The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-30

HuCoIiOA VI LAO decentralization VI LhSSO AO1
partisan benevolencesY Every taxpayer in
the State contributes to their support; the in
mates Of the various asylums, and homes, and
hospitals come from all classes, and from
members of all parties. The people, without
distinction Of political faith, vastly, vitality
interested in the question which the Senti-
mel declares is "a false ISSUE" and in which
they have ''no special concern"
have the people 'no concern" in the treat
ment of the insane, the blind, the deaf and
dumb, and Of soldiers orphansf
Is it "no concern of the people that ward
workers and party bummers are employed as
keepers and attendants of the unfortunate in
sane against the repeated but Intellectual pro-
tests of the superintendent
Is it ''no concern" of the people that pet
Democratic contractors are paid big prices for
inferior articles of food furnished the Insane
Asylum?
Is it 'no concern Of the people that John
E. Sullivan furnished eighteen-cent butterine
for the use of the insane patients, and was
paid for it at the rate of thirty-eight cents per
pound, the contract price for the best cream
cry?
unblushing fraud and corruption is not only
practiced in a large State institution, but
openly boosted of
Is it mo concern of the people that dis
eased hogs were purchased of leading and
prominent Democrats, the State paying Cor
good animals, and losing the difference be-
tween that price and what was received for
thousands Of pounds of offalg
Is it "no concern" of the people that the ia
bles Of the asylum were furnished with meat
taken from this diseased and dying drove9
Is it "no concern" of the people that the In
sane Asylum is so managed that one of the
trustees was forced to resign the treasurership
because he could not become responsible for
an inefficient book-keeper that the doctor"
Harrison ring determined should be appointedG
Is it "no concern" of the people that the in
sane patients are daily liable to the abuse of
incompetent, inefficient and inhuman attend
ants against whose methods and whose APP
pointment the superintendent uselessly pro-
tested?
Is it ''no concern" of the people that, de-
spite the earnest requests of the superintend.
ent, backed by an experience of one month
in which hundreds of dollars were saved, the
trustees of the Insane Asylum declined to buy
in open market, preferring to give contracts
to pets at prices much higher than market
rates?
Is it "no concern Of the people that waste,
extravaganza, fraud, corruption, abuse and
all manner of Encouragement is proved to
exist in the Insane Asylum, against which
doctor" Harrison does not attempt any other
defense than to cry that the charges are parti-
san, and made to affect the pending election9
Is it ''no concern" of the people that the
Soldiers Orphans Home was made veritable
hell under Democratic control, the children of
ex-Union soldiers being liable to outrage
debauchery, and every species of cruelty at
the hands of Democratic officials?
Is it ''no concern" of the people that the
deaf and dumb of the State were taken from
under the care of competent and experienced
instructors, and put in charge of the most ig-
norant and inexperienced officials9
Is it "no concern Of the people that the
deaf and dumb children of Indiana are now
under the tender mercies of a man whose ed
ucation for the place he holds was obtained as
deputy warden of the State prison?
Is it "no concern" of the people of the State
that the Democratic Legislature declined to
allow an investigation of the State Treasury,
when report of committee showed that
there was but 81, GOO in cash in the Treasury
vaults9
Is it ''no concern" of the people that the
public debt of the State has been, and is being,
enormously increased because of Democratic
ineficiency and Extravaganza
Is it ''no concern" of the people that the
public service in the State has been SO de-
graded by the appointment of thieves, dead
beats and scoundrels that even the Indian
apolis Sentinel was forced to cry "Halt" to
the national administration
1t is our opinion that all these matters are
ones in which the psople have a very special