The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16
WHAT IT WILL DECIDE.

Republicans Of Indiana, the national and
State elections will occur three weeks from TO-
day. 1t is customary to speak of every election
as the most important in our history, but Ger.
tainly none in recent years has involved
more important consequences than the one
now so near at hand.
1t will decide whether the national govern
ment shall continue to be administered by the
party that tried to destroy il, its high Offices
be filed by ex-confederates, and its Constitu-
ton and laws be construed in the interest of
the lost cause.
1t will decide whether the solid South, made
so by the suppression of the Republican vote,
and aided by fraud and corruption in New
York city, shall control the government and
country for the perpetuation in power of the
rebel Democracy and Southern brigadiers.
1t will decide whether Union soldiers shall
take back seats, and the men who shot at
them during four years of civil war be given
places of honor, ease and profit.
1t will decide whether republican form of
government is to be permaner tly banished
from the South. and Democratic frauds
to ride rough-shod over the rights of free
whites as we'll as free blacks.
1t will decide whether the rebel flag, kissed
by Jefferson Davis and cheered by the multi
tude at Macon, proudly carried in a process
sion at Richmond, and openly displayed in
become again the representative OF organized
Democracy.
1t will decide whether the American peo-
pie shall have for President a man who, in
time of war, met his ~country's enemies in
the field, and fought till the surrender at
Appomattox, or one who sent a substitute
and remained at home to make money and
vote with the party that declared the war a
failure.
1t will decide whether the President of the
United States shall be a statesman, an orator
and a Christian gentleman, or none of these.
1t Will QeClQo WuctucE we eudll nave a
President and Congress in favor of protecting
American industry aud preserving American
markets for American producers, or of sur
rendering these great interests to foreign
control.
1t will decide whether the policy under
which the United States have enjoyed a
degree of prosperity without a parallel in the
history of the world shall be exchanged for
one which carries disaster, ruin and poverty
in its train.
In ] ldiara it will decide whether the polit-
ical methods of Coy and Bernhamer, now
serving time at Michigan City for frauds
done in the name and interest of the Demo
cratic party, shall be rebuked or not.
1t will decide whether the political heirs
and assignees Of these convicted felons shall
still shape the politics of the State.
1t will decide whether forgery, perjury,
subornation of perjury, bribery, ballot-box
stufiug. criminal libel and assassination of
private character are to become permanent
and controlling factors in Indiana politics.
1t will decide whether the Insane Hospital
is to be rescued from control of the Harrison.
Sullivan gang which has outraged its inmates,
souandered it's funds, and made the institu.
tion a den of thieves to further their dirty
partisan schemes.
1t viii decide whether the State government