The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-11
DEMOCRATIC BUTTER GREASE.
What the Public Press Thinks of Bad Butter
and Diseased Meat for the Insane.

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| meats, rotten butter and sour bread shouid be
turned out to starve. 1t is incapable of keeping
the States wards.
| LaPorte Herald Chronicle: We have never
read anything worse than the management of
the Soldiers Orphans Home under the partisan
rule OF the Democratic party.
Lafayette Courier The more than wretched
management of the Indiana Hospital for the In
sane is another disgrace TO the State and out
| rage upon lot of helpless men and women.
| Madison Courier: The retention of such a
/ man as DR.. Harrison in charge of the benevolent
| institutions of the State is atrocity which
every decent voter should make haste to
| rubuke.
Blufton Chronicle: The way the Insane Asy-
/ lum is conducted is disgrace to the State
| Butterine is furnished the State at creamery
prices Tainted meat is also furnished, and it
is run on purely partisan management
| Wabash Courier: Turn the rascals out" was
| one OF the Campaign cries of the Democracy in
| 1881 The Asylum for the Insane is under Dem
ocratc control The patiepts are fed on tainted
meat. oieomargarine and diseased pork. Turn
| the rascals out"
Portland Commercial: Diseased meat, strong
butter and sour bread are fed the inmates of the
Insane Asylum under the present Democratic
management 1t almost makes one shudder to
think of what will next be inflicted upon the
people by the Democracy.
Attica Ledger: It is an awful shame that the
insane in the magnificent hospital of Indiana
have been made the spoils of scheming and
swinding produce dealers They are fed on
grease instead of butter, and on diseased pork
instead OF wholesome meats
Rushville Republican: Even the Democratic
party cannot afford to stand by man who feeds
the helpless inmates of the Insane Hospital on
tainted meat and bogus butter. A pretense of
has mad hr1f IL &c
weak and fiat failure. The charges stick.
Auburn Dispatch The spois management Of
State institutions that abuses lunatics. and
feeds them on 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 tax payer in Indiana feels it in his heart
that the management of State benevolent
institutions onght to be lifted out of the morass
OF the partisan spos. corruption and brutality,
and placed whore "the light of Gods will
shine lovingly upon it.
Newport Hoosier State: Our Insane Asylum
which Is strictly under the management of
brutal Democrats is fast gaining an upsavory
reputation. The inmates are being fed on food
not fit for a hedgehog to eat. 1t is high time
the dirty raseals were being turned out and hon
est men put in their places.
Indianapolis Saturday Herald: The cry at the
Insane Hospital is not much Turn the rascals
out" as Turn the maegots out" Not so much
open the books as open the butter" First
cure the diseased inmates and then cure the
wholesale debauchery of human health and the
prostitution OF Offices OF trust
Newport Hoosier States. The evidence is clear
and convincing that rottenness prevails in the
management of our State benevolent institutions
under the partisan spoils system. The Repub-
llcan policy of non-partsan reform would redeem
these institutions from the waste extravaganza
and disgrace of their present condition.
Huntington Argus: The evidence is clear and
convincing that rottenness prevails in the man
agement OF our State benevolent institutions I'M
der the partisan spoils system. The Republican
policy of non-partisan reform would redeem
these institutions from the waste. extravaganza
and disgrace OF their present condition.
New Castle Courier: Tine Democratic newspa-
pers feel the pressure of the exposure of the
management Of the Insane Asylum, and are
wildly endeavoring to distract public attention.
The light thrown upon the character of DR..
Harrison. the president of the board of trus-
tees. is not helping the matter particle
Kniehtstown Banner: Maggoty butter dis
eased pork, oleomargarine. sour bread INSULT
cient food. poor vegetables, bad -four 1t seems
to have been the opinion of DR.. Harrison and his
gang that any tning is good enough for the in
sane wards of the State if it only puts money
into the pockets of somebody who is interested
In preserving Democratic supremacy.
Corydon Republican: The report of the Indi-
ana civil service committee shows that specu-
lators have supplied rancid butter and maCgoty
meat to the management of the State Insane
Asylum at the usual contract prices, and that
the management with full knowledge of the
facts, have fed the unfortunate inmates of the
institution with that character of food.
Columbia City Commercial: The Democratic
managers of the Indiana Insane Asylum, at In
dianapolis, have been feeding the unfortunate
inmates of that institution upon maegoty meat
and butterine and charging the State for first
class meat and creamery butter Could any,
thing be more damnabe? Such vile wretches
should be in the penitentary. Turn the rascals
out.
Auburn Dispatch: It is enough to make the
blood in the veins of every citizen in the State
of Indiana boil to know that the poor unfortu-
nate insane people or our asylum have been fed
diseased meat, sour bread, and rotten butter
1t is disgrace to any State to tolerate such
condition of affairs. Read the open confessions
of Democratic officials in charge Of these institu-
tiOns.
Bloomington tIll.) Leader: The inmates of the
Indiana lnsare Hospital, under Democratic
management, are fed upon hogs that have died
of cholera. This is the only indication of econ
omy, on the part of the reform" party that has
come to public notice. Farmers having dead
hogs, victims of cholera on hand should com
municate with the managers of that institution.
The insane patients IT Indiana literally live on
'the (diseased) fat of the land"
Wabash Courier The account of the exposure
OF the mismanagement of the Asylum for the
Insane by the Democratic trustees, attendants
and employees. has created general feeling of
horror and disgust toward the men who have
done these things. cit is a terrible state of
affairs" said one citizen. land if the people of
this State don't rebuke the management of the
asylum shall lose my confidence in the honesty
and sterling morality OF the people,"
Bynum and His Henchman.
"A Woman" in Saturday People,