The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-14

/ Bribery had been carried on by the
wholesale under the manipulation of
William Wade Dudley with his blocks-of-
five scheme and with the full approval
| Of the republican national and state COM
mittces. OF the 40 people indicted but
| one was convicted and he was not pun
ished. He was democrat, who, early
was then made drunk by the republican
managers and later voted for Harrison.
But no punishment was ever inflicted
] upon him. The republican bosses hadn't
deserted the little rascals In fact. there
We're stories afioat and pretty we'll au-
thenticated. that the little rascals rose.
up in arms and refused to be deserted;
that they declared themselves to the ef-
feet that if they were deserted the bosses
would have To suffer, and one who was
something of a boss himself declared
that his coat-tail pockets were filled with
dynamite and that the boss boss didn't
dare TO kick him.
one Of the most devoted of the bosses
in his care for the little rascals was Boss
Woods. judge of the federal district
court. BY his aid at opportune times,
Boss Dudley was enabled to escape JUS
| tice. Boss Harrison rewarded Boss
Woods by making him a circuit judge
Another boss who didn't desert was
Boss Miller. who came to Indianapolis
and arranged foI-%he release of the little
rascals and incidentally the bigger ras-
cal, Dudley.
Another boss who didn't desert was
Boss Stanton J. Peelle, who had been
one of the leading advisers of the repub-
lican state committee during that corrupt
campaign and who was employed by
Boss Kitchener. chairman of the state
committee, to defend the little rascals.
Boss Peelle was rewarded for his devo-
ton to the little rascals by a life APP
pointment to the court Of claims at $4,000
a year.
And then there was Boss Chambers.
1t was his duty to prosecute the little
rascals. But Boss Chambers prosecuted
with such a lack of vigor that none of
the little rascals suffered and after plac-
ing number of the latter on trial he
nollied or dismissed the cases against all
the rest. And now Ross Chambers is one
of the leading lights in the party of great
moral ideas in Indiana and prominent
candidate for governor.
And the Journal itself is something of
q boss at times Yet it never had one
word Of condemnation for any of the
little rascals, nor one word OF anything
but praise FOR the bigger rascals like
Dudley and Woods and Chambers. even
lauding the latter's declaration that Dud-
ley's course was that Of patriotic citi-
zen.
The contrast drawn is one not at all
fattering to the state of Indiana. But
it is thoroughly fair and strictly honest
The republican party in the state of In
diana and almost universally throughout
the United States has ever defended its
little rascals when their little rascality
has helped the party. ON the other
hand the democracy has never failed to
prosecute offenders against the ballot
laws, because they were democrats. The
Chicago boodlers were convicted by the
aid of democrats. Coy and Bern
hamer in Indianapolis We're con-
victed by the aid Of democrats and Coy
was pardoned 10y a republican president
him a pardon. Boss NIcKane in New
York, who has just been landed in the
Sing Sing penitentiary through the ef-
forts of democratic prosecutors, after
a trial in a democratic court. was re-
ceived at the white house in 1883 by
President Harrison, a republican, and
was honored with his organization by
place in Harrison's inaugural procession
organizations from Long Island. 1t is
almost safe to make the broad and gen
eral assertion that no republican was
ever convicted of election corruption
through the aid or assistance of repub-
lican officials. The republican theory
has been. in Indiana especially, and
throughout the country in general, that
no act. however vile, done in the interest
Of the republican party was unjustifiable.
The conviction of the New York corrup-
tionists. democrats though they We're is
convincing evidence that the democratic
party is the party of honest election and
good government, and the failure, or
worse. of the republican party to prose
cute it's criminals is equally convincing
that the republican is not the party of
good government.
4 NOTEWORTHY ADVANCE.
With the first trembling uncertain at