Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1887 — For What Are They Indicted. [ARTICLE]

For What Are They Indicted.

The twelve men who have been indicted for conspiracy in the Marion County election cases by the Federal court Grand July have not been indicted for conspiring to change the votes on the tallvsheets. They have b x en indicted, under a theory conceiveiTby Judge Woods for conspiring to cause inspectors of election to omit to perform 1 heir duty, '«hich was to safely keep their? respective tally-sheets, poll books and certificates. The question of changing the votes on the tally-sheets, the real crime, is not in the case at all. It was necessary, in order to bring the accused within the alleged jurisdiction of the Federal court, and to avoid clashing with the opinions of Judge Gresham in the Perkins contempt proceedings, that there should hnve been tliir straining of vhe law. But the jury, acting under the specific mandate of Judge W oods, could do nothing less than return the indictments. And what is the consequence ? They have indicted eleven Democrats of prominence against some of whom there has never before been a shadow of suspicion that they were involved, not even on the part of themselves.— But the jury, which was composed chiefly of Republicans, could not blind its eyes to the fact that the most conspicuous offender under the theory of Judge Woods was no less an individual than Genera James R. Carnahan, chairman of the Republican Couaty Executive Committee. It was he who had signed the circular from the committee to the Republican judges of election directing tnem to obtain possession of the tally sheets, although as a lawyer, he must have known that the inspector was the legal custodian. Upon what theory the jury failed to indie* General Carnahan’s fellow-conspirat-ors, we can not conceive. He wroe the circular as chairman of the Republican ExecutivefCommittee. Ji nd who were the members of that committee advising and counselling this illegal act. Their names are as follows: Dr. S. H. Mapes, W. O. Patterson, Peter f. Br ce, John B. Elam, Joseph Forbes, 8. F, Gray, Dr. E. 8. Elder, Edward J. ( onway, John R. Leonard. It would seem that thece persons were as guilty as .General Carnahan. As the jury appeared disposed to drag in every Democrat in sight, we would like to know why it treated these Republicans so kindly. And then again, why did it not indict the Republican judges who obeyed the order of the Carnahan circular. There were five or six of them, among them the Republican judge in the Thirteenth Ward who jumped out of the window election night with the tally-sheets. It appears to have made a good deal of difference with the jury whose ox was gored,—lndianapolis Sentinel.

Cleveland.—“ President Cleveland is good enough, for me.” Such were the words of a Republican in this city the other day when asked who his choice is for President in 1888. Such is the sentiment of hundreds of conservativ republicans throughout + he country today. A gentleman of decided political views was recently heard to say: “I have been a republican since the organization of the party, and api to-day. But 1 say to you that Clev land has made the best President the United States has had in twenty years, and 1 will vote for him if he is nominated.” —Lafayette Journal. Mi s Edna Dean Proctor will offer a poet’s tribute to “The Lady of the White House,” in the July number of The American Magazine. Orth Stein, of Lafayette, Ind., who has been in jail at El Paso, Texas, for seveial months was released on bail lost week.