The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-04
With View to Securing Assistance in His
Time Of Trial and Distress, Which Is
Thought To Be Rapidly Approaching.
A Stock-Jobbing Canard Concerning the
Secretaryship of the Treasury.
Long List of Combinations by the Senate
Yesterdays Proceedings In Both Houses
Of Congress-0ther Washington News.
SENATOR PAYNE.
Hs Is Seeking Republican Friendship-The
Defense He Will Make.

He Is Seeking Republican Friendship-The
Defense He Will Make.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, May 3-Since the report of the
committee of the Ohio Legislature which in
vestigated the election Of Henry B. Payne to Che
United States Senate reached this city. close
observers about the Senate chamber have been
forcbly struck by the great assiduity displayed
By the aged victim of the schemes of the boodlers
in counting and conciiating leading Republican
Senators, with the hope, no doubt, Of securing
enough Republican votes to retain him In his ILL
gotten seat in the Senate Before the report
reached here Mr.. Payne hardly ever visited the
Republican side of the Senate chamber; on the
few occasions that he was seen on that side Of
the chamber he was very distant dignifed and
reserved toward his Republican colleagues, but
ever since the text Of the report was first tele-
graphed here from Columbus he has changed his
bearing and demeanor toward Republican
Senators most radically In every respect
What grounds he has for hoping for
Republican aid, Of course, no one can tell az yet,
for II would be manifestly improper for Senator
TO express premature opinion upon question
which he was sure to be called upon to decide
judicially in a very short time. 1t is very doubt
full, however. ifshe receives any aid from the Re
publicans In his dire extremity. The high
handed outrages perpetrated at the time Mr..
Pendleton was politically assassinated and he
(Mr. Payne) elected Senator, have not only
closed the doors Of mercy toward him with all
Republicans, but also with many active and In
Auental Democrats. Nor Is that all: the APP
pointments he has secured-a majority Of them,
ct least-havs been so disreputable that he can
not expect much sympathy from any quarter.
Nevertheless he and his friends are working
like beavers to avert his threatened doom. and
If doodle flowed in streams when he
was elected, it will undoubtedly flow in rivers to
enable him TO retain his seat. AS soon as the
committees report was telegraphed here, Mr..
Payne himself gave his gang their cue by vocifer-
ously declaring there was nothing in 1t which
touched him personally, or connected him in the
least point with the bribery and perjury which
resulted in his election; other peoples withers
might DO wrung, but his were untouched, he
shouted. The gang at once took up the cue, and
have ever since made the corridors of the Capitol
echo and echo with their shouts that Henry
b. Payne was an honest man and that he never
bribed anybody to vote for him to help down
Psndleton, thereby betraying their constituents
spd adding perjury, moral perjury, at least, to
foul corruption and unblushing bribery. And
shis is to be Payne's sole defense! That he never
bribed anybody, or bought any votes Upon
this plea his fate depends. That there is
no defense In 1t the merest tyro can see at
q glance; but it Is the best he has. and
all that he has, and. therefore, the outlook
for him just now is dark, gloomy and foreboding,
and il justice is done his senatorial days are
numbered, and he will go down to his grave with
Disgrace clustering thick upon his forehead.