Republicans only wanting another trial of
the case with the Democracy, and this trial can
only result in the success of the only party that
has the capacity to manage affairs. The Re-
publcans are in earnest and will put in the nee
essary work this year to make success sure.
Democratic management of State affairs alone
ought to give us the State Their miserable mis-
managsment and corruption make honest men
sick"
Hon. Thomas M. Little, one of the stanch
Republicans of Fayette county, referring to the
unusual interest manifested in the convention,
said: II believe it indicates that the people
want change revival of pure, indebted Re
publicenism: It Is protest against the
rule of the Southern Confederacy through the
Democratic party It also shows that the people
are in hearty sympathy with the tariff and finan-
cial policy OF the Republican party. If we had
the same kind of money now that we had in
1857, we would be suffering under more dis
tressing panic than we had then. The Reput-
hcans created and main stained the money which
enables US to avert panic, Notwithstanding the
efforts of the Democrts to destroy the only sue
cessful financial system the government ever
had"
Captain Lee Yaryan, of Wayne county, had
juss been reading the reports of JEFF Davis's
triumphal tour in the South. and his tempera-
ture indicated about 250o in the shade He is
stinct and training, and he not infrequently
waves the bloody shirt" without ask
ing anybody's pardon. He calculated:
"This popular uprising of the Re-
puolicans is easily explained They are
sick and tired of the hypocrisy and incompe-
tency Of the administration, which has done
nothing in the eighteen months it has been in
charge, except to cultivate an unseemly scramble
for Office. There are other cause.-the constant
tampering with the tariff, the fact that in the
were
bull-dozed by the Democrats; the stagnation in
business; the discord between labor and capital:
the constant fling and taunt of the men in power
against the Union soldiers The Democrats are
responsible for this prevailing discomfort of the
laboring classes. for they were led to believe by
the Democratic demagogues that prosperity and
plenty would be the certain result of change
of administrations whereas it has wrought dis
cord and disaster It will become the duty of
the Republicans to remedy these evils but its
first mission will necessarily be to demand free
ballot and fair count for every man, be he
white or black, between bananas and ice"
CONVENTION NOTES.
The opera-house, where the convention was
held. was tastefully decorated with flags, and a
large number of society ladies added grace and
beauty to the occasion by their presence
Bruce Carr and A. @. Daily, opposing candi-
datAs for the Republican nomination for Auditor
of State, were present at the convention and di-
vidad honnrs to their mutual satisfaction