The Indianapolis Journal

THE YAWP OF A FOOL.
Some fellow, signing himself "Republican," in an Indianapolis letter to the Chicago Tribune, reads the riot act to the Indianapolis Journal because it published a call for a meeting to organize a Harrison club in this city. The precious fool says:
"This morning the Journal contains a call for citizens favorable to General Harrison to meet and organize a club to work for his nomination here and at the convention. This is the beginning of a movement to be extended to every town in the State where the Journal and State central committee can find enough followers to organize, and shows a disposition to have their way at all hazards. The ignoring or trampling upon the rights of others always leads to disaster in a free government, and is therefore portentous of the greatest evil to the Republican party when adopted as the policy of its leaders. The reckless conduct of the Harrison managers, imperiling as it does the existence of the party organization in this State, must have some desperate purpose"
What do the honorable gentlemen who signed this call, and who attended the meeting on Monday night, think of the impertinence and insult of such stuff as this? It is 'a desperate purpose' to aid in the nomination of General Harrison! It is "ignoring and trampling upon the rights of others," and liable to bring "disaster in a free government," for men who believe that Benjamin Harrison would be a creditable and available candidate for President of the United States to say so, and to meet together publicly and peaceably to see what can be done to bring this about!
This delightful "Republican" proceeds:
"I know that letters have been received here from many counties asking that a Gresham meeting be called to effect an organization, but in every instance it has been discouraged, even to the extent of preventing the organization of a local club, his friends being determined that they will do nothing to jeopardize party harmony. If trouble is to come to the party in this way, they do not propose to be responsible for it."
Every Republican in Indianapolis and in the State will at once recognize the utter absurdity of this twaddle. The Journal would not like to believe that it could have the approbation of Judge Gresham; but we reprint it to show Republicans the lengths to which personal malice and partisan desire are willing to go in their efforts to injure the prospects of General Harrison's nomination, finding in the Chicago Tribune an eager and willing ally. We do not believe "Republican" to be a Republican; we are quite sure he is not; the letter is the work of one who wants to see the Republican party defeated in this State. No Republican would so wantonly insult the entire party, which has, by official action, made Benjamin Harrison its candidate for the presidential nomination, and instructed its delegated representatives to exhaust every honorable means to bring about that result in the Chicago convention. Such an attack as we have quoted will have the effect to stimulate the organization of Harrison clubs all over the State. We hope to hear of one in every county and considerable town and city in Indiana
The call for the formation of a Harrison Club, and the magnificent meeting resulting therefrom was simply a manifestation of the high esteem in which General Harrison is held by his neighbors and an indication of the earnestness with which they intend to promote his nomination as a presidential candidate by all means in their power. The Journal begs to say to the Chicago Tribune, and the "Republican" scarecrow it yesterday paraded, that men like William Wallace, Gen. McGinnis, Gen. Foster, Hugh Hanna, John B. Conner, Mayor Denny, Judge Walker, and the hundreds of others, have no "desperate purpose" in their minds. They are not cut-throats; and they do not propose to dethrone liberty and overthrow free government. The Tribune and its little fool should calm their perturbed spirits.