The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-20
THE VIEWS OF GEN. HOVEY
Part of the Programme Which the Gov
ernor-Elect Proposes to Carry Out.
Pressure Of the Observation-Disclosures and
Increase of PopulatiOn-Tbe School-Book
Burden-Talk with Hon. is. Clarkson.

General Hovey, Governor-elect is at the New
Denison. He came mp from his homo. a. Mt
Vernon, yesterday morning, and will remain
three or four days before proceeding TO Wash.
ineton. The General is looking well. He says
the f~atieues Of the campaign spent their fury in
his throat, almost dsprivine him Of his speech
for several days during the fag-eud of the cam
paign; but now his vocal organs are active. his
eyes clear and his step is quick and elastic.
One of General Hovey's objects IN spending q
portion of the week at the State capital is to
confer with the leading men relative to certain
policies which he will advocate In his message to
the Legislature. He believes that there should
be high amt firm grounds taken
in favor Of registration law;
a law similar to that in force in Australia or
New York. He favorN also smaller voting pre-
cincts-precincts with not over $50 or 800 voters.
He would also make it a crime for any ono to
challenge a legal voter, knowing him to be a Illegal
voter; and he would keep at a distance OF from
forty to sixty feet the crowd about the polls.
This, be says, can be done by means OF a chute.
The General also favors the application OF the
liquor license and dog-tax incomes TO the con-
s%truction Of free gravel roads. from leading
point to leading point at first, and then in local
communities. He believes this would increase
the value Of lands, prove a blessing
to everyone, specially those owning small farms
who cannot stand turnpike or gravel-road taxes.
Then" said he, to q formal reporter, i've do
not need this income for the schools under the
present condition OF our school fund. would
also work our convicts on the public highways.
1t would not be competition with private labor,
because it would be in a free public improve
ment for which neither public nor private funds
would be expended. / think the people OF In
diana at large. in all parties, will indorse a
policy which will insure the purity of the ballot.
ard tba raposruetinr ~ fyaa Oraya1 rnada With.
out taxes
How about an extra session of the Legisla-
ture?" was asked.
sit is not my impression. 4" the General re-
piled, "that there will DO an extra session. 1t
cannot do good to the party in power; in fact l
believe the people will repel it; and il only the
deprivation of the Offices to the new executive 10
in view, that can be done az we'll after the
regular session as now. don't think the Dem
ocrats can AFFORD it."
Are you beseiged much By oficeseskersr
Probably five hundred already" replied the
General, laughing heartily over the eagerness o:
not important to either personal or party sue
GEES. / am not sure that they give strength
in any direction. What We need
is some wholesome legislation. We
want to begin now and do something for orr
State and our people. / wish l could help the
soldiers of the State. They stood by rs mau-
fully this time; they have done so before. Con-
gress should remember them promptly and lib
orally. About 65,OOO soldier votes were cast
this time in Indiana; two-thirds Of them for the
Republican ticket"
"Eow do you account for your receiving less
than the 10. 900 majority you predictedP
"By q less vote in the State than the increase
of population indicated would be cast. If the
total vote had come up to expectations our ma
jority would have done So"
Further. during the conversation, General
Hovey said Of what he thought Of proposing in
his message to the Legislature: ~ want some
thing done to lift tho school-book burden from
the people. From Ave to eight hundred per
cent. profits are paid on school books. There is
q monopoly in the trade which should be broken.
The masses will. / feel. stand by me in an effort
TO break up any collision there may be between
the school-book publishers"
General Hovey intends resigning his seat in
Congress. to take effect with the expiration of
the present calendar year. Then he will come
direct to Indianapolis, prepare his message. and
be ready for the work which will devolve upon
him on the 18th of January. He says be has q
pile of letters awaiting him in Washington, de-
manding action in the departments. and ne is
anxious to get hold Of them. He spent most of
yesterday with officers at the State-house and
receiving friends who called upon him at the
hotel.