The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-17
Chickens Coming Home to Roost.

NiAAShChS cunning w AhCOHs'
Most of Judge GREsHAN's friends in In
diana are holding studiously aloof from the
republican campaign. They told the dele
gates at Chicago in June that Ben HARRI-
son could not carry his own state ii he
were nominated, and they are not disposed
to make very desperate efforts TO prove
themselves false prophets. Besides they
have not forgotten nor forgiven Ben HAIR
RIsoN and his immediate friends for the
unmanly and disreputable methods they
employed against Judge GRESHAM during
the contest for the nomination. NICHE
NER HUsToN, New, CARR, GRIFFIN and
the rest of that crowd are intensely OBJ
noxious to the Gresham republicans of
Indiana-and their name is legion. The
prominence of these gentlemen in the
management of the campaign is an ele-
ment of great weakness. Mai. CALKINs
and BILL HOLLOWAY, who were as fierce
against HARRISON at Chicago as anybody
have, il is true, been reconciled (nomi-
nally) by a scent OF the spoils, but the
other leaders of the Gresham faction, and
the rank and file, are still "sulking in
their tents" They will not lift a finger TO
help Boss New ard the 'Slick Six" carry
Indiana for HARHsoN.
1t could hardly be otherwise, in view Of
the extraordinary acrimony and bitterness
that characterized the Gresham Harrison
contest before the Chicago convention.
The temper with which that contest was
carried on, and the methods resorted to
by the Harrison machine to discredit
Judge GRESHAM with the people of Indiana
are shown by the following extract from
an editorial article that appeared in the
Terre Haute Express a few days before the
convention met:
Things have come to pretty pass when In
diana republicans find il necessary to scatter
lies broadcast to the end that a distinguished
republican of this state Judge GRESHAM !,
now universally commended by the people
OF all other states, may not eclipse candidate
in whose candidacy these ISLANDERS are enlisted
[BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Among other things charged is that Judge
GRESHAM was a knownothing, a charge
brought against him in 1866, when he was run
ming Tor congress against MICHAEL G. KERR,
and which the latter said publicly was
not true; that he had Investigated 1t
ana ulN not nellcNe IT, III Is
now revamped by republicans and
only yesterday JAY CUMMINGS, the secretary
of the VigO county republican committee, took
pains to call the attention of the editor of the
German paper 10 the publication volunteering
the information that he, CUMMINGS, knew the
charge to be true What do republicans
think of this kind of work. especially by such
as CUMMINGS, who live off of campaign funds
contributed by men who are equally as friendly
TO GRESHAM as to HARRISON?
The story as published in the Commercial
Gazette yesterday makes a point that Gen.
GRESHAM can not carry Indiana. The senior
proprietor of the indianapolis Journal says the
same thing. AS we said above, this sort Of
thing viii not tend to help Gen. HARRIsoN'S
cause.
1t will be remembered that not only
the Terre Haute Express, but the Fort
Wayne Gazette, the Evansville Journal and
other leading republican papers of In
diana, were filled with articles of a
similar tenor TO the above for weeks be-
fore the convention. Their provocation
was certainly great. These journals are
now giving a very lukewarm support to
Ben HARRISON. Apparently, they are not
particularly anxious that he should carry
Indiana. 1t is quite plain that most Of
Judge GREsHAM's friends throughout the
state are equally Indifferent.