The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-04
Justice to Rev. MIR. Hickman.

70 the Editor Of the Indianapolis yournsE
Please allow me to correct a statement made
N your issue Of Aug. q. make il not from .
personal motive but for truths sake. Your
correspondent stated that he had understood
that Rev. w.. 81. Hickman had in q lecture adj
vocated intermarriage with the negro as the
best method Of blotting out their race. Allow
me to state with authority that l was a. thas
time q press representative and made a YER
batim report Of the lecture. 1t lies before me
as / write and from IL / quote:
Before discussing this theory [miscegnstionl
/ wish to say q few words by way OF personal
explanation. l am not an advocate OF this
theory, but an expounder. Twas bora in the
South, partly educated among Southern people.
and owned an interest in slaves when the war
broke out. These things formed in me o most
ineradicable prejudice. This theory 10 as re-
pulsive to me as to any one before me this
day"
Thus at the beginning of his lecture he en-
phatlcslly denied the very thing of which he is
now accused. Mr.. Hickman was a Union sol
der, a prisoner IN LIBBY, and is an effective
Christian minister and deserves no misrepre-
sentation. j. 6. CAMPBELs
The Eject of Democratic ScoundreIism.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
The attempt made by the Democrats to con-
strue the kind Offices of General Harrison in the
part he took in the strike of 1877 into acts
of malevolence aud ungenerous appreciation Of
the dignity of labor and Of the rights Of the
workingman is to get beneath The lowest esti-
mate of political depravIty. Leaving campaign
tactics out OF the question, ethics cannot sane
ton the proprietv of robbing a man of the honor
due him for an upright Christian character. 1t
is to teach the young man that the vicious stand
an equal If NOT q better chance than virtuous for
obtaining public honors. The speech of Mr..
Bailey, maze, as 1t was, after ample time WAS
allowed for . careful study Of the matter pre-
soneoA No a rpforfupofa snaach fnr +hA
cause il was intended to promote. Its very tone
and the machinery put in operation TO bring 10
before the public, at once turns the thoughts of
s sns |, reader bring to i. men forth w aoa po Goa.
20 the end it is designed to c~onsummate.
1t came under the patronage OF such men as
Goose Eden, from the promptings OF inmates OF
the penitentiary, and it was applauded by ballot
box-stuffers and vendors Of maggoty butter.
This speech will cost the Democratic party
some Of its best votaries. A few nights after
the speech was given to the public the matter
was being talked over in the Office of a we'll
known professional man and opinions were ex-
pressed rs to its effect on the voters. A .carpen-
ter living on Shelby street, who had listened
but said nothing until he was asked 10 give his
opinion. He said: ~ voted for Cleveland be.
fore. but IL my life 10 spared 1 Will vote this
time for Ben Harrison. l know something about
the services which General Harrison rendered
the Democratic party during the strike. Gov
ernor Williams could find no man In his own
party that could lend him the help he needed.
General Harrison was called upon because he
was an able lawyer, q pure. upright and a brave
man, whose influence among the laboring class
was 4 known. / know how faithfully and
how fearlessly he discharges his duty. BE gave
both parties the law questions involved, and
counseled prudence and demanded justice TO
the men who believed themselves wronged- be
never used the language attributed to him; it Is
a falsehood. / differ from him in politics, but 1
will vote for him co vidicste the truth. that il
is as much the duty of a good citizen 20 defend
the name of a Christian gentleman, a brave, and
LOYAL, and generous citizen as it Is 10 maintain
his standing In his party J. w. r..
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