The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-08
LINCOLN LEAGUE ADDRESS.
Why TrusIer Should BE Elected an,
Made the City's Executive.

Why TrusIer Should he Elected and
Made the City's Executive.
The address authorized by the Lincoln
League clubs of Indianapolis has been made
public. 1t was signed by Edward Daniels,
John S. Spann. w. H. Hobbs, H. j. MILL
gan, w. S. Hubbard and NJ. ". McGilliard
and by the following officers of clubs in
official capacity:
C. A. Bookwalter, president, for the Ma
rion Club; F. H. Diller, secretary, for the
South-side Republican Club; Wesley NJ.
Gerard, president, for the North-side Re-
publican Club; j. Fl. Broyles, president,
for the Herculean Club; Thomas Shufelton,
secretary, for the Columbia Lincoln League
Club; NJ. L. Johnson, president, for the
Eastern Lincoln League; J. w. Fesler,
president. for the Fifteenth Ward Lincoln
League Club; j. ]. Railsback, president, for
the Banner Lincoln League Club. and John
Q. Hicks. president, for the Railroad Re-
publican Club; w. H. Ripley, president, and
Schuyler A. Haas, secretary, of the Ma
rion County League. The address reads as
follows:
THE new city charter has stood the test
of four years trial. Proof of it's worth
formation of indianapolis from a town to
a city. 1t is the part Of good citizenship
and of good politics to insist that the af-
1dlIo VI lEC city SIdll De conducted IN me
spirit and letter OF this charter. The char
ter is not an experiment. 1t has been a
success. because 1t is not an instrument
of theory, but of practice. 1t is not a bill
of rights so much as it is a code of BUSH
ness regulations. Its most PROMINENT
feature is fixing the responsibility of con-
troll and direction upon the Mayor. The
Mayor is not simply the executive in name:
he is not simply the executive Of a bureau;
he is the head of a business concern larger
than any other in Indiana. In municipal
government, to-day, problems of progress
and reform are more 10 the front than they
have ever been before. AS the capital
tain its primacy In Indiana as against the
cosmopolitan cities in neighboring States.
These conditions suggest the following
elements of character that the coming
Mayor must have:
Il. He should be a business man who al
ways means business; his thought. ener-
and not to his private affairs. He should
be Mayor in fact, and not by proxy.
2 He should have had. experience in
politics, not as an office-holder merely, but
as an organizer, so that he would be an
executive who would make his own choice
Of his assistants upon the boards from men
whom he had known and seen tried.
IS. To an acknowledged executive ability
he should add personal experience in city
administration: he should have personal
knowledge of the history and growth of the
city. SO that by knowing what has been
done. he could then better advise and direct
the things hat should be done.
"a. He should be aggressively honest. and
honestly aggressive, so that as to measures
and men, he would know how to say yes
when it should be said. as we'll as how to
say no.
"Confessedly. the Republican candidate,
Preston c. Trusler. by endowment and ex-
perience. meets these requirements. He is
capable, efficient, honest and positive. His
long service in the Council and his term
as city controller have thoroughly equipped
him for the higher office of Mayor. His en-
ployment in public and. private positions OF
financial trust bear witness to his faithful
ness. His management of the city's
finances for the past two years has shown
him to be at once conservative and re-
sourceful.
n charter requires that appointees to
office be selected without regard to political
opinion or party services from those best
fitted for the work to be done
The spirit of this charter should animate
and govern the voters at this election.
Without regard to political opinion or
party service, either on his part or on the
be selected as the one best fitted for the
work TO be done
pledged 10 a continued. vigorous and
impartial enforcement of all laws, and to
a businesslike and Efficient administration.
he promises that the people shall not be
The Lincoln League Is organized by the
people. for the benefit of the people, and IL
addresses itself to the people"
Ira j. Rusch I'm the Fifteenth.
The Republicans of the Fifteenth ward
met hast evening in a hall near the corner
Of Meridian and Ray streets. and nominated
Ira ]. Rusch for Council from the ward.
The primary wac well attended. and 1t was
an enthusiastic meeting. A number of rous-
ing speeches We're made. Mr.: Rusch was