The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-18
DEMOCRATIC BUTTER GREASE.
The People Demand Change in the Manage.
ment of the Benevolent Institutions.

Versailles Republican: The management of
the Hospital for the Insane is disgrace to our
State and an outrage upon helpless humanity.
Lafayette Courier: The Democratic manage
ment of the Asylum for the Insane should of
itself be sufficient cause for turning the party
out of power.
Knightstown Banner: Democratic officials
feed the inmates of the Lunatic Asylum on
maggoty butter, diseased meats and spoiled
fruits and vegetables. Turn the rascals out"
Goshen Times: In the Indiana Hospital for
the Insane it has been the practice to enrich
Democratic commission men and produce deal
ers by allowing them to charge for good butter
while supplying second-class grade Of oleomar-
garine. And this is Democratic reform.
South Bend Tribune: Very few Democratic
papers in the State are defending the Democratic
management OF the insane asyiums and the
Democratic management of our State finances,
which have bankrupted the treasury. The one
is so horribly cruel and the other so outrageous
ly dishonest as to admit of no defense.
Logansport Journal: Honest and humane
Democrats, who do not believe in the brutality
of feeding the helpless insane upon sour bread,
rotten butter and hog cholera meat, for the ben
eft OF greedy partisan contractors, will vote for
change" in the administration of our State be-
nevolent institutions. ''Turn the rascals out. :"
Richmond Telegram: The State benevolent
institutions are shamefuly msmanaged and
the inmates treated with shameless cruelty, and
yet their president boasts that if there is sin.
gle employe about them who is not Democrat
lie does not know it. He thus unwittingly dis
closes the reason why these institutions arc so
diSgraced by their management.
Elkhart Independent: Isn't it about time to
open the books? "Dr." Harrison has attempted
to reply, but he makes SO lame u defense that it
is not worthy OF notice. does it attain to the
dignity of argument, his chief topic and para
graph being tits lie;" but Just the same the
evidence and character br9 Il
him an unmtigated nuisance to his party and
the times in which he lives.
Logansport Journal: A bankrupt State treas
ury, a rapidly increasing State debt brutality
and corruption in the State insane asylum,
blood curdling atrocities in the Soldiers Orphans
Home and refuge for feeble-minded children
and general state of Generalization, are the
characteristics of the present State administra-
ton. Let US have change" Turn the ras
calls out" and 'let the books be opened"
Kendaliville Standard: The managers of the In
diana Insane Asylum know the Democratic heart
The PRESIDENT of the board says: If there is Re
publican voter in the employ of the hospital
the board of trustees do not know it. AS long
as this management continues it will be strictly
partisan We are quite sure no Republican
wishes the name of his party in the least com
plicated with the disgraceful management of
that institution as at present conducted.
Evansville Journal: The manner in which the
poor. helpless patients in the Indianapolis Insane
Hospital have been treated by the present Demo
cratic management is enough to stir the pity and
resentment of every humane person. Rotten
meats, musty -four and meal, spoiled vegetables
rancid butter and other unwholesome supplies
have been furnished the hospital by favored
Democratic pets at enormous prices. The treat
ment of these helpless people is disgrace to the
State. Harrison, president of the board, has
been proven to be unfit in every way for his
place, yet he s kept there regardless of the well
fare Of the patients and the reputation Of the
State
Huntington Herald: Is it not time that some
party other than the placehunters and spoils-
seekers now In charge OF these benevolent in
situations be given control of the charitable and
benevolent institutions Of our Statel The man