The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16
The ColoDized Voter Is Beginning to
Show Traces of HIS Whereabouts.
Some ofthe Peculiar Influences through Par
doned Criminals that Will Be Usedby De,
mocracy in Various Parts Of the State.
Deaf Mutes Working to Preserve Their
Alma Mater from Partisan Control.
An Irishman's Eloquent Appeal TO His Coun.
trymen to Support the Great Party That
FavOrs High Wages aud Happy Homes.

There is a howl al along the line Of Democrat
IL managers. workers and heelers. from the bar
room Ioafer TO the dainty bantam who is the al
legged chairman of that partys State central COM
mittee, about importation OF voters. This Is
done to keep public attention away from their
own infamous schemes. Ever since there has
been q Democratic party said a citizen yester-
day, 1.-The chance of getting in q few OF many
illegal votes has never been neglected by those
who are intrusted with that party's manage
ment. The average Democratic committeeman
takes to election frauds as . duck to water. The
Committee of One Hundred, q non partisan or
eanizatiou. has offered the Democratic
managers an opportunity TO place
themselves on record as favoring fair cleo
tons. 1t is not the purpose Of the members of
that committee to act as detectives. but they
have assumed a position By which they can en-
courage every good citizen to watch closely the
polls on election day and note every act or fraud
emp OF accomplished. Il is after the arrest
and conviction Of an illegal voter that the Com
mittee Of One Hundred gays the reward offered
for the detection or q criminal The Republican
State and county committees have contributed
TO the fund out of which the rewards are TO be
paid, but the Democratic ommittes have failed
sven to acKnowledg &c the receipt OF the letters IN
relation 20 this matter sent TO them by the Con-
nittee of One Hundred"
I'm doing so the Democrats would be working
against their own plans no doubt the reporter
suggested.
Certainly. and more; the Democrats can
never forgive the of One Hundred
for the part it took in prosecuting the Infamous
tally sheet forgers. While Coy ana Bernhamer
are in the penitentiary the Democratic manag-
planning and carrying out the ~forgeries in 1886
by refusing TO have anything to do with the
honest methods IN securing a fair election as
proposed by the OF One Hundred.
But there Is another reason. No Democratic
leader. director or voter intends to commit thin
self to any plan that will prevent tho fulfllment
of the election frauds now contemplated. All
thir Democratic shouting about the Republic
sos eG ,S %Isi..d voters sss I is sosh- wn 1t rs rs
many OF the third-rate clearinghouse can be
found men whose appearance, d%enotiug scanti-
meas of means and idleness without the least ei-
sort to obtain employment, puts them at once
snder suspicion. These men have been brought
here by the Democratic State committee. and
when they are not at their houses they
can he found at the saloons in different parts of
Tho city, where Coy once gathered his illegal
voters. They are coached and cared for by the
lieutenantsC Coy did not take 10 the penitentiary
with him.
There is evidence. too. of rooms being en-
gagged by the Democrats in buildings
10 the Eighteenth aud other down town
wards, where their ~colonized voters
are already quartered- mat their
number Is 10 be increased Is shown
by an inquiry which a property-holder had yes
terday. II have just heard, said a gentleman,
'of a Democrats worker OF high degree VINO
asked il he could obtain a room in a certain
block for two men. When the property owner
inquired of the Democratic agent as 10 the BUSH
ness these men had. he was told that the room
would be needed until after the election. and
being pressed for details the agent practically
admitted they were to be used 40 illegal voters.
Thu aoanf Aid nor ret the room Bue that n
only one instance of many for the East Wash
ington-street tenement-houses. and those par
tieuleriy in Coy's ward, furnish abundant room
for this scheme OF colonization"
These c~oloniZed votes are. OK course. either
men OF shady reputation or those who have had
more OF less criminal experienceT
Yes, Democratic managers not only favor
the criminal classes. but they use their influence
co high officials to DO the same thing whenever
the opportunity occurs. A pardon or remission
Of fines and judgements on forfeited bonds
wins the heart OF the man who has been sent TO
prison or fined for crime or He
Il ever after wards committed TO those who have
helred him and If yOu would 90 through the
State to-day you would fud in many localities
men pardoued by Democratic Governors who
ere assisting IN the wholesale scheme of coioni-
E.tion planned By that party's managers. Repeat
es and Illegal voters of any degree are generally
controlled directly by men who have had an OK
perience in prison cells
This idea suggested the interest that might
se contained III the pardon record at the State
House. An examination of that book shows
xhEt the last two Democratic Governors have
opened the doors of the psnetentiaries TO hun
dreds of convicts End placed them under obligs-
tons to the Democratic party. During Gov
srnor Williams's term, be issued no less than
: psreens to prisoners confined
we're to men serving life sentences for the crime
of murder, fifteen to prisoners convicted of as
sault with intent to kill, four to prisoners serv-
lug sentences for rape, and fourteen to men
GAnnf-0 - III .
total OF f~orty-two men pardoned who had been
tried, convicted and were receiving punishment
for the most heinous crimes known to the law.
OF other offebses his pardons were as follows:
ENLIGHTENMENT three. forgery fourteen. assault
and battery two. burglary thirty, arson seven.
robbery seven, illegal voting two, receiving
stolen goods eleven, and obtaining money upon
false pretenses five But the thieves were the
Governors especial pets. as he pardonsd 123
persons who were convicted of grand and petit
larceny.
Governor Gray so far has granted rinety-four
pardons. Nine of these were to life prisoners
serving sentences for murder, seventeen 10 men
guilty of mansiaugh.er, six To persons convicted
upon the charge of assault with intent to kill,
and four TO men guilty Of rape, making thirty
SIX pardons to men guilty of these grave crimes.
The balance of his pardons cover seven persons
convicted of forgery, two OF robbery, twenty-six
of grand larceny. besides a number to persons
guilty of other crimes. The Governor has also
been making himself aud bis party solid with a
large number Of citizens IN another way, and
that is by the remission OF fines and bond for
~feitures. During his present term OF Office he
has RENTED over ST., 1000 In fines. and Judg-
ments taken against bondsmen of absconding
re.soners, and in the short term he was
Governor before over $4,000 was thus RENTED
BY him, making a total OF more than $l5. 900.
Many of these remissions were In favor of that
large and influential class OF citizens, the saloon
keepers. and a number of them in favor of the
gamblers. The thing in so easily done. With a
mere scratch OF the per q pardon is granted or q
fine remitted. and the Governor and his party
have a firm friend forever after. This amount
OF money. scattered as it is in all parts of the
State, makes a handsome gratitude fund, from
the recipients OF which the Democratic party
Will receive the heartiest support, and no one
will find any OF the ninety four convicts whom
Governor Gray has psrdoned voting any other
than the Democratic ticket Those who are left
of Governor Williams band of pa will be found
shouting for Cleveland aud reform.
Supervisor of Elections.
United States Commissioner W. A. VsnBureu
has been appointed chief supervisor of elections