The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-04-25
Work of the Harrison Machine.

There are a good many thousand
GRESHAM republicans in Indiana, and it is
plain that they don't intend TO submit to
the high-handed methods employed by
the ''Slick Six" in packing the delegation
to Chicago for HARRISON. All considera-
tons of fairness, propriety and decency
have been overridden by the gang in its
efforts to secure solid, square-toed, first
and-last for HARRISON delegation. How
far they have succeeded in sitting the
voice of the very large and respectable
element which prefers GRESHAM remains
to be seen. The gang claims, and with
some apparent reason, TO have carried Its
point in every instance. Judge GREsHAM's
managers, however, declare that a num-
Der OF the delegates chosen yesterday
are very luke-warm in their support
OF HARRISON, and that they will
embrace the first opportunity to desert
Inn for his more popular rival. However
this may be, it is certain that the HARRI-
son managers have exhausted all the re-
sources known to machine politics in their
desperate attempt to obtain control of the
delegation. Beginning with the outrage
in the Second district, where the delegates
were ground out by the machine in utter
disregard OF the wishes of the republicans
of the district, they have perpetrated a
series of outrages which eliminated in
the Indecent performance ut Evansville
the other day, and the farces which were
enacted in the Marion county primaries
Wednesday evening and in the conven-
ton held in this city yesterday. We are
not surprised that so large section OF the
republican party of the state is in open
revolt against the HARRISON gang.
The Evansville Journal, paper OF better
character and larger influence than
its indianapolis nsmesake, has served no
tice upon these fellows that they have
gone too far. The Journal has favored
HARRISON all along, and says it still pre-
fers him 10 GRESHAM. But it denounces,
in vigorous terms, the methods by which
the gang has conducted his campaign in
Indiana, and it says very plainly that the
republicans of the First district will not
submit to be robbed of their sovereignty
by the Vaccinations of a set of unscru-
pulous machine politicians. Other prom
| inent republican newspapers hold the
same attitude. In fact, the indignation is
intense all over the state, and the reaction
which has set in with such vigor against
| the domination Of the gang threatens to
1 disrupt the party in Indiana.
/ OF course we are resigned to the situa-
ton. We can well afford to be. 1t is not
our funeral. We warned the HARRISON
4 managers, at the outset, that they were
in danger of going too far, but they chose
/ to ignore the warning and are already
confronted with the consequences of theil
recklessness. They have overreached them
selves and placed Gen. HARRISON in a posi-
ton which is as unenviable as it must b'
painful to one OF his lofty pretensions as
political purist. Gen. HARRISON, as the
Evansville Journal remarks, is troubled
with fool friends. And we are not SURE
| that he is really wiser than his friends.
Since the above was put in type TIT
proceedings OF the convention at Evans
vile have come to hand. The convention
was very stormy, and terminated in al
open revolt by theVanderhurgh delegation
In several other districts the attempt t
rush the HARRISON programme through
was vigorously resisted, and the proceed
ipgs were of the ''parrot and monkey
[ ordor