Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1883 — THE REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACY. [ARTICLE]

THE REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACY.

Governor Porter had •fei’ veto of the police bill ready <»i Satur day a'teruoon. He informed several persons that he would send it to '.be House tiefore the Saturday adjournment, so that there would be no excuse for the non-passage of the appropriation bills. The veto was not sent Why? As soon as the Republican bo-ses found that the Governor was weakning from his first inrention to hold the police bin for veto until a late hour on Monday, it wasQresolved to bulldose him back into their plgns.

Therefore it was that a steady s’ream — some of it very dirty—was kept playing upon him until Saturday midnight Senators Spann, Bundy, Foulke, Henry and others were deta led from the Senate. L iter one ot Senator Harrison’s law partners was sent in to brace him up. lhen came others from the Uity Government. 11 aches of the Journal and r> present * tivts of the C ait House r ng. During the night Collvcr«»r McKay wa< sent to raise his arm and d übl < bis fist, 'not io strike his Excellency, howw; r, but to crush an imaginary De mo rat an I to intimate to the Governor what he would do if he stood in h>s shoes. McKay, although suggestive somewhat ot the Kukiux or ihe Duuites in bis g< neral appearance, is very harmlera. h > thinks d—, but never —or hardly ever —says it. A good deal like ihe Governor, by the way.

His Excellency finally yii kle I to this pressure veVi was wi.h.eld. At midnight there ga <• :vd into the Governors office Lieutenant Governor Hanna, tenaturs Buudy, Fuuike and Bpann.Jess. Adams Move McLain, one of the Martindale b»ysa<id ome others of the same general average. To these choice spirits the tn- siage * >s read. The details of to- fay's movements were probably at tanked. I here is noth, iug to prevent the passive of the police bill o.er thi vc <» It the Lieutenant Governor sihh.li ititt-mpl any revolutionary or unpar Unientaiy iu-. vements we trust that the remaining hours of the session may be ml zed in impeaching him. This will am act ihe attention of the people to the htgh-hauded revolution try proceedings of the .Republican minority in the Senate ch-mber as no other couisc would. It would also bring out the bottom iacts-ef the JRe publican conspiracy, which is obscured and lied about by the Journal and other party organs.

This is a conspiracy which has for its factors the Governor of Indiana, the Lieu tenant Governor, a cabal oi Republican ■senators and an unsavory, disreputable gang ot local Republicau politicians. It the people of the Stale ascertain the facts in the vase the Republican party will be buried in 1884 under ths heaviest Democratic majority the State has ever given. To anticipate otherwise would be to expect the people of the State to Indorse the bulldozing, browbeating, unparliamentary and, revolutionary programme recently inaugura ed in the Senate by the Lieutenant Governor, backed up bv the minority ot the Chamber.—lndianapolis Sentinel.