Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1887 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

[Kansas City Times. | “ Jnce upon a time,” as the story goes, two Irishr en were taking a sail in a dda|.iduted boat when a squall struck the outfit, “On your knees and prav, Jemmy!” yelled Mike. “Shure Oi can’t,” replied Jemmy, “but Oi’l thry,” and dropping he said: “Mosht marciful—” Here the gale subsided as quickly as it had risen and Mike shouted:

“Schtop your dommed prayin’ an’ hilp bail or we’ll lose the shep!” A very similar spirit to that of Michael is now being manifested by that truly excellent citizen and patriot without variableness or shadow of turning, General John C. New, of the Indianapolis Journal. His weather eye, however, is afflicted with strabismus and his judgment sadly warped when he concludes the late blizzard which struck the Republican craft was but a passing z phyr, when in fact it is only gathering impetus for a final outburst a year hence. But with Hoosier pluck Mr. New proposes to keep the colors flying and go down defiantly, thereby presenting a strong contrast to his fellow editors, who are dolefully repeating the lan ent of Maud Mulin’* that “it might have been.” From this date until the ides of November, therefore, Gener’l John will devote his time and talents (in ’BO the latter were generally in the shape of $2 notes) to the task of saving “the shep” in Indiana, and actually bases his hopes upon the sandy foundation that it is a Republican State. Let us see: In ’72 theJDemocrats elected as Gevernor Thomas A. Hendricks, iu ’76 “Blue Jeans” Williams and in. ’B4 Isaac P Gray, while the Republicans only carried the State in the October election of ’BO, seating Albert G. Porter, after the most notoriously venal campaign known in the history of the country. The largest corruption fund ever raised was that year poured into the coffers of the Indiana Central Committee, of which General John was chairman. Would-be officeholders, headed by at least four capitalists, who had been severally promised the position of Secretary of the Treasury, gave without stint; the departments, at the dictation of Jay Hubbell, of Michigan, were bled profusely;the star routers, under the lead of General Tom Brady, added their thousands, andjevery employe of a desperate administration was forced to contribute his or her mite. The immense amount thus obtained was disbursed under the supervision of the notorious Dorsey, who w«s selected by the National Committee to see that the funds were placed where they would do the most good, and not fobbed, as had been the c heerful Republican custom in the State before. The result was a so-called victory, which uddoubtedly gave the election to Garfield and Arthur the next month.

Now this same Porter, who is a combination of Pecksniff and Uriah Heep, is to be placed in nomination again, and it is but fair to presume that an effort will be made to repeat the tactics of eight years ago. B.t there are several cogent reasons why a repetition is not within the limits of possibility.— Primarily, the sin 'ws ot war will be lacking. Millionaires, though ready to pay for political preferment, will not “come down” to help a party that is beaten when the nominations shall have been made. The departments are mainly filled with good Democrats who will mock at the cries of “My Dear Hubbell,” r nd under a Democratic administration there are no starroufers plunging their arms elbewdeep inte the public treasury while .Dorsey has sought refuge among the cacti and coyottes of Naw Mex

ico. But more importadt than all are the abolition of the October elections ano the passage of a strict registration law. The God-and-moiality party can no longer inundate the Southern counties with Kentucky coons, the Northern ones with scum from the Chicago levee, nor the Eastern and Western tiers with superfluous Republicans from Ohio and Illinois. These riff-raff will hereafter find it healthy to remain at home, and the outcomejpromises to be the largest Democratic majority g.ven in that State for two score years. Indiana is more surely Democratic than New York, and that is practically useless. The News, the Porters, the Harrisons, the Robe ’tsons, the Dudleys, the Calkinses and others of the ilk, while as ignorant as Jemmy about praying, may bawl without ceasing, and they cannot save f j om sinking e ther in the Wabash or the Kankakee swamps the rotten old Republicans “shep.’