The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-31
CHAIRMAN. JEWETT HAPPY.
THE REPUBLICANS LOSING GROUND.
Some of the Causes of Bright Democratic
Prospects-Chairman Taggart Says Ma
riOn County is Certainly For Cleve-
land-Other Political Opinions.

observer would have been impressed with
the numerous and distracting duties that
devolve upon the state central committee
at the close OF this national campaign.
Documents have entirely disappeared and
the work now is on a different line, and it
is evident that the democracy is making a
supreme attempt to put a glorious termi-
nation to the efforts that have been stead
lily put forth for months past. Speaking
to SENTINEL reporter, Chairman Jewett
said:
"The republicans have been steadily
losing ground in Indiana ever since the
introduction of the senate tariff bill.
They seemed to be beaten before that;
now they certainly are"
Chow did the introduction of the SEN
ate tariff bill affect the campaign"
at opened the eyes of two classes Of
persons who are, happily, not so very
large, who have been duped by the re-
publican professions in regard to the tar
if. One of these classes is made up OF
manufacturers and laborers, who, while
believing that the present tariff is unjust,
have been misled by Harrison statement
that reform in the tariff was a step to-
ward free trade. These persons believed
the republican party would maintain the
tariff as at present fixed, but the intro
duction of the senate tariff bill
opened their eyes and convinced
them that the senate bill was a step
that could not stop under the pressure OF
discussion and amendments short of the
proposition contained in the Mills bill.
The other class consists of democratic sol
diers who were affected by the lying state
ment that the reduction OF the surplus
would not leave sufficient money to pay
the pensions. When the senate bill came
in reducing the government revenues be-
tween S70,000,000 and SS0,000,000 a year
these persons readily saw that the pro-
posed reductions would affect them just
as much, no matter whether the reduction
was taken off of the tariff taxes or the in
ternal revenue"
You seem to have entirely changed the
character of your work during the last few
days" said the reporter.
"Yes, the documents are all distributed !;
in fact we began that work early and it
has been very thoroughly done. The re-
publicans, on the contrary. trusted to the
passions and prejudices OF the people anu
that they would not investigate for them
selves, so they did not rely upon anything
except forged quotations from English
newspapers and false reports of the presi-
dents pension vetoes and such other
things. They found that the people would
have no such stuff. Lately they have
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Indiana would investigate for themselves,
and they are now in the laughable bust
ness of loading the mails with bulky
documents intended to mislead people
who have already informed themselves
and come to a final conclusion.
"In view of the wide and thorough dis
tribution of tariff literature already made
our party is relieved from any further
labor in that direction, and we are now
turning our attention to warning the peo-
pie against republican schemes. The
schemes are as many and varied as the
fertile minds of those, to whom lying is
pastime, can invent. One is to send to
democrats, throughout the state, letter
apparently printed on a genuine letter
head of this committee, telling the
democrat that some other democrat,
generally one at the county seat, has re-
ceived sum of money to be used by the
person TO whom the letter is addressed.
on election day. Nothing of the kind has
occurred, but the person who gets the let
ter naturally thinks that his neighbor is
the custodian of some campaign fund and
they hope thereby to create suspicion.
This scheme was worked very largely two
years ago. Another is to send out letter
purporting to come from the chairman of
the state central committee, telling the
person to whom it is addressed that the
state is lost to the democratic national and
state tickets and to make every effort to
elect their local and legislative candidates.
Another scheme is the sending out of
pastors containing the republican electoral
ticket with the request that they be placed
upon prohibition, union labor or demo-
cratic tickets and voted by unsuspecting
persons. They are sending through the
mails to the German people throughout
the state paper printed in German stat
ing that the success or the democratic
party will be due to prohibition aid, and
that the democrats are in turn under
some agreement TO help the prohibition
lists carry out their pet scheme; while to
the prohibitionists they send a copy of the
speech delivered bv their candidate for
president at Danville, and by him in
cluded in letter to the anti-saloon con-
vention at Cooper Institute, New York.
With this comes a statement to the pro-
hibitionists that the democrats are in
league with the saloon element and that
democratic success will be the death of
the prohibition party. So you see the re-
publican gun is aimed at every vote with
the purpose of hitting it if it is deer and
missing il If il is a calf
".They issued forged address purport-
ing to come from the democratic central
committee of Laporte county and pub
lished it in their Journal, knowing it to be
a falsehood. They got up forged edition
of the Labor Signal, the state organ of the
wOrkingmen of this state, which has been
published by lot of honest workingmen
here, under great disadvantages, and
whose only offense consisted in the fact
that they opposed Ben Harrison as a
monopoly candidate and resented the
charge made upon them at Chicago that
they were tramps because they advocated
the nomination of Gen. Gresham.
'The same republican crowd got three
or four so-called workingmen, none of
whom ever worked, so far as their neigh
b0rs know, to sign resolutions attacking
workingman named Gould because he
was making some speeches against Harri-
son on his own hook. Gould's trouble
with these republicans was about some
reward that they offered him and would
not pay. The particulars 1 never fully
understood.
at would be tiresome to repeat all the
various schemes of our sincere republican
friends in this city. They are ably rein
forced from the outside. They have
Dudley, with his straw-bail and ballot-box
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