The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-06
NICHOLSON'S MEASURE
TT WILL DE THE SPECIAL ORDER IN
THE Senate THIS MORNING.
A Final InBtallment Of Letters Dis
cussfng the Bill, Including an Ex-
preston from Gen. Knefier.

The Nicholson bill was made the special
order for yesterday afternoon, but went
over until this morning at the suggestion
of Senator Leyden. Senator Shiveley sec
onded the motion to give the committee
on temperance more time to report. The
postponement was denounced as having
back of it determination to defeat the
bill, but Senator Shiveley insisted that the
motion was made in good faith. and that
il the committee was not ready to report
at 10 o'clock this morning the bill could be
taken out of its hands. The motion to
postpone carried by vote of ss to 10.
General Knefer to His Critics.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
An article published in the Journal last
week adverse to the enactment of that un-
called-for measure, the Nicholson bill, mas
aroused much Incorporate criticism by per-
sons who are notorious lProhibitionists, and
whose boast is that they are not Republic
ans, and by others who perhaps occasion
ally condescend to vote the Republican
ticket when it suits them for some par
ticular reason. However that may be. there
Is nothing which prohibits a Republican
who stood with the party since its organ
ization, and who has not heretofore on any
occasion or under any circumstances strayed
off after false and treacherous gods from
expressing his opinion of and to protest
against the action of Republican Legisla-
ture which deliberately attempts to force
odious laws upon the majority of the peo-
pie in disregard of declared party princi-
pies, and suffers itself by avowed enemies
to be dragged from legitimate duties to
NEEDLE with matters which do not concern
them OF the party. Republicans of that
character do not propose to be driven out
of the party by the Vaccinations of a Mich
olson, who is reported to have been the
publisher of Prohibition paper and to have
procured his election to the Legislature by
the false pretense of being a Republican.
but who, in fact, is said never has been
one, and now masquerades in that disguise
for a purpose.
1t is perfectly safe to assert that the tenn
perance question in any shape was not ex-
tensively discussed in the last campaign:
it is certain it was not intended that it
should be; but, on the contrary, the men,
tion of it even was studiously avoided. The
discussion of that thrashed-out subject was
left for the bowling dervishes of prohibit
ton. who on every occasion boosted that
their sole aim was to punish the Repub-
lican party, because the dog declined to
suffer himself to be wagged by tail that
did not belong to him; it was that perfidious
crowd which proclaimed from the housetops
and on the street corners that they prayed
for the success of the Democratic party.
They did everything in their malignity to
bring about that result, but the Republican
party was successful in spite of all their
mean, contemplate and malicious endeavors.
But, 10 and behold! as soon as the Re-
mean Legislature meets they are on hand
IN duri force. male ana female arrogantly
demands, and, with Characteristic modesty,
claiming the whole earth. The Legislature.
with unparalleled stupidity, complacently
submits and suffers itself to be dragooned
into idiotic extravagances and recklessly
and indefatigable hornblowers, whose only
idea of life is to interfere with everything
and everybody and to attend to everybody
elses business but their own.
What right has Republican Legislature
TO anr4 fhs smcn nreDrana INTO the party.
any such legislation? And especially for leg
islation which has been tabooed as "a mis-
chievouS hoodoO. 1t is an exceedingly dull
man VINO is not taught by experience, but
this imbecile Republican Legislature has not
want another dose of it. Disaster and de-
feat invariably follow the leadership of these
intolerant cranks and mountebanks, every
who knows anything, what has happened
every time that Ohio has allowed itself to
NEEDLE with this abominable humbug What
has been the result in the Republican BAN
ner States of Iowa and Kansas, where this
publican party to the verge of destruction?
But it seems we must have a repetition in
Indiana of this business because a lot
of Weakened, imbecile demagogues believe
they will reap some personal advantage by
attempting to conciiate an impractical gang
who are not Republicans, but declared enc
mics of the Republican party. That is ex-
actly the present situation.
If the Republican Legislature which has
been tampering with this Nicholson fraud
really believes that more rigorous legisla-
ton was necessary to keep the liquor traf-
was demanded by the people of Indiana,
why did 1t not apply the force of its gigan-
siaious evil the behind-the- prescrption-case
whisky selling drug stores which infest
every locality. and fill the country with
does not the philanthropic Legislature enact
stringent laws to regulate these clandestine-
~ operating .pestilential nurseries of vice
and crime the dram-selling drug stores,
which are allowed to pursue their nefarious
business SUNDAYS ana week DAYS DAY b and
places which get in their work without
screens. chairs or tables, or music, and are
mt subjected to the surveillance of police
officers in civilian clothes: or by spying
through transoms or from adjoining vantage
cesses which would disgrace Russia? These
infamous places which ruin more men and
women, boys and girls; young and old, breed
saloons-why are they not taxed and made to
contribute to the revenues like the saloons?
Is such immunity extended to these vile,
secret places because perhaps some virtu-
Gus legislators and other overrighteous peo-
pie have pecuniary interests in some of
them? What is the matter that they are not
crowded to the wall? There Is. a fruitful
subject for stern, restrictive legislation; why
is It ignored? 1t seems that these Infamous
places are exempt from the meddlesome
interference of those visionary blatherskites
whose sole aim anG object in life is to howl
about the saloon and the saloon, and with
out this wornout shibboleth their occupa-
ton would be gone forever.
1t is high time that the Republican party
should adhere solely to it's recognized party
principles and rid itself forever of the bane-
full influence of that intolerant, fanatical,
bigoted crowd which has every time in
volved it in defeat and disaster. which never
was or ever will be anything but thorn
in its side; they will howl and yell and de-
nounce the party the slave of the LIQUOR
power, but that does not matter If they
can happily he got rid of, bag and baggage,
finally and forever. We have use for
them, don't want them, and will manage
to get along without them notwithstanding
their continually repeated assertion, which
they do not believe themselves. and nobody
else believes, that they are more numerous
than the stars in the heavens or the sands
upon the seashore, and that they carry
the fate of the Republican partv in the hol-
low of their hands FRED KNEFLER.
Indianapolis, March 5.
Mi. Mattingly supports tine Bill.
To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal: