Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — EDITED BY GOWDY. [ARTICLE]

EDITED BY GOWDY.

iltmgui Soldier Paper Rosarreotlng the Bloody Shirt. 0« Aug. 20, the Indianapolis Journal oarried the following at the head of its editorial columns: Sfme fifteen or twenty years ago the Re" publican state central committee issued a pamphlet entitled “The Disloyal Record of the Indiana Democracy.’’ The Journal desires to borrow or purchase a copy of this pamphlet, and requests that any one possessing a copy communicate at once with the editor of this paper. Late last week the Republican papers of the state received the following letter from “Colonel" William R. Holloway, editor of The American Tribune, together with a circular headed: “Disloyalty in Indiana During the War:” To thb Editor— Sir: The publication referred to below is to be made by request of the Republican state central committee, as it will recall facts and history that have passed from the minds of many persons, and that are now denied by the Democratic press when referred to. I will be glad if you will publish the same in your next issue, and if you wish to add anything as to my opportunities to know what did occur during those eventful days I will feel obliged. You will remember that I was Governor Morton’s private secretary during that time, and am the only person now living that was connected with his official family during the entire war. The facts will be taken from official sources. Yours respectfully, William R. Holloway. Disloyalty In Indiana During the War. The American Tribune of Indianapolis, the leading soldiers’ family paper of the west, will commence the publication of the disloyal record of the Indiana Democrats in its issue of Sept. 8,1892, which will include the resolutions of their state and county conventions, as well as extracts from speeches of their leaders just previous to and daring the war, their opposition to the draft, the murder of enrolling officers, efforts of the legislature to embaraes Governor Morton and their resolutions of the Indiana soldiers In the field, as well as letters from D.einocrutic soldiers in opnaeinqattQn of the ,actsnf said legislature, the Knigbte of the Golden CSrcJie. Sons of Liberty, with its signs, oaths, etc., as well as their conspiracy to release the rebel prisoners at Camp Morton at Indianapolis; Camp Chase at Columbus, O.; Camp Douglas at Chicago, and Johnson’s Island, Lake Erie; to arm them with guns to be taken from the state arsenals, and inaugurate a bloody revolution in our midst, as well as the reE' i of the federal grand jnry and GenWUcox, Haskell, Carrington and >y on said organization and their acts. It is now twenty-eight years sinoe this unholy record was made, and this publication will recall the trying scenes through Wfiiok the people at home passed In order to suppress the fire in the rear and sustain the brave men who were facing an armed foe In the field, while it will serve as a revelation to the rising generation, and can not but prove of intense interest to the public at large. The Tribune is only |1 a year. The American Tribune is owned by P. H. Fitzgerald, a pension claim agent of Indianapolis. Before The Tribune was converted into a partisian sheet of the bloody shirt class, it was indorsed as the official organ of the G. A. R. of Indiana. About the time the Republican state committee was reorganized last January the eld editor of the paper was dropped by Fitzgerald because he would not conduct it as a Republican partisan organ. “Colonel" Holloway, who put down the rebellion from a cosy office in the state bouse, was made editor. Long bei j.e Cleveland was nominated, Holloway had turned The Tribune into a Republican organ. Of course The Tribune has the right to sell its space to the Republican state committee and no one will question the right of the Republican state committee to fill that space with bloody shirt and force bill articles. But in thus prostituting its coslunris to the work of the chairman of a party organization The Tribune forfeits its claim to be the “organ of the G. A. R.” The G. A. R. claims to be a non-polit-ical organization. Upon such representations a Lemocratic congress appropriated SIOO,OOO to defray the expenses of the owning national encampment at Washington. Ridiculed by the Indianapolis “Hews.” As might be expected the Indianapolis Journal is reproducing this ancient history with inflamatory headlines. The Indianapolis News, an independent Republican paper, which incidentally supports Harrison, has this appropriate comment upon The Journal’s first installment of the twenty-eight- . year-old-conspiracy: Was it mere concidence or in the nature of a “consolation” purse that off the heels of the dolorous Republican county convention of Saturday the party newspaper organ on Sunday should come out with a page account (fully illustrated) of—“ The Conspiracy of the Golden Circle—The Damning Record Made by Indiana Democrats Twenty-eight Years Ago.” (Great Spot*! where’s the poliee?) This “scoop” Whs reinforced by a “ringing” editorial to “flap the loyal heart,” and to show, it is to be presumed, why the McKinley tariff should be upheld! This beats the pearlbutton argument clear out of sight. It even surpasses the force of the editorial paragraph in the same issue of the same paper, which calls attention to the fact that “when the cholera came to the United States and swept the country the Walker revenue tariff was in force.” May it be said that the cure for the apathy and indifference so far prevalent in this campaign bus been found? Is the Indiana heart fired by the names of Horsey, Humphreys and Hsfferen and the McKinley Mil saved by the revelation of the “bloody purposes of the conspirators of twenty-eight years ago?” Eheu! Harrison and day Gould on Cheap Coats.

PRESIDENT HARRISON lam one of those uninstructed political economists that bars an impression that some things may be too cheap; g&J path? with this demand for cheaper goods, which seems to me necessarily to involve a cheaper man and woman un-

JAT GOULD. If the tariff on wool makes clothing cost more, a person will get along with one suit where he would otherwise have two;