Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — Who is the “Infamous Liar?” [ARTICLE]

Who is the “Infamous Liar?”

A man, who, like Isaac P. Gray is, foul mouthed, unscrupulous and abusive enough to use these words: “Thewhite woman who married the negro di ln’t do half so bad as her sister who married a Democrat” , will say anything and do anything: The alleged Colonel is now going about the country declaring that those who say he has been a Know-nothing or a President of a Marriage Benefit Association are “infamous liars”, sneaks, Ac. Now as far as the Mar riageß eneiit business is concerned, the charge that Gray was connected with that was, probably, -a very natural error, based on the fact that he certainly was the President of a kindred but worse institution, A “Graveyard” Insurance Company, and of this fact the proof is conclusive. There are scores of swindled people in Indiana, to-day, who hold policies in a Grave-yard Insurance Company, signed by Isaac P. Gray, as president, and one such is in the possession of the editor of the Logansport Journal, a.t the -present time. Col. Isaac P. Gray WAS the. President of a swindling Grave*' yard Insurance Company, and he cannot truthfully deny the fact. As for his statement- that ,he never belonged to a Know-nothing lodge, this is about the size of the hole the creature crawls out of: He WAS ri member of lodge of the order commonly known as “Know-uoiliings”; but the real name of the order was the “American” order, and by that name was known to its members. Of the “American” order, commonly called Know-nothings, be was a member in New Madison, Ohio, in 1854. In proof of which fact we append the following affidavit by Jacob Shriver, brother-? n-law to Col. Isaac P. Gray: State of Ohio. Darke County, ss. i Betoro me, A. L. Northrop, :i notary I public, iu and for said county, persbnI ally appeared John B. Shriver, who. ' being by me first duly sworn, on his | oath says that he is a resident of the i town of NcW Madison, in said county, I and has been a resident of said town I ever since 1842, that he .is well ac- : (juainted with Isaac P. < ; :»y, who is i the candidate of the Democratic party j for Governor cr the State of Indiana. ! Said Gray resided in New Madison ' irom t'-e year 184 U until after the ‘ presidential election in 185(t. Alli mu • knew the said Gray before he resided in New Madison: affiant's wife i» a |sister of said isaap; I’. Gray: aiß.uit J says tiiviYj was algdge of Know-notlr-pngs in die .town of New Madison in ! 1854*, and, Grjay w;as an active and I leading membGr pl said lodge, and he i (Gray! was president of the. lodge, and , performed the rites and eetejp'mies of [the order. Affiant was present yhen ( Klam Harter was initiated, jitje remembers (hat Gray initiated, the said Harter into the order. Bpown was secretary Of the lodge, - aid ( I -ay wax an active worker in anj suppppei of the KnoW-noihing party, arid a suppul ter of it s nominees. * ; J. B. Siiiuvrii;.. Sworn to and subscribed to before

■ ,i i' me this. 16th day ’of September, A. D. 1884. A. L. Northrop, Notary Public, 1). C., O. Sworn Affidavits, to the snipe general effect as the above-, are published by: “ Jonathan "Miller, of Winchester, Ind., a democrat. Ambrose L. Norton, of New Madison, Ohio. Elam Harter, of Darke county, Ohio. Wallace Janes, of Darke county, Ohio. George Bacon, of Darke county, Ohio. Moses Calkins, of Prebte comity, Ohio.