The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-30
CAPTAIN WHITES CASE.
How the Proposition to Unseat Him Is Re-
ceiVed Throughous the State.

Anderson Herald: If Captain White ia un
seated it will be of the boldest 0utrages ever
perpetrated in Congress.
Columbus Republican: If the House sustains
the committee in the Lowry White case it will
be an outrageous injustice, but it will aelp to
make Indiana solidly Republican.
Shelby Republicans: II Captain White is re-
fused his seat the Republicans of the For,
peal to the people for justice. The men who
voted for him before should adhere to his cause
for the purpose of rebuking the shameless par
tlsanism that stole his seat.
A SHAMEFUL DECISION.
Wabash Times (Dem
The House committee on contested cleo
tlons has had the LowryWhite IN
der consideration several days. and will
oubtless report to-day in favor of scat
ing Judge Lowry. We have watched with no
little interest the progress of this case. and now
that decision is to be rendered in Lowry's ia
vor We are prepared to denounce IL as the most
contemplate piece of blind partisan inju Justice
that the Democratic party has ever been guilty
Of Mr.. Lowry is Democrat and Captain
White IS Republican, but that is reason for
the Democratic press stultifyine itself by ap
plauding the action of the committee.
We perfectly willing to bear the reproach
and odium, If need be, of uniting with the Re-
publican press for once. and but briefly, and
recording our unalterable opposition to the en-
ployment OF any such methods to main tain
Democratic supremacy in Congress. Judge
Lowry was defeated by overwhelming major
ity in district that would have given him at
least twenty-five nunOf00 more votes imam his
opponent received, had he been worthy the
Democratic nomination. He defeated by
Democrats because they could not indorse his
record of drunkenness and debauchery, and be-
cause he was known to be corrupt in office and
a traitor at all times He not only lost his own
district by the weight of his multiplied infamies
but to him, more than all others combined, at
taches the blame of defeating the Democratic
S tate ticket in 1886. Five thousand three hun
dred Democratic votes lost in his district
alone, and the number will be doubled next fall
If Captain White is unseated.
THE PROPOSED UNsEAT1NG OF CAPTAIN WHITE.
Fort Wayne Gazette.
The pretext upon which Captain White is to
be thrown out Is the most trivial that has ever
the United States. Captain White is a repre-
sentative American citizen, and we might almost
say ideal one. Coming to America when
mere boy of eighteen years. he set out with no
aid but his strong hands and true coursge, to
carve out a career of which he may Justly be
proud A careful, industrious and conscientious
business man, his success assured.
When the war broke out, and the men, whose
representatives now insult him in Congress,
attempted to disrupt and tear aSunder the
nation, he forsook his calling. took the oath of
allegiance like the loyal faithful citizen that he
has always been, and fought the battles of his
country. bullet wound received at Shiloh is
an eloquent testimonial of his naturalization.
OF his career since the war, let his election
speak. 1t is enough that he was elected in a
Democratic district by overwhelming MAORI
ty. 1t took votes to do it, and those votes rep
resent men in a large part who personally
acquainted with Captain White. and know him
to be an honest, honorable and capable citizen
Who could read this career and not say. that
ex emplifies the ideas on which the United States
are founded. That is representative citizenship
which is our boast Such careers the pride
of the Nation They show the grand possibih-
ties of our system of government and yet the
congressional committee of Democrats tells us
that this career is to be frowned upon. and that
our franchises not good when we elect such
q man.
The unseating of Captain White will be the
most high-handed outrage ever perpetrated on
community in the name of national legislation,
and the Gazette has greatly misjudged the sem
timents of Captain Whites constituency if the
insult be not properly resented.