The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16
THE CITY CAMPAIGN.
Probability of Large Vote Being Polled
Two Candidates Decline.

II think" said a prominent Republican to
Journal reporter, yesterday, that there will be
much larger Republican vote polled at the forth
coming city election than there was for Blaine
last November. The poll-books last year showed
that great many Republicans did not vote, an d,
althoughit has never been publicly mentioned til
a fact that the Democratic gain was due as much
to the apathy of Republicans who stayed away
from the polls as to any other cause. There
will be nothing of this kind in the city election.
The issue is one in which the citizens interested
in the welfare of the city government are con-
cerned, and they will come out to vote. There
will be no apathy and no staying at home by
Republicans. 1 think it will be found that they
will all be at the polls on election day. The
Democrats will be the stay -at-homes this year.
There are hundreds of them who would really
like to see Tom Cottrell defeated, and they will
give the Republicans chance to pile up an
overwhelming majority by simply not going to
the polls. A very light Democratic vote will be
polled on the North Side especially, l think"
MR.. KNoDEL DECLINES.
The attention of Ernest Knodel, the Repub-
lican nominee for alderman in the Fifth district,
was called to the statement in the News yes
terday that some of the members Of the Liberal
League had asserted that he was a Democrat
1T is hardly necessary for me to deny any such
assertion as that" said Mr. Knodel. There is
no truth in it, of course, and everybody who
knows me knows that there is not"
will you accept the nomination for alder
man, was asked.
II have already declined, and positively will
not accept it. lost nearly every thing that
had in the failure of Fletcher & Sharpe's Bank.
and do not feel able to make a race for Office
now. l declined the nomination for this reason,
and the reason Is very strong one"
OUTSIDE THE BOUNDARIES.
In nominatingIa candidate for alderman the
Republicans of the Fifth district went outside
their territory to find a man, and selected Capt.
c. n O'Brien, who lives in the Second district
He is consequently, ineligible Another candi-
date will have to be nominated in his place, but
the Republicans have not yet settled upon an
available and desirable man for the position.
DECLINES THE NOMINATION.
Austin Fl. Brown, jr., the Democratic nominee
for Council in the Seventeenth ward, has de-
clined the nomination. The central committee
will probably name Albert Thayer to take his
place on the ticket
NOMINATED FOR COUNCIL.
In the Third ward, last night, Aquilla Jones,
jr., the attorney, was nominated as the Demo
cratic candidate for Council. The primary in the
Thirteenth ward for the nomination of Demo
cratic candidate will be held to night.
All the members of the Board of Aide rmen
have been renominated except Mr.. Rorison, who
is now serving his second term, and declined
denomination, Mr.. Cox who has removed from
the city, and Mr.. Cobb, whose business interests
are in st. Louis. It remains to be seen
what the Democrats OF the Fifth aldermanic dis
trict, who meet to- night at Kssels Hall. will do
in the case of Messrs. Bernhamer and McHugh