The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-13
LOCAL POLITICAL GOSSIP.
The Commissioners Befriend the Work
ingman by Employing Convict Labor.
The True lnwardness of the Discharge of Jani-
tor Carnegie the Democrats Favor
an Increase in the Appraisement.


thing about the war of the Rebellion. 1t is,
perhaps, fortunate for the faith he has in the
pretended loyalty of his party that he knows
nothing, personally, of how the party stood
when Carnegie was fighting in West Virginia.
He is not expected to have any enthusiasm for
old soldiers, except when be encourages Demo
cratic conventions to pass resolutions
like that Judge Holman presented and
had adopted by standing vote
last Saturday night Sahm, however. forgets
all about such little occurrences by the time he
reaches the Commissioners Office to discharge
veterans in order to make room for Democratic
applicant Neither he nor Reveal denies the force
Of the Journals item yesterday. Except in an
they want to forget that Carnegie was a soldier.
Said Mr.. Reveal to the reporter, I'VE discharged
Carnegie simply because there had been COM
plants about his work"
what rooms did he have charge OFF,
"The Commissioners, auditor, recorder and
to be found with the manner in which he took
care of this and the auditors Office but still there
were complaints from others"
From what oficials2"
1.-THE assessor Office, it is said, was not kept
clean by him."
THAT is a Democratic Office, is it notgn
''Why, yes; but don't know that makes any
difference. 1t is simply matter of business,
you know"
'.You discharged Carnegie without consulting
the Republican member of the board, did you
not2"
II confess we did not tell him about it Per-
haps it ought to have been done"
Particularly since, in the outset, you agreed
to retain Carnegie in difference to the wish of
the Republican and minority member of the
board. Then, after q time, you agree to dis
charge him, and Commissioner Sahm quietly
let's him know that his services are no longer
wanted. Commissioner Clinton, in whose COM
pany Carnegie was at the battle of Rich Mount
ain. when it made that brilliant little charge,
does not learn anything about the discharge un-
til the information is accidentally brought to
him by his seeing reporter interviewing the
dismissed man. That is statement of facts, is
it note"
"Oh, there is nothing untrue in the article ex-
cept the statement that Democrat wanted the
place.
II understand, then. that the only complaint
against Carnegie, the veteran, and knight OF
Labor by the way, came from the Democrats in
the assessors office2"
II believe So"
"How do you reconcile that with the resolu-
lutions of extravagant sympathy for the soldier
and Knight of Labor adopted by your convention
Saturday night last2
"Oh, well now, you would do the same thing.
1t was simply matter of business"
Later in the afternoon Assessor Messick told
Captain Clinton that he had no fault to find with
come from him. This was repeated to gentle
man conversant with matters about the court
house. He replied: Why of course the
plant came from Marsh Palmer, Democratic
candidate for assessor. He is in Messick's Office
now. and hates soldier as the devil
commit himself on his idea of appraisements.
He favors high appraisements. know this be-
cause Captain Tyler. of the same Office. was,
previous to the convention, engineering little
scheme to have Messick renominated Tyler re-
ported as giving little spirit to the campaign
for Messick, that Palmer wanted high appraise-
ment 1t is no doubt true, for Palmer told NE
that he was neither for high nor a low appraise-
ment Of real estate. He said he was willing to
take middle ground. But that does not express
his real position or relieve him of hatred for SOL
diers. He kicked against his son joining the
printers union. That is nothing compared to
is knight of Labor. These Democrats have
funny ideas Of supporting soldiers and working
men sometimes.
Last night" said Republican yesterday, II
heard party Of working men expressing them
selves in strong terms about the Democratic
County Commissioners employing work house
inmates on the Pleasant-run bridge. They
denounced the hypocrisy of the party in its con-
tinued pretensions Of helping at all times the
laboring man. Here was chance to give work
to unemployed laborers, but the Commissioners
take w0rk-house inmates, in their striped uni
forms. across the city, through the principal
streets, and guarded by man with a Winches-
ter rifle to deprive honest and reputable labor
ers of an opportunity to earn bread by digging
and grading at the Pleasant-run bridge. In the
crowd of angered men I speak of were several
Knights Of Labor. It does not take long for the
DQmocratic art IN ma ho frua MI
of such resolutions as were adopted last Satur-
day to blind the soldier and the honest working
man." n
1.-THE Democratic County Commissioners want
the high appraisement of real property main
tained," said Republican familiar with the tax
question.
'sWhyr
''The Commissioners under the English bill,
or rather the bill he had passed. are limited to a
levy of 33 cents. The county funds are running
close now, and. in order to make their term free
from deficits, the real estate appraisement must
be kept up. They insist on q taxable valuation
fully as large as the selling price of property.
In Center township farm property is ap-
praised at an average OF Sal ~
per acre, and the Democratic Commissioners,
to get what money they want will insist on
electing an assessor who will see to it that this
rate is not lowered materially. Quill, the Re-
publican candidate for assessor, is squarely on
the platform of low appraisement, which will
equalize land values here and prevent us from
paying to the State funds more than we get back
for schools"
Said General Carnahan, yesterday, to the re-
porter: ~ was glad to see that notice of Charles
Many's military service in the Journal. and the
estimation in which he was held by his officers.
knew Many in the army, and have known him
ever since. He has always been a sober, faith
full man, and gallant soldier. There
was foreman of the Capital planning mill, and
during his service in the collectors Office. He
bears the reputation of being an excellent work
man at his trade, and I know him to be a
skilled accountant and beautiful penman. His
character is sound and symmetrical; there is not
dishonorable trait about him. 1t will be found
in his candidacy that the better he is known the