The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-09
CARLISLE UNDER A CLOUD.
Time to Dismount from His High Horse and
Reply to Thoebe's Charges.

Time to Dismount from His High Horse and
Reply to Thobe's Charges.
New York Tribune.
If Speaker Carlisle thinks he can afford
to affect a contemps for Mr.. Thoebe, and
the charges of fraud and corruption which now
faint the seat he occupies in Congress, he is
making blunder True. Mr.. Th9be is work
ingman a mechanic He went into the cam
paign against Mr. Carlisle, with the stains of
the shop on his hands He represented just the
opposite of what Mr.. Carlisle did. He was the
4 champion OF American industry and American
labor. These are causes that do not appeal to
Mr.. Carlisle's sympathy. He would conduct the
affairs OF state without regard to what work
ingmen want and need. But according to the
figures that came from Ken lucky the morning
after the last congressional election, majority
of Mr.. Carl1sle's constituents were concerned
for the fate of the iaboring people, for by those
figures MIR. Carlisle was stranded upon the dry
sands OF defeat along with his friend Morrison,
and the wage Garner from the shop was elect
ed in his place.
Few people had been left by the long and
shocking history of Southern electoral outrage
so unsophisticated as TO imagine that Mr.. Thpbe
would ever be in actual possession of the seat to
which he was chosen. No was surprised
when ''later" reports came stating that the re-
turns from Bumvile ''were not in yet and
expected largely~to increase Mr.. Carlsle's vote"
When the returns from Bumvile found
still insufficient to entitle the representative of
Southern manhood and chivalry to the certif-
cate over the representative of Southern labor,
startled at the intelligence that
"errors had been found" in the returns from
Mr.. Carlisle triumphant majority" This sort
of business has been done so often that the pub
lie mind rather expects 1t, and even the public
conscience has become q trife dull to the ras-
cality it indicates.
Mr. Carlisle, however, was supposed to be
man of honor, aud it was expected that he would
at least be at some pains to show that these
methods were outside of his knowledge It
might be beneath him to notice Mr. Thmbe per-
sonally, or any other man who worked in
shop, but surely it not too much to expect
take
He permitted the charges of fraud to go without
notice, calmly and complacently accepted his
soiled certificate of election, wired condolences
to his frienda Morrison and Hurd came to
Washington and was reelected Speaker And
now, when the committee on elections
comfortably composed of his own friends is sit
ting to consider Mr.. Thdbe's case, Mr.. Carlisle
assumes air of lofty indifference and neelects
even to be represented by counsel at the COM
mittees hearings.
How long he will think it wise to pursue this
course is interesting question. Mr.. Thabe
charges the fraud directly home and fires hot
shot full at his adversary. He distinctly al
leges that on the night of the election, when it
became apparent that the majority against the
free-trader would go above z, 600, MIR. Carlisle
was sent for and brought to the house of
friend, and that after consultation with him
Geographic messages were sent To have the re-
turns of certain distant counties held back. It
ia alleged that changes aud interpretations in
these returns were made and clumsly made
as easily to be SEEM the same handwriting being
apparent in the returns of different precincts.
This is the famous Platt Gooda series of frauds
over again, and it would seem as if it were time
for Mr.. Carlisle to get down off his high horse
and bestr himself for a defense.