The Indianapolis journal., 1895-08-22
WHY 1T SHOULD BE TRusLER.
He Has Saved Many Thousands of Dol
lars to the Taxpayers of the City.

Tie has saved Many Thousands of Dol
lars to the Taxpayers of the City.
The regular weekly meeting of the South
side Republican Club last night, was large
ly attended and an excellent speech was
made by Hon. John L. Griffiths, President
W. H. Leedy presided. Mr. Griffiths pointed
out that the city election. coming so near
10 the closest interests of the citizen, Is
an election of very great importance. ami
that It's issues should be carefully studied
by the voters The election, he said. means
more than the tariff, or the financial legis-
lat!on. far-reaching even as these matters
are. He related how. when he came TO the
city eighteen years ago, he had spent near
ly the whole morning waiting for his car
mule car, TO carry him TO his destination
on North Pennsylvania street. There were
then no paved streets in the city, which
was nothing more than an overgrown coun-
try town. Now, he said. there are scores
of miles Of asphalt and otherwise paved
streets. There is a system of sewers max
ing the city healthful place to live in
There are massive blocks and great manu-
factories, large wholesale stores and wide
business interests. indianapolis is now a
city, and he said he favors the election of
Preston G. Trusler, because to have him
defeated means a backward step in the
nigh rate or progress that the city is max
ing. The election of Trusler. he said. would
cities which have inaugurated an era of
municipal reform IN making municipal gov
eminent a matter of strict business and
not of politics. The present, Mr.. Griffiths
said, is business campaign.
Mr. Griffths then showed how the Sulli-
van administration failed to protect the
credit of the city. and how its management
fell into hands not worthy TO be trusted
with authority power. He drew vivid
picture OF the change that had come when
the present city administration took hold
and said that by far the greater part of the
honor belongs TO Preston c. Truslers man
agement of the controllers office.
Look at the vast amount of public i'm
provement that has been made" continued
Mr. Griffiths, land yet, yard for yard il has
cost the taxpayer far less money than un-
ments are burdensome. l know, but they are
necessary, and must come some time The
present administration has saved the prop
erty owners and the city $4,000 in the less
ened cost of improvements equal in amount
10 the improvements finished by the pre-
vious administration. Match that for finan-
proof of the fidelity of the Republican party
to the interests of the taxpayer needed?
II take it." continued Mr.. Griffiths. that
Mr.. Taggart will be nominated by the Demo-
crats-I think that's good as settled. 1t
will be combination of a conservative plat
form and a wide-open candidate. But the
winning smile and the glad hand that are
all things 10 all men are not available assets
this time. The worst nomination that can
be made is the man without convictions and
firmness. There Is reason under the sun
why any Republican should vote for 1om
Taggart, who never in his life voted for a
single Republican. and who never gave a
Republican a place-in any office" (Ap-
plause.)
Mr.. Grifiiths eulogized Mr. Trusler as a
man of strong character and unblemished
: reputation for business capacity and integ-
rlty. He congratulated the club that the Re-
publican candidate lives on the South Side
and said that he could see reasons why this
club above all others should use its wide and
widening influence for Mr.. Trusler He con-
graduated the club that IL had attained such
a position for good i'm municipal affairs. The
discourse closed with discussion of the fact
of history. that whenever the Democrats
have control the interests OF the people sui
fer He nsfanced the current experience IN
national affairs as an Illustration Of the gen.