The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-18
CHINESE NATURALIZATION.
Henry ID. Pierce Tells the Truth About tn
Indianapolis Gases.

Henry ID. Pierce Tells the Truth About the
Indianapolis Gases.
New York Special.
The reporter said to Mr. Henry d. Pierce: a'It
is said that you knew something about tho
charge as TO the Chinese voting for Harrison"
"Such q charge is ridiculous The Cinnamon
never heard of Harrison. nor Harrison Of them.
and while did not see them vote, 1 am largely.
If not in the beginning, entirely responsible for
their voting at ell, aud bad been at home or on
hand they, of them. would certainly
have voted the Democratic ticket. The natural
izpg of the Cinnamon was scheme entirely Of
my own. for purpose quite foreign To politics
and wholly professional in its aim, and have
had the credit of the act as an ingenious legal
device to aid Monaghan in a rather desperate
situation. Ii came about In this way: One
Chan Foy. whose naturalization is psrsdrd con-
spicuously In the Democrats papers, had been
a servant in my fathers house. i was his
counsel in complications growing out OF bad
business ventures, and as result OF this
/ have continued ever since TO DO more or
less Of the Chinese business in our city, for the
Mongoliaus. as q rule, 60 in droves. Chan Foy
had left China q few days after his marriage TO
join previously -srrsnged party 10 America.
son had been born, and he was naturally anxious
to return to China, but having advlces from the
Chinese "Six ComDsniss' in San Francisco,
owing to the agitation of the "Chinese ques-
tion," he could not hope TO come back TO
America, he was 10 q desperate plight After
examining the legal questions carefully, IN des-
American citizen. Ii was, therefore, upon my
advice. and for this purpose alone that he was
Isturahzed, and upon my special recommends
ton that he voted. How he should vots or for
whom was not ct ali the question but that he
could 60 TO China as citizen of the United
States who had actually exercised the highest
right and privilege OF citizenship here was
the object land it succeeded admirably. for
armed him with certificates establishing these
facs), and he went and came across the Pacific
with as little molestation az you OF would.
You will notice that his name is the first on the
liss parsded, and il should be particularly OBJ
served that he was naturalized in January,
while be did not vote until October. This alone
should fefute the idea that Harrison had any
thing to do with him. Chibamen are proverbial
imitators, and the result was that became
burdened with applications for naturalization.
Those Cinnamon who were clisnts OF another
attorney we're urged by Chan Foy, at my sug-
Reation, to follow his example. and l always
understood that the movement was entirely &C
credited TO me as q measure OF protection 70
them. AT least several whose names are in
cuded in the seven or eight published were
clients of mine, and acted upon my advice alone,
and the others simply followed their fellows.
1t will be noticed, too, that they were nat
uralized in different months. If they voted
the Republican ticket IL was probably because
was away and because they were all members
Of Sunday-school class taught by conscien-
tious gentleman named Binford mot Carter the
legislator, as charged), a man never active in
politics, but a Republican perhaps. whose
Recommendation TO OF them TO vote the
ticket he espoused was natural, but as remote
from a thought Of Harrison as could possibly be;
and as one Cninamap voted 60 did all they
told me afterwards. Though at present not In
active practice, owing to the demands OF my per-
sonal affairs. still counsel for some Of these
very Cinnamon. and hold in my hand this mo-
ment letter from several in Chattanooga ask
ing my advice about naturalization to enable
them to 90 to China and return. One of these
know expects TO vote for Cleveland. if qualified
in time. This hullabaloo' was raised BY the
Indianapolis Sentinel, an exceedingly ably
edited paper, and this shows the straits 20
which campaining is reduced in Indiana when
the accidental voting OF eight Cinnamon is made
the subject of columns OF newspaper writing
and the topic of partisan addresses"