The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-20
A NEW LIGHT APOSTLE.

The Democratic State central committee is
flooding the State with a ee5trade letter al
legged to be written by one Fisher Doherty, of
Charlottesville, in reply to circular letter of
the Republican committee, upon the subject
of "Protection to American Industry" Chair
man Henderson evidently thinks very much
of Mr.. Doherty's effusion, and his lavish in
dorsement of it commits the Democratic party
to absolute free trade even more clearly than
does the Democratic State platform. But we
have reason to fear that the Democratic COM
mittee have "garbled' Mr.. Dohertys letter.
Mr.. Doherty has written another letter, adj
dressed to citizen Of Hendricks county, from
which the Republican Of that county gives
the appended extract:
'You Say you don't want to owe any Man
that would write Such foolish Letter on FL
nance-well Dan suppose you beleave Money
getes its Valuefrom the intrinsic Value of the
Metales. Know thare is some who Enter
tain this opinion-and are good Honest men
THAR are all so men that believe mohomet
was the only god appointed teacher to man.
II Know of good honest mon that believe
the Pope Of Rome is infaelible.
''Thare is men that believe the Earth is fat
and when they goe to mill thay Put Corn in
one End of the Bage and bige stone in the
other, to Balence. I have heard that thare
was an old Lady in Kentucky that did not
know that Christ was Crusfde l suppose you
believe in tariff to Protect Labor and that
we should be so Pat riotic as to bee willing to
Pay the Extra Prise to help the Laboringe
man-but it is aquestion who getes the Chease
the monkey or the Gates"
The Republican says the above lis an exact
copy of Mr.. Dohertys style, as furnished in
black and white by Mr.. Tucker, to whom the
letter was addressed, and who still retains the
document. 1t is well suggested that Mr..
Henderson should incorporate Mr.. Doherty's
able views on finance with his views on free
trade and circulate them together. The Re
publican has the following by way of per-
sonal introduction of this new and shining
light in Democratic literature:
GAS nearly as we can ascertain, he fDoherty
started out early in life as churchmau. But
the CHI urch proved too slow for his mercurial
brous tenets of the orthodox faith, and in time
became Free thinker. He next espoused the
cause of the Wing party; was next Know
nothing; then an Abolitionist; then Demo
craft then Republican; then Democrat
again; then a Greenbacker; then Good
Templar; then political Prohibitionist; then
a Republican again; then Socialist;
then general reformer, passing in
rapid transition through all the stages
of belief and unbelief permitted under this
anomalous head, and finally waking up one
morning and finding himself strongly i'm
pressed with the conviction that there was no
personal God, and that he owed the remainder
of his life to the cause of the Greenbackers
He still clings to this faith"
1t is very inspiring sight to see the Demo
cratic party of indiana going forth to the bat
tie under the lead of Mr.. Fisher Doherty
with his banner full high advanced, upon
which is emblazoned some one of the many
gems that are found in the Tucker epistle
from which we quote. But it is serious
question ''Who getes the Chease the monkey
or the cattaspu