The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-08
On the Eve of His Defeat He Turns to
Snap and Snarl at the Journal.
His Last Speech Mixture Of Demagoey and
VituperatiOn That Classics Him
as Ward hummer.
Circular Falsehood Against His 0ppon-
emf, Mr.. Henry, Gotten 0ut.
Young Republicans Have an Enthusiastic Pa
rade-Last Of the Noon Meetings
Was Hummer.
BYNUM TRIES TO TALK.
Giving Falsehoods to w orl<inginen--"Sa,
Talk About the Journal.


Giving FaIsehoods to W orkingrnen--"sassy''
Talk About the Journal.
W. ID. Bynum, Democratic candidate for
Congress, addressed q meeting of working
men at the Masonic Hall last night Itis
but just to say that the hall was filled to
it's seating capacity, and that those who
filed it were the workiDgmen chiefly.
While the crowd was of pretty good
size, IL was nythiDg but an enthusi-
astic one. and the greatest flights of the
grass burner" failed to arouse il. Mr..
Bynum. his brother, q representative of
the Sentinel, and another gentleman. occu-
pied the stage. There was little or no ap-
plsuse when the Congressman stepped for
ward after having been introduced to his
audience. He took the first half hour in
explaining end defending oil of his acts
since the time he first came into publicity.
The earnestness with which he labored to
im press on his hearers that these acts had
always been done after the mature deliber-
alton of his unexoelled mind and with no
other thought than that it would be for
the elevation of his constituents. was real
" amusing. When be concluded he asked
In sepulchral tones: do you suppose that
my opponent in this canvass would have
done all that il he had had CHANGER
He answered the question himself: mo;
he has ever been on the side of high
handed capital and the foe of the
laboring man." Then he ran tariff out of
his throat in as badly mutilated condi-
ton ss q man emerging from the tail-end
of q thresbing-machine. why. my
friends" said he, there are more crimes
committed in the name of 'protectlon' than
IN that of any other word in the English
lsguage." AS he progressed his utterauces
became rather paradoxicsL In opening be
laborlng man was slowly being
starved to death, how he was gradually
being forced down into the last ditch to
there be stamped ont of existence BY ty-
American labor was the best cared for in
the world, that It was the most intelli-
gent; that it was the best paid for its toik
and then asked them to vote for the Demo
Again, early in his discourse, he stated
that wealth. that wages that in
fact. the entire country was con-
trolled BY the cest OF labor
Labor has nothing whatever to do with
the industries Of this country. IL controls
nothing; 10 NO part of it i tell you iJ Is
tho machinery that does tho work, and
controls the wages and likes the y, prices"
ing-aboup shake Of his head. There were
Q number Of pictures of Cleveland fastened
ebcut on the walls and, as he
finished the foregoing remark, one
of them suddenly broke loose. Twisted
about by the breeze from an open window
IL whirled and twisted 90 though In evil
dent pain. and then sunk to the floor In ut
ter collapse A gambler would not have
bet that there was such man % Cleveland
after that incident. The speaker said that
Mr.. Carnegie was President Harrison's best
friend. and that protection had done moro
for Mr.. Carnegie than for any other man
on n the :s Fl Them Ss said al
laboring men believe that that greatest foo
OF theirs. Prick. was Democrat His
words: Now, there - the Indianapolis
Journal / pause for fear of insulting my
audience. That scurrilous shset which
ought not to be tolerated in an enligh tened
community, 1t says that Fuck 10 Demo
erat but I know that no self-respecting
columns without it 10 sworn to by affidavit.
It is filed with mean. vicious
lies for tho purpose of decelviag
such men 40 you are. and /
supports It's existence. 1t 10 an insult to de-
cenoy." The speaker had to pause when
he was delivered of this TRADE and wipe
hls mouth with his handkerchief. 1t 10 not
nsrn Whether be kept me s,n%
made that false charge against Mr.. Henry
that he was the originator and abettor Of
what - known as the conspiracy law of
1881. This law, in effect, was enc
which made it an offense for any ono to in
terfere with the running of trains at the
time Of strike. Mr. Henry's denial of the
charge 10 given in another part OF this
article. Mr.. Bynum concluded his talk
shortly afterward. His audience had been
. tickle one, and. kept running in and out
oil during the evening. The sound Of q
passing drum corps drew ont big squad
OF them, and the hall was pretty well
thinned at adjourning time.
MIR. Bynum and his agents circulated
through the mails yesterday . circular
which reached nearly every. Democratic
voter in the district, and which was to the
effect that Charles Henry Was the author
of the conspricy law. Below 10 what Mr..
Henry has to say in the matter:
II is not true that was the author Of the law.
erence to interfering with the running of rail-
way trains one of three hundred sections of
the law, and no special attention was ever called
70 It while 1t was pending In the Legislature. 1t
pointed By Democratic Governor for the re-
vision OF statutes This commission was
composed OF one Republican. Judge Frazer.
of Warsaw, and Judge Stotsenberg OF New
Albany, and David Turpie. Of Indianapolis.
now United States Senator-the two last-named
gentlemen being Democrats. know of no rea-
son why Democrats should go bowling around
the country about the passage OF law which
was prepared by two OF their own people, and
especially when one OF them Is now In the
United States Senate. and recommended for re-
election by his party. The law was prepared by
Democrat. introduced in the House by q Demo
crat. and no objection was ever made to the Sec
ton referred to until organized labor found aft
efward thai it interfered with its interests. when
the time IL was passed. In 1881, and for several
years afterward. there was no thought OF It's In