The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-30
A CATALOGUE OF LIES AND LIARS.

A CATALOGUE OF LIES AND LIARS.
1t is quite evident that the managers of the
Democratic campaign have issued orders to
make a simultaneous attack along the whole
line, to stop, If possible, the wholesale STAN
pede of workingmen from their party into the
ranks of the one devoted to protection to
American industry. On no other hypothesis
can the present outbreak of lies against Gen.
Harrison be accounted for. In 1880, toward
the close of the canvass, when the assertions
against Hancock were dangerous and threat
ening, the Democratic managers hired a will
ing forger and sent out the celebrated Morey
letter. This trick was played when the neces-
sity seemed to have arrived to do something
to avert the tidal detection of w~orkingmen,
who were properly alarmed at the attitude Of
the Democracy and the unsatisfactory ex-
preston of Gen. Hancock toward the tariff.
1t would have been played sooner had the
necessity sooner developed, but the forepart
Of the campaign in that year did not show the
drift that afterward occurred. This year
the circumstance are different. The Presi-
dents message and the Mills bill had set the
pace, and the Democracy knew that whoever
might be the candidate the prin-
cipal issue would relate. to in
d~ustries. in which. Of course. the
workingmen would be specially interested.
So they evidently prepared themselves with a
stock of lies and ~forgeries to be used against
whoever should be the Republican nominee.
By changing places and dates these could be
made to serve against any one. They are now
being scattered broadcast with a synchronous
virulence that shows their common origin and
purpose. The Democratic managers would.
of course, not hesitate to forge a letter and
sign General Harrison's name to it, as they
did in 1880 with Garfield; but they have
either lost confidence in their forgery
writer, or have concluded that it might be
more difficultof detection if the forgeries were
uttered by word of mouth or as extracts from
newspapers. The Journal proposes to cata-
logue a few of the baldest and most notorious
lies that have come to its notice, with the
liars who utter them, or are made responsible
for them, wherever they can be identified:
LIE NO. THAT at a meeting in this city, in 1877,
Gen. Harrison said to the railroad strikers that he
would have every train run, or wade in blood to
his finger tips" This lie, in this special form, is
credited to Uncle" Ben Zahm, of Roodhouse. Ill.
LIE NO. 2.-That at a meeting in this city, in 1877,
Gen. Harrison said to the railroad strikers. "were I
Governor, / would force you back, or you would be
shot down like dogs" This lie, substantially in this
form, has been repeated a number of times, but az
quoted here is attributed to one E. f. Gould, of this
city, and is printed as coming from him in the New
York Herald.
LIE NO. 3.-That Gen. Harrison said to the railroad
strikers, "Your wages afford you a living. Work.
ing men do not need pie. cake or sugar. All these
are Injuries that you seldom enjoy. A dollar aday
and two meals, consisting of good bread. butter
and s~ow-belly. is enough for any workingman."
This lie is also credited to E. F. Gould, and is
printed as coming from him in the New York
Herald.
LIE. NO. A letter to the Journal says that on a
train of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago rail
road the conductor handed the writer the following,
written on yellow manifold paper. on typewriter,
accredited to the Milwaukee Daily Review:
'GooD PRoTEcTIoNIsT DOCTRINE.
BETTER for the workingmen that they be willing
to content themselves to work for 10 cents per day
rather than incur the risk of being thrown out of
employment by their masters, because of their eff
forts, by means of organization, to secure increase
of wages. 4 dime will buy two losves of bread.
and water can be had for asking. Even this poor
| fare is better when eaten in independence than that
| doled out by the hand of charity
"These words were uttered by Benjamin Harrison,
the Republican nominee for the presidency, while
making a speech at Attica, Ind, during his guber-
Material campaign against Blue Jeans Williams in
1876"
The conductor who handed this slip to the Journal
correspondent says it was being busly circulated
by a Mr.. Reed. lostcar accountant of the Pennsyl-
vania Company"
LIE NO. 5-Mr. E. F. Gould. of this city, In his New
York Herald interview, repeats this lie about the
Attica speech in substantially the same words.
LIE no. 6--The Golden Coli Trauscrip. quote. a
letter, which it says was written by Mr.. Condor, of
Bloomington, Ill. to a co~untryman and per sonal
friend in this city. in which he says:
ben Harrison statedhere eight years ago. in Durlv
Hall, in this city, that it was a well.known fact that
the Irish race furnished most OF the occupants OF
the peni,entiaries, and that the only thing he knew
10 tt kVOA Ah "a a ~ oAVftA ILL ~ bEdUt Fdlk-
roads"
LIE NO. This lie is one used by the third party
Democratic annex, and is TO the effect that there
was kept standing at the head of the editorial
columns of the indianapolis Journal during ths
campaign OF 1854 the words. II am unalterably
opposed 20 prohibition. "--BESJAMIS II. HARRI-
SON. This lie. so far as we have been able to trace
it, originated with the Alliance, the organ Of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
| LIE NO. 8, EFT AL.-These refer. generally, to Gen.
Harrison's relations TO the soldiers under his com.
mand; that he was harsh and cruel: strinsing men
up by the thumbs for light oHenses; neglected the
sick and dying of his command, etc. etc, and that
out of AS members of his command in this city 90
declare they viii vote for Cleveland.
1t is not necessary to say a word in reply to
this latter lie, and all OF its kind. AS Genersl
Harrison we'll said to the soldiers Of his regi-
ment who called on him, their spokesman