The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-16

northern Republican States had but two years
before loosed their moorings and swung over
into the Democratic ranks, and that over FIVE
hundred thousand Republican voters had STAN
peded and gone over 10 the enemy
These ten states had TO be reclaimed and
these half million voters had to be over-comed
How well the work was done we all remember
But the most remarkable part Of the letter ia
this, and IL shows the man in q truer. higher
and moro exalted position than that which he
ever before occupied before the American peo-
position in the heart and affection of the people
OF this country; who hassreceived more honor
able scars In battling for the principles of The
hspuoiican party, and who to-day stands
man IN the party, voluntarily and with single
stroke OF his pen, renouncing and discarding all
pretension and aspirations looking TO the presi-
dency, and taking his position in the ranks,
willing and anxious to do battle for those prin-
clples which have often fired the heart and
steeied the nerves." Such heroism shall never
be forgotten.
You can search in vain the annals of history
for q parallel And all this has been done for
the purpose of conciliating and aliaying strife
within the party. Party interest and success is
placed far above personal considerations Hear
him: "One thing only is necessary to assure
success-complete harmony and cordial cooper
alton on the part OF all Republicans; on the
part both of those who aspire to lead and of
those who are eager to follow. The duty is not
one merely of honorable devotion to the party
who's records and whose aims alike great,
but ii 10 one demanded by tho instinct of self
interest and by the still higher promptings of
patriotism. To this end not less earnestly and
more directly o private citizen than pub
lie candidate, should devote myself. with the
confident belief that the administration of the
governments will be restored to the party which
WELD # for the unirv md tie honor Of the Re.
public. for the prosperity and progress of the
people" If these principles here enunciated
and carried out by the politician of the Repub-
1ican party in 1884, instead of now enduring the
infiction of a Democratic administration
James CT. Blaine would be occupying the presi-
Dental chair and the Republican party in full
possession of the machinery of government
But an entire different spirit prevailed-and now
for Moses to lead us ont of the political wilder
ness. Will he comet just SO surely as scom-
ing events cast their shadow before The ST.
lent forces are at work, and from every freside
and from every hearthstone all over this broad
land" from every vale and from every mountain
top. from the Lakes to the Gulf, from the At
lantic to the broad rolling Pacific, the still small
voice OF the people mot the politician) is swell
ing up, and 1t Will go on increasing in strength,
and force, and magnitude. and character, until it
will burst forth into one grand triumphant
chorus, when. June next, it will be flashed with
lightning rapidly all over the world that that
indefatigabe worker, that indomitable and
persevering man, that battled SCARED veteran for
Republican principles, that typical American has
been selected again to lead the Republican host
In lSSS-James G. Blaine, of Maine.
MARION, Ind. Feb b. S. B. BEsHoRE.
Il
70 the Editor of the Indianapolis Journals:
We have a newspaper statement, pur-
porting to be part of the report of the State
Board OF Health. in reference to the sanitary
condition of the State Prison South. in which it
is stated that in order ito make the prison a
place fit to keep human beings in it will be
necessary either to rebuild it entire or to reno
vate it to such extent that tho cost would be
about the same" The board is also made to
say it was unable to find single modern sani-
tary appliance" in the prison.
It is true the Southern prison is an old one
but it is in good state OF preservation. Its
buildings and other sanitary appliances" are
not modern but we think this statement going
the rounds of the papers is calculated to give
wrong impression concerning the true sanitary
condition of the institution In order to correct
this erroneous impression and to allay the fears
of the friends of the prisoners who are confined
here, we desire to give the people, through the
columns of your paper, some Of the facts in re-
gard to the health of the prison, as taken from
the monthly reports of the prison physician for
the past quarter. which has just ended.
In the first place, however. we desire to pre-
mise that at the date of the last annual rep~St,
made on the 31st day of October 1887, tie ply
sician's report shows that there was not o single
person in the prison sick of acute disease.
and only one with serious chronic ailment.
The monthly reports for the past quarter as
well as for the entire year OF 1887 show that no
epidemic occurred in the prison, and that there
mouth of November, 1887. there was an average
lose of time for each prisoner, on account
Of sickness, of but one-half of one
day for the entire month In December
the loss of time for each prisoner was
74-100 Of day. and for the month of January.
1885, the average loss amounts to 77-100 Of one
day This Is the exact truth, las taken from the
physicians reports, and we submit that it shows
as good results of the sanitary appliances
used in the Southern prison can be shown in
any institution in or out of the State. though
they may not be modern" in the sense used by
the Board of Health. Theoretically. it may be
the southern prison is not SIT to keep human
beings in" but practically we are sure it is ali
that need be desired. and we can say to the peo-
pie of the State that the health Of the prison is
now and has been during term of Office equal
to the beat managed institutions of the kind in
our State or country.
The reports of the physician show that there
was but one death during the past quarter, and
D loss account of sickness of all kinds to each
convict OF less than three-fourths of one day in
were able to perform over twenty five and one
half days labor out of twenty-six. and but one
isath in three months out of an average number
Of over $50 prisoners. This, we submit, shows an
small amount Of disease. Or in other
words, it shows results theory.
JOHN HORN,
G. w. DENBo
G. DoANE,
JEFFERsoNvILLE, Feb. Is. Directors.
Gen. Turchfn and the Russian Treaty
70 the Editor of the Indianapolis JournaE
You published in your edition of Sunday a
ct ter from Gen. Turchin, formerly Russian
,ficial and presumably an advocate Of the des-
,otic system under which free speech and free
,ress have been strangled in that empire, in
which he urges that the proposed Russian treaty