The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-30

Disloyal Indiana Democrats HaVO Aroused
the Boys In Blus.

Dlsloyal Indiana Democrats Have Aroused
Ii Boys in Blue.
ST.. Paul Pioneer Pres. tz4a sd
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov, 20.-Daubipg with
red paint the headstones OF soldiers
graves on the night of the Democratic
jolIihcation last week has aroused the
Grand Army men here as nothing else
could, perhaps, short OF a midnight raid
by Ku-Klux. At first, when the report
came from Clayton, in Hendricks coun-
ty, that every grave of dead soldiers
who served in the civil war had thus
been violated, it was not regarded as a
matter to demand more than local
censure, but since the news from nu-
merous towns in Hendricks and Morgan
counties reveals tho fact that in that
section OF the state, once honeycombed
by the Copperhead class composing the
knights Of the Golden Circle, q pre-
concerted raid was made, and every
Union soldiers grave in nearly q dozen
burial grounds was visited and out
ragged in this manner. In some cases
the offensive cross OF the Golden Circle
was daubed on the gravestones. The
Grand Army set to work investigating
the outrage, and evidence has been col
lected tending to show that during the
recent campaign many camps OF the
Golden Circle Knights were revived by
reason OF the belief that the rebel
sympathizers had an ex-member OF the
order on the ticket in the person of
Adlai Stevenson. The members of
these camps, it seems, renewed their
reasonable oaths to the supposedly ex-
tinct but really only dormant order,
and secretly worked for the Democratic
ticket. E~mboldened by victory they
resolved to commit some act that would
show their old confederate friends in
the south that apprehension was still
alive in the north. As a result it was
decided to stink into the cemeteries and
desecrate the graves OF the fallen union
soldiers.
Every grave was visited by trusty
men beforehand and marked, so that no
mistake could be made. On the night
OF the ratification the Golden Circles
gathered, and committees were sent
forth to complete the outrage. 1t now
appears that every soldiers grave at
Clayton and Stilesville in Hendricks
county, and at West Union, Munrovia,
Mount Zion, Hall, Mount Pleasant, Pop
lar Grove and Wilbur, in Morgan coun-
ty, was visited. In many instances
valuable monuments were utterly
ruined by the daubing. Over
many of these graves the
national emblem had been
placed by living and loyal friends, and
these flags were also smeared with paint.
At hall an elegant shaft placed at the
grave Of Captain Smith by his widow
has been so bedaubed thati cannot be
cleaned. The Martinsville G. A. r.
Post marched in a body to one buryinR
ground and scrubbed the red paint off
the tombstones, but soon found the
work OF dissertation hadbeen so general
the members let further cleaning go
and set detectives on the track OF the
offenders. Feeling is most intense in
Morgan county, and a reward of
$1,000 has been offered for thu
detection and punishment OF the cul.
prits. From a Communication received
to-day it is learned that q number OF
prominent Democrats who were at one
time suspected of afiliating with the
Knights of the Golden Circle are al
ready spotted as having taken a hand
in this outrage. Names are withheld
until further evidence shall have been
obtained. The G. A. R. posts here are
lending all t6eGid in their power to the
searching out and Furnishing of the
men, and talk of %railroading a carload OF
influential Democrats to PRISONS heard.
Not only G. A. r. men, but good citizens
generally are loud in their condemna-
ton since it has been learnedI it is
claimed. that the affair arose from the
election Of Stevenson. and not a mere
desire to celebrate the Democratic VIC
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