Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — REVOLUTIONARY [ARTICLE]

REVOLUTIONARY

That la What the People’s Party Organ _V. ; Says. The American Non-Conformist, the organ of the People’s party, apprehends great danger in connection with the revolutionary scheme of the Republican managers. It is especially severe in its denounciation of the partisanship of the supreme court, and terms this plot a “Judicial Coup d’etat.” It said that the program prepared is peculiarly Republican; that no other party that ever existed in this country would have dared to conceive, much less formulate such a scheme. “It embraces all the talents of the conspirator, all the cunning of a special pleader, all the resources of the practical politician, all the nerve of the revolutionist.” “The people of Indiana are cooly informed that one of the three co-ordinate branches of the state, the executive, supposed to be free from partisanism, is about to exercise its highest and most momentous function at the dictation of a party.” In connection with this attempt to overthrow the apportionment, The NonConformist exposes a bargain between President Harrison, and a would-be United States senator. It devotes four columns to this exposure under the following glaring head lines: DARING PARTISAN SCHEME! THAT PROMISES TO REVOLUTIONIZE THJS STATE. TRUE STORY BEHIND AND BEFORE THE SUIT TO SET ASIDE THE PRESENT REAPPORTIONMENT. A CONSPIRACY OF WIDE SCOPE AND MOST MOMENTOUS CONSEQUENCES PERFECTED BY A DEAL WITH THE SUPREME COURT. “And Satan Came He Also” in the Person of One Fairbanks—Why That Millionaire Wants to Be Senator, How He Proposes to Get There and What He is to Pay for the Privilege. It says that the party managers opposed the nomination of Chase for governor. for the reason that they believed he would not have the backbone to carry out their program. That aB presiding officer of the senate, he weakened when he could have been of great service to the party by intimidating the majority over which he presided. The Non-Conformist is alarmed, and sees as the result of the Republican revolutionary scheme, riots, barricaded legislative halls, doable-headed legislatures and bayonets, inferring that Governor Chase would use the militia to install a Republican legislature at all hazards. About the bargain between the presiand the would-be United States senator The Non-Conformist gives the following, which it vouches as being obtained from reliable sources:

Some surprise is expressed that such a suit as the one proposed has not been brought long ago. Fifteen months have elapsed since the passage of this act, and but two months now remain in which to railroad it through the courts. Had political consideration alone prevailed, the suit would have been brought at the adjournment of the last legislature. Considerations other than of a political nature must he looked to then, as the reason for the proposed action. The delay in the bringing of the suit at this time, even the proposition to bring it, is extraordinary. What is the reason? An alliance has been formed between President Harrison and one C. W. Fairbanks, who, according to Bruce Carr and other well-known Republicans, is a five times millionaire. He is safely the richest man in the state of Indiana. Fairbanks is to furnish SIOO,OOO, and more if necessary, to carry the state for the Republicans, and in return, President Harrison and the machine are to see that Fairbanks is to have the senatorship. Several years ago The Commercial-Gazette, the organ of the Republicans in Ohio, took him to task for the brazenness' of his efforts in patting certain legislation through the legislature of that state. When it came to figuring on a majority in the legislature in Indiana, Mr. Fairbanks found it would be an utter impossibility, provided that the majority was to be confined to the Republican side of the house, even though, through his aid, the state should go for Harrison by a few thousand plurality. He quickly saw the bad bargain he had made. Therefore he must break the combination, exact better terms, or else play at the sharp end of the stick, a thing he has never in all his experience done in a business transaction.

The Non-Conformist claims that Mr. Fairbanks went to Washington to confer with Mr. Harrison; that Harrison promised to have the apportionment set aside in order to obtain the SIOO,OOO for the campaign fund. The Non-Conformist charges that Mr. Fairbanks wants to go to the United States senate for the purpose of assisting a steamship company in which he is interested, to obtain a government subsidy of $10,000,000. That this steamship company will construct a tunnel between Jersey City and Brooklyn, and build a harbor at Mantauka’s Point, at the eastern and of Long Island. Also one on the southwest shore of England, the land for which already has been acquired. Trains are to be run unbroken from Jersey City to the new harbor, and thereby reduce the distance between America and Europe @OO miles and save forty-six hours of navigation. This is the view that the People’s party organ takes of the Republican attempt to revolutionize a state government for partisan ends. Thera was an old man from Indiana, With a will a trifle “pianna:^ But his hat was immense, Hto feelings intense; sq the force bil} he sang an Hosanna, When a man from Gray Gables up sprung. The neck of the force bill he wrung: Says B. H., "Wal I swow, What will I do now?" As he fell in the shade whence he sprung,