The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-25
BENEVOLENT PARTIsANSHIP.

CDR" Harrison, in his defense" to the
charges Of the Civilservice Reform Associa,
ton respecting the Insane Asylum, uses this
remarkable language:
''They say the management is partisan, to
which charge we plead guilty. If there is a
Republican voter in the employ of the hos
pital, the board of trustees do not know it.
AS long as this management continues it will
be strictly partisan"
Was ever so shameless an avowal made any
where by anybody about any public institu-
ton? If such an avowal can be made, and it
shall beindorsed by the Democratic party of
Indiana, as it has been by the Indianapolis
Sentinel, the party organ, then indeed is there
need of civil-service reform association in
this State. No Republican will be tolerated
about the insane hospital so long as the pres
ent management remains! President Cleve-
land, whose administration has been
Endorsed" by the same men who utter and
echo this sentiment this is the kind of civil
service reformers your party is in Indiana. 1t
is this spirit that has caused you, under its
malgn influence, to appoint thieves, scoundrels
and dead beats to federal office in this State
until even the Sentinel was forced to cry
"Quit." Civil-service reformers, who thought
you could aid the public service by defeating
the Republican party, behold the kind of
spirit you helped to put into power Let all
men, of all political parties, look at this brazen
shameless avowal of brazen, shameless Boss
Tweed, and say whether the spirit behind
such sentiment is the one to intrust
with the care of the insane people of
the State. The next thing, we shall hear this
doctor avowing that no one but Democratic
patients will be admitted to the hospital
Why shall not the Democratic party manage
the institution exclusively with Democratic
money? No matter what may be the showing
of economy that skillful and misleading
array Of figures may make there can be but
one result from management imbued with
such brutal and brutalizing spirit as CDR"
Harrison avows, and that is incompetency
inefficiency, corruption and abuse. Such
result is as inevitable as fate. It must follow
by law stronger even than the partisanship
exhibited by CDR Harrison, to the
disgust of every honest and true
man in the country. $50 long as the present
management continues It will be strictly par
tisan," says the president of the Democratic
board. Says the Hon" Simeon Coy, the Dem
ocratic boss of Marion county: eff had my
way about it, would vote the patients in the
Insane Hospital" Who doubts it, and who
doubts that the next most Infamous thing will
be done, under the direct inspiration, if not
ORDER of CDR" Harrison9 Says the Repub
lican party of Indiana:
eve favor thorough and honest enforce
1nent of the civil-service law and the extern
sion of it's principle to the State admnistra-
ton wherever it can be made practicable to
the end that the corruption and fragrant abuses
that exist in the management of our public
institutions may be done away with and they
be liberated from partisan control"
We present the contrast for the careful and
conscientious consideration of the people of
the State. This is question that rises far
above party. There is no ''politics" in the
misfortunes of the insane