Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — "Speaking Out in Meeting." [ARTICLE]

"Speaking Out in Meetin g."

| A prominent Democrat of the ' Indiana llmt.se, speaking of the ex- ! Aifs' son*, hem.; .riaon and nns>die hospital, said: ’ There. vvhMiteraliy be no end to ti-o'majority the L -public: ns will Lave in IESs. '] he pi o; Iq v, ill hold the D ... j Arty responsild^ nr tiie* condition m ahairs.r*r.d with *om;e ehovr of justieF too, for ‘■the present law .governing these , ins tit n t ions.was so enuefoil fur par- | tl san. piirposo.s. As a party we cau- : not esempe the resixmsihLife ; We nrayAay tlmt we do not m= i dorse or defend the corruptions or 1 the brutalities that have been practieed, but it will fee > f i\p avail. The 'people \\ ill say thnt we had no right to put it in'the power df : any set of uieli to practice them. | They will n inein'oer- that we .1 jiedgi*d these men ;:-i)ont with a law | purp yyh- contrived to pi'Fveirt a j iiepublican governor from iutefering with thrill, end thereby min io | them absolutely independent of a TDeuiocratic governor. They wore t j rascalities undecked. XL- the h-.v [they were nS respt 5s 1515 j-one, and they relied a].»on cunning ;ta hoodwink the.' legiTmurewsww they believed our p.artv was so entrenched in power that we could : not fee disturbed, and their services 1

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