The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-16

mate OF the average kepuDllcan'
The world outside takes it for granted
that the sole issue hero is tue tariff. II
is mistake. There are State issues ol
fully us great magnitude, and which are
playing no secondary part i'll this great
political drama.
THE STATE ISSUES.
The local option question which is
fathered by the Republican party will
have the effect OF reducing the Prohibi-
ton majority. The present liquor law is
a very poor license statute. 1t meets
with approval neither from the friends
OF Temperance reform nor the liquor
dealers themselves. The Republicans
have come forward with local option MS
one Of the planks OF their platform. 1t
was in a measure their issue in the last
State campaign, but the plank was so
evasive anil uncertain that it had no eff
feet whatever, in fact it provoked more
OF feeling OF distrust than confidence,
and thus contributed to the partial
overflow ottho party. The efforts OF the
Prohibition party to help Democracy in
to power in this State are being counter
acted by the local option proposition.
The third party people are fighting more
bitterly than ever in consequence, mas-
much rs they SEQ some OF their best
men, the candid, fair.minded men leav-
ing the party and its female suffrage
annex.
Thore are three other great State is
sues, viz: the insane hospital investiga-
ton, the mismanagement and crimes
connected with the State Prison South,
and the Marion county tally sheet for
geries.
In the insane hospital mismanagc.
ment n legislative committee was APP
pointed on January 81, 1857, to investi-
gate alleged abuses. The asylums were
under Democratic control.
CRUELTY AND CRIME.
The result of the inquiry was the de-
velopment of most outrageous and
criminal condition OF affairs. The Presi-
dent OF the Board of Managers, DR.. Har-
rison, was proven to be drawing $500 per
year more salary than allowed him; his
moral character was reported bad; pa
tients were treated with the greatest
cruelty, and fed on the foulest food; two
OF the trustees committed illegal acts,
and in fact the whole institution was
simply vast piece Of criminal misman-
agement used by the Democrat law
makers to supply Offices for their friends
and incomes for themselves. All the
Democrats in the House voted against
the adoption OF this report, but it was
approved by vote Of So 10 81. Thecasc
made n tremendous scandal, and imme-
diately after the adjournment OF the
Legislature, Attorney General Kitchener
brought suit against DR.. Harrison to re-
cover the excessive salary which he had
drawn, and the suit is now pending in
the Supreme Court. Hehad also brought,
and has pending in the Marion Superior
Court, suits to remove Trustees Har-
rison, Grapen and Burrell for the illegal
acts done by them.
REVOLVING REVELATIONS.
The affairs OF the State Prison South
developed more revolving Testimony
than even this. This institution under
exclusive Democratic control was a per.
feet inferno. Beyond the question OF
repeated deialcations, amountingto S20,-
600 or moro, and the petty stealings OF
sa!aried officials, the cruelties practiced
were terrible. OF the cases reported TO
the committee, about twenty or thirty
in all, the following arc sworn samples:
Goddard, d convict, was punished and
killed and his body burlt in the fur
mace. The elemains were seen by u cons
Wet, now confined, and his testimony
duplicates David NJ. Allen, the present
steward, Mr.. Kennedy, guard now ut
the prison, aud Mr., Jack Hilliard, then
guard, and at present residing in JET
fersonville.
Mungo, a colored convict, charged
with stealing file, was Gated on the
bare buck, while on his hands and
knees, by John Craig, then Deputy
Warden, and robust man. Mungo
died from the effects OF this castigation
in great agony.
Charles David, convict, stated in the
presence OF the guard, without denial
from the latter, that he had been impris.
oned continually six months in the
Craza House, and fought the rats for his
life. These rats come through small
slot 2xS inches, which is the only means
OF ventilation and light, He stated that
he was for four days at time without
water.
POLITICIANS IN PRISON.
The tally-sheet forgeries are more
notorious than either OF the other cases,
1t was, in brief, wholesale election fraud
planned in the interest of the Demo.
cratic party by Simeon Coy, Chairman
Of the Marion County Democratic Com
mittee; John Il. Sullivan, Democratic
Clerk OF the Marion Circuit Court;
George w. Budd, the deputy Of Sullivan
Albert Beck, law partner OF the Demo
cratic Representative in Congress from
the Indianapolis district, and Demo
cratic candidate for the office OF City At.
torney; Samuel L. Perkins, son of the
! late Judge Perkins, and prominent
Democratic politician and worker;
Henry n. Spaan, prominent Demo
cratic attorney; DR.. Metcalf, W. f. A
BeFnnAmeT, Stepucu huttIeII aHN Obhel
Demt crats OF more or less Importance
To be brief, Coy and Bernhamer arr
now serving sentences in the penitenti
ary.
The above are some Of the State is
sues, and while they do not rise para
mount to the question OF protection Z
industries and labor, they rank with it
now PENNSYLVANIA WILL HELP.
But in addition to all this, to the re
duction OF the Prohibition vote and til,
support Of the protection Democrats
| Pennsylvania will hold the honor o
chrrying this State for Republicanism
This is written advisedly. The gas bel
OF Indiana extends through half dozel
counties and dozen large towns
Through Hancock, Howard, Madison
J Delaware, Anderson and Noble countie
J the belt stretches in irregular form
Growing cities like Kokomo, Anderson
Marion, Portland, Muncie, Noblesvill
! and Greenfield are doubling their capt
city in industrial. lines. Great glas'
: works are projected and in course
construction at various points, an
/. the wave Of progress is alread
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