The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-01

nelly and large number of others, very much
dlsgruntled. came down stairs. They stood upon
the sidewalk, and great amount of converse
ton ensued Most Of these were what is known
| as the Jack Landers crowd They had offered
| themselves for service in almost every ward in
the city, and been refused. They are against
Judge Walker, In the interest of the Cooper
Landers tile works, the Judge having, when the
works were In bankruptcy, allowed the working
people employed there half holiday on Satur-
day.
Mr.. Bruce, of the first precinct of the Four
teenth ward, was one of the strongest kickers in
the meeting above stairs, and did some talking
ON the sidewalk, He said if he wasn't given the
privilege of working at the polls as a knight he
would vote against the entire Endorsed ticket.
Henry Stacy made chairman of the com
mittee on ward workers. A motion was made
TO distribute the labor tickets among the work
ers. Here another clamor arose. 1t was found
there were only 500 tickets in the room, and
they were Republican. This discovery brought
wall from E. F. Gould ara Chairman Stacy,
and messengers were sens out for Democratic
tickets.
From sidewalk information there must have
been no small wrar gle over the name of Bynum.
Thomas Benton of Brightwood. said he would
vote the abor ticket with the exception of Bynum.
Several other delegates howled that they would
stand by him on that proposition. One muscular
delegate, with very strong lungs. spoke of By
NUNS opposition to the laborng classes in a
case in court. Another wanted to read one of
BynCmS speeches, which, he said was dead
against the workingmanp
Another delegate wanted to make a point
against Judge Taylor, that he had decided the
case at Tomlinson Hall, where the derrick
fell and killed man. against the workingman.
A delegate in one of the knots of excited talk
ers on the pavement, remarked: Were lot of
fools We don't know our friends We indorse
Bynum, when Harris, who appeared attorney
for the widow in that derrick case. in Judge
Taylor's court charged the widow no fee and in
duced the contractors to give her enough more
to make $780,"
The object for which the meeting was held,
the reception of the committee from Michigan
City. was entirely smothered. The Democratic
knights were afraid to allow the matter to be
heard, as they well knew there was a plain case
of fraud and forgery by Mr.. Krueger's friends,
and that the forged document being circu
lated all over the State by the Democratic State
central committee
The committee of Michigan City Knights of
Labor consisted of Clarence Monahan, A w.
Leusch, G. Wells and s Fides, the latter repre-
senting the LaPorte Assembly. They say the
workingmen throughout the State, except few
who are Democratic party-workers are opposed
to Kruger because he is the enemy of honest
labor His prosecutions of Kai, the master
workman of Germania Assembly, are the result
OF personal feeling, which has been manifested
In ways innumerable They positively state
that krueger forced Kai to sign retraction of
his first charges, and compelled Pages,
the recording secretary of the assembly, to
take the seal out of the assembly room and carry
| 1T to kreuger's Office where the night was spent
IN afhXlng the seal to this retraction This
OF the seal vas without authority of the assem-
bly,, and Kai has privately acknowledged it.
they assert that the Knights of Labor offered
the Democratic State central committee the OPP
portunity of a thorough Investigation of the
charges against kreuger but the offer was re-
fused Mr. Leusch said: "Krueger had n petit
ton sent to him TO introduce bill in the Legis-
ture aboshing convict labor, but beng the tool
of the penitentary ring, he smothered the meas
ure, and could give on his return no excuse but
that he afraid to do it. "A man who
furthers measure like that, he said. will be
politically damned"
The committeeman charge that when they left
Michigan City Murdoch, warden of the peni-
Tertiary, tracked them to the depot, saw the
train leave, and then telegraphed to the Demo
cratic committee here While they were in the
city they were under Democratic espionage at
the hotels on the streets, and even in the hall
of the Trades Union, yesterday. "Civil-service
reform Marshal Hawkins" said Mr.. Fildes,
has had his spies on our track"