The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-07
THE PEOPLE WILL NOT CONSENT.


The people of Indiana will not consent that
the orphans of soldiers shall be outraged, de-
bauched, confined in dungeons, and subjected
to unspeakable barbarities at the hands of
Democratic officials
The people of Indiana Will not consent that
the inmates of the Insane Asylum shall be
fed meats taken from diseased and dying
drove of hogs, as well as on cheap butter
grease, furnished by Democratic contractor
in fraud of the asylum and of the State
The people Of Indiana will not consent that
the benevolent institutions shall be prosti-
tuted to the most corrupt uses by shameless
partisan bosses who make an open boast Of
their infamy.
The people of Indiana will not consent that
the inmates of the Insane Asylum shall be fed
on maggotty butter and sour bread to enrich
Democratic Cuisines" mon.
The people of Indiana will not consent that
the inmates of the Insane Asylum shall be
subjected to nameless cruelties at the hands
of incompetent ward bummers, employed as
attendants at the demand of Democratic Sena-
tors and politicians.
The people of Indiana will not consent that
the superintendent of the Insane Asylum
shall not be permitted to save five hundred
dollars per month in the purchase Of supplies,
merely to add to the profits of Democratic
contractors who deaLin grease"
The people of Indiana will not consent to
the continuance of such management Of the
benevolent institutions of the State as has
disgraced the name of humanity, and made
every decent, honest citizen blush withshame
and indignation.
The people of Indiana will not consent that
doctor Harrison and his fraudulent and
corrupt ''ring" shall control the benevolent
institutions day longer than may be neces-
Offices they have prostituted and disgraced.
The people of Indiana will not consent that
law shall be violated and the credit of the
State hawked about the streets, in order to
profit Democratic Treasurer of State.
The people of Indiana will not consent that
the books of the State Treasury shall be kept
closed, and the money remain uncounted, q
day longer than is necessary to turn over their
custody to some one who will let in the light.
The people of Indiana will not consent that
the warrants of the State shall be hypothecat-
ed at banks because the Treasurer of State
does not see fit to pay them.
The people of Indiana will not consent to
be longer ruled by the Sim Coys of the Dem
ocratic Liquor-league alliance.
The people of Indiana will not consent to be
defrauded or cheated out Of their suffrage at
the command of political thieves and bum
mers, who seek to hide their infamies and
prevent the exposure of their crimes and
frauds.
The people of Indiana will not con-
sent to the plots and schemes, already
Matching at the Democratic headquarters
under the lead of gang of heelers and
scoundrels, by which the ballot-boxes are to
violated, if it be shown that the "gerryman-
der" is likely to fail of its purpose.
The people of Indiana will not consent to the
plots to stuff the ballot-boxes, to manipulate the
boards Of election, to corrupt the count tofalsi-
fly the returns and to use Sterling r. Hollis
Ratchet again, if these be necessary to prevent
the overthrow Of the Democratic party.
These are some of the things to which the
people will not consent and the fact may as
well be recognized now as later. If an honest
ballot is to be vitiated by frauds and crimes
there remain the law and the penitentiary, and
tothese the people will appeal, to the confusion
and punishment of the men who attempt to
throttle and debauch their voice and verdict