The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-04
TIE DEMOCRATIC EVENING ORGAN.

Can anything be more ridiculously in
consistent than the recent course OF the
Evening News7 There is hardly a man
or a measure that it now opposes with
all the vigor and venom at its
that it has not, in times past, heartily IN
dorsed and approved. 1t opposes the
election of Gen. John Coburn, denounces
aloud for his defeat. The record is
pulled on it, and it is discovered that On
the occasion of his very last appearance
in public life it fairly deluged him with
glowing encOmiums on his high Charac-
ter, his ability and his public and private
worth, going to the extent OF advising
all Democrats to honor him with their
votes. Not a word that he has uttered,
not an act that he has committed in the
interval has given occasion for this
orable citizen, the same public-spirited,
high-minded, worthy man now that he
was when he made his race for Congress.
To characterize him as the creature of a
gang in any party, and to hold him up to
public contempt and criticism as the
agent and tool of corporations or indi-
viduals, is an outrage that would be
committed by no other newspaper than
this same Evening News. 1t bowls it
self into Mysteries over the candi-
dacy of John r. Pearson, and
couples his name with that
of e~x-convict Coy; ascribes to him all
sorts of improper and venal motives,
and, in short, all but calls him a GRIM
inal. The record is drawn again, and it
is discovered that in previous CAM
paigns the News has indorsed him in
highest terms, and heartily commended
him to his constituency. He was the
superintendent of the gas company
then as he is now, and not one vote that
he has cast impeaches his integrity or
warrants the scandalous abuse of this
chronic scold. 1t fairly gees into con-
vulsions over the fact that certain peO-
pie signed the petition to remit Sim
Coy's fine. and ascribes to each and all
of them none but impure and improper
motives. The record is again resOrted
to, and the fact disclosed that the edi-
tor of the News himself signed a similar
petition for Bernhamer, who was con-
victed for exactly the same offense as
Coy, at the same trial and by the same
jury of twelve. 1t brazenly asserts that
Mr.. Dougherty was created chief of the
fire department in order that that limb
of the public service might be sub
verted to partisan ends, the Democratic
members of it dismissed, and the de-
partment made nothing more than O
political machine. And what Toes the
record prove? That just two men
have been dismissed from the service
since this stupendous outrage Of the
News's discovery was committed, and
these for notorious violation of the rules
and open characterization. 1t says in
one breath, eve have always regarded
| Street Commissioner De Ruiter as an
honest man." and in the next says, by
innuendO and indirection, that he is the
accomplice of and has been rObbing
the city of it's operty to advance the
interests of the Democracy's chief expo
nent. 1t rushes to the support of MIR.
w. w. Woollen in the Ninth ward,
whom it characterizes as a ''clean' candi-
date, and almost Immediately, through
it's city columns, ~insinuates that the
money of certain Republicans for whom
it entertains a hearty hatred is being
used among the saloons and with the
hummer element to compass the defeat
of Councilman Long. And SO on fol
quantity. Truly, the News is consist,
emily honest and continuously holy!