The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-17
GOV. GRAY scoRcHEs BLAINE.
A Telling Speech Which Was Enthusiastic
ally Received.


Gov Gray held the crowd to a man.
He began by saying: "If l ever enter
tanned a doubt that the democrats
would carry this state, that doubt was dis
PEELED when / saw this great and earnest
crowd here to-day. Such enthusiasm as
has been manifested here can mean moth
ing short of an overwhelming victory"
Then the governor took tilt at Blaine,
saying:
James G. Blaine, in his first speech after his
arrival home from Europe where his plume
had waved in the halls of Cluny castle. and in
the breeze as he rode on the top OF Carnegie's
tally-ho coach over the hills of Scotland, de-
clares that trusts are private affairs with which
neither the president nor congress had any
thing to do. Mr.. Blaine, finding that his de
Tense of trusts was unpopular with the people,
and that the country was with Cleveland on
that question, has become very much out OF
humor with the president. Last week this
"uncrowned king of the republican party, In
stumping Indiana for Harrison, spoke at
Goshen, ana in his anxiety to try and make
the political record OF other statesmen appear
as bad as his own, in his speech referred TO the
refusal of the L. ). senate to 90 into
an investigation of the election of Senator
Payne of Ohio to a seat in that body. He said:
Nor was rumor quiet as To the interpoSitiOn OF
IIfe NATIONAL 10 suppress III
vestigation. If President Cleveland had been
as eager TO examine into great trust as he was
to denOunce them all in his message, his OPP
portunity was there. But unless all rumOrs
be at fault the social Establishments of the adj
ministration were lavished on republican SEN
ators to secure enough of them to join the
democrats to take off the curse of unanimous
democratic resistance to an investigation OF
trust" Thus Mr.. Blaine attacks the official in
tegrty and party fealty of every republican
L. 5. senator who voted not TO 90 into that in
vestlgatiOn. Who were the republican SEN
ators that voted with the democrats in that
case? They were Senators Ingalls,, Miller,
Plumb, Sewell, Riddleberger, Sawyer, STAN
ford, Teller Van Wyck, Chace, Jones, Cuilom,
Evarts, and the heroic John A. Logan,
the most conspicuous volunteer field
officer of the war and the candidate
OF the republican party for vice-president in
1884 | desire to call the attention of my
publican friends to this attack by Blaine upon
the official and political integrity OF republican
q. S. senator's If Mr. Blaine's statement is
true it is a sad commentary on the republican
party. The living senators, however, are abun-
dainty able to defend themselves if they choose
to do so. But what will the soldiers of Indiana
and Illinois say as to this attack by James q.
Blaine on the official character and political
integrity of the intrepid Logan, than whom
more gallant officer never strobe horse in the
hour of battle. His plume, like that Of
Marshal Murat of NapOleOn's old guard, was
always seen waving in the fore front
rank of battle. No man ever before dared to
cast suspicion on the integrity of John A.
Logan, and Mr.. Blaine would not have dared to
thus asperse the official reputation of the great
soldier were he living. But Logan is dead.
The eagle eye that never quailed with fear is
now sightless. The voice that rang out along
the line of battle is hushed forever. He fills a
soldiers grave, but is not forgotten. His men,
DRY lives wildly in the heart Of every man who
admires true courage and devotion 10 country.
1t was left for Blaine while speaking for Har-
risOn in Indiana, TO try to tarnish and cast sus-
picion on Logan's official and political record
by charging that Logan was swerved from
the Establishments of the administration.
1t would have been bad enough for Blaine to
have charged that republican senators had
been sweryed from their sworn duty by the
Establishments of an administration of their
own party, had there been one at the time; but
TO charge that such man as John y. Logan
could be swerved from the obligations of his
official oath by the Establishments of an adj
ministratOn OF an opposite party, is to bellttle
him in the estimation of all true men, When
Blaine used the words social blandishments,"
he evidently desired his audience TO understand
that that was q mild way of putting it, This
charge of Blaine's to republican senators
having been Influenced by the social blandish-
ments of the administration TO east their
votes against the Payne investigation, has
been conjured up solely in the mind
of Blame by his anxiety to
make a point against the president. and
in his attempt to do his statements simply
aspersed the official reputation of fourteen re-
publican u. $. senators. | think the peO-
pie will await with some anxiety to see
whether Harrison or his managers will in any
manner disapprove of this attack by Blaine
upon the name and fame of Logan. For it will
not be forgotten that Blaine was speaking for
Harrison when he engaged in his work of as
persion. He spared neither the living nor the
dead but with ghoulish hands tore open the
grave of Logan and virtually said to his heare 5,
while he held up to view the battle-scarcd
remains of the illustrous dead: This was a
man who in life was a U. S. senator and pre-
tended to be an honest man and n republican.
But when put to the test proved recreant to j
party and to his sworn duty as a senator, IA
TO be nothing more than trucking sycophant
fondling at the feet of the administration in
power.
In conclusion, the governor briefly but
tersely discussed the tariff question.
When Gov. Gray had finished, Judge
Thurman and party were driven back to