The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-24

Whatever hope may have been in
dulged by those who have listened to
the oft-repeated professions of County
Clerk Wilson of being better than the
average Marion county Democratic
workers was dissipated yesterday when
he confirmed the change in the order OF
the names on the ballot. For years Mr..
Wilson has been privately declaring to
Republicans whose society he seeks that
he Is heartily Disguised with the meth
DDS of Marion county Democratic man
ayers. but now he falls down aud obse-
ouiously does their bidding. 1t matters
not that he takes refuge behind the
shameless breach of faith of Chairman
Taggart. Mr.. Wilson himself has caused
the ballots in two elections to be print
ed in the order to which Taggart as
solemnly agreed as If he had sworn to
the compact. 1t was entirely within his
power to have followed the precedent,
and he would have followed it if he
the Democratic courthouse ring. No
longer can Mr.. Wilson pose as the
man who Is above the preparation of
Democratic trickery and fraud. He has
been posing for some years as a better
man than his party, and in hat guise
has received not a few Republican
votes. His action in this matter dis
poses of that claim and of him as a
friend of honest politics. If anything
could add to the disreputable record he
has made it would be his puerile defense
that the board had re~pudiated the
agreement because Chairman Taggart
had ordered 1T to. Mr.. Wilson is a law
yer, and he knows that when an agree
ment Is once signed 1t cannot be repudi-
ated by one of the signers. He knows,
also. that the chairman of the Demo-
cratic State committee has no more au-
thority over county boards in this mat
ter than he has over the Supreme Court.
AS for the part Of Chairman Taggart
In this Infamous business, 1t is simply
shameless. He agreed to the order Of
names on the county ballots. He. in
conjunction with Chairman Gowdy,
caused to be printed and sent out to
all the county chairmen this order of
ballot, with his name attached as agree
ihS W IL IL was a SohipoS1 Ao oNSh
no honorable man agreeing to it would
permit it to be broken. AS a maker of
political compacts Mr.. Taggart is a
trickster and a pledge-breaker.
All fair-minded men will regard the
act as the infamy of the coterie of can
didates and t~axeaters about the court
house. who are desperate because de-
feat stares them in the face. 1t shows
that there is no rascality to which they
will not resort. even to the crime for
which some of their friends have been
sent to the pe~nitentiary.
But it will avail nothing. Already it
has inspired Republicans with the zeal
of indignation and has caused them to
double the picket. Hereafter, the court
house ring, which has plundered the
people of hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars, will be watched day and night.
The disreputable taxeaters who are re-
sponsible for this Infamous transaction
will be watched at the polls and in the
counting as they have never before
been watched. In conclusion, the men
who are responsible for his infamy to
cheat the voter will never be forgotten
by Republicans. Their names have been
added to the list of those who were con-
victed or defled with the ballot-box
crimes Of 1886.