The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-25
1T is THE WAY OF POLITICS
Railroad Men Now Worked Up Over
Barnes's Nomination for State Senator.
Barnes, but Are Now SOrry-What the
Federationist Has to Say.

The April issue of the National Fedora
ZIONIST. which appeared yesterday. made
an editorial announcement of much polit-
ical interest. This publication is the or
gan of the organized railroad employees.
who recently combined in the Jefferson
Vile senatorial district to defeat Frank
Burke for denomination. Willis l.. Barnes.
formerly warden of the Prison South. was
nominated through their efforts, but 1t now
appears hat Barnes is no more acceptable
20 the railroad men than Burke. Concern
ing Barnes's fitness for the support of rail
road men. the Federationis says:
THE FederatiOnist nov desires 20 say,
more In sorrow than in anger. that il is not.
In our judgment. or the judgment OF the
legislative board. good business on the
part of the laboring men TO elect Mr..
Barnes. TIL causes that lead to
this conclusion are many, none the least OF
which is Mr. Barnes's record in the Legis-
lature OF 1857. from which he resigned to
take the ~posltion of warden of the Prison
South, deposing by that and previous &C
tions many of the people who were chiefly
instrumental in securing his election. In
the Legislature OF 1887 there were many
laws of vital interest to w~orkinGmen,
among the rest an employers liability
bill. which travelled the same road. prac-
tically, as did our similar measure in 1891.
and upon which reconsider that Mr.. Barnes
voted against the wOrklngmen and In favor
Of the corporations. Upon other very i'm
pOrtant measures-One prohibiting q great
er charge than 3 cents per mile passenger
fares. and the 'weekly-pay law and the
bill legalizing incorporation of trades
unIons-his vote was not recorded on final
passage, showing. as We believe from re-
cent Developments. q desire to keep from
going oil record in the things against
the interest of corpor ations partlcu-
Iarly railroads. The liability bill
was of course the most important Of these
measures. and space will not permit a de-
tailed statement of it's birth. life and death
at this time. Suffice it to say that 1t died
from an overdose of amendments early in
It's puny existence, administered with the
help of Mr.. Barnes. and cold neglect dur
ing its last hours, from which it nowhere
appears that Mr.. Barnes made n attempt
TO rescue 1t or warm 1t 10 life. We there
fore, in these cases. are compelled to judge
the future by the past.
But it is alone these things that make
US believe Mr.. Barnes not TO be our man
his W actions just previous to and since
the nomination., doing even more toward
this conviction than the things spoken OF
above. 1t 10 q w~ell-know fact that
the laboring men and owes his NOM
Notwithstanding this fact. he has
used every art known to politics. both be-
Iore ana since MS nOmlDaLlOn. TO Keep IIoHl
committing himself in favor of the laws
which will be asked of the next Legislature
by laboring men, that the conclusion is in
evitabie that he Is either pledged to the
corporation interests represented by the
chairman of his central or district commit
tee. or 10 trying to keep from pledgIng him.
self to the men whose influences have NOM
mated and would elect a man of whom
they were sure.
1T only remains for the Republicans Of
the JeffersonvIlle district to give the labor
ing men q candidate whom they will know
is for their interest, and we will do the
rest"
The Federationlst also contains an ed
itorial Endorsement of 4. p. Sargent, chief
of the Brotherhood of locomotive Fire
men, for the Republican nomination for
Con gress in the Terre Haute district