The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-01
The Administration Kindly Cuts 0utthe
Work for the ST. Louis Convention.
Senator Sherman's Friends Say He will Have
$50 Votes on she First Ballot-The Mills
Bill Under Discussion in the House.
THE WAR ON GRAY.

The Attack OF the Administration Organ on
the Indiana yice-Presidential Candidate.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS journal
WASHINGTON. May 81 The Washington Post
dsvotes two editorials, occupying altogether
over two columns, to Isaac 2. Gray. OF Indiana,
and the vice presidency, For years the Post has
been the leading Democratic newspaper in
Washington. and it has steadily, under this sd-
ministratiou. been recognized as the party's or
gan It gives space to a half column card,
written by Daniel Mcdonald, of Indiana, de-
Tending Gray's record. He tries to explain
Gray's participation in the adoption Of the If
fsenth amendment to the Constitution while
q member Of the State Senate, in June,
1855. saying that his offense against the Demo-
oratic party in this instance began and ended
when be, as presiding officer of the Senate,
signed the enrolled resolution which had passed
the House, and certified to its passage in the
Senate. He contents himself by saying. in an
swer TO another indictment by the Post
as 70 Grsy's Know-nothing record, that the
Governor has denied that he was . member
81 that party. and that if he was q member OF
IL be was scarcely more than twenty-one years
of age. He declares that it has never been
proven that Gray was q Know-nothinR, evident
" forgetting the manifold afidavits of reputa-
BILE citizens in the little Ohio town where he
lived during his Know-nothing career, and pub
lished in the Journal in the fall of 1884. proving
beyond the shadow Of q shade of doubt that he
was not only a Know-nothing. but q very RAM
pant and effective one. To the Posts charge
that Gray il illiterate Mcdonald points TO the
fact that Gray is Governor OF Indiana and
- - H. 2A.2 lsA~ "a
the Republican party. in 1872. when the
Democratic party raised the white flag and sur
rendered to Horace Greeley
Commenting upon this card the Post fays
Gray IL . merciless mauper. Ii cites the records
Of the Indiana Legislature. his political history,
quotes Democrats newspapers in the State, and
the leading men in the party there to prove
every charge it has brought against Gray. and
20 show that everything that Dan Mcdonald
says In defense OF the Governor is "a misstate.
rnent a. well 40 q mistaking Of the ISSUE The
Post closes ITS on the card with these
words "Mr. Gray stands convicted on every
count In these indictments There Is no escape
for him,-not even in the muddled memories Of
convsnienS friends
The second editorial lie captioned Serious
Considerations. II declares that the vice-prssi-
DENTAL candidate should be q man fit in all ss-
spects for the presidential Office, and declares that
although il has no malice or unfriendliness
toward Gray, IL does not consider that he has
shs necessary qualifications 1t regrets that MP
20 this time the charges it has made against
Gray during the past month have not been an
wsred, even by his most ardent friends. Gray's
Know-nothing record and his connection with
the adoption Of the fifteenth amendment, it is
said. are unexplained The charges that he
sacked newspaper Offices during the war, that he
Il illiterate, that he left the Republican party
for political reward. the Post declares stand un-
Sefuted, and that they are enough to lead 10 his
rejection by the Democrats party at this time.
In conclusion, the Post inquiries whether. with
Gray's record in it's entirety and the circum-
stances in general considered, sit is safe TO take
any man for the vice-presidential candidate who
has not a loog, strong. straight and true Demo
cratic record"
To-day's Post has this parting shot az what it
. premature candidate maturely de-
Ifsated: 1--WE think Mr.. Isaac p. Gray is beaten.
The Democratic party does not want him as a
vice presidential candidate. and unless great
pressure is brought to bear upon the convention
~ St Louis IL will not have him. Grsy's Indi-
ana friends say they intend to drive the conven-
tion to nominate their man. This they will ac-
somplish BY threatening to throw up their hands
20 far ~ their State is concerned, if Gray is not
nominated. They will 'read the riot act" at St
Louis before the convention meets, and express
the fullest confidence in their ability to bulldoze
she convention aud secure success