The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-02
DEMOCRATIC BUTTER GREASE.
Further Comments Of the State Press Upon
the Insane Asylum Infamies

people; they have gone to SHINING dead con.
vlcts
Lafayette Journal: The Democracy have
made lndiana's benevolent institutions brothels
and hog pens-places of RIGHTEOUSNESS and thea
tiers OF rapine and lust
Greencastle Banner: Instead of refutine the
specific charges against him, DR.. Harrison re-
sorts to the bad boys ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS anoth-
err" That won't do with intelligent people.
Richmond Telegram: The president of the
trustees of the benevolent institutions is still
rumbling away. but his rumbline isn't strong
enough to put down Dir. Sullivan's Insane Hos
pital butter.
Martinsville Republican: When we consider
the kind of a man who Is at the head OF the
management of the benevolent institutions or
the State, there is no wonder at the corruption
and Generalization that exists in these institu.
TONS
Lafayette Journal: DR. Harrison, the Demo
cratic president of the State board, unblushing-
ly says that the Indiana Lunatic Asylum Is run
In the interest of the Democratic party; hence
there is no wonder that outrages abuses and
corruptions daily abound in that institution
Logansport Journal The spois management
of State institutions that abuses lunatics, and
feeds them diseased meat, rotten butter and
sour bread, and skins the bodies OF dead prison
ers to secure material for fancy canes, must go.
1t is inhuman, and the great heart of the people
Will revolt against it,
Logansport Journal: Every honest and right
thinking taxpayer in Indiana feels it in his heart
that the management of our State benevolent
institutions ought to be lifted out of the morass
of the partisan spoils, corruption and brutality,
and placed where 'the light of Gods sun will
shine lovingly upon it."
Richmond Telegram: Dr. Harrison says that
the trustees of the Insane Hospital paid the
grease ender, Sullivan, the highest price for
creamery butter for the lowest grade of butter
inc because they were legally bound to. 1t must
Stnni0 a EnaVlSh.
trustees that would get themselves legally bound
to do so unbusiness-like thing.
New Castle Courier: The recent exposures OF
the corrupt management of the Insane Asylum,
and the earlier exposures of the beastly and In.
human treatment of the inmates of the Soldiers
Orphans Home, all the direct result of partisan
control, are we'll known to every Democrat in
Henry county, yet they are expected to stultify
their manhood and vote to continue these lnfamleS
for partyS sake
Spencer Republican: The inmates of the In
diana Asylum for the Insane have been under
Democratic hummer control for some time and
the outrages perpetrated upon the helpless in
mates would shame heather. Maggoty and
rotten meat is furnished for them to eat because
Democrats could speculate therein and make
money off the taxpayers of the State. Turn
the raScals out
Seymour Republican: This deploraole condi.
ton of our benevolent institutions is the imme
date fruit of the heartless partisan measure
originating in the prolific brain of Hon. JasoE
B. Brown, and known as the Brown benevolent
bill. Next to the Infamous gerrymander, this
is probably the most wantonly wicked and une
Just of any of the remarkable statutes enacted
by the notorious Legislature Of 1885.
Richmond Telegram: The president of tie
board of trustees of the benevolent institutions
seems to have heart for most anything in the
way of defense of the Democratic anagement
of those institutions. Suppose he gives the pub
lie his views regarding the late Trustee Goar
and the late Superintendent White, Of the Sol-
diers' Orphans Home Are they pure and IN
corruptible as Sullivan, the grease venders
Monticello Herald: party that will openly
advocate the policy of conducting charitable in+
situations on partisan plane will not hesitate to
profit by cruelty to the inmates. The wicked
ness practced at the Insane Hospital, as dis
closed by the recent investigation of the civil
service commission, speaks plainly of condition
of things closely bordering on barbarism, and
only possible under the dspensation of venal
and partisan management
Goshen Times: With the gcrrymander In
dorsed benevolent institutions Of the State will
continue in the hands of the men who are using
them to enrich themselves and their friends
while the helpless inmates will be at their mercy.
The gerrymander was intended to stifie all in
vestigation. 1t DISTINGUISHES the people who
want to know what is being done with the vast
sums that are annually collected for the purpose
of maintaining these great charities.
Franklin Republican: Dr. Harrisons reply
clearly shows him incapable of understanding
his duty in any higher sense than to serve his
party, and his idea of party service Is so low
that the better element of his own party will not
approve of it. Every houest-minded man who
reads the Doctors attempted vlndicatton or his
course must acknowledge the necessity of max
ing the management of the benevolent institu
lions non partisan as soon as possible.
Elkhart Review: CDR" Harrison of the In
sane Asylum insuted every respectable citizen
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that asylum was conducted on partisan basis
and that appointments are made for partisan
purposes. Such a declaration is worthy man
who would ever try to cover up such atrocities
as are reported from that institution. After
that statement it is not to be wondered at that
he defends the disreputable contractors who
cheated the State in the supplies furnished.
Princeton Clarion: If onehalf is true of the
management of the Insane Asylum that Is re-
ported by the recent investigating committee the
institution Is disgrace to the State. 1t Is
enough sorrow for the friends Of the unfortunate
who are confined in the asylum to know that it
is necessary for them to be there. But an
additional weight must be added by partisan
board OF managers, who are so lost to all self-re-
spect and manhood as to misuse them and to
place before them food that dogs would NOS
touch.
Seymour Republican: For legislative body.
having only selfish and partisan ends in view,
systematically and In the fullness of mature COM
victions of the great wrong done to make laws
that hold as naught even the ordinary feelings
Of humanity. that transform the States benevo-
lent institutions to foul electioneering retreats
presided over by men whom the wonder is that
overwatchful Providence has not struck dead
in their tracks for atrociouS and manifold sins
committed. is an innovation at which honest and
humane people, regardless of party, stand
aghast, and which they will not sanction.
Columbus Republican: This cold blooded boast
that all the institutions provided for the unfor-
tonates of the State at so much expense are run
as political machines to aid the party in power
and reward party service is infamous Has ii
come to this, that the asylums for the insane,
the blind the deaf and dumb, are to be turned
into asylums for party bummers, that the vel.
fare of the inmates Of those institutions is to be
subordinate to that Of party workers9 How much
longer will it be until the people will arise in
their might and demand that these great institu-
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