Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — It Won’t do to Deny. [ARTICLE]

It Won’t do to Deny.

Logansport Journal. It is understood that Col. Gray, the Democratic nominee for Governor, denies the statements made by the press in this and other States, that he was at one time connected with a Marriage Dowry Association. It is not strange that the Colonel is anxious to clear his skirts of imputations of this sort but he will hardly be equal to the emergency in this case. He has the reputation of being a very slick gentleman, one upon whose face is a stereotyped smile that has graced that index to his character for many, many years. This may be true but if lie can talk or smile the people of Indiana, who have been swindled by tnis Marriage Dowry scheme, into believing that they are mistaken and never lost any of their hard earned wealth, he is a smoother and oilier member of the human family that has foperated in these parts for several centuries. Since the denial bf the Colonel has been made public, a half dozen individuals have offered to place at the disposal of the Journal certificates of stock in this marriage concern to which is affixed the autograph of the gallant Democfatic impostor.' Under some circumstances it might do for Mr. Gray to deny the accusation, but with the facts now in poscssion of the any attempt to refute the. statements willplace him t before the country in a very unenviable position. Let Gray stand up and take his medicine- He was the head and front of a swindle of this kind. A number of Cass county people lost money in it, —and when he gets ready for the proof -we will not be backward in presenting it.