The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-18
DEMOCRATIC CORRUPTION
Col. Charles W. Woolley Says Donavin Has
Told Only 0ne-Eighth Of the Truth.

Interview in New York.
AS remember, when the polls closed in Ohio
on the election for members of the Legislature
that elected Mr. Payne to the Senate, he had but
six votes in the entire delegation. When the
vote was taken in the caucus, however Mr.
Payne was found to have secured fifty sight
votes, forty eight of which were cast for him,
and the remaining ten handed over to Gen. Dur
bin Ward, in order to humiiate Mr.. Pendleton
who received but fifteen votes to Mr.. Wards
seventeen in the caucus, This you see, left Mr.
Pendleton at the bottom of the entire list. al
though he had received fifty-two distinct pledges
of support. twenty eight of which were in writ
ing, and every one of which arc preserved in the
vaults of the Union Safe Deposit Company in
this city.
''Mr. S. X. Douavin assumes to trace $37, 900
OF the money alleged to have accomplished this
result. was quite ill at the time and cannot
trace cent. | believe, however, that one man
alone. whom Mr. Donavin does not mention, OBJ
tanned $50, 600. had come to know that there
was more or less corruption in all of these sena
toral elections, and therefore, and for a further
reason. that is the difficulty Of proving that
which one feels he knows, have never done
what Mr.. Donavin has done. Yet. in NY iudg-
ment, Mr. Donayin has only told about one
eighth of the truth in dollars and cents 1t was
the nastiest, dirtiest, and most dastardly piece
of treachery of the public will that has occurred
IN any parliamentary country since the days of
Walpole, Senator Payne has never rendered
any service to the Democratic party since he was
candidate for Governor in 1855"
DO you believe that Senator Payne is person
ally involved in this corruption27
NO. sir. He stood behind the garden wall,
orifammed as it were, by the brilliaucy of wealth,
with many Dick Dashwoods to the front, and
yet cannot affirm that Senator Payne had per-
sonally to do with any of them. All the same.
however, they did the work for him. l have
looked upon the fight from the standpoint of
morality. because that would localize 1t to
personality. Nearly or quite all of these sena-
torial elections involve. either directly or indi
rectly, corruption; therefore, understand dis
tinctlv that | speak of Mr. Payne's election from
a general and public standpoint. | am told that
most Of the presidential appointments made in
Ohio by President Cleveland have been made
upon the recommendations of Mr. Payne and
Governor Hoadly. and yet believe that nine
teen out of twenty OF them should be in the
Ohio penitentiary today
DO you think the condition of affairs in Ohio
is becoming permanently badP
mo. The State of Ohio having been for
years what is commonly called an October State,
had been internally debauched each year by
both. parties until natural elimination was
reached IN the Payne election. The people of
Ohio, speaking at large, are grand and noble
people. and when [ find such an article as you
have read to me to day written about the State,
RESENT III Will Ill tuo I0eIlnS G0dC a man may
possibly possess. Cincinnati is in the hands of
thugs At the last October election the Demo
Gratis were, in my judgment, defeated through
out their whole ticket by from four to six thou
sand. Every who holds Office in Ohio
to-day under that election holds it in defiance of
the will of the people. 1 do not think the
journalists of the country should so much an
noy themselves about the condition of things in
Ohio, for the people of that State are quite equal
to the duty of cleaning their own stables The
country should remember the generals who
saved it in the late rebellion are from Ohio, and
that their sons on duty there now, De they
Republicans or Democrats"