Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1880 — RICHARD GREGG. [ARTICLE]

RICHARD GREGG.

The Greenback Noininepfor Governor Tiie following short sketch of tiie Greenback candidate for Governor we copy from the Indiamipolis Sentinel, and while we are confident of the eleciion of the nominee of the Democratic ( onvt ntion, it is at the same time agreeable to note the high standing of the candidate of an opposing element. Such nominations do away with many of the asperities engend. ered in an. excited campaign. The Sentinel says: lion. Richard Gregg, who was yes terday by the Greenbackers placed in nomination for Governor, was born in Hanison county, Ohio, but came witn his parents to Rising Sun, this State, in ’47, and is now forty-four years old. Ho is a gentleman of fine presence, and his private and political life is withouta blemish. He was schooled at Greencastle one year, and at College Hill, 0., two years. He is a graduate of the Asbury Law School. He is a very successful member of the bar, but manages and lives upon a farm near Aurora, Ind. He was a Democratic member of the Legisla tore, regular and special sessions, in '65, representing Dearborn County.— He has also represented Dearborn and Ohio Counties in the Senate, and held other very important offices.— The bill in the Senate to tax the capital stock of State banks for city and municipal purposes, is his. He also drafted and championed the bill that passed both Houses of the General Assembly in Indiana, advising the National Government to give. land to soldiers upon warrants without actual settlememt. The bill was championed by Holman, and carried in the lower House of Congress, but lost in the Senate. Mr. Gregg affiliated with the Democrats up to 1873, since which time he has been a Greenbaeker. Conway, one of the principal promoters of the exodus movement was recently examined by the committee, and responded to the interrogatories of Mr. Voorhees; Q- —You visited Indiana on that trip, did you not? A. I stopped in Indianapolis on my way. Q.—How longdidyou remain there? A. —I think three days. Q.—During that time you saw Mr Martindale, the editor of the Journal’ A.—l believe I did, Q —You saw Mr. New, the Chairman of the Republican State Committee? A.—l saw Mr, New. Q Did you know Colonel Dudley? A—-The name is familiar to mo, but I do not remember meeting him. Q.—Do you kuowColonel Holloway, j the postmaster? A.—Ye». sir. Q.—Did you meet with reasonable encouragement? A.—Yes, sir; a good deal of it. I was told, and Information came in there that 5,000 or 10,000 could find employment in Indiana. I Q.—Was that the opinion of these gentlemen? A.—Yes, sir; I think it WAS. I also met two or three Quakers there, and one of them said he had

been through the State, and he showed me a long list of mimes of farmers who would give t-.em employment. Q.—Then it was not disguised between you and these gentlemen that it would be of political advantage to the State, as well as to these negroes themselves, to bring them there, was it? A.—Not at all, sir: Iso re, aided it, and think so still. Q. And so did they? A—Yes, sir. (}. From your party standpoint, you think it is desirable to carry Indiana for the Republicans? A. —Undoubtedly so, sir. Q — Ami they looked upon it in the same light, did they? A— I think they would be great tools if they did not; I think they did. Q. Did you And the negroes arriv ing at St. Louis, when yon got there? A.—Yes, sir; they were arriving before I started.

Q. —And you tried to divert them to Indiana? A.—Yes. sir; I told the Committee I thought it advisable not to send any more to Kansos —that many of them were wanted in Indiana, Illinois, and other States, and I tho’t it would be better for them to go there

Q. — And the only political aspect of it was that you thought to help Indiana a little and the Republican party out there a great deal? A.— Yes, sir; and other individuals thought so. So did I then, andjdo now. Q. — Recurring 1 o the point, whom did you principally at Imliamipolis? A.—l saw a number o‘i gentlemen there who were interested in the matter—some who were purely philanthropic, and some who were distinguished politicians. Q.—Name some of tiiose distinguished politicians,. 1 do not think 1 could name any except those whom y-m mentioned -Messrs. New and Martin:) le, and otoem. Q They knew wh .t your purposes wore? A.—Yes, sir; .distinctly, sir; and the whole country knew it,