The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-17
ANYTHING TO BEAT BIN.
Important Political Confer
ence Thursday.
Anti Administration Re-
publicans at Work
Setting Up the Pins
Against Harrison.
AIGer's Lieutenants Take an
Active Part.
Millionaire Conger Will Tap
His Barrel.
An Organization Embracing
Eight States.
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Millionaire Conger Will Tap
His Barrel.
An Organization Embracing
Eight States.
How tho Campaign Is to Be Carried
On.


the Bates house Thursday Of leading and
active republicans from five states, which
may shape the future history Of the repub-
ican party.
Present at this conference were James
McNulta, ex-receiver of the Wabash rail-
road, appointed by Judge Gresham, who
was defeated by Private Joe Fifer for the
republican nomination for governor of IL
Inois.
Ex-Congressman A. L. Conger, chair
man of the republican state committee OF
Ohio and a millionaire manufacturer;
James o. Bradley, who has led many
Kentucky delegations at republican ma
Gonal conventions;
CIV. Fairbanks, the well-known attor-
ney of Indianapolis, who led the Gresham
movement in Indiana three years ago;
Otto Gresham, son of Judge Gresham,
who has perhaps more personal friends in
the state than any other young repub-
ican;
George W Wilson, the republican boss
OF Allen county, an original Gresham
man, who knows more about practical
politics than all the Harrison republicans
In the Twelfth congressional district;
NJ. NJ. Simons of Plymouth, banker
and manufacturer. and one of the two In
diana delegates to bolt Harrison and vote
for Gresham at the Chicago convention;
A. A. Purman, a shrewd politician of
Fort Wayne and personal representative
Of ex-Congressman White;
Ex-senator Bob Graham Of Noblesville,
. disappointed ofTice-seeker and an anti
Harrison republican;
Ex-Representative James B. Kenner,
who carried Huntington county for Harri-
son for U. S. senator in 1850, for which serv-
ice he has not been rewarded by the
"Little Man in the White House,
Ex-Clerk of the State Printing Bureau
G. w. Bookwalter, who worked the labor
sracket" for Ben Harrison In 1888;
Representative Lindemuth of Rich
mond. the leader of the republican side
of the house last winter;
Editor Lands Of the Delphi Journal and
about fifty other republicans representing
Terre Haute, Evansville, South Bend,
New Albany, Brazil, Lafayette, Marion.
Logansport, Muncie and other sections OF
the state.
There were also several Illinois repub-
licans with Gen. McNulta, two OF them
being from Chicago.
Michigan was represented by three
gentlemen of prominence, personal friends
of Gen. Alger.
The conference lasted two hours. Mr.
Conger was one of the first members
90 reach the lobby of the hotel
1--WE had a little meeting to or
ganize tin plate company"
said he to the reporters. 81 have been
trying to interest these gentlemen in the
tin plate enterprise"
81 came down here TO attend meeting
of paper men" said Gen. McNulta.
Then came Mr.. Bcokwalter with an ex-
PLANTATION that he had been organizing an
other real estate syndicate to invest north
of Fall creek.
few minutes later Will Wilson of
Fort Wayne said that he didn't want to
see the natural gas of the state piped to
Chicago and had come to the city to hear
the arguments in the supreme court on
the natural gas case.
Another gentleman excused himself for
his presence by saying that he had come
down to see the wife of his brother, who
was very sick.
All seemed anxious to offer unsolicited
excuses for being In the city.
"Well it was not exactly a tin plate
meeting but tin bucket party. Do you
catch on ?" said one Of the less reserved
members. A few yeras ago when the re-
ceiver OF q railroad asked the court which
0CObS A-C oAShAA PoJ AAob WIN VIC LAOhCI
In hand Judge Gresham replied:
"Pay the men who carry tin buckets"
This expression Of sympathy with the
workingmen-the men who carry their
dinners in tin buckets-was made use of
In the fight for his nomination three
years ago. Fort Wayne, Lafayette and
other Indiana cities sent several thousand
men from the shops to join the tin-bucket
brigade in a long Gresham procession in
Chicago to impress upon the minds of the
delegates that Gresham was the choice OF
the workingmen Of Indiana.
The republicans who met at the Bates
yesterday were not from the shops, and
they did not carry tin buckets.
A struggling delegate at large" from
the Kankakee regions in conversation
with SENTINEL representative, said: at
was q mistake to hold such alarge meeting