The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-26
Huston,s Dog.

The Democratic artist is beginning to get in
his work. AS the campaign draws to close
some of the higher arts of politics are always
sure to pop up in the gifted souls that control
the Democratic party. During the last moments
OF the Garfield campaign the Morey letter made
it's appearance and was scattered broadcast over
the land by the direction of the great and good
A. s. Hewitt. 1t is true Hewitt knew it was a
forgery; but what is forging libel to Democrat
&c leaders when there are votes to be made and
when they think that it is too late to ''expose
the fraudl'
Just now the great standing Democratic argu.
ment is the fact that the chairman of the Repub-
lican committee keeps dog and doesn't re-
| qulre him to steal his living by foraging among
the slop-buckets in the back alleys. Mr.. Huston
is well-to-do gentleman, and pays for his dogs
keep instead of deadheadng him upon the no.
tel where his proprietor boards.
| This is argument enough to fire the Democratic
heart. What Democrat ever boarded his dog9
What Democrat ever kept fat dogl For the
| Sentinel this is bonanza. Do you ask Mr.. SEN
tlnel editor to explain the troubles in the DEM
eeFattiiss State sEeasury9 His response is 'Hus-
ton keeps dog" Do you point out the robbery,
State and national. by the Democratic party, of
| the American citizens ballots and demand jus
| LITIGATION or explanation? The response is,
| 'Look at Illusions dog-his proprietor boards
| him" Do you point to the outraees perpetrated
by the Democratic party in the Hospital for the
Insane or the Soldiers Orphans Home? The re-
Spouse again is, illusions dog Look at him.
| He is rolling in fat and Huston pays for it"
| Illusions dog" is as complete an answer to all
| the arguments of the Republicans, and to all the
| exposures with which the papers have been load
| ed down for months of the mismanagement
and frauds of the Democratic party, as was, in
| the old and glorious days of the struggle be-
| tween freedom and slavery, the celebrated and
| persistent reply Of the grand old Democratic
party to every appeal for humanity and justice,
| would you have your sister marry nigger?"
| The Democratic party has one merritt always
| adapts its argument to its constituency. "Would
| you have your sister marry ngger?' is propo-
| sition that any Democratic voter could compre-
bend. 1t is as forcible and as direct as free
election Even the twodollar bill, which, ac-
cording to the Indiana authorities, no aver
age Democrat can resist, can't excel in force and
pointedness such appeals as ''the bloody shirt. .
and Illusions dog when aimed fair and square
at the seat of Democratic intelligence. Itamost
equals Hendricks's celebrated Eight dollars a
head, including women and children"
And now the Democratic artist of Indiana, at
the supreme crisis. has produced his able and
pathetic pencil and the State is being flooded
with cartoons of Illusions dog With body as
fat as stovepipe, with legs like sausages and
a tail that stands out with abnormal fatness-
Illusions dog is represented as standing sat
the forks of the road" gazing with fat eyes into
an open saloon. Upon the dogs sides are en-
graved the soul arousne words, 'Vote for Hus-
tons dog" while men labeled "Cumback,"
Dudley" and "Harrison"-to make sure of their
not being mistaken for Democrats-are repre-
sented as standing around with terror and dis
may on every feature. Every Democratic head
quarters and every saloon window in Indiana
is being decorated with this great work of art,
which is expected to arouse the soul of the party
to an extra early and-often a week from to-day.
Undoubtedly this is the elimination of the
labors of Henderson, the gifted chairman of the
State central committee. He keeps no dog.
Nobody can say of or to him, "You have got an
the melihuous hexameter:
Hurrah for Maria--hurrah for the kid,
voted for Cleveland and I'm d glad did,
has now dropped the poetic and at the last
moment taken up the pictorial art
This may fairly be called the climax OF the
campaign The soul that is not enthused by
this great picture and does not now buckle on
his armor is dead to all noble appeals. Not
even the Governors great utterance, ''Vote for
the devil if necessary, to elect United States
Senator" nor Coy's slogan, IF I had my way
would vote the insane for the party" can equal
Illusions dog"
Day by day the Sentinel has poured forth it's
all but inspired editorials upon this great theme,
and now it has passed from the dull cold lead
of type into the glowing lines of the great cam
paign cartoon of 1886.