The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-10
common cause against common enemy. we
have substantial victory. The sermon will not
be preached

common cause against q common enemy, we
have substantial victory. The sermon will not
be preached.
AN ILLEGAL POLITICAL TRICK.
Some of the law-defying managers Of the
Democratic campaign are likely to get them
selves into the predicament of Joe Mackin. the
Chicago Democratic boss, now in prison for
practicing the favorite political meth
DDS of the hummer leaders of the
locsl Democracy. There is a statute for the
punishment of the trick by which the Democrats
hope to Tislead some into voting the Republican
ticket, with the name of Robert Denny instead
of Caleb S. Denny on it for mayor. This is an
offense which comes under Section 2193 of the
Revised Statutes whoever fraudulently causes
or attempts to cause an elector," the law pro-
vides. .at any election held pursuant to law In
this State, to vote for person different from
the one he intended to vote for. shall be fined
not more than 800 nor less than $40"
ANOTHER DEcLINATIoN.
To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
1 am informed that my name appears on the
Prohibition ticket as a candidate for alderman in
the Fifth district Allow me to say that it was
placed there without my knowledge or consent,
and l must not be placed in so false a position
before this community as to allow myself to be
voted for on that ticket while so important q
League. in the person of their nominee for
Mayor, Mr.. Cottrell. am in favor of taxing
the traffic to the utmost limit of the law, and in
favor of enforcing all the law we have that and
every other subject ! shall, therefore, vote for
Caleb S. Denny. SAMUEL DAVIS, NJ. D.
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
The Sixth ward Republicans are to meet to-
night in their rooms in Bacon's Block
The election of Denny depends upon the bet
ter class Of citizens voting and working at the
polls.
The most enthusiastic and active supporters of
Cottrell are the gamblers, saloon-k keepers and
bummers
The Nationals in the Seventh ward it is said
will vote for Denny, the Republican candidate
for mayor.
A vote for Cottrel is vote for the supremacy
OF the CoyD innin gang in the control of the city
government.
The Democrats in the Sixth ward are talking
of bringing out John Jones, the broker as a can
didate for Council.
The gamblers are working for the election of
Cottrell. They say that if he becomes mayor
they can resume operations.
If Republicans will do their duty at the polls
on Tuesday, the ticket will be elected, and the
iaw-defying spirit of the saloon element will be
suppressed.
The friends of Superintendent Lang are
authority for the information that there are not
three Democrats on the metropolitan police
force who will vote for Cottrell.
II don't want to buy your vote, but want to
see you on the day before the election, and pay
you for days work. is the proposition which
candidate Cottrell is making to voters in some
of the South side and West-side wards.
A bet by which some of the catch penny gam
blers are victimizng people, is that Cottrell will
beat Denny 1,500 votes When the money is
put up it is claimed that Denny tho Prohibition
candidate is the one meant not Denny the Re-
publican.
John W. Wilson has declined the nomination
for Council in the Eighteenth ward, rendered
him by the Prohibitionists. because he believes
that 1T Is to the interest of the city that DR. S.
H. Moore, the Republican candidate, should be
elected over Sim Coy.
John B. McNeely knew nothing of his nomina-
ton for alderman from the Second district on
the Prohibition ticket until his attention was
| incidentally called to it yesterday. He will not
run and says Not yet am l ready to play second
fiddle to the Democratic party"
News: 1t has leaked out that at conference
of the Democrats of one of the northern wards,
when the poll-book were under consideration,
the fact was developed that not more than one
half of the Democrats in the ward will support
Cottrell, and that they absolutely refuse to be
driven into line.
McClelland and Block, the Republican and the
Democratic candidates for Council in the Seventh
ward, are both railroad men, employed in the
same shops, and they live in the same house.
When Block was first nominated he declined TO
be candidate in opposition to McCelland, for
the reason he declared, that mo one could beat
Bob McClelland," and for the first day two
after his nomination he electioneered for Nc
Clelland. Steve Matter and Sam Dinnin, after
persuading him for half a day, however, in
duced him to accept the nomination