The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-25
"FALsE ISSUES.u

| ing to force false issues into the campaign.
In what respect, pray?
Is it 'sfalse issue" that the Democratic
administration has increased the State debt
| 81, 600, O00G
Is it 'false issue" that while this money
was borrowed ''to complete the new State
house and insane asylums," to use the words
Of. the Sentinel, that there is now no money
in the State treasury for these purposesg
Is it ''false issue" that, with this bor-
rowed money, upon which the people of the
State are paying interest, estimate allowances
to the contractors for the new insane asylums
have been discounted at or per cent?
Is it ga false issue" that this paper Of the
State has been and is being hawked about the
streets, and among money-lenders, because the
State treasury is bankrupt
Is it "a false ISSUE that the last Democratic
Legislature refused to investigate the condi-
ton of the State treasury, when the Governor
of the State called attention to it, and por-
ton of a committee of the General Assembly
said that there was reason to fear large short
ageq
| Is it "a false issue" that at the session
Of the last Democratic Legislature, the State
Treasurer could only show to committee less
than seven thousand dollars in cash. when he
should have had nearly half million of dol
lars on handg
Is it "a false ISSUE" that to this legislative
committee the Democratic State Treasurer ex-
hibited ten-thousand dollar county order as
part of the State assets, which, only one
/ month before, had been bought by the First
| National Bank of this city,
| Is it "a false issue" that If this bond was
part of the assets of the State there has never
been one dollar of interest upon it accounted
for to the State?
| Is it "a false issue" that the State Treas
urer gave receipt for an installment of in
| terest upon this bond, in his own name, and
with the distinct averment that the bond
was then "held and owned by him [me]g'
Is it 'false ISSUE" in the face of all the
facts, to say that the State treasury should be
opened, the books overhauled, and the money
counted9
Is it "a false issue" that the State benevo-
lent institutions have been plundered, their
inmates outraged and debauched, fed i'm
proper food to enrich tascally Democratic
contractors, and subjected to infamous cruel
ties and barbarities?
ex-Union soldiers, in the Soldiers Orphans
Home, were debauched by Democratic Off
cials2
Is it "a false issue that the children of
Union soldiers were fed on the poorest food,
made to sleep in foul beds, confined in dark
and noisome dungeons, and beaten and
abused by Democratic caretakers who were
paid to look after the children of our honored
and patriotic dead9
Is it "a false issue" that hogs were slaugh-
tered for food for the use Of inmates of the
Insane Asylum from diseased and dying
drove, bought ofsleading Democrats and paid
for by the Democratic board at high prices?
Is it "a false issue" that the Democratic
candidate for clerk of Marion county fur
nished cheap butter grease to the Insane
Asylum and was paid the price of good
creamery butter for it by the Democratic
board?
Is it "a false issue" that the inmates of the
Insane Asylum have been most cruelty abused
the superintendent himself saying that what
is known of these outrages is as nothing to
what remains unknown
Is it ''a false issue" that Democratic officials
on the asylum boards have violated the laws,
drawn salaries illegally, paid no attention to
their duties. and have connived at Wholesale
frauds for the enrichment of pet Democratic
contrac torsY
Is it "a false issue" that the president of
the benevolent boards of the State is man
resting under the most fearful charges affecting
his character as man and his usefulness as a
public officerG
| Is it "a false issue" that this Democratic
president Of the benevolent boards of the State
boastfully announces that the Insane Hospital
is run as partisan institution, and will con-
tinue to be so run as long as the present man
agement remains.
Is it "a false ISSUE. in view of all the facts
Of outrage, debauchery, imprisonmentin dun
geons, cruelties feeding the inmates on dis
eased meats and impure food, fraud and malad-
ministration-to say that the benevolent insti-
tutions of the State should be wrested from
TIE control of the party that has so Infamous