Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-09
TnE HARRISON MAcnIrr.
The " Slick SIX I'm Indiana lTachins
Methods Worked to Secure Ben's Nomi
nation at Chicago.

The " Slick Six" I'm Indiana - Machine
Methods Worked to Secure Ben's Nomi-
nation at Chicago.
Thcre are good many thousand Gresham
Republicans in Indiana, says-the Indianapo-
lis Sentinel, and it is plain that they don't
intend to submit to the high-handed meth
DDS employed by the 'sSlick Sixn in packing
the delegation to Chicago for Harrison. All
considerations of fairness, propriety and
decencv have been overridden by the gang
In its efforts to secure q solid, square-toed,
hrst-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 in
stance. Judge Gresham's managers, how
ever, declare that number of the delegates
chosen are very lukewarm in their support
of Harrison, and that they will embrace the
first opportunity to desert him for his more
popular rival.
However this may be, it is certain that the
Harrison managers have exhausted all the
resources 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
series of outrages which eliminated in the
indecent performance at Evansville the
other day, and the farces which were
enacted in the Marion county primaries and
in the convention held in this city. 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 charao-
ter and larger influence than its Indianap-
oils namesake, has served notice upon
these fellows that they have gone too far.
The Journal has favored Harrison all along.
and says it still prefers hun to Gresham.
But 1t denounces, in vigorous terms, tho
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 unscrupulous machine politicians.
Other prominent Republican newspapers
hold the same attitude In fact, the indig-
nation is intense all over the State, ana the
reaction which has set in with such vigor
against the domination of the gang threat
ems to disrupt the party in Indiana.
Or course we are resigned to the situa-
ton. We can well afford to be. 1t is not
our funeral. We warned the Harrison man.
ayers, at the outset, that they were in dan
ger of going too far, but they chose to ig-
more the warning and are already confront
ed with the consequences of their reckless
ness. They have overreached themselves
and placed General Harrison in position
which is as unenviable as it must be painful
to one of his lofty pretensions as political
purist General Harrison, as the Evansville
Journal remarks, is troubled with fool
friends. And we are not sure that he is
really wiser than his friends.