The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-12-08
SENATOR OYD'S VIEWS
ON THE MANAGEMENT OF BENEvO-
LENT INSTITUTIONS.
Would Have a Majority of Republic
ans on Half the Boards and Let the
Others He Democratic.

Senator T. E. Boyd was in the city yes
terday, and to a Journal reporter he said:
LAS chairman of the committee on benevo-
lent Institutions. 1 was misquoted in the
Journal of Wednesday last. h 1 did
say was this: The Governor may be al
lowed the appointing power, but with a
string to it. For instance, there is a north
ern ~penitentiary and a southern; a majority
of the directors of one of the penitentiaries
must be Republican, and of the other they
might be Democrats. There is a female
reformatory and a Reform School for
Boys; a majority of trustees for one might
be Republicans and of the other Demo-
Gratis. There are four insane hospitals in
the State; a majority of the trustees of
two of them may be Republicans and a
majority Of two Democrats. There is the
Predetermined Institution, the Deaf and
Dumb and the Blind institutions, Soldiers
Orphans Home. and, In fact, some twelve
or fourteen institutions in the State. Say
there are fourteen; why not let a majority
of the directors or trustees Of seven of the
institutions be Democrats and the other
seven Republicans. and compel the Gov
ernor, by act Of the Legislature, to divide
these boards equally so far as the MAORI
ties on the board of management is con-
cerned? The committee on benevolent in
stitutions, in my judgment, are not quar-
reling or disagreeing so far as the manage
ment of these Institutions is concerned.
Il am a personal friend" said the Sena-
tor, "of the Governor, but he is not of my
politics, and the appointing power, in all
probability cannot speak positively for
all or the Republican members Of the Sem
ate and House, but so far as L am person.
ally concerned, the appointments VIII be
left TO him with a string to them, so that
the institutions of the State may be nom
partisan, and not a majority of the differ
ent boards OF the State Democratic, so that
ten or twelve hundred employees might be
Democrats. / might be willing, as chair
man OF the committee on benevolent insti-
tutions, to allow half the boards to be
Democratic, but l shall certainly never go
further than this. Anything short of the
position i take, in my judgment, would not
be nonpartisan. Look at the Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home; i had the honor
Legislature in 1885, and succeeded in get
ting a nonpartisan bill through the Legis-
lature for that institution during that
time. The Grand Army of the Republic has
been fully satisfied with the management
present.
THE Republican party for several cam
paigns has stood ~squarely for nonpartisan
management of the institutions OF the
State, and l do not expect to deviate or de-
part from 1t as a member of the incoming
Legislature, and anything that has been
said by the public press concerning my po-
sition, or that of Senator Wishard, Newly,
or any other member of the Senate to the
contrary, Is certainly a mistake. The Re
publican party always stands by its plat
forms; it has made a record as a debt-pay-
ing party, and a party which stands strictly
by the instructions of it's constituents. We
will not be divided in the next Legislature
but will be a unit for good government"