The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-06
A DEMoCRATTC CRIrICIsM.

The New York Times. which comes
nearer being Mr. Cleveland's personal
organ than any other paper in the coun-
try, devotes eight columns in it's issue
of March 4 to showing up what it terms
the Infamous record of the dying Con-
gress." No Republican paper ever con-
tanned more terrible arraignment of
Democratic Congress than this of the
Times. Its spirit may be gathered from
the headlines, which characterize the
Congress as "Ignoble and Impotent, "A
Disgrace to America" Held in Con-
tempt for What 1t Has Done and Neg
lected To Do "Faithless to Party and
Country" The review of the record of
Congress is introduced by a statement
from which the following is an extract:
Before the setting of the sun tonight the
Fifty-third Congress will have ceased to be.
Its career has been of much interest; it has
accomplished a few good things; it has af-
forded a few men the opportunity to make
records 'creditable to themselves and useful
to their country. Taken as whole, how
ever the performance of the Democratic
majority, coming for the first time in thirty
years into complete control of the govern
ment, intrusted with the power to embody
in the laws the policies with which the
party has been identified. responsible for the
prudent management of affairs, has been
so lame and impotent that it may be said
without offending Democrats that nothing
! in the life Of the Congress became 1t SO
much as it's takins on
The review which follows gives prom
inence to the Democratic combine in
both branches of Congress by which
every effort of the President to secure
needed legislation was defeated, and de-
clares that the enemies of the President
in his own party are chiefly responsible
for the overwhelming disaster which be-
fell it last fall. The review is followed
by what the Times calls "A Roll of Dis
honor, containing the names of men,
bers of the House and Senate who have
brought disgrace upon the country by
their course in this Congress-" The list,
arranged by States, fills six columns Of
the Times. Under the head of Indiana
is the following:
Daniel w. Voorhees,. weak, vacillating,
alternately fawning and sneering trimmer,
insincere at all times, willing to reduce the
efficiency of the public service meet his
personal convenience. suspected by his enc
mics and distrusted by his friends. Great
gift Of CAB, keen nose for patronage, an
affected aversion for success and a. pre-
tended admiration for failure. Was cap
tive in the hands of the Sugar Trust COM
bination in the Senate and made no effort
to escape
Arthur H. Taylor, First district. some
times right. but wrong in being against the
administration on money propositions. A
humping defeat by Republican did not
cure him, for he voted to pay government
debts, incurred in gold. in silver, and re-
fused the treasury the power to issue low
rate bonds to save sixteen millions of dol
lars in interest.
John l.. Bretz, another practical repudia-
ZIONIST an enemy of ciyil-service reform,
who will remain in Indiana next session.
Jason b. Brown, also favored paying gold
obligations In silver If that metal be more
convenient 10 the treasury. Out of congress
sional life March 4.
William s. Holman, Fourth district, a
dsscredited economist, willing, like his as
sociates already named. TO pay silver for
gold, opposed to a navy, adverse to furnish
ing patronage but not unwilling to have
some OF 1t in his family: SO thoroughly