The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-27
AN ATTACK ON Lands
A RELATED CHARGE RAISING THE
QUESTION OF HONESTY.
Assertion that on One of the PreIirn-
mary Ballots mt Hammond White
COunty's Vote Was Falsified.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
VALPARAISO. Ind. June o. At a
meeting of representatives from every
county in the Tenth district, held in
Chicago last week, committee was APP
pointed TO prepare an address to the Re-
publicans of the district. This address.
after reviewing the Crown Point conven-
ton and the action of the committee on
credentials, says:
THE delegation from White county was
entitled to eighteen votes, and cast that
number of votes in the convention The
chairman of that delegation was a Lands
man, and announced the vote of the dele
CATION, which was by ballot. being fif-
teen in favor of the motion to adopt the
majority report and three against 1t, and
and false statement of the actual vote cast
There were FIVE men in that delegation
from White county who were selected as
that convention against the adoption or
the majority report, and they not only
their oaths. but have already done so, and
the afhdavitS may be seen by calling upon
Mr.. j. B. Van Buskirk, editor of the Mon
instead of there being seventy-eight votes
cast in favor of adopting the majority re-
port and seventy-six against it, there were
seventy Eight against and seventy-six for
it, and il was only declared adopted by
the fraudulent suppression of the votes of
two of the White county delegation. Again,
county who selected at primaries by
ballot one of whom was selected by vote
of 102 Republicans in favor OF Johnston
and one vote in favor of Lands. The other
instructed by a very large majority to
vote for Judge Johnston. A week prior to
the Hammond convention Mr. Lands
called upon these two men,. stayed over
night with ono of them and had long
conversation with the other. At the con-
vention these two men declared in favor or
Lands, and voted In Cass county
there was one delegate who was instructed
ton. and declared his intention and pnr-
rose TO vote for his nomination, but the
day before the Hammond convention he
was called upon by friends of Lands and
told that he must not go to the conven-
ton: he was threatened with personal vio-
the threats carried that he stayed at
home Mr. Lands. by his acceptance of
the fruits of that larceny adopts 1t as his
own act We charge that Mr.. Lands was
cognizant of and assisted to plan and per-
retrste the Acknowledgement of Lake coun-
~. and ratified 1T by accepting the shallow
Iretense of nomination. We charge that
Mr. Lands Is morally and politically unfit
to represent true people in Congress. His
election means only that he represents
fraud and corruption. We believe 1t Is the
plain duty of the Republican party to see
that a decent. honorable and clean-handed
man is nominated for Congress. To abide
aiding and abetting an irresponsible cliane.
whose supremacy consists only In their ais
honesty II places a premium on dishonest
men, and is worthy only of the rebuke of
honest and law-abiding citizens.
''E. w. WICKERY; East Chicago.
IN T.. AGNEW, Valparaiso.
Committee