Show EFFECTS OF THE LANDSLIDE the disgraceful hand to hand I 1 fight in ii aich the session of the I 1 indiana Legis legislature liture ended was a fib 9 ting clise to the career of a body which aiom the first has hag leen 2 a ehause to cHiviA tion bays the louisville courier jo journal al 11 al it had hardly assembled beffie it showed its true character strongly republican publican Ke tho the majority at once disclosed that it was composed of the norst elements of ignorant anil and unscrupulous its one aim was to secure ciery astige of official spoils for the republicans public ans to do this it violated laws passed laws lais spat upon the constitution and by dueh a course it could not take an all office away from a democrat it attempted to legislate its slid emoluments into the possession zion of republicans it tried even to strip the lieutenant governor of his right to preside ever the Senate and the governor to vernor of all appointing power where it could not legislate democrats entirely out of office it cut down salin callies cal mies ice while raiding trobe of g re ie pub publican litan officials despite the protests of like ex cx pi IIan ison it passed the mot MO t outrageous gerrymander to insure the offices odices to in tile the fetui e while hile tile the riot in AN which it ended its infamous existence was biou brought glit about by its determination to deprive of his poor almost menial office an old union soldier against whom every power of tile the law and of lawlessness must he be turned because he was it a democrat no more shameful spectacle was e eich e witnessed in a le legislative i dative hall ball than the riot iv by zith tile the nies dies of the governor was by physical violence presented preen ted from doing his duty and reading tile the governors veto whereby the gov einars constitutional tight light was denied and trampled on oil in outi igat ic bellion and anarchy in the deiy place is bichi is supposed to be the laws citadel it is id the acts of such ruf ruffians flans and thugs as these who secure temporary power and vrho choso whoso e poor little warped and winds minds ale aie incapable of seeing anything in publics politics beyond office that bring political parties into disrepute and destruction certainly no baity was ever moie discredited by its than the republic party of indiana is diger discredited edited today |