The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-02
POPULISTS ARE PUSHING
Taubeneck Says They Are Already Or
ganizing for the Next Fight.
Their People Counted Out in the South
Costly Supplies for State Institutions
Selecting Seats.

home in Marshall, Ill. He is here to attend
a meeting to-day of Populisr Indiana lead
ers. He was found by a reporter In com
pany with Henry Vincent, secretary of the
State committee. My visit here" he said,
in reply to q question, rs to be
present at q secret conference
with some of the party leaders.
Our purpose is to take up the
work of the party organization in this
State. and get ready to overthrow the Dem
ocrats in 1894. The Peoples party is here
to stay, and l believe will rise ont of the
ruins of the Republican party to over
wheim the Democracy"
wv hat gains did you make at the cleo
toni" was asked.
1--WE carried q number of States, and
will have twenty-four electoral votes. If
the doubt in North Dakota is settled In our
favor we will have twenty-seven votes.
Ours Is the first third party since
Der of the Electoral College. We
Will have twenty-five members of the low
er house Of Congress. and will gain q Sen
ator In Kansas. Wyoming. possibly IN Cali
fornia and several other Western States.
We will therefore hold the balance of DOW
or IN the United States Senate"
To what do you attribute the result OF
the electIOnfp
The result was due to a popular unrest
on the subject Of money. The tariff had
some influence, of course. but the deep
seated cause related to the money issue.
There must be a greater circulating medi-
um. The Peoples party is committed
and that question will not be settled until
it Is settled our way. The Brussels confer
ence will help the Peoples party move
ment. The idea of Rothschild. the Jew
lnr l - dat I'm uhn Nh rim nhn1I M n N
regard 10 silver, The Western farmer will
never agree to any thing of the sort The
people have elected the Democratic candi-
date for President. but they will find there
than there was from the Republican party.
The Democratic platform offers NO
relief. Its utterances on the tariff,
as interpreted by Cleveland and the party
leaders. are meaningless. 1t is idle TO talk
about raising the revenue we need by
duties on Injuries. No nation ever raised
money successfully that way. If the party
goes TO removing the duties on the neces-
saries of life, what will become OF our
manufacturing interested What ought to
be done is to cut down the tariff SO as not
to overthrow our industries. and raise the
bulk of what We need to raise by an income
tax. Three-fourths of the money needed TO
be raised ought TO be raised in that way.
An income tax was successfully levied dur.
ing the war, and yielded, rs i remem Der
now. about $500, OOO,0 600 during the last
year,
What of the Peoples party in the
Soutb7"
I'VE were counted out of thousands of
votes in the Southern States. These States
do not have the republican form of govern
ment which the Constitution makes il the
duty of Congress to secure to each State.
/ wish Congress would do its duty.
But we elected several members of
Congress as IL was. Tom Watson was
beaten. but l hear will contest the cleo
<,4- o-tv In hta Iftr,A houtnn %
OC0 inhabitants rolled up LOCO votes; or
about twice the normal numLer, 1t has
boon shown shat in Alabama the Dem
ocrats had the name of q negro on their
before by the sheriff. Som one had cast q
Democratic vote for him. That's all the
use the Democratic party has for q negro.
Just in the proportion that tho Dem
resort > to the negroes to help
them out. The negroes won't vote.
The Democrats will simply vote in their
names. 1t required the bayonet to drive
South. and the Democrats will never give
I'D until they are driven out by the bay
onet.v
illinois went Democratic" was sug-
gested.
YES, and by a large majority. The Repub-
licans there had a chance to save them
selves from a gerrymander by helping the
Peoples party elect members in Domo-
cratic districts. The overture was made
to told the u leaders fo So they To tSs dsTs
iiMthey could carry illinois anyhow;
and now we all know the result. The Dem
ocrats have q majority In both houses and
will gerrymander the State so that the
i~slature again IN many years.. The Repub-
llcans prevented q gerrymander two years
ago only by the aid of the Peoples party
members. and our members would again
4 I.r- $500 -,,kI <hA-, -a hod haaD
listened to-"
Did your national committee have what
funds it neededW
Not by any means. We had only $1,000
for all our national expenses, and yet we
polled a million votes. There ia not a coun-
ty in Indiana. / venture to say. where both
the old parties did not spend that much"
Mr.. Taubeneck thinks Marion Cannon. of
California, will succeed to Watson's place
as leader or the POpullsts in Congress.
Cannon was in indianapolis during the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance. and made u favor
able impression for strength of character
and intelligence. He was elected as Con-
gresham at large from California. in which
Costly State Institutions.
Mr. johnson. secretary of the State Board
of Charities. yesterday finished his sta
~tistical report showing the annual COM
p~arative cost of maintenance, ETC., of the
Indiana State benevolent and penal
institutions. The Central Hospital
for the Insane costs generally moro
to MAINTAIN than any of the others.
Its coffee. tea and sugar bill is remarkably
high. being 50. 2s peg capita. while the per
capita cost for the same articles in the
Southern hospital Is s463. or just about
one-half. This is no doubt due
TO the ineficiency of the Central's
board, which permits itself to be I'M
posed upon in nearly all it's contracts. A
few instances of these extravagant con-
been exposed by the Journal. The butter,
eggs. poultry, etc.. purchased for the Gen.
trail hospital costs Sll.2S per capita. while
in the Southern hospital the cost is only
$40 per capita. Secretary johnson re-
extravaganza. but has been powerless to
prevent the imposition upon the State.
The board Is one of the creatures of the
Democratic spoils system. The members
insist npon letting all contracts themselves
instead of throwing the responsibility
upon the superintendent OF the hospital.
Selecting Their Seats.
Hon. Allen Swope and Hon. John T. Nc.
Hugh, member of the Legislature. were
in the city yesterday, choosing seats for
the approaching session. Senator Yaryan,
of Richmond, has chosen q seat well To-
Gated for light and hearing. but it happens
that it Is among the seats chosen by the