Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1892 — A BOODLER CAUGHT. [ARTICLE]

A BOODLER CAUGHT.

More Arrests to Follow. A systematic effort is being made by the Republicans to induce men to move out of their precincts or to abstain from voting. The Democratic state committee is determined to see that the new election law is not rendered a dead letter. That law was enacted by the Democrats to stop all the corruption at the polls and they do not propose to see the boodlers continue to buy votes. The Democratic state committee through the county and precinct organizations has been watching th 6 operations of these boodlers. Evidence has already been secured to convict a large number of Republican workers. They will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The first boodler to be caught is James Fisher, of Richland township, Rush county. He hired Robert Hall, a Democrat of the same township, to move to Muncie. Fisher gave a suit of clothes and paid his railroad fare. Hall accepted in order to trip Fisher. He got off at the first station, returned home and has sued Fisher to recover S3OO under the McCabe bribery act. Fisher is one of Chairman Gowdy’s lieutenants: The following is tho complaint filed in the circuit court Oct. 19. It has thrown the Republicans into a panic:

State of Indiana, Rush county. Rush circuit court, October term, 1892. State of Indiana on the relation of Robert Hall vs. James Fibber. Complaint for election bribery. Demand, 8350. The said on the relation of said Robert Hall complains of said defendant, and says that said Robert Hall is a duly qualified voter of Richland precinct, Richland township, Rush county, Indiana; and that on the 18th day of October, 1892, said defendant, who is a resident of Anderson township, came to relator, in said Richland township, and offered to give to said relator the sum of 110, less the price of a railroad ticket to Muncie, Ind., a new suit of clothes, a valise and an unlaundered white shirt, and further agreed to purchase for said relator out of said 110 as aforesaid, a railroad ticket to Muncie, Ind., for and in consideration that said, relator would agree to refrain from voting, in said Richland township, at the coming election on Nov. 8, 1892, and further changing his residence by removing to Jay county, Indiana, on said Oct. 18,1892. And said relator further says that the reiator pretended toaccept said defendant’s said proposition, and on said 18th day of October, 1892, said defendant came to Rushville with relator; that in pursuance of said agreement defendant purchased at the clothing store of Frank Wilson in said Rushville for said relator, one suit of clothes, one valise and one white shirt; that said defendant further purchased for relator his dinner on said day, that thereupon between the hours of 11 and 12 a. m. on said day, said Fisher took plaintiff to the railroad station of the C., W. &M. railroad company at Rushville and defendant thereupon purchased of the agent of said company a railroad ticket, good for one day only, from Rushville, Ind., to Muncie, Ind., by way of Anderson; that in pursuance of said agreement, said defendant paid to relator the difference between 110 and the price of said ticket, to-wit, $8.69. And relator further says that said defendant as a part of said agreement required relator to sign a written statement to the effect that said relator signified his intention to remove to Jay county, Indiana, for the purpose of making said Jay county relator’s future home, which written statement said Fisher took from relator after he had signed the same by making his mark. Relator f Orths' says that the relator is

| about fifty-ei«ht years old, and ts and has i always been a Democrat in politics and on said date in tended to vote the Democratic ticki!, a. the approaching November election. a> i of which facts wore well known to defend tut, said defendant Iteing then and there well hjpown to? a Republican in polities. I i ( ) ursnance of said agreement relator, a -o iipanied by said Fisher, boarded the ti i ion said railroad going noitli at 12 o’c:ock noon, and says that said Fisher got off of said train before it started, and relator went to Henderson, the first railroad station north of Rushville on said road, at which point he got off of said train and returned to said Richland township on said day. Wherefore relator demands judgment against said defendant for the spin of $.200 penalty, and the further sum of SSO as reasonable attorney’s fees for prosecuting this action and for all further aud proper relief. His Robert x Hall Mark. Witness: Wallace Morgan. Subscribed aud sworu to before me this 19th day of October, 1892. Douglas Morris, Notary Public.

Driven Into a Hole. The Republican leaders started out to make a canvass on state issues. An attempt was made to ignore the tariff and force bill, but the game did not work and they have been forced to discuss the robber tariff and the kingly force bill. In addition the people found out that the record disclosed that Shockney, Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, and every Republican senator voted for the tax law. This closed the mouths of the Republican speakers on that question. Governor Chase, Shockney and the whole gang then commenced to talk about the extravagance of the Democrats in conducting the state institutions. Then the fact was made known that two of the most extravagant state institutions, the Feeble Minded, at Fort Wayne, and the Reform School had a majority of Republicans on the board of trustees and that the increasing expenditures must be charged up to the Republicans. Governor Chase then dropped this charge like a hot poker and devoted the time formerly given to charging extravagance against the Democrats in managing state institutions to telling how his mother made soup when he was a boy and Shockney abandoned the stump. In the meantime, the Republican speakers, from Porter down, give only a few minutes to the description of the robber tariff and thekingly force bill. A Humiliating Spectacle. Governor Porter as a young man was student of Governor Whitcomb and freely imbibed aad advocated the views of that great man on the tariff. Governor Whitcomb’s “Facts for the People,” was the plainest and ablest document ever written on the tariff and we have daily the humiliating spectacle of Governor Porter turning his back on his early preceptor and his tariff views and passing the tariff question by in his speeches with a wave of his hand. Reid, the candidate for the vice presidency, says it is the leading question in the canvass, The reputation of Governor Porter has received a serious blow and he had better remain at the court of the King of Italy. General Dan Sickles has been nominated for congress by Tammany Hall. In accepting the nomination he said he was for the whole ticket. Can any one point to a law in favor of the farmer or workmen enacted by a Republican congress or legislature '(