The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-12-28

!. HARRISON AND DUDLEY.
They Arc Boon Chuma And Clos
\ Knit Companions.
Fec yesk werId's Indianapolis special.
Ex-Soustor Greene smith, Who becsm
famous the country over during ID
sensational sessi0n Of the dead locke.
,, Indiana General A Assembly In 1867. b
holding against RrpablicAn intrigue en-
threats Of force the Presidents chair Il
the senate. Vas st the Grand Hotel yes
J terday. lie has the frame OF Hercule
and the eye 0fa hawk. Talking to IN,
World correspondent about the recen
!, Developments In the election fraud cases
; the adjournment az the Federal Grans
Jury and its probable outcome, the 70
sigasti0n Of United States District A.
torney Sellers and the sensation Il hs1
caused. he said: ssThey talk ab0nt ths
Republicans throwing Dudley over and
conniving for his Indictment Ii q ab.
surd. There are. Il 10 true, men In the
IfepubIican party who, for personal zeal.
ousy's cake, would be glad 20 zee bud.
ley sacrificed. But they dare not move
. finger against him. Ben Harrison
Won't have IL so. He has had no such
useful ally % Dudley. Il IL we'll known
that Dudley and John New are enemies.
and Dudley was appointed TO the posi-
Ition he held In the campaign contrary
10 Mr.. News advice and over his pro-
ltest- No one need talk Of Gen. Harrison
being dispiessed with the odium that
DudIey's letter and the exposure OF its
results has brought upon his election.
Gen. Harrison will make Dudley Com.
missioner OF Pensions. The Dudley
method Was not new one. Dudley has
been given credit for the blocks OF iive.'
put he wss not their originator. Dorsey
VS.. The svsfem started with him in|
1851, Tor IN 1876 poIl-books Of both par
lies ~ this btste agreed that the pur-
chass0le vote was ouly 500. The re-
vu'sion Of feeling csused by the shsme-
purchase o. 1880 was such thar 1854 was
almost : moneyIess battle. Gen. Har-
rIe"n was thoroughly familiar with the
Dorsey style Of politics, and his own
night for reelection to the Senate We
conducted on shsi very plan in 1885.
when Csrn~xie's money came in here.
and Gen. Harrison superintended the
struggle himself u u no wonder that
Harrison has not vo ced himseIf on the
Dudley letter when given chance.
Indiana j. as debauchcd as 4 COM
monwes.th can he. DudIe.'s apooiut-
men' 20 thr Trv, surership or The Nstjon-'
~ Cvmmlttee was . Tor. st. 10 NV
mind, o. the trsnsfr OF the Indiana
Dors~y methods e. New York. Aid N
told Gov. Hill soat Mitchell, lad. where
we spoke from the same platform. L
told him ft wac Dudley's mission to
tsnsfer the block " i've .v-tem 10
Nv York ~ watch out for him. He
"s~ dangerous quantity in any CON-
snunity.
"'Ii can't be DONE the Governor said
~ will br imp0-siDie - put il into e(-
fec, 10 New York Css,.'
II told him there would be M Effort
fo do that that the work could be done
~ the back counties, ~ Il was In this
state. The result in Indianapolis. Fort
Wayne and Terre Ksute show that the
cities were not the objective points Of
Dudley ism.
Gov. Hin said the people in New
York wouldn't tolerate Il. But the re-
velstions that tho World has been max
!nR Of the shameful bribery By which !
New York vas carried must have chang
- be mind, and - the World shows,
NE same thing was doue in other East !
Otthe Dudley letter Senator Smith :
AID: 1T it had not been for the expos- !.
re Of the Dudley letter The Stale OF In.
''sna would have given Harrison 15Olo
majority. Il opened the ewes OF The
Democrats, and We broke up the blocks :
y nve' 10 large measure. But Il was .
90 late. The Stale. leaving money out J.
. q. was safely Democratic. We had
aimed on the tariff and kent our own
oattng vote IL line. But there was the =
~ o. the whole disgraceful perform y
nee IN this State. It was not the Y
pnstisusionaI doater that defeated us. I"
lev ground altogether was broken. Ill
- men whose honesty n exercising
e ri&ns o. sunrage had never before
een Questioned. The purchase was n
'ame'ess. There Il only one thing 10 .,
admired IN u. snL that 10 the braxen 4
'dacity with which Il VS. carried out. !,
2 train going from Greensburg the
lturday before election talked with . I.
epublican Of prominence, Who told me l, q
en that the Republican manaeers re- Z, =
'xed the State was going against them =
iss merits. and hsl organized with q q
oney and we're simply going TO buy Il. y :"
had just becn q : caucus where three u u
rmers had given 600 apiece. - -
"Even the World has not begun 70 !. -
csure the debsuchery OF the ballot In =" -
e State. There ID no theory or sur 4, 4,
'sing about this. 1t q fact. II nv ~
70 county Jennings I'm I ueiohbor. - -
% you can walk over IN three ouar- 8. -
= o. % hour. there were twenty votes -
ught outright and ten hired 70 stay q, =
me.
@va.t ingenuity was exercised b. the
nsied men'in conducting their bribery. r.,
2 tickets were skiIlfully marked In iii
2 precinct IN Jennings county, where ~
!, votes are cast and where. In le76 and ms
4. we bad 80 Democratic majority, OF
eve tickets came 10 on which the the