The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-27
GATHERING OF POPULISTS
Executive Committee of the New Indus
trial Legion Meets To-day.
Taubeneck Tells of Its Purposes-informal
Conference Last Evening-JesSe Hsr-
per's Views.

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of the new political organization for the
propagation of Peoples party ideas. began
70 arrive yesterday. They registered at
the English. which will be the head
quarters of the conference. H.. E. Tau
beneck arrived last evening and with
Jesse Harper, who had been IN town all
day, having been mieinformed as to
the date. participated in an informal
meeting In the hotel club-room
last night. The most of those
who arrived were State leaders. many OF
them being member OF the Populist state
committee. which meets to-day. Leroy
TempletoD. G. A Robinson. and others OF
the State ticket, were present.
Dir. Taubeneck. when seen by q Journal
reporter. said that the meeting would be
the first held by the provisional executive
committee of the Industrial Legion. which
was organized at Memphis. This council
consists of Paul Vandervoort. of Nebraska;
George F. Washburn. Massachusetts; j. II.
Turner. Washin gton. ID: C.; Marion Butler,
North Carolina; Frank Burkett, Mlssls-
Willetts. Kansas. and II. Z. Taubeneck.
Illinois.
provisional one, and was given wide pow
ers. Measures will DO taken to make IL
permanent. and start the ORGANIZATION
upon a sound. practical footing. The con-
stiturion will be changed in some psrticu-
lars. as authority was given US to do. Or
eanizers will be appointed. one for each
State. An outline of policy for the propa-
CATION of our party principles will be de-
cided upon. We have no direct connec-
ton with the national committee. and will
bend our energies and purposes to the edu-
c~ational working LEADING up to the next
campaign. General Vandervoort will
Issue an address to the public through the
press &C the close of the conference"
Mr.. Henry Vincent. secretary OF the
State committee, called the committee to-
promoting the growth of the legion in In
diana. He says the plan will be to assess
zach member q certain sun per month, and
thus TO raise a q income with which to
q campaign. General Vandervoort, in an
interview given out at Omaha, says that
there are already 100. 600 member of the
legion, and that it will reach one million
members. Its test Of eligibility is Q prom
Use TO be loyal to the Peoples party as de-
fined in the Omaha platform. General
Vandervoort indicated that be would make
the acceptance of his election as COM
the constitution, of which one Is the aban-
Comment of the military titles OF ito off,
GERS. He will arrive from the West to-day.
. jesse Hsrper's Views.
One of the test-known politically home
less men of the country IL Jesse Harper. of
Danville. III. He is q Populist now. and
is at the English to attend the conference
of national Populist leaders. who have
been called together by National Chairman
Taubeneck. He Is q man of rugged frame.
yet spare in flesh, M gray in hair. His
eye, however, has o searching. vigorous look
that makes his habitual expression one
OF power. The student OF human faces
~nnld ofnnnn him q man fn1 If AnARnu
and contention. under guidance of q
thoughtful mind, radical, and no doubt
sometimes erratic. The man is ono of
whose position upon any question no one
need ever be long in doubt ME. Harper
bristles with his convictions
ITO what do you attribute the changes
in the political statusf" asked Q reporter
OF him yesterday.
tried to become the conservative party.
In this it was usurping the nature
and role of the Democratic party, which
is always conservative in any country.
There was no need of two conservative
parties. and the Republican party went
down. 1t will not die, but II will show up
under another name. Is has had the
brainiest men in the country's history in its
membership. and so long as It would face
the greater and most pressing questions OF
the day it could not haye been defeated. 1t
was born o radical party upon o moral
Issue. and wien it became conservative
1t was denying Its own nature. The Dem
0cratic party, on the other hand, never
learns anything and never forgets. There
is never an van or radical step that
was proposed that it did not fight tooth
and nail, and yet when the reform or new
principle was made, the Democratic party
acquiesced and Jumped into the new situa-
ticn. q was ready to oppose the next
step. It is always opposing progress, and
then. claiming the fruits of progress, fat
tens q sluggard and inactive IN the new
position. / do not expect the Democratic
party TO do any thing for the country while
in control. / heard their orators attack
national banks during the campaign,
int nobody expects the next Congress to
abolish the national banking system. They
promised free coinage of silver, but nobody
expects It. When / asked q Democratic
leader what his party was going to do, be
said: We are going to draw the salaries.
This Is the Democratic party, and this IL
what leads me to believe that the next
Congress, TO be elected. will lave O ma
jointly of Peoples party members. The
Democrats will so truckle to monopOliee
that the country will be disgusted,
and In 1896 the Peoples party
will elect a President. Then legislation
will be enacted which will overthrow eli
trusts and combines. will put the railroads
In control of the government, and will
cause oil money TO be issued by the gov.
eminent. 1t is for such an accomplishment
that Chairman Taubeneck called this con.
ference. We will organize at once for the
campaign of 1894. when our forces will be
turned upon the congressional issues.D
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