The Indianapolis journal., 1895-03-15
THE RIOT IN THE HOUSE.

pose OF VelOlnS IL at a time 81 late the
could not be passed over his head. 1t is
silly for him or his friends to deny the
fact to try to explain it-Anderson Bull
letin.
AS much as we regret the disgraceful row
that broke out a few minutes before the
close of the Legislature Monday night and
which ended in a free fight in which scores
participated, yet the responsibility for it is
with II, the Goyernor. and sT;I ne must shoulder
Governor Matthews is the one man re-
sponsible for the disgusting scene enacted
at the close of the Legislature. The Gov
ernor's trick was contemplate and deserves
severest censure Several times when deal
| risen heroically to the occasion, but when
| it comes to handling a mere question of
spoils he blasts a fair record and settles
| sedmentally down among the peanut grade
| of politicians.--Lawrencebur Press.
We hope we feel the proper depths of
| disgrace and humiliation-all Indianaians
| are disgraced and Inundated, for the In
| dianapolis papers assert the fact with con-
| siderable assurance, not to say vehemence
| over the bloody scenes enacted in the
closing minutes Of the Legislature. but all
| the same don't we wish that glorious Re
publican Roman guard had been duty
| when Green Smith and his scoundrelly
hackers buffed Lieutenant Governor Roo
Il, That 5 baekaown has been partaG
| of course--Rockville Republican.
Had the Republican members of the Leg
! islature quietly submitted to the great
| wrong which Democratic Governor, backed
| by gang of thugs. sought to perpetrate.
they would have been branded-deservedly
! too--as a pack of towards, despised as long
| as they lived by brave men and fair women.
| The showing of the white feather by Re-
| 1888, when they suffered themselves to be
bulldozed by Green Smith, was disgrace
to the party and resulted in the retirement
| to political obscurity of every man concerned
News Il sas 0'"Ar''s 'r4nSA'''0n--f FRANKFORT
The scenes which marked the close of the
session were not at all edifying, but the
action of the Governor in purposely and
| premeditatedly planning to place the ma
| jority of the House in such position to
deprive them of their constitutional rights
| was the prime cause of the trouble. 1t
was species of usurpation and invasion
| that free men cannot endure, and nothing
was left them but to insist upon and main
| tain their rights. People who love liberty,
| ness and equity can arrive at no other con-
| clusion but that the acts Of the chief ex-
| ecutive himself invited the trouble that oc-
| curred.-Fort Wayne Gazette.
| Every Democratic newspaper and every
| Democratic stump speaker in the State ap-
| proved and many of them applauded Green
| Smith, when, without the shadow of au-
| thority Of law. he by force usurped an Of
| flee to which he was not elected. Now
| when the Republicans attempt to maintain
| their rights under the law and meet force
| with force, if necessary, we find some Re
pubheans saying oh We'll bas 5hs hssp had bet at
| lowing our rights to be taken from a
| little too often and tamely submitting to
| matter of little Importance of itself, but
| the question of right can be shown just as
| importance The Republicans were in the
| right and should. have the united Re
| publican support.-Muncie Times.
| 1t is gratifying to be able to state that
1 ,o+ o,a of tba Tippecauoa coupty Rerre-
sentatives took the least part in the row
| at the close Of the session of the Legisla-
| ture In fact, the participants, far as
| numbers were concerned, were limited to
| half dozen young and hot-blooded fellows
/ who will live to regret their share in it,
| holding back by the Governor of veto
| message intending to thwart the popular
w fyes aS 81 the peope ' Was
| trick. The stopping of the House clock by
| dsreputable hreling was outrageous: But
| even in the face of these irr tat ng indig-
| mites it would have been much more SEEM
| Iy If the members had subdued their. pas
| sions and allowed the Governors ill-ad-
/ yised policy to prevail.-Lafayette Courier.
The highest officer of the State sought
with a total disregard of propriety and de-
| cency, to enforce his partisan wishes by de-
| flying the organic law of the State, and his
| .lawless act, deplorable though the neces-
| sity seems, was met with lawlessness on
1 the part Of the members Of the Legislature,
whose prerogative he would have usurped
| With the unfortunate experience of Waite.
| of Colorado, before them the people of In
toriai dictatorship under Matthews. and
| though the Republican majority may be
criticised for forcbly resisting. the progress
| of the Governors 8 messenger let it not be
| forgotten that If Matthews had not deferred
the return of the bin till the clock, was
| on the stroke of midnight the people of
Indiana would have been spared the humil-
4 iation inseparable from contemplation of
| Monday nights riotous demonstration in
| the Capitol.-Wabash Plain Dealer.
The Legislature, in pursuance of their
legal right and constitutional power. passed
| law. The Governor desired to veto it, as
| he had the undoubted right and power. If
| he Gid not veto it it became law without
| his consent. If he did veto it he expected
the Legislature would again enact the law
over his veto; in which event 1t would
| likewise become law. What he attempted
to do was to withhold his veto to such
| an hour that 1t would be physically ifnpossi-
Bile for the Legislature. during the time re-
manning, to re-enact the law, and thus de-
feat its will Forawhatever i'll consequences
may have ensued from this first wrong step,
in the effort of individual members to de-
feat a conspiracy to rob the Legislature
of it's rights, or in defending the House of
mob ebi Of thugs sumrroned bv @ the Democratie
menial whose situation was endangered, the
Govefaee deeraded binself and his % exatsd of
flee bv entering into such a revolutionary
conspiracy over a trifiing matter is an ever
lasting disgrace to him and to the State.
| lafayette Call
The Legislature made creditabIe record,
as such records go, at the beginning of
the session in the matter OF the number
and pay of employees, but 1t seems that the
| closing days In the House were character
ized by reckless and extravagant appro-
| priatson of the peoples money extra pay
for already overpaid clerks that scarcely has
I IN h1 h NJ he n,
statements that have reached US show that
the extra pay voted some of the clerks
EQUALS IL 1t does not exceed. the original
pay allowed them. the only excuse for the
| exfrayaxance being that few days work
viii be necessary to finish the clerical work
| after nual Adjournment. 1t II to the credit
| Of the party that some Of the memberS
made vigorous protest against the outrage.
| but Ii seems thEy were not strong enough
numerically to head on the raid and protect
the treasury and the party II = to b
! hoped that the yea ana nay vote on thu
| appropriations WIN be published The people
| ouxht to know how the vote stood In order
s. kflG&1 know HoUr 70 Vofe 1Hemge{Vnl