Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1887 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOTJUNAIj, 3IONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1837.

THE DAILY JOURNAL. MONDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1S87.

WASHINGTON' OFFICE -513 Fourteenth SU P. S. IIlATH, Correspondent. NEW YORK OFFICE 104 Temple Court, Corner Beckmaa and Xaaaau streets. TDE INDIANAPOLIS JOUBSAt Can be found at the following places LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. TARIS American Exchange in Taris. 35 Boulevard des Capucinea. NEW YOItK Gedney House and Windsor Hotels. miCAGO ralmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. llawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. - WASHINGTON, D. C-jiigys House and Ebbitt House. The tactics adopted by the gang show their desperation. . Which candidate for Mayor are the saloons supporting? Mayor Denny has made a record of which any man might be proud. Do not fail to attend the citizens' meeting at Tomlinson ITall to-night. TnE gang and its organs are exhibiting the ferocity of rats driven into a corner. If the Coy gang is knocked out to-morrow it will be the best day's work ever done in Indianapolis. Dr. Edenharter voted thirteen times against the ordinance raising the Baloon tax to $100 a year. Does Governor Gtay indorse the gang tactics against Mayor Denny as exposed in our city columns this morning? Does lion. Joseph E. McDonald indorse the gang tactics against Mayor Denny, as exposed in our city columns this morning. Yes, Dr. Edcnharter was a workingman before he became a professional politician and office-seeker, but now he is the representative of the Coy gang. ' WILL honorable, law-abiding, reputable Democrats indorse the gang tactics against Mayor Denny, as exposed in our city columns this morning? The exposure of the latest infamy of the gang should give Mayor Denny and the antigang picket hundreds and thousand of votes from honest people. THE sight of ex-Senator McDonald hitched to the tail of Sim Coy's garbage cart is one which arouses pity rather than indignation. It is a sad exhibition. If honest men do their duty to-morrow Coyism will be kicked out of the back door of popular contempt and rolled over and over in the gutter of universal detestation. EVERY tax-payer in the city was benefited by the ordinance increasing the saloon tax. The record shows that Coy and Edenharter ctood shoulder to shoulder in opposition to it Mr. Edenharter may be a "nice man," but a vote for him is a vote to put the criminal classes in power; and they will understand themselves to be in the saddle if the Coy ticket succeeds. The public awaits with some interest to know whether Governor Gray will see that Frank Meyers, paroled convict and particular friend of Simeon Coy, leaves the city before to-morrow morning. There is reason to fear that the jail will be crowded after next Tuesday. Men who talk like Election Inspector Henry Stolte is reported to have talked are likely to find accommodations there. The ordinance increasing the saloon tax to $100 added $15,000 a year to the city revenue. Dr. Edenharter voted against it thirteen times, and finally bolted with Sim Coy in the hope of defeating its passage. Candidate Edenharter has said nothing to convince any sensible man that the affairs of the city would be s:fe in his hands, ne cannot hope to influence fair-minded citizens with personal abuse as his only stock in trade. The government of Jamaica offers a premium of $300 for the best elementary textbook on tropical agriculture. Indiana farmers who managed to pull their crops through the tropical heat of last summer might compete eucessfully. It was when Sim Coy asked to have the selection of a candidate for Mayor intrusted to his committee that he said, "My experience has beea that the fewer men you have in this politics the better it will be done." His request was granted, and he nominated Edenharter. If Mr. Powderly knows so much about the guilt of the Chicago Anarchists why was not Jje on hand at the trial? If, by any miscarriage of justice, a new trial is granted, he will probably be called on to produce those incriminating documents which he says are now in his safe. The way the New England people are scolding about the coming marriage of Miss Freeman, president of Wellesley College, creates the impression that it is little short of a crime for a Massachusetts spinster to marry. The public should be lenient, however. It is not a common offense down there. During the campaign just closing no one point of contrast between the two forces is nore prominent and suggestive than this: From first to last, neither in speeches nor in print, has there been a wordjof abuse against Ihe private character of Dr. Edenharter. Press and speakers have not belittled themselves or bemeaned the canvass in that way. They have gone beyond the man to the master; ha", a tore away the disguises, and revealed the corrupt and criminal gang behind the mask. Cn the other hand, Dr. Edenharter and hi a

organs have ignored the issue of the campaign, and have attempted to convert it into one of the lowest personalism. The Doctor has gone up and down the city uttering lying scandals and personal defamations, while his organs have filled their columns with foul and indecent abuse and denunciation, and the moat scandalous attacks upon private citizens. If Dr. Edenharter is satisfied with the record of the campaign in this regard, we certainly are. The filth he and his backers have thrown adheres only to themselves.

Be eare and attend the Citizens' Meeting tonight at Tomlinson Flail. General Harrison, ex-Governor Porter, Captain Bitter, Mr. Fishback, Mr. John T. Dye, and others, will speak at the Tomlinson Hall meeting to-night. A CORRUPT and criminal gang that did not hesitate to forge and mutilate tally-sheets to accomplish their purposes, will not hesitate to do any scoundrelly thing to aid them now in the work of capturing the city government and in securing a seeming "vindication" of their crime of last November. Men who will use knives and acids to steal the franchise from a free people will not be deterred from purchasing affidavits, if they can get them, making any kind of charges against Republican candidates in the last hours of the cam-, paign. Criminals, who are under indictment for the tally-sheet forgeries, will not hesitate to copy the "Morey letter" tactics of the campaign of 1880, and attempt to impose upon the people by any sort of lying roorback. Voters should Jbe prepared for anything under the sun to-day and to-morrow in the way of forgeries and frauds. Whatever may be done whatever lies started or forgeries uttered will be only the la3t desperate effort of the gang of "unconvicted criminals, whose escape from the penitentiary is a disgrace to the adm ministration of our criminal jurisprudence, both State and national." An instance of this i3 shown in the exposure made in our city columns of as infamous and infernal a conspiracy as ever was concocted. Does Dr. Edenharter indorse this sort of work in his behalf? He has all day to wash his hands of the infamy. If he does not do so, the honest, honorable people of Indianapolis will know and estimate him at his proper worth; and there may be a supplement to this villainy that will not be so pleasant. He tare and attend the Citizens' Meeting tonight at Tomlinson Hall. The last rally of the people against the Coy gang will be made at Tomlinson Hall to-night. Every citizen interested in the defeat of the Coy ticket is urged to be present. TO BUSINESS MEN AND NON-PAETISANS-There is in this city a considerable body of voters who ordinarily take only a languid interest in politics, and are not closely identified with either party. Party ties, if they have any, sit very loosely on them. They are more interested in business than they are in politics, yet at heart they are thoroughly in favor of honest politics, good government and the enforcement of law and order. Some of them may lean to the Bepublican side, others to the Democratic side; but they are not parsans, and are not "in politics." To all such the election to-morrow will afford an opportunity to prove their good citizenship. There never was an election that involved less of political partisanship in the ordinary sense. The issues are far more important than those involved in an ordinary city election. It may present a partisan aspect to partisans, but to the much larger body of citizens who are not actively engaged in politics, it presents a much broader aspect, and one that involves the fundamental principles of good government and good citizenship. Mr. Denny is not running simply as a Republican, nor Dr Edenharter simply as a Democrat. The former " represents the elements and forces that go to make a city orderly, respected and prosperous, while the latter represents exactly the opposite. Mr. Denny represents the cause of law and order, Dr. Edenharter the cause of lawlessness and crime. One represents the conservative forces of society, the other the destructive forces; one the sober, industrious, productive classes, the other the reckless, irresponsible and criminal classes. Between these in all American cities there is an irrepressible conflict. It is the great problem of municipal government that cannot be evaded without cowardice, nor rightly solved except by the united efforts of all good citizens in the cause of good government. If the business men and non-partisan voters, who are more interested in good government than they are in party politics, will do their duty to-morrow the city will be saved the disgrace of falling under the control of Sim Coy and his gang. He nr and attend the Citizens Meeting tonight at Tomlinson Hall. No class is more interested in the result of the ity election than the wives, mothers and sisters. The ladies are especially urged to come to the Tomlinson Hall meeting to-night. A FEW W0EDS TO EONEsJT DEMOCRATSThe meeting at Tomlinson Hall Saturday night did not represent the best element of the Democratic party. It may have represented the most numerous element, but not the best. We say this in face of the fact that ex-Senator McDonald, Governor Gray and Congressman Bynum were present and made speeches indorsing Sim Coy and hi3 acts. The speakers did not lift Coy up by doing this; they let themselves down. So of the audience it did not represent the best elements of the party. It wa3 composed of Democrats who are in politics or who expect to profit directly or indirectly by a partisan victory. All these, like the speakers who addressed the meeting, will vote the party ticket. They are afraid to do otherwise. They must maintain their party standing in order to get future honors and rewards. It is a political necessity with them to stand by the party machine and management. In the present case that means Sim Coy. Nobody questions the right of Mr. McDonald, Governor Gray and Congressman Bynum to ap

pear before a public audience and distinctly indorse, by name, the man who planned and superintended the tally-sheet forgeries last fall; the man who planned and superintended the breaking open of a ballot-box with a hatchet, and then said, "by we have got our man in;" the man who for three years past has devoted all his time to organizing the bummer element and planning election frauds; the man who has made Democratic politics of Indianapolis a stench throughout the State, and whose name has become a synonym for political corruption. We say Messrs. McDonald, Gray and Bynum had a perfect right to make public profession of faith in this man and indorse him and his act?, and being professional politicians they might not have been expected to do otherwise. But it does not change his status one iota. To honest Democrats who were neither present nor represented at the meeting Saturday night, we say: Do you not know, as a matter of history, that the tally-sheets in the election last fall were altered by erasure and acids, so as to count out two Republicans who were elected and count in two Democrats who were not elected? Do you doubt that this fraud was planned, superintended and assisted by Sim Coy? Do you not know that he and his co-con-Bpirators in this business only escaped the penitentiary through a mistrial, and that he and they are still under indictment for the crime? Do you doubt that Dr. Edenharter is his creature and tool, and that his candidacy represents Coyism and nothing else? Do you not know that once in the Council when Edenharter attempted for a moment to assert his independence, Coy said: "Shut up, you d d ingrate, I made you what you are," and Edenharter did shut up? Do you doubt that the election of Edenharter will be not only a triumph of Coyism. with all that that implies, but will alsdbe claimed by him as a personal vindication? Do you doubt that such a result would be a great injury to the city directly by putting the bummer element in control, and indirectly by advertising to the world that law and order citizens were in a minority here? Democrats who are in politics know all this as well as anybody, but they are bound to indorse Coy by voting the party ticket. .Many of them in their hearts would be glad to have Edenharter defeated as a means of getting rid of Coy, but they dare not vote against him. Honest Democrats who are not in politics, aud who are convinced that the public welfare requires the defeat of the Coy gang, should vote accordingly. We do not ask them to assist in rescuing the city from lawlessness, for we have fairly good government now. We ask them to assist in saving it from Coyism. -

Be snr and attend the Citizens Meeting tonight at Tomlinson Hay. The Tomlinson Hall meeting to-night is a citizens' meeting. It is not a Republican meeting or a Democratic meeting; but a meeting of those who are opposed to the domination of the Liquor League in city affairs, and who are opposed to the "vindication" of . tally-sheet forgers. ' THE SENTINEL'S ATTACK ON A CATH0LI0 PEELATE, The Sentinel, yesterday, contained an editorial attack on Cardinal Gibbons, of the Cath olic Church, which showed a very contemptible spirit. Cardinal Gibbons, one of the most learned and able prelates of the Catholic Church in America, is also noted for his amiability of character and his loyal devotipn to American ideas and institutions. The North American Review, for October, contained an article by him entitled, "Some Defects in our Political and Social Institutions," in which, while recognizing the strength of our government, he pointed out, in a very friendly spirit, what he thought some defects in our society. The principal ones enumerated were the looseness of the marriage tie, the lack of moral and religious education, the growing disregard for and desecration of the Sabbath, and the continued attacks on the purity of the ballot. Oa the latter point Cardinal Gibbons said: "The ballot is the expression of the will of a free people, and its purity should be guarded with the utmost jealousy. To violate that purity is to wound the State in its tenderest point. "The repeated cry of 'election frauds' is one full of warning. In many instances, undoubtedly, it is the empty charge of defeated partisans against the victors; yet enough remain, of a substantial character, to be ominous. In every possible way by tickets insidiously printed, by 'stuffing the box, by 'tissue ballots,' and 'repeating" and 'personation' frauds are attempted, and too often successfully, upon the ballot It is the gravest menace to free institutions. "Defective registration laws and negligence to secure the ballot-box by careful legal enactments, in part account for such a state of affairs; but a prime cause is that the better class of citizens so often stand aloof from practical politics and the conduct of campaigns. It is one result of universal suffrage that elections very frequently turn upon the votes of that large class made up of the rough and baser sort. To influence and organize this "vote is the 'dirty work' of politics. Gentlemen naturally shrink from it. Hence it has gotten, for the most part, with the general political machinery, into unreputable hands; and from these hands issue the election frauds, which thicken in the great cities, and gravely endanger our institutions. "We hail it with satisfaction, that a more healthy public opinion in this quarter 6eems developing, . that reputable citizens appear more disposed to bear an active part in practical politics, and that 'reform,' a 'free ballot,' 'a fair count,' are becoming, under the pressure, more and more party watchwords. It is a purifying tendency in a vital direction." The Sentinel replies to Cardinal Gibbons's article in an editorial of considerable length, arid which averages about a sneer to the line. It repeatedly refers to Cardinal Gibbons as "Mr." Gibbons, denying him his ecclesiastical title. It says he "views our political and social institutions from the stand-point of a pes simist;" that he has "a seriously defective mental vision;" that his "mind's eye is out of order;" speaks of him as "a first-class croaker and kicker," and says portions of his article are "fanatical slander, foolish rant." To one of the Cardinal's positions the Sentinel replies, "It is only required to state such, a proposition to win for its author the blue' ribbon of asininity.' The key to the Sentinel's wrath is probably found in that portion of the Cardinal's article quoted above. The organ and defender of the tally-sheet forgeries must be sensi

tive indeed when a distinguished prelate of the Catholic Church cannot speak in favor of a pure ballot and denounce election frauds without incurring its wrath.

Be sore and attend the Citizens' Sleeting tonight at Tomlinson Hall. The monopolies and pools which are the characteristic features of modern commerce are not simply demonstrations of the power of capital and the tyranny of wealth. Men are no greedier now than they have always been, nor is money any more usurping. Combinations are the natural outgrowth of the present conditions of production. The use of machinery necessarily groups workingmen. No man now makes a whole watch. He perhaps polishes one wheel. The completed watch is the product of the labor of a hundred hands, and the united force of this hundred men is guided and directed by the brains or capital of one proprietor. That he should combine with other manufacturers is natural and consequent. And if, being associated, they proceed to put a price on their products, and agree not to undersell each other, they are only doing, on another scale, what all tradesunions bind their members to. The trouble is that such combinations cannot be universal. Some classes of labor are helpless. When all the manufacturers, and doctors, and preachers, and printers shall have formed unions, each after his kind, and set their prices to meet their mutual demands, there still remain farmers, the largest producers of all, who cannot possibly unite. If they could combine, and preachers and housekeepers would do the same, things might adjust themselves equitably enough. This being out of the question, they are caught between the upper and neither mill-stones. Fortunately, however, they have a living chance in the fact that all monopolies are self-destroying. Sooner or later one member of the combination breaks faith, and the whole thing falls to pieces. Be sure and attend the Citizen Sleeting tonight at Tomlinson Hall. Mr. William Henderson has the courage of his convictions. The abuse heaped on him by the Sentinel does not alter the fact that he is one of our oldest and most respected citizens and a life-long Democrat. His reasons for voting for Denny for Mayor, which we print in another column, are worthy of careful consideration by Democrats who, like himself, look beneath and beyond the surface of things. Although a Democrat, Mr. Henderson is not prepared to sacrifice his convictions as an honest man nor stultify himself by voting for a man who distinctly and emphatically represents the worst elements of society, against' a man who stands for law and order. No stronger arraignment of the Coy gang has been made than this by a life-long Democrat. One point is worthy of special notice. It is that the success of the gang will have a very damaging effect on the Democratic party throughout the State. There is not a particle of doubt of this, and Mr. Henderson is sagacious enough to see it. From a strictly partisan point of view the Journal could desire nothing better than the success of the Coy gang for future effect in State politics; but we prefer the present salvation of the city from such a disaster. Bank Superintendent Paine, of New York, whose opinion in financial matters ought to be worth something, says there is no want of money in New York city, but a hesitation exists to loan it on securities which are ordinarily available. This want of confidence, Mr. Paine thinks, originates in the inflation of the currency by the coinage of silver without reference to its intrinsic value, as well as in the continuance in existence of the legal-tender notes which should have been called in by the government and paid or funded. This inflation has caused the investment of large sums of money in enterprises that have not paid, and will not pay for a long time, any dividends. Such employment of capital has given a check to trade generally. Financial theories are always in order, and this one goes for what it is worth. The independent Democrats of Baltimore say of the regular party organization in that city that it is a "purely commercial association trading in legislation and patronage as a business," and that it "has banded together the criminal classes of the city for election and other purposes." The independents further find that seven men have beep appointed to office under the city. State and national governments within a few months past who have taken human life. This will serve as a photograph of the party in Indianapolis, the difference being that its members in office and trying to get in, are not actual murderers, so far as known, but among them represent a variety of other grades of crime, from forgery to the robbing of tax-payers, and the selling of whisky on Sunday. Mr. Welch, the Minneapolis man whom the Postmaster general has sued for libel, repeats his story in detail, and claims that Mr. Vilas confessed to him several years ago that he bad pocketed $18,000 of the $75,000 which was left after the breaking up of the Madison Fire Insurance Company, the remainder being divided among other directors, instead of going to the members of the company. Mr. Welch, who seems to be a very determined old person, and "spoiling for a fight," is likely to make matters rather lively for Mr. Vilas before he gets through. Six months ago Procter & Gamble, the soap manufacturers of Cincinnati, adopted the profit-sharing plan with their employes, and the past week they distributed about $10,000 among their workmen as their share for the half-year. Some of the workmen received as high as $275, the percentage being 13.7 of the total amount of wages paid. Unions and Knights of Labor organizations will have very little to do around that establishment. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, in a recent speech at a county fair, advised his hearers to rai3e chestnuts, saying that at current prices in Chicago the crop would pay better than wheat. The G over no is not posted. President Cleveland could tell him by this time that there is no demand for chestnuts in the West.

TEE GANG'S LATEST CRIME

Disclosure of a Villainous Plot to Damago the Character of Mayor Denny. John Green, a Colored Man, Confesses Under Oath that He Was Forced, While Intoxicated, to Sign a False Affidavit. The Gang Procure the Perjured Statement for Political Purposes. James Davison, a Ilack-Driver, Also Swears that ne Was Offered Money if He Would Sign a Similar Affidavit Political Notes. The tactics of the Coy gang, which comprise everything that is disreputable and dishonest in political methods, from purchase of votes to forging tally-sheets, shows in this last day of the canvass the final resource of cowards. For a couple of days past the gang agents have been busily circulating a malicious lie in order to bring Mayor Denny into disrepute with the people. It is a covert attack on his character, for which there is not the shadow of truth to warrant its use, even if that method of political warfare were justifiable. Dr. Edenharter had not the maliness to make the charge direct in his Saturday night's speech, but he indorsed the calumny and made himself a party to its circulation by saying, "I am charged with visiting saloons, and if I do I go into the front door and come out the same way, not caring who sees me. But I have not called for a hacic to come to a saloon and take me home at 3 o'clock in the morning.1 The meaning of this vile reference was that Mayor Denny had done so. Not content with assailing his character in this way, the gang agents cowardly and criminally made one John Green drunk, and taking him to a certain place at 3 o'clock in the morning under threats compelled him to sign an affidavit to the effect that the Mayor was driven home from the saloon as charged. This villainous production was prepared for publication in one of the Democratic organs, and is to be distributed throughout the city to day in circular form. In his Saturday night's speech Dr. Edenharter practically gave this outrageous and lying attack upon the character of his competitor his approbation. Last evening the John Green referred to vol" untarily called at the residence of Mayor Denny, and exposed the whole plan the gang had arranged to attack the Mayor's character just on the eve of the election, when there would be no time left in which to counteract it with the truth. In this case the truth would be a denial as emphatic as outraged honor and decency could make it. Green, without solicitation on the part of the Mayor, said he was anxious to atone for the wrong be had done him by making an affidavit which would stamp the one made while drunk and under threats from the desperate agents of Coy and Edenharter as a villainous lie. The facts concerning this desperate attempt to destroy the character of one against whom the Liquor League and Coy are doing their worst in trying to defeat him are given in the following: STATE OP INDIANA, ? ... Marion County, j BefoTe me, Horace E. Smith, a notary public in and for Baid county, personally npneared John Green, on this 9th day of October, 1887, and who, being duly sworn, on his oath says: "I am fifty-three years of age and reside at the northeast corner of Illinois and Ohio streets, in the city of Indianapolis, in the building occupied by G. Monninger as a saloon and billiard hall. Ou Friday, Oct. 7, 1887. about midnight, a young man, giving his name as Baker, and representing himself to be a United States detective, together with two other men unknown to me, came to said Monninger' s saloon in a hack, and asked me to go with them, which I did. They took me to several saloons in the city where I drank both beer and whisky several times, they joining me part of the time. During the time they were driving me around, and after I had become considerably intoxicated, so much so that 1 had fallen asleep in the hack, they stopped at some place which I cannot now locate, and induced me to sign and swear to a certain statement, which I am now informed is to the effect that Caleb S. Denny, Mayor of Indianapolis, had recently been taken from said Monninger's saloon after midnight, tohishome,ln a hack, drunk. Icannot state, from my own information, the contents of the paper signed andsworn to by me, for the reason that it was not read over to me by any one. The man Baker told me that I must sign the paper which had been prepared, and when I stepped back, refusing to do so, he took me by the arm and threatened to arrest me or have me arrested if 1 did not do so. I then signed the paper and swore to it, before some one representing himself as an officer, whom I have since understood is John L. F. Steeg, a notary public. I signed and swore to said paper under fear that I would be arrested or receive bodily harm at the hands of the men in the room if I did not do so. I now say on my oath that I never saw said Caleb S. Denny in said Monninger's saloon at any time, nor in any other saloon. That I never saw said Denny intoxicated at any time. That I never saw said Denny drink any intoxicating liquors at any time. That I never saw said Denny get into nor put into a hack at any time, and that I never, to mv recollection, saw said Denny at any place in" the city of Indianapolis after midnight. And I further swear that I' never told said Baker, or said notary, or either of said other persons, that I ever had seen said Denny intoxicated, or in any saloon, or put into a hack at any time. I further swear that I was returned to said building, at the corner of Illinois and Ohio streets, by said Baker and two other persons, about daylight on Saturday morning. "And I now swear that I have this Sunday evening voluntarily come to the house of said Caleb S. Denny, and after having stated to him the substance of the foregoing statements, voluntarily come before Horace E. Smith, a notary public, and caused him to write and read over to me the foregoing statement of facts before signing the same, so help me God. John Green." Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of October, 1887. Horace E. Smith. Notary Public. When their refarious plot was discovered the gang started the cry that Mayor Denny and his friends in tracing the calumny to its responsible source were on the track of the wrong John Green. It is true that the Mayor wag looking for another Green, but when he returned home last evening he found the right one there waiting for him. The affidavit he makes is too explicit not to place beyond doubt that the Green who exposes the plot is the man who was made drunk by the gang heelers and compelled to swear to the malicious lie. James Davison, the hackmao, completes the exposure of the villainous plot by makine the following affidavit: STATE OF INDIANA, !.. Mabion County, J M' James Davison, of lawful age, being duly sworn, upon his oath says: That he is twentynine years old, resides in the city of Indianapolis, and is the driver of hack No. 51. That on Saturday evening, Oct. 8, about 8 o'clock, one Charles Miller, who is connected with the Indianapolis Sentinel, came to him at his hack stand in front of the Bates House, and stated to him that he had in his possession an affidavit made by one John Green, to the effect that Caleb S. Denny, Mayor of Indianapolis, had recently been hauled from Monninger's saloon, on North Illinois street, after midnight, drunk, and that he could make a stake by making an affidavit that he, said Davison, was the one who hauled him. And affiant further aays that he answered said Miller by saying, in substance, that he had never hauled Baid Denny in his hack at any

time, and that he could not bring any one to him who would say that he had hauled said Denny in his hack. And affiant further says that he never did at any time, haul said Denny in his hack; and further affiant sayeth,not. James Davison. Subscribed and sworn to bf-fore me this Oth day of October, 18fc7. Horace E. Smith. . Notary Public Davison is a Democrat. He has an aoplication ou file with the Police Commissioners for a position on the police force in which he states, as is required, that he is a Democrat This dastardly assault upon the character of a candidate who has been scrupulously consistent with the platform of law and order and his official record of the past two years is akin to the system of bribery, false counting, repeating, and a possible repetition of forgery arranged for by the gang. As the canvass near its end, the schemes of Coy and his followers in the interest of Edenharter show more and more the straits into which decent people have driven them. The gang has not lost hope of success, for its confidence is based on what can be accomplished to-morrow in direct purchase of voters and other practices, that will bring them within the cognizance of law, as -the forgery of tallysheets did last falL Wberesover money can be applied with any chance of securing an advantage, the gang will not hesitate to nse it. The breweries and saloons have been prodigal in their supply of the dollar?, all of which can traced to Coy, for he is not only boss, but the distributer of the corruptian fund. If the pocket memorandum book he has pulled out on several occasions recently, when in the midst of political leeches, could be given to the public, its contents would show the proof of votes purchased. That is a dangerous record for some men, for Coy never makes a deal without making a memorandum of it. At a late hour last night, Coy, in conversation with a Journal reporter, disclaimed any responsibility in the matter of circulating this slander, and said that neither he nor the Democratic executive committee wished to be placed in that position. James Davison, the hack-driver who makes the affidavit printed above, stated to a Journal reporter last night that Miller came to him during the day, yesterday, after it was known that he bad given information of the attempt made to influence him. and told him to drive him (Miller) to the Democratic committee-rooms, which be did. Arriving at the door. Miller, so Davison Bays, told him to wait a minute and he would be out, and went up the stairway, reappearing a few minutes later with Sim Coy. Coy told him that he wanted to talk to him a minute privately. They walked to the horses' heads, and Coy said: "Davison, I hear that Cale Denny wants to see you. If he asks you anything just keep your mouth shut and say nothing. Understand?" To this Davison answered that he thought he knew how to manage his own business. Coy then asked bow much his charge was for the trip. Davison replied that he made no charge, whereupon, be says. Coy handed him two dollars and re-entered the committee headquarters. To-morrow the decent citizens will only half do their duty by voting. They must watch the polls, for it is there where the gang will-seize many an advantage in swearing in Illegal voters, pushing forward repeaters and crowding the gangways to the polls unless the people are extremely watchful. It was developed yesterday that Coy and others of bis gang will spend today in finding out who the Republican challengers are to be in the southern wards. If they think they can do so safely purchases in that district will be attempted. This is to be supplemented on the night of the election, after the vote is counted, by efforts to have Democratic judges get control of the tally-sheets. But with all their show of confidence, Coy and his followers cannot conceal the fear of defeat. If every good citizen votes to-morrow there need be no trouble about Mayor Denny's election. IXr. Henderson's Position. In order that the position of Mr. William Henderson may be fully understood, and the reasons he gives for his attitude in the city election thoroughly known, the Journal gives an interview with him at length, as follows: "You ask for which nominee for city Mayor I am going to vote on the llth inst? It seems a useless question for anyone acquainted with me to ask, and yet in the interest of the public welfare it gives me pleasure to answer. I need not dwell on the fact of my Democracy. It is well known that I have voted the regular Democratia ticket, with scarcely an exception, since 1854, and it is my present expectation to vote for the nominee of the national Democratic convention of 1888. In regard to the exceptions abovs named, I am free to say that the same high consideration for the general good which led me t depart from my usual custom and vote, amongst others, for a Republican candidate for judges ol some of our courts, will now impel me to support Mr. Denny, the Republican candidate for Mayor. I am in this independent of party. I value the good of my country, my State, the community in which I live, above party, and it is my privilege, as a free-born American citizen, to act and vote accordingly. In my understanding, the head of the municipal government should bring to the perfotnaance of his duties a sincere love of country, sound knowledge, business capacity and industry, a firm independence, and absolute incorruptibility of principles; such a man, in short, as our worthy Mayor has proved himself to be. lie has filled the office for two years with credit to himself and honor and advantage to the city. In all of his official acts be has been entirely unpartisan. I have yet to hear him charged with having acted the partisan in a sicgle particular. On the contrary, he has uniformly decided all the cases that came before, him according to his best understanding of the law and evidence. From the first he has shown in the discharge of his duties a rare appreciation of the character and scope of bis position. With no official patrouage to dispense, he has acted upon the principle, in fact, that he is truly the judge of the City Court, empowered to hear and acquit or punish all persons charged with violations of the laws and city ordinances. And I have never heard him charged with harshness, oppression or arbitrary injustice towards those brought before him. In a wider sense, he has acted the part of a gentlemen, as well as that of a wise and impartial judge. This brines me to the last and most important reason I have for voting for his re-election to the office of Mayor. I am for him because he is the representative of law and order and of the law-abiding portion of society. Judging his future course by his past, I am well assured he will ever prove faithful to the trust. "On the other hand, I am opposed to the election of his competitor. Dr. Edenharter, because his nomination was brought about by a gang of spoilsmen, who do not deserve the name of partisans, much less the good old honored, name of Democrats. In repsesentingsuch men, Dr. Edenharter is the candidate of the worst elements of society. He is the candidate of the law-breaker, the doner of the public will, as expressed through the ballot-box, and. indeed, of every wleked practice that is nn-Democratio and hurtful to the public welfare. His election would be hailed as a vindication of the shameful and criminal tally-sheet forgers. It is not too much to say that the criminals who committed that theft on the inalienable right of the free suffrage expect to gain by Dr. Edenbarter's election what they lost when they failed to elect a criminal judge.- Violators of the liquor laws and Sabbath-breakers, who likewise relied upon the election of a criminal judge of their own choosing. In order to escape the penalty of wrong doing, confidently expect to go scot-free if their candidate for Mayor is elected. He is their Candidate, and he will not fail to do their bidding. "From a Democratic stand-point, I am opposed to Dr. Edenbarter's election, because it would be claimed, the State over, as an indorsement of the tally-sheet forgers by the Democracy of Indianapolis, and have a very damaging, if not disastrous effect upon the Democratic party in the general election of 1888. His election would effectually and forever seal the lips of the Democracy against the right to denounce the fraud of 1877 at New Orleans, which deprived Tvlden and Hendricks of the offices to which they were entitled. I say further that I firmly believe the election of Dr. Edenharter would loose ten thousand votes to the Democracy of Indiana next year, for the reason that the honest Democrats of our State are opposed to election frauds, and will disapprove them by their votes at the earliest opportunity. This righteous disapproval will be in accord with the true Democratic doctrine, that all elections shall be fairly and honorable conducted, that each vote cast shall be counted for the candidate for whom it was intended, aud that to deprive a voter of bis voice in an election by taking his ballot from the box, and counting it for some one for whom it was not intended, or by forging or changing the tally-sheets of au election is a' high crime and dismeanor. To say that the Democracy of Indiana would ever sanction or tolerate such a crime is a foul slander. No more would they indorse any means that would lead to the acquittal of men proved guilty of such an outrage; and I repeat that the eleetion of Dr. Edenharter will lose thousands of votes to the ' Democratic party. "To come home to local evils, Dr. Edenharter is the candidate of the worst liquor element of the city, the Sabbath-brnaking, law-defying, liquor-aeiling, saloon element, lie is expected to do their bidding. I do not hesitate to say, therefore, that, if elected, the city of Indianapolis may just as weii discharge her police, for the law-breakers will have full sway, and the saloons will be open every hour of the nichfc and day, week, month and year. Languaga quite fails me to portray the enormity of the