The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-26


who are not willing to subscribe to and supnort
wrong to fall into line and help rebuke this
| iniquity which. by the aid OF an infamous GER
rymander, the spoilsmen are attempting to per-
peerate III tue state whilst they fatten upon the
very vitals of the people. The benevolent in.
| situations, too, are managed in the Same reclr-
| less and outrageous manner and IL Seams tn
me that all decent men should revolt and
should carry on the war until these wrongs are
! righted. As regards the tariff question / am
| in favor of tariff reform, but | believe this can
| best be secured through the Republican party
| as a friendly hand is to be trusted with
the handling of any question than Is that
! OF an open enemy. l favor civil service
| reform, and the only hope we have in that direc
| ton lies with the Republican party The Dem
ocratic party in which have grown up, has for
| years clamored for civil-service reform. The
| Sage Of Gramercy Park, with our late distin.
guished citizen. Mr.. Hendricks, swept the coun-
try upon that issue in 1876. and Mr.. Cleveland
succeeded upon that issue alone, and with less
than two years of his administration gone, we
see that great principle denounced by most OF
the great men OF the party, and the cry is taken
up by the small fry and civil-service reform Is
denounced from one end of the country to the
other l hate shams, and can no longer give In
my adhesion to party of false pretenses and
broken promises"
Last spring bridge was being built by the
County Commissioners, in the southeast part of
town. Sahm. candidate for re- election, and
Reveal, his colleague, permitted the work house
convicts to be used on this work Night and
morning, in their stripes, they were carried
through the city from tue work house to the
bridge and back again. In this progress hun
dreds of honest laborers out of work, who would
gladly have taken job on the
bridge, were passed. The Democratic Commits
soners thought ouly of the cheapness of convict
labor 1t was Of this Democratic
spirit spirit Ex-Governor Porter spoke last
Thursday evening, when he said, relative
to convict labor legislation: 'In 1883 q
bill concerning this matter was introduced in tho
Legislature What became of itq National
politics were discussed, week after week but
this bill, in Legislature both branches of which
were Democratic, was postponed and the Legis-
ture adjourned, after appointing committee to
report two years later. When the Legislature
of 1885 met l called attention to the bill,
asking them to consider II. Tha House again
was interested in national politics An extra
session was called, Ono hundred days passed,
and at the end of that time the bill again
referred to committee, to report two years
hence. Laughter. What does that showi
Either that the Democratic party was utterly
nsincere in it's professions of love for the
laboring man, or that it had not the capacity to
frame bill to correct the evil ] predict if that
bill comes before another Democratic Legisla-
ture it will again be referred to a committee in
structed to report two years hence. In thirty
out OF thirty-eight States there are laws
protecting honest labor against convict labor,
but the State of Indiana furnishes no such pro-
lection"
Yesterday afternoon two pr ointment Democrats
were talking together on Washington street.
Said one of them: II shall put A. c. Harris
paster over Mr.. Byrnm's name"
90 don't think you'll do that when the time
comes" responded the other.
Wall y 49,
the talk that I have had to endure the past few
weeks would confirm me In my purpose, if had
any idea of weakening Only the other day,
within stones throw of where we are now
standing. was talking with DR.. Thomas, of the
Insane Hospital I said to him, Twenty-four
years ago cast my first vote. 1t was for the
Democratic ticket Ever since then have al.
ways voted the Democratic ticket / think I
have earned the right to claim to be n Democrat
and also the right, If honestly believe n maEIS
candidacy is injurious to the party welfare or
interests, to endeavor to secure his defeat
Thomas said, You amt as good Democrat
"'Why,'I asked.
"'Because you never voted for as good @
Democrat as have
"'And who is thatP
"'Jeff Davis, he proudly responded; and then
he went on, expatiating on his services for the
Confederacy. making that his standard Of De-
mocracy
L
service great while, was one of the first sol
diers in Camp Morton, out here / would do il
again, for never could bear the idea of the ne
gro being chattel'
That's where they ought to be right now
said Thomas, and with that our conversation
ended
The other day crowd, gathered at Kelly's
drug store, on North Illinois street, began to
talk politics 1t was shortly after Senator Har-
rsons meeting in the Fayette.street Rink. and
among the party was colored man, who was
eulogizing the Senator. A Democrat who was
present rather resented the negro's compliments,
and said be would like to ask few questions
"All right, SIR" the colored man responded,
cheerfully. Proceed, and / will do de best
can"
Didn't the Republicans say that If the Demo.
Gratis got into power they would put the negro
back into slaveryp.
Il will answer that question with great pleas
ure sir. AS near as I recollect, the Re-
publicans did make some such statement about
twenty years ago. and don't know but that If
you bad come into power then you would have
done So"
"Well didn't the Republicans say that If the
Democrats got into power they would paw the
rebel debt and pass laws to disfranchise you2
And have they done eitherT
"Why, white man. you want to read up on the
current history of your country. Don't you
know the Democracy hasn't come into power
yet? And, please God, that you never Wills The
Senate stands like bulwark between the col.
ored people and the aggressions of the Demo
cratic party, and you can't do what you would"
The laugh at this was too much for the inous.
tive Democrat and he retired from the too I'M
even contest
II have been spending several days out as
Castleton." said Robert z. Smith, yesterday, to
Journal reporter, "and never saw the Re.
publicans in the northern portion of the county
so wide awake. I have known something Of
Marion county politics for good while, and
never knew stronger ticket out than the Re-
publcans have this year. The Democratic ticket
Is as weak the Republican is stroug and ia
not going to receive the support of great many
Democrats in the northern part of the county.