The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-12
THE CANvAssING BOARD.
1t Makes the Last Democratic Steal
from the City Treasury.

from the City Treasury.
The canvassing board convened yesterday
morning, at 10 o'clock, to canvass the vote.
W. w. Spencer was chosen as chairman and
City Clerk Abrams was clerk ex officio. The
work progressed with reasonable dispatch
till about half-past 8 o'clock in the after
noon, when there were several precincts still
out. The returns show no diminution in the
figures published yesterday morning. and in
some cases show a substantial increase.
Dennys plurality over Sullivan is 3,07S;
Nixon over Abrams, 3,246, and Stubbs over
Buskirk, 1872
The canvass of the vote proceeded without
any friction, with William Taylor and Hor-
ace E. Smith Republican watchers The
canvass was completed at about o'clock,
and then came a superhuman effort on the
part of the dying Democracy to thrust her
hand once more deeply into the city treas
ury and loot the public money box for their
private gain Having but few more hours
in which to rob the treasury, they recog-
nized the fact that they must be getting
about it in a hurry. Mr.. Morgan made mo-
ton that the inspectors allow themselves
pay for seven days work. The motion was
Immediately put by himself and carried
with hurrah. There were a few honest
becoming plunderers in their dying moments
and 1t was objected to the passage of the
motion that Morgan had no right to put
the notion The motion was then reput,
and no sooner had it been put for debate
than Edmund st. George Rogers was on his
feet objecting to it. This is an outrage,
gentlemen, of which we should not be guilty.
Seven days is exorbitant time to allow
ourselves. Four days is more within the
bounds of reason. We cannot afford to be-
come robbers / move to amend that mo-
rOa i've n
L would make the amendment for four days,
but l see very plainly from the demonstra-
that"
Strange as it might seem. this expression
of honesty was received with hoots and and
slurred by the rabble that set up deafen-
ing howl. In the midst of the din and wild
gesticulating Were heard cries Of You
GER then explained what the law contenl-
Feete1, ana after he had stopped Rogers
again got the floor and said: Gentlemen.
we all accepted this position voluntarily,
knowing the compensation which Is al
lowed by the law, which is $2 per day. and
now because we to be paid by the city
this eXorbitant compensation. In my pre-
cinct we were through with the count by 8
did not have to wait ten minutes before
handed my returns in and left" There were
others in the room who said they had been
till o'clock yesterday morning completing
the count ''If there are any precincts in
the city where the count Was not COM
pIeted before that hour" answered Rogers,
Il want to say 1t was because they hadn' [
competent election officers
William Flynn, a Ray-street saloon keep
er, rose to his feet and made a boisterous
speech for the seven-day allowance. He
said that some of them were poor men,
and based his claim for seven-day allow
ance solely on the ground OF poverty Flynn
concluded his boisterous harangue with a
motion to lay on the table the motion to
amend. This little bit of parliamentary at
tack on honesty by Flynn was greeted with
a vociferous applause by the heelers who
backed him. Mr.. Largstaff called for the
ayes and nays on the motion to lay on the
table, but X was not needed, and the mo-
ton carried with hurrah. Langstaff OBJ
jected vigorously to this and to pacify him
the ayes and nays were called for but even
this failed to settle the question:.
OF the 158 inspectors In the city, there
were about one hundred present, and the
greater part of these were now hallooing
for recognition. and, when they failed to
get II, would proceed to say what they de-
sired to without recognition. The conse-
quence was that there were about seventy
five inspectors hallooing at one and the
same time, and the din was deafeniHg. For
half hour this outrageous and disgracaful
bowling was continued without abatement.
Finally Mr.. jacob succeeded in getting the
floor long enough TO advise the mob that
this sort of robbery was disgraceful He
said: THE time TO begin building up our
party again is right now, and if we accept
pay for seven days work which none of us
have performed we may justly be called
plunderers and are deserving of the defeat
we have suffered" jacob, like every other
person who sought to restrain the greed OF
the looters, was howled down. 1t was more
than an hour and half before final vote
was taken, which resulted in an allowance
of six days pay by q majority of one. The
scenes that were enacted during the time
| the robbery was being perpetrated were
never eQualed in any assembly, not even
the convention which nominated the de-