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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20
DEMOCRATIC CORRUPTION

The report comes, with good evidence of it's
truth, that the Democratic State central COM
mittee received, this week, one hundred and
forty thousand dollars, the first installment of
the colossal corruption fund sent out by the
Cleveland Barnum mule buyers to buy the
State of Indiana. The Democratic commit
tee and all the 'heelers" are in high feather,
of course, revealing in the possession of this
immense Doodle. and indulging anticipation
Of more before election day.
People of Indiana, every honest man in the
State knows, as well as he knows anything,
that the sole reliance of the Democratic man.
ayers in this State is falsehood and fraud, ly-
ing and corruption. This one hundred and
forty thousand dollars is part of the price put
up by the Democracy for the suffrage of Indi-
ana. The question for Republicans and hon.
est citizens to answer is, whether the shame
less, unblushing. open and notorious plans of
the corruption managers is to be permitted to
succeed. Let Republicans increase their
activity and vigilance, and on the day Of cleo
ton see to it that every effort at fraud is
peremptorily defeated.
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many voters, and is still KEEP. out of the

many voters, and is still kept out of the
Union.
Dakota is kept out of the Union by the
Democratic party. The exclusion of the
Territory is part of a conspiracy to prolong
the power of the Democracy until the South
becomes firmly seated in the saddle. If Da-
kota had been peopled by New York toughs,
Baltimore shoulder-hitters, and men of the
Coy and Bernhamer stripe. the Democrats
would have dragged it into the Union by head
and shoulders years ago. Because it has been
populated by an honest. intelligent, enterpris-
ing class of men from the Middle and West
ern States, a majority of whom are Republic
ans, the doors of the Union are kept closed
against the Territory, and its zoo, 900 people
are permitted to beg in vain for admission.
Great Britain never treated one of her colo.
MES as bad as this, aud Russia herself would
hardly venture upon such al exercise of arbi-
trary power. The American people should
drive from power and into disgrace a party
which thus habitually and systematically
tramples on the principles Of popular govern
ment. The exclusion of Dakota is q national
outrape-
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der the seal Of an Indianapolis assembly. he
says twill be investigated" y is the one printed
on the type and press of the indianapolis Sem
tinel and fraudulently circulated at publish
ers' rates as a pretended supplement to the
Labor Signal. Its invention, preparation
and circulation have been marked by fraud at
every step. The circular itself is an elabo-
rate compilation of unmitigated lies. Its
printing on the type and press of the Senti-
mel as a supplement to the Labor Signal, with
out number, date or publishers name, was a
swindle. Its circulation in the mails at a
cent a pound was a fraud on the government,
and now General Master Workman Powderly
denounces it as a fraud on the Knights of
Labor, and says Assemblies receiving these
circulars should pay no attention to them"
II looks very much as if the rascals who have
been working this fraud had overreached
themselves.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20
THE INSANE ASYLUM HORROR.

DR.. w. B. Fletcher was for several years
the present corrupt and infamous manage
ment, until forced to resign to preserve his
self-respect. In an official report to the Leg
~islature of 1887 a Democratic committee said:
d Fletcher is a man we'll fitted by nature
for the responsible position. He is kiLiheart-
ed. benevolent and humane To these nat
ural endowments he has added, by as siduous
study. q thorough medical education. More
over, he has made the treatment of the insane
a speciality, and has acquired, by a wide and
varied observation, both in this country and
in Europe, and unremitting study, a know
ledge of the subject suspassed by few of the
many eminent men engaged in this noblest
work"
With this Endorsement, even Democrats are
estopped from DENYING that DR.. Fletcher is a
good witness, as to the management of the
hospital. His long service as superintendent
gave him ample opportunity to observe the
inside working of things. Since his resigna-
ton, in a public speech in this city he said:
1.-The whole institution is a fostering mass
of political corruption, wherein the innocent
are made to suffer, and the only alienation
for those suffering will be to carry the next
Legislature, with each member pledged to
support the State civil-service plank in the
Republican platform.
1.-The hospital has been q continuous polit-
cal ~pest-house, and a place, too. of refuge for
special political work of visiting and other
statesmen, who found the law-offices of the
city and private rooms in hotels were too pub
lie for their work"
In support Of this statement DIR. Fletcher
| produced an overwhelming array of facts,
showing cruel and inhuman treatment of the
insane, and fraud, corruption, favoritism,
jobbery and peculation in the management.
Every county in Indiana has its representa-
tives in the hospital. Almost every neigh
borhood has had an inmate there. Any fami-
ly is liable any day to be obliged to commit
one of its members to the institution for
treatment. The highest considerations of
humanity and Of personal sympathy alike re-
| quire that the hospital should be managed
with a tender and supreme regard for the in
t~erest, the welfare, the comfort, and the hap
piness of It's unfortunate inmates. Instead Of
that they have been beaten, bruised, NAL
treated, fed on maggoty butter and diseased
meat, and the public money, stolen from the
States insane, has been squandercd on pet
contractors and divided among thieves. AL
this has been done in the name of party and
to establish and maintain a corrupt school Of
partisan politics.
Turn the rascals out.
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Political Notes.

At a fair in Rondout Governor Hill rolled
LOLA votes to 40 for Cleveland, in a contest for
q present.
A correspondent of the Baltimore American
says that General Golf. Of West Virginia, will
poll the largest Republican vote ever cast in the
State.
The Governors of Dakota, New Mexico and
Idaho, In their annual reports to the Interior
Department, recommend speedy admission TO
the Union.
Eugene higgins, the notorious manipulation
and wire puller, of Baltimore, Is being used by
the Democratic committee as an election puri.
fer 10 New York.
The silence OF the Ranialls and Eatons in this
canvass has been a thousand times louder than
the loudest oratory of the Millses and Waiter.
sons.-Hartfosd Coursnt.
Hon. William d.. Kelley has accepted a renom-
nation for Congress from the Fourth district oil
Pennsylvania. He has represented this district
for nearly a third of a century.
The Belgian colony in New York declares fol
Harrison and Morton. Belgians know the bur
dens Of free trade at home and wish to perpetu'
ate the blessings OF protection here
DR.. Hauehton. a prominent United Labor man,
who has been at the head of the labor movement
in Cincinnati. is In New York, and 10 going to
start a paper with DR.. McGlynn. He claims q
vote for the labor candidate for Mayor Of loo, 00(
out Of the $50. 900 votes that will be cast. He is
working against Hill and Hewitt. and thinks
most of the United Labor vote will 60 to the
Republicans on the National aud State tickets.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20

THE very latest development of this Demo-
cratic campaign of intellect" is the scheme to
play the ''Burchard' on General Harrison. In
the absolute hopelessness of finding any flaw in
his record or speeches it was proposed to send
here a Democrat in disguise to play the
'Burchard" on him. A New York special
says:
''Their plan was to have a Democratic
speaker visit General Harrison. He was to
pretend to be a Republican from some far
away section of the country. While in the
Generals presence he was to make a speech
containing remarks that would prejudice the
Republican candidate. These %utterances were
to be mumbled in such a way as not to attract
the attention OF General Harrison or any one
else, except the representatives of q Demo-
cratic paper. who would be on hand for the
purpose. He would telegraph it all over the
country late that night. and as no contradic-
ton could be made until the next day, the eff
feet would be as great, it was thought, as the
remarks of DR.. Burchard."
1t is said the man has actually left New York
Cor this city, with instructions. but as the
scheme has become known it will, of course,
fail. 1t is only Of interest now as an evidence
of the desperation of the Democratic mana
gers, and the contemplate tricks they are re-
sorting to.
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MR. POWDERLY HEARD FROM.

General Master Workman Powderly has is
sued a general order to the Knights of Labor
repudiating the Gould circular relative to the
dolIar-a-dav lie, on the ground that.it is of a
political character, and Gould had no authori-
ty nor right to use the seal of the order for
such a purpose. The General Master Work
man adds that 'the action of Local Assembly
263 and of Brother Gould will be investigat-
ed This is in keeping with Mr.. Powderly's
character and record as an honest and honora-
BILE man, wholly devoted to the cause of labor
and to the order of which he is chief officer.
He is not a politician, and is evidently not
disposed to allow the Knights of Labor to be
made a political machine or prostituted to the
accomplishment of anybody's dirty work. So
far as politics are concerned, the Journal does
not know whether Mr.. Powderly is a Demo
crat or a Republican. In his official capacity
he has no right to be either, and he owes it to
the Knights Of Labor 10 insist on the enforce.
ment of their constitution against making the
order a political machine.
The Gould circular which !Mr. Powderly
thus repudiates, and the issuing of which, IN
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20
THE INPAmous PnsroPFInE.

Those organs of political purity which sup
ported Cleveland four years ago because he
was about to reorganize and reform the civil
service to a degree that would leave nothing to
be desired, either preserve a cowardly silence
in regard to the charges made against the
mail service, or refer to them slightingly as
campaign attacks which deserve no notice.
TIL truth is that the half has not been told
concerning the condition of the service in In
diana. Whatever it may be in other sections
of the conntry-and complaints in the Jour-
nails exchanges show it to be far from salts
factory-in this State and city it is outra-
geously inefficient, and is prostituted to polit-
testimony offered by Mr.. Swift before Senator
Hale's committee showed Postmaster Jones's
disregard Of the civil-service law in the en-
ployment of incompetent Democrats in place
of discharged soldiers, but his report did not
cover the results Of this course, nor describe
the effect of the dismissal by those in author
ity of experienced postal clerks. These re-
suits are felt By all classes of citi-
zsns who receive mail in any quantities.
Business men long since found that no de.
pendence could be placed upon the prompt
ness and regularity of delivery, and many
now decline to submit important communica-
tons requiring swift transmission to the post
Office, or do so with misgivings. Letters
plainly addressed to towns in the next county
wander over the United States, and are
finally returned to the writer; letters to we'll
known citizens in the next block return
eventually through the dead-letter Office; let
tiers are mixed in distribution to private
boxes; they are mixed by carriers in de-
livery; they are mailed by anxious writers
and heard Of no more. AS for newspapers
distributed through the Indianapolis Office,
subscribers who receive one in three on
proper time consider themselves lucky. This
ineficiency is the more exasperating when
the former perfection of the service and its
Capabilities are CouSiuoTou. 1uo PuonO AaS,
however, been charitable through all the
losses and annoyances, and has hoped for
improvement and that the new employees
would, in time, become proficient in the per-
Torrance of their duties. Since the depart
ment has been turned into a political ma
chine, private mail tempered with, lost and
destroyed, and absolutely dishonest and
swindling methods boldly resorted to, this
hope proves to be without foundation. The
example set by postmasters will be followed
by their subordinates. What the former do
for political purposes the latter will do for
their own profit, and no mail will be safe.
The only remedy is to turn the rascals out
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20

THE Sentinel has set a trap for its readers
in Offering a prize for the nearest guess to
Cleveland's plurality in Indiana. As Cleve-
land will not get a plurality at all. any guess
would be wide of the mark. But there is an
easy way by which guessers can beat the Senti-
mel at it's own game. Letthem put the minus
mark = before the figures, and that will
indicate how much Cleveland will fall below
any plurality at all. Thus a guess of - s. 1000
or - 10, 600 would mean that CLEVELAND
would be beaten by those figures. In that
way some guesser may claim the reward.
But don't forget the minus mark. It all de-
peuds on the -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20
THE AGENT OF DEMOCRACY
A Political Fraud Sent Out from the East
Who Is Under Close Surveillance.
His Mission Shows the Desperate Straits in
Which His Employers Are Placed-End
Of Gould and the Dollar-a-Day Lie.

The trickery Of the Democrats Ia this cam
paien is only surpassed by the lies they have
been circulating against General Harrison But
the latest scheme is as miserable in It's inven-
ton as party managers fighting against hope
can devise. There is no doubt but that the in
formation contained in the following quotation
from a letter received by a gentleman yesteF-
day points to q fraud who is already here. The
letter is dated New York, Oct IL, and ito
writer, who is in every way reliable, says:
am absolutely certain that a man left this city,
either by late train last night or the $50 Chicago
limited this morning. who is to "Burchardize" Gen.
Harrison. He is a fnelooking English gentleman,
and the plan is ITO ring MIN in on some .ssemblase
of citizens who visit General Harrison, ~hen he viii
make a speech, which viii be Immediately selegraphsd
all over the United States As near as / could gather.
it is the intention that General Harrison shall not
hear what is said tthe Objectionable part of it, The
plan is vulgar, in that it is a base copy of the 1854
fraud. I may be able to get more details tonight,
but I am absolutely certain that I am right.
1t is thought this mems purpose is TO pass
himself off as a commercial traveller to-day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20

THE Republicans of those Democratic wards
where Coy has arranged to have the polls open
at 6 o'clock ii the morning. so as to commit
frauds early in the day, viii be reinforced by
committees of vigilance and safety from Re-
publican wards, where the polls do not open
until s o'clock. These extra two hours will
be put to good purpose by Republicans who
can be spared from their own precincts. The
Coy scheme for fraud through the 6-o'clcck
dodge will not bring forth the fruit expected
of II
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20

Cleveland they may expect an increase, and
to those who are not drawing a pension that
voting against Cleveland is a very poor way to
get one. By thus playing on their hopes and
fears it is sought to dragon the old soldiers
into voting the Democratic ticket. 1t is a
contemplate style of electioneering, but no
worse than many other things that are being
done by the same party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20

INSULTING VISITORS.

The Sentinel yesterday made an insulting
and abusive attack on a party Of prominent
railroad officials who took occasion to stop
here on their way East from st. Louis, to call
on General Harrison. Citizens of Indianap-
oils who have some local pride and hospitsble
regard for visitors, have a right to feel out
ragged at the course OF the Sentinel. The fact
that the party referred to contained Mr.. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt and Mr.. Chauncey II.
Depew, prominent officials of the New York
Central railroad, was no reason why, upon
their arrival in the city, they should be treat
ed to a bucket of the SentiuePs filth. The
party consisted of four Republicans, two
Democrats, one mugwump, and one undecid-
ed. They were railroad men, on railroad bus.
mess. They had been as far west as St.
Louis, and, being on their way home, stopped
here to pay their respects to General Harri-
son. No doubt they would have done the
same thing if the Democratic candidate were
residing here. Even if their call had related
to politics there would have been no harm in
it, and no occasion for attacking them. This
is free country, and citizens u~nconvicted of
crime can 60 and come as they please. But
these gentlemen simply stopped to make a
polite call on the Republican candidate and
to take a look at the town he lives in. For
presuming to do this they were greeted with
a volley of billingsgate from the Sentinel.
That kind Of treatment of strangers is a
mighty poor advertisement of the city.
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manufactured or undressed, free-stone,
granite. sand stone, and all building or monu-
vnaptal etnpau

10 the Editor OF the indianapolis Journals
Will yon kindly state IN your next Issue how
much of the sixty millions loaned by Secretary
Fairchiid is in banks controlled by Democrats
J. J. B.
There is no means OF ascertaining. The
loans were placed by the Western National
Bank, of New York, of which the late Daniel
Manning was an officer. and ex-United States
Treasurer Jordan, an intimate friend Of the
President, is still an officer, and that bank has
over 81, 900, 600 Of the loan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20

THE power of the Pension Office is being
used in this State to make votes for Cleveland
in a way that ought to disgust honest men.
Pension agents and persons representing them.
selves as clerks of the Pension Office are cir
c~ulating among the old soldiers and quietly
telling them, as if by authority, that it is
very unwise for them to oppose the Demo
cratic administration. Hints are dropped to
those receiving a pension that if they vote for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20
DISTRICT
CongresaiOnal.

First District-FRANK B. POSEY.
Second-THOMAS ". BRAXTON.
Third-STEPHEN ID. SAYLES.
Fourth-MA<LY d. WILSON,.
Fifth-HENRY G. DUNCAN.
Sixth-THOMAS M. BROWNE.
Seventh-THOMAS E. CHANDLER.
EighthJAMES. T. JOHNSTON.
NinthJOSEPH Il. CHEADLE.
Tenth-WILLIAM d. OWEN.
acknowledgements W. STEELE.
TweIfthJAMES r. WHITE
Thirteenth-WILLlAM HOYNES.
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An Enthusiastic Nesting.

There was a large Republican meeting 81 the
corner of Maryland and West streets. last
night, to hear the addresses made by N. o.
Henderson, of Texas; the Hon. John L. Grit
ffths, and p. q. Kellaher. The larger portion
Of the crowd were Ir.shmen, and they paid the
closest attention to the speeches, especially that of
MIR. Kellehsr. who spent his boyhood days in
CURED, and is known to almost every man,
woman and child in that part of the city. In
his Introductory remarks Mr.. kellehsr said that
he was pleased 10 have the opportunity to make
his first speech in the locality where the most OF
his life had been spent. In this ward he had
been newsboy and boot-black, and a. he bad 10
as years worked in the otton-millshs thsush.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20

The Harrison and Morton Veteran Regi-
ment will make guardians of the polls on
election day who will guard. The old sol
diers will neither be blufed nor bulldozed by
Democratic DULLES and heeleIs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20

is a game that two can play at The old sol
diers will have their innings on the 9th of No
vember. There will be more vetoes that day
than Cleveland has been able to send in
throughout his whole term.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20

IT may have been a fine stroke of economy
for Mr.. Cleveland's Commissioners of Indian
Affairs to contract for eight hundred wagons
manufactured by convict labor in the Tennes-
see penitentiary. but it was hardly consist emit
for an administration that makes such ioud
professions of friendship for workingmen.
The Commissions of Indian Affairs who made
This contract was from Tennessee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-20
County Ticket.

THE 6-o'clock Coy reform will kick in the
breech. We give the Democratic fraud man
ayers fair notice now TO that effect.
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To tine Edltor OF the Indianapolis IournaI:

W
To settle a dispute please state how many
uuinine factories there wore in the United States
before the duty on q%uinine was repealed, aud how
many there are now, with names of firms.
WEsTFIELD, III. w. G. W.
We will state the facts once moro: In 1879.
when tho fres-quinine bill passed., there were
four manufacturers of the article in this coun-
try. There are now but three. viz, Powers &
Wightman, of Philadelphia; Rosengarten &
Sons, and the New York Quinine and Medical
Company. In q recent letter to the Journal,
Powers & Wiehtman say: ''Thers are but three
manufacturers of quinire at present, Keasby &
Mattison having gone ont Of business" In a
letter of Aug. Is. 1888. Keasby & Mattison say,
sMessrs. Powers & Wightman are about the
only manufacturers Of quinine In the United
States, though two others besides ourselves
have plants that could be turned over to the
manufacture, IL quinine could be manufactured
in this country at such rate as to compete with
the foreign"
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the Editor of the l-ndian.poli. Journar

TO the Editor of the 1ndianapolis journal
Does the Mills bill put stone on the free listl
Or. if there is . tariff duty on it, please say how
much. SUBSCRIBER
The Mills bill places on the free list atone
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o PRESIDENT.
BENJAMIN HARRISON, of Indiana.
vIcE-PREsIDENT.
LEVI p. MORTON, of New York.

ELECToRS-AT-LARGE
NJ n. SHACKELFORD, of Vanderburg.
THOMAS II. NELSON, of Vigo.
CONTINGENT ELECTORS.
NICHOLAS MCCARTHY. of Marion,
J. D. OLIVER, of St Joseph.
DISTRICT ELECTORS
First-CICERO BUCHANAN, of Vanderburg.
Second-THOMAS. J. BROOKS, Of Martin
Third-DAVID w. VCYLES. of Harrison.
F~ourth-JOHN o. CRAVENS, of Ripley.
Fifth-DAVD Z. BEEN. of Owen.
Sixtn-LEANDER z. MITCHELL. of Henry.
Seventh-WINFIELD Il. DURBIN, OF Madison.
Eighth-JOHN c. CLANCY. of Sullivan.
Nirth-DAvID C. SCULL. OF Boone.
Tenth-FRANK SWIGART, Of Cass.
Eleventh-WM. II. TRAMMEL, of Huntington.
Twelfth-WM. L.. PENFIELD. of Dekalb.
Thirtesnth-HIRAM s. BIGGS, of kosc:usko.