The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21
STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS.
Favorable Prospects for General HOvey's
Election in the First District.
Candidate McCuIlOugh'S OdiOus Record While
aMember Of the State Senate-'Cel." Hick-
Inns Career as a Confederate Soldier

A Republican from the First district, who
was in the city yesterday, says that the prospects
are very favorable for the election of General
ALVIN p. Hovey to Congress. Mccullough, the
Democratic candidate, is unpopular in his own
party, and there is much ill-feeling over the
unfair methods that he employed to secure his
nomination He has none of the qualities
of character that attract men. and
naturally strong dislike for hims entertained by
large per cent. of the Democratic voters Of the
dirtrict, was embittered By the INSCRIPTIONS
means that he resorted to in forcing himself
upon the party. Besides" said the Firstdis-
trict man, she has shown himself to be s1ch
transparent demagogue that he has thoroughly
disguised every sensible man in the
district His estimate of the in
telligence of the people and his own
hypocrisy is pretty fairly illustrated by the fact
that he recently attended picnic, near a village
on the Louisville. Evansville & St. Louis rail
road dressed in suit of jeans. He will hardly
be successful in Disgusting his real character.
however, as he made record during his term
in the State Senate which gives q
fair measurement of his breadth as
cause, believe, of his being overwhelmingly de-
feated, for it is hardly likely that the people
whom he has so obnoxiously misrepresepted. in
his legislative career will send him to Congress.
The farmers living along the Ohio and Wabash
rivers are not likely to overlook his opposition
to the bill appropristing money for their relief
when they were suffering from the floods Of 1888.
Mccullough not only voted against
the bill, but spoke against it. Another thing he
did that will cost him many votes was despicably
small. When a committee was appointed by the
State Senate to attend the funeral of Schuyler
Cofax the most prominent Odd-fellow in In
diana, Mccullough persistently objected to their
being sent at the States expense, and when
asked, simply out of respect for the distinguished
statesman, to withdraw his objection in order that
it might not appear in the record of proceedings
he refused to do SO. Mccullough was also the
chairman of the Senate committee which stifed
the investigation of the State treasury Another
thing in his record that is odious to the working
men is his opposition to the bill prohibiting the
employment of children in mines and factories,
although the Democratic party pledged itself in
its platform two years ago to enact such law.
If it Is possible for man to make record that
will damn him, Mccullough will certainly, be the
victim of stunning rebuke this fall"
AS to the soldier element represented by the
candidates on the Republican and Democratic
county and legislative tickets, Reader" is in
formed that the Republicans have the best Of it.
Col. Samuel Merrill, candidate for auditor; Judge
Howe, candidate for Superior Court judge VIM.
Irwin, for Criminal Court judge. and Capt.
Parker S. Carson were all for long terms in the
army. The Democrats have but one Union sol
der candidate, Major Mitchell, for prosecuting
attorney. This, however, is Offset by
the nomination of "Col" VIM. M Hick-
lin, who served in the rebel army
under Price His service was brief, but
it is said he had enough of it at Bonneville Mo,
when the Union forces whipped Prices com
mana and scattered it. Hicklin, with others,
sought safety, it is represented. by running as
far as Nebraska City, town that. within three
months, increased from 1000 to II, 900 popua-
ton account of the inroads of non fighting
not lessen his courage in talking about what
carried this mode of combativeness up to the
close of the war. and rounded it off by expressing
delight at the assassination of Lincoln.
A reply to the report of the civil service COM
mittee disclosing corruption and abuses in the
management Of the Insane Hospital is, it is
understood, being prepared by the trustees of
that institution, and will be published to-mor-
or Thursday 1t is expected that they
will endeavor to make it appear that the
investigation was a political matter, as there is
other plea that they offer to shield them
selves, further than to make general contradic-
ton of the charges.
j. Burgess Brown has compiled for the State
central committee a campaign song book, con-
tanning number of patriotic songs set to popu-
lar airs