The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-29
LOCAL POLITICAL NEWS.
Encouraging Reports from All Parts of the
State Marion County Meetings.


State Marion County Meetings.
Encouraging reports from over the State are
received at the Republican headquarters in every
mail. John F. Scanlan, the Irish orator, writing
from Hartford City, says: IT have never known
the people to be so earnest In every place that
have spoken I have had personal assurances
that there are numbers of Irish Democrats who
will vote for Blaine and Logan. At Valparaiso
some fifteen or twenty Democrats, after the
meeeing invited me to the house of a citizen,
where met men who had come fifteen miles to
hear me speak, and they assured me
that they would work to convert their
countrymen. / think we have got
them on the rum A letter from a Republican
at Pixies Peak, in Brown county, says that a
Blaine and Logan club has been organized there,
with forty members, several of whom are Demo
Gratis. A letter from Logansport says that the
effect of the Calkins meeting last Tuesday was
surprising, and reliable reports are received of
many accessions to our ranks resulting
from it
THE COUNTY CAMPAIGN.
Republican meetings will be held at the fol-
lowing places in Marion county on the dates
given:
Monday, Sept 29-Hon. Thad. s. Rollins,
at wigwarn, corner Tennessee and Wilkins
and DR.. Wagner at Mozart Hail. Hon. James
McMullen, the Irish orator, and Elder J. ii.
Sweres, at corner Michigan and Agnes streets.
Tuesday, Sept. 30-Hon. W. w. Herod and
w. III. Ripley, corner Ohio and West streets,
Thirteenth ward; Hon Thad. S. Rollins, corner
Clifford avenue and Pendlevon pike, Nowlands
drug store; Hon. A. G. Harris and Ferd Winter,
at Haughville.
Wednesday, Oct. Hon. Stanton J. Peelle at
Reichwein's Hail. Ninth ward; Hon. John Il.
Grifiths at Mapleton; Hon. Thad. S. Rollins
at corner Washington and West streets.
Thursday, Oct 2-Hon. Stanton J. Peelle at
corner Indiana avenue and Michigan street.
Friday Oct 3.-Hon. Stanton j. Peelle, at
Cermont; S. T. Yancey, at North Indianapolis;
Hon. Thad S. Rollins at Fletcher avenue and
Dillon street.
Saturday, Oct. 4--Hon. Stanton ]. Peelle at
Cumberland, Warren township; Hon. John M.
Butler at Kentucky avenue and Maryland
street.
NOTES AND PERSONAL MENTION
Good reports are received from the meetings
which have been addressed by Edwin G. Pierce,
of Rhode island.
Its expected that there will be a large attend
ance at the meeting at Mozart Hall tonight,
which will be addressed by Phil Rappaport
Phil Rappaport the editor of the German
Tribune, and one of the ablest German speakers
in the State, will deliver an address to the Ger
man Republicans of the city at Mozart Hall to-
night
Mr. A. G. Beeson, editor of the Winchester
Journal says that Voorhees, sat in the Winches-
tar depot, last Thursday, for over two hours,
without receiving any notice. Hendricks stopped
off at Lynn, on the same day and there was not
Democrat who offered to even shake hands
with him. but when the train started there were
three vigorous cheers for Blaine.
John E. Lamb, the Democratic candidate for
Congress in the Eighth district, is making the
assertion, in nearly every speech that he deliv-
ers, that "a farmer pays 80 cents for sugar
and so cents for tariff every time he buys 81
worth Of sugar Lamb is fast gaining the we'll
deserved reputation of being the most unscru-
pulous political liar and demagogue in Indiana.
The speech of Hon. John NJ Butler at Michi-
gan City last Friday night, it is reported by cit
liens from that place, was remarkably con-
vincing argument, and had a telling effect upon
the audience, which numbered nearly q 200 per
| sons, among whom were many Germans. His
discussion Of the tariff was given the most earn
est attention, and many of his Democratic hear
ers, it is said, left the meeting convinced
that it is to their interest to vote
the Republican ticket The street demonstra,
ton was the largest that has been seen in
Michigan City during the campaign. The
Porter Artillery fred salute in honor of Mr.
Butler and it is reported that the next day they
found their cannon spiked with a note lying
underneath it reading: .'We Democrats use
dynamite. The Republicans must do the same