Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — INDIANA BALLOT CORRUPTORS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BALLOT CORRUPTORS.

The Rerelations Made in the Speech of District Attorney Chambers. Philadelphia Press. The attention of the Democratic and ex-Republican free-trade organs is directed to an extract reprinted elsewhere from an address delivered by United States District Attorney Chambers in Indianapolis a few days ago. It contains a scathing rqview of the disreputable methods pursued by the Democrats of Indiana to carry that State. No one conversant with the facts has ever doubted that the Democrats have maintained at every election in the past an open market of voters in Indiana and supplemented it by frauds Of the worst description. The ex-Republican free-trade organs have made a systematic effort for two ysprs to impress upon the phblic mind the assertion that the presidency was purchased in 1888. When a man kno.vs that the company he is keeping is' corrupt and immoral, he is eager to prove that everbody is as conscienceless as himself., This is the principle that has actuated tho free-trade organs Th- New York city and elsewhere. They know that they are consorting with bribers, bulldozers and burglars of ballot-boxes, and they are anxious to show that everyone’s standard of morals is as low as their own. The revelations District Attorney Chambers makes of Democratic methods ought to close the mouths of these hypocritical bribery shouters. It was such methods as these that the Republicans had to meet in Indiana in 1888. They were not wholly successful in overcoming them, as is shown by the fact that the Republican majority on Congressmen in that State was twice as large as it was on Presidential electors. The Democratic bribers did their best, however, and ever since, with the aid of the ex-Republican free-trade organs, they have been trying to divert attention from their own disreputable methods and crimes by raising the cry of “stop thief!”