The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11
THE LOCAL POLITICAL TREND.
No Early Conventions VIII BE Called
-South-Side Meeting.

The chairman of the two city committees
have not yet seriously considered the mat
ter of making a call for the purpose of
perfecting the prelminaries necessary for
the holding of the city conventions. 1t is
yet early and there has been demand
on the part of any of the candidates for
early convention, although many of them
have expressed their desire that the conven-
lions be held earlier than usual 1t is al
most necessary that the city be redistricted
before the next election and that would
necessarily have to be done pefore nomna-
tions for councilmn can be made. a still
earlier preliminary is the selection of the
city committees which cannot be done until
the precincts are arranged they will
be when the vote is taken. None of these
things have yet been considered, but is
among the strong probabilities that the
Council will soon take up the matter of
redistricting the city. This cannot be done
until the time elapses in which the resi-
dents of North Indianapolis have the right
to defeat by remonstrance the annexation
of that territory. Until all these things are
settled, the conventions cannot be held.
The general opinion seems to be that the
conventions of two years ago were held at
the most suspicious times. Both parties
nominated in July. few weeks ago. there
were some candidates who favored holding
conventions not earlier than was neces-
sary to put them before the taking of
the sixty-day poll, but this sentiment
seems to have died out during the last
two weeks, and now the tendency is to place
them somewhat earlier than before
The South Side Republican Club has more
poullcs In lt just now than most any other
organization in the city. Every Wednes-
politics, but the speakers are not confined
70 city aIalrs; IN fact there is no re-
are simply invited TO ADDRESS the club and
are permitted to make their talk one of
politics or may ignore politics and poll
ticians If they choose to do so. This causes
the discussions to take all kinds of turns.
One speaker sometimes covers the entire
field from President Cleveland down to the
man that shovels the dirt from the cutters
under Street commissioner Fisher The
Judge Stubs la55 and Thaddeas Ro1s
with few Sandwiches, as the speaker
termed them, by, the president of the club,
W. II. Leedy The first two speakers closed
their addresses with the announcement that
they would place their names before the
for police Judge. In their talks they touched
only lightly upon politics. Judge Stubs
devoted most of his time to the proposed
cutting down of the courthouse lawn and
the removal of the outside steps, making
the entrances through the present base
ment. He would then have the elevators
placed in the center of the building in what
is now the light and air shaft, thus maxi
ing the basement the most desirable part
of the building. Mr.. Leedy suggested that
the best way to accomplish this would be to
have the city sanitarian condemn the base
ment of the building unhealthful and
thus compel the County Commissioners to do
something with it,
The discussion took various phases during
the evening. Mr.. Rollins devoted most of
his time to talk on the currency question.
and in a few words showed the fallacy of
the Democratic plan advocated by Sec
rotary Carlisle in the bill which he, with
the Endorsement of President Cleveland,
sent to the last Congress and asked to
have passed as an administration measure.
The meetings TO be held every Wednes-
day night at the club rooms, No. 800 Vir-
ginia avenue, and various persons will be
invited to address them Politics often
crops out in the meetings, but more often
the addresses are simply subjects that
are of interest to the citizens of this city
and to residents of the South Side especial
ly. Next Wednesday night it is expected
to have Judges Monks and Jordan, of the
Supreme Court, present. The meetings are
not closed to persons who are not members
of the club they for Republicans
only. Last night an invitation was extend
ed to all persons having an interest in the
city and South Side to attend any of the
meetings.