The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25
A ROW ON THE TICKET
sTUCKMEYER WOULD NOT HAVE
M'DONALD AS A RUNNING NATE.
Precinct After Precinct I'm Democratic
Convention Voted by "Bleeders'
Living Outside the Precincts.


in the place of Mcdonald. He undertook
to dictate this part of the ticket and worked
for the success of DeBusk with a vim. He
fore the convention he was quoted as say
ing, IL is reported, that he would not run
upon the same ticket with Mcdonald. This
threat failed to secure the defeat of Nc
Donald, and as the latter has no intention
of getting off the ticket TO please the whiins
OF the nominee for trustee, the latter will
have to eat crow and make the race with
Mcdonald or himself get off the ticket. 1t
is by means yet assured that the Dem
ocrats have a full township ticket nonli-
mated. Considerable feeling has been
gendered between the friends of the two
men, and however the thing is settled it is
highly probable that both of them will be
very much scratched by the friends of the
other if both remain upon the ticket.
The convention has left a dark brown
taste in the mouths of a number of Dem
ocrats, and one that the party may find it
rather difficult to remove. The strongest
and deepest-seated feeling of resentment is
upon the part of the representatives of or
ganized labor, who were SO Systematically
sat upon, and that very forcibly in the
convention. Wherever the workingman came
up for consideration he was raped vigor-
no use for workingman, and if he hap
pened to be a union workingman it
the worse for him in that convention. This
was evidenced at the very outstart in the
race for trustee. Charles Stuckmeyer, the
nominee of the convention, is a butcher and
was formerly a member of the Council. He
has figured in Democratic ward politics for
several years past and "stood i'm with the
ring, which accounts for his success. The
machinery of the county committee YVES
used in the convention from start to finish
and while a number of the delegates per-
haps left the hall before they observed this
the fact was apparent that only machine
men, were successful in the races. In the
race for trustee against Stuckmeyer was
William Meyers, of North Indianapolis. he
is carpenter and had the solid support
of the workingmen in the convention. The
party managers evidently realized that in
the face of the present administration OF
national affairs but little, II anything, was
to be gained by the Democratic party in an
appeal to the laboring man. Such an APP
peal, with thousands of their feliow-WorE-
men out of employment and other thousanCS
working half time or at reduced wages
would have but little effect, and the party
managers are making appeals 10 other
classes this year and the bid is for other
than the workingman's vote. Inc party
seems to have philosophically accepted the
anything anything like a strong vote among the
working classes. With this in view. it was
deemed altogether bad policy to nominate
for township Office any OF the workingmen
who sought the nomination. The vote CT
the workingmen amounted to only the num-
Der of workingmen who were delegates.
These stood by their fellows, but, 1ortu-
nately for them, the workingman was In a
majority There was present, however,
large class that came from the working
labor at all and exc out subsistence Dy
some unknown and mysterious manner III
a political campaign gives them opportunity
to "bleed'' candidates and secure few dol
lars through the committees -
Another instance OF the humping of the
laboring mans head when 1t came up was
polls constabulary. There were three can
| didates for this office from West Indiana
polls. The suburb had twelve delegates In
| the convention and they were equally OIL
vided between the three men. Inc trlends
of the other two candidates had made a
bitter canvass against G. +. Belts, anu
their complaint against him was tnat ne
was a union printer. employed upon the
Salem barnett and John f. Farley. They
were confident of success in the convention
at large after the forcible demonstration of
the fact that workingman stood no snow
there and vainly sought to have the nomi-
nation for constable from West 1ndianapo-
| lis made by all the delegates: This was
contrary to the custom that has always
been followed in township conventions but
| ii was the only way to defeat the working
man. The friends of Belts bestirred tnem-
| things We're taking as to be able to head of,
| this move and the wrangle was ended by
referring the whole matter to the county
committee. When the county committee
comes to name the candidate for constable
| from West Indianapolis it will hardly Sc.
| lect the union workingman.
The lethargy that has sieZed the party
was thoroughly demonstrated upon the call
| of the roll. There were fully dozen pre-
cincts not represented at all in the con-
| vention and many more that had only
| one delegate present though they were en-
| titled to a larger number The absence OF
delegates was no impeachment, however, as
there were enough delegates present whos.
| conscience or idea of right and honesty die
| not prevent their voting precinct when it
was seen that there was no response from
| that precinct to the call Of the secretary
for it's vote. This was true throughout the
| entire convention, but especially so after
About two-thirds of the delegates left be-
| fore the nominations for justices Of the
peace were made, but the full quota of
votes were cast. The Kelleys, the Ryans
/ and others were present in force and ready
to vote a precinct whenever opportunity
onereu- IL maue no ulIerence 10 them tnat
| frequently when they attempted TO vote a
| precinct a delegate from that precinct
answered TO the call and cast the vote him.
| SELF In such case the person who had at
| tempted to illegally vote the precinct mere
| ~ took his seat and waited for the next
| chance. Notwithstanding that it had been
| announced early in the convention that no
delegate would be permitted to cast the
vote OF an absent delegate unless the writ
ten proxy was handed TO the chairman
/ men stood the floor of the convention
| and voted whole wards and precincts by
the dozen and their votes were counted
| Candidates very soon observed this and
| made 1t point to have precincts and wards
| voted for them in this way by persons
| who were no more authorized to cast the
| vote than were the candidates themselves
| So bold did this gang of bleeders become
| in their illegal voting that the chairman
| was compelled to take cognizance of il in
| one or two instances and shut down upon
| Ii. The honesty was but Temporary, how
| ever. and the illegal voting would be i'm
/ mediately taken up again.
| Upon the last vote taken when the chair
| man himself announced that there were
| not forty-five delegates in the hail. nearly
| the full quota Of votes were cast and were
| counted for the candidates. If the person
| objected to the vote being illegally cast
/ by these thugs who were casting them for
| what there was Tin it," he was generally
| hooted down and not permitted to make
| his objections to the chairman. A crowd
| of toughS congregated at one side of the
| hall and whenever objection was offered
| 10 any of their actions sGuelched the oh
| jector by hooting and kissing him. If the
| chairman raped for order they hooted the
| louder until they carried their point nv
| evincing a disposition 10 hold the conven-
! ton all night before they would desist
The Democratic Nominees
The following are the nominees for the
principal township offices made by the
| Democrats Saturday night:
| Trustee-Charles Stuckmeyer.
| Assessor-John w. Mcdonald.