The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14
Mr.. PICKENS STANDS A
WILL OFFER NO OTHER BALLOT
NAME FOR NATIONAL DEMOCRATS.
He Writes a Searching Letter to the
Election Board and iii Into
Mr.. kern's Ribs.

board not to admit his party ticket on the
ballot sheet under that name. He declared
that he would not suggest another name,
but will cave that to the board. In refer
ence to the decision he sent the following
letter to the clerk Of the board:
Il beg to acknowledge receipt of your
letter of the 10th, informing me that the
board had approved the device for the head
rejected the name, National Democratic
Ticket as the title of said ticket, as des-
ignated by the petitioners, and that the
board requests me to present another name
for the title of the ticket. I am informed
by the public press that the decision of
the board rejecting the name was by a
vote of two to one, the two member who
are supporting the Popuiist candidate for
President voting in the affirmative.
THE ballot law provides that in case Of
a division in any party, and claims by two
or more factions to the party name, the
the convention held at the time and place
designated in the call of the regularly con-
stituted party authorities. and If the other
faction shall present no other name, the
board shall select a name, etc. The law
further provides that the petitioners may
designate a name or title of the party or
cause the name of the candidates to be
printed on the ballot and device so desig-
The resolution of the board declaratory
of it saction in this matter recites that the
regularly constituted organization known
as the Democratic party is claiming the
right to have its tickle placed on the ballot
under the name Democratic ticket
ne leEd4 TiSDI o. tItA = - st 1act1On
of the Democratic party to the name Dem
o,cratic Ticket l do not here dispute. While
the reputation of Democratic usa ges and
principles. by the convention of that fac
ton deprives it of all moral right to the
use of the name, yet the convention hav-
ing been held at the time and place des-
ignated in the call of the regularly con-
stltuted party authorities, the statute
gives It the legal right to the name.
IF the petitioners had designated the
same name for the head of the ticket they
peetitioned for. the action Of the majority
tifiable. But they did not designate the
same name. They designated a name dis
tinctly different.
The board has assigned no reason for its
denial of the right of the petitioners to
the use of the name designated. It is not
claimed. nor will it be claimed. that the
name National Democratic Ticket Is the
same as the name Democratic Ticket
The pretense that there is such q similarity
in the two names as that the voter might
be confused is a lame excuse for a palpable
violation of a plain provision of the statute
halluefnation that the voter is ignorant and
may be easily hoodwinked and deceived.
the Popuiis campaign The fears of the
beard in this respect are not well
grounded. This has been peculiarly an ed
u~cational campaign. IT has been. made
clear to the voter that the Populist ticket
with the device of the rooster at its head
is a sectional ticket. and the Democratic
ticket with the device of the head of JEFF
ferson is a national ticket. Besides. every
n msnn wno 81 mas ass, given any attention to the
law knows that the voter recognizes HE
ticket by the device at its head rather
a Populist, would mistake the head OF .Jef-
ferson for the rooster.
NOT BEGGING A FAVOR.
Your letter. Mr.. Clerk, informs me that
the board had decided that the prayer of
SAID petition that the name National Dem
ocratc I1cket betplaced at the head of
said ticket on the ballot be not granted.
Il beg To inform fhn Haa,5 49, - -.
TONERS are not suppliants begging a favor.
They are freemer. legal electors of the
state. demanding a. right-a right guaran-
teed them by the law which the members
OF the board have sworn to observe.
me law says that the petitioners shall
nave the name designated mot PRAYED for,
IN me petition unless it be the same name
py the FACTION of the party whose
convention was held at the time and place
in the call of the regularly con-
board, in the face of the statute. has de-
nled the petitioners and the thousands of
titioners and those whom thew represent
are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from principle
doGInoeIats VINO have the courage of their
GonVictions-Democrats who cannot be Sc
duced, caJoled or driven to vote for Popu-
list candidates or Populist principles-
democrats whe at the coming election
Will vote for electors who stand for Dem
Q principles and the Democratic can
who believe. hike one of the majority mem
bers of the board three months ago be-
lleved; that the Populist candidate for
Jefferson. Jackson and TiIden.
for doctrines, to quote the language of
enactment, of which would result in in
eyltaoIe disaster. not to those towards
whom 1t is aimed, but to the boys in the
to those who earn their bread
by the sweat of their brows.'
The name National Democracy was
alton by such Democrats as General Palm
er, &c Gene val B9ekner. General Bragg,
Brcdhead, Colonel Irish and MIR. Eckels.
and many others hardly less distinguished
have fought the battles and won the
of the Democratic party for the
last quarter of a century. And it has re-
Democrats-Grover C~leveland-who alone
the party has been able to elect to the
the party asunder.
Il have said the name was advisedly cho-
sen. These Democrats and their associates
witnessed at Chicago the elimination of a
wicked conspiracy between a cabal of dis
and angry United States Sena-
tors, whose selfish schemes of greed had
been frustrated by a Democratic President,
and the Republican silver barons of the
West, whereby the party was basely be-
into the camp of the Populists, and
,nstead Of a Pattern of the tim~e-honored
equal rights. favors to none and enforce
of law, there was promulgated a hy-
"a III III vi L LIS oIId INtpuO
lean heresies for fiat money, special priv
rank paternalism and a denial Of the
powers of the executive and
to enforce the laws, equally sat
to the protectionist silver Repub-
lean Senators of the West, the Populist
liSunionists of South Carolina and the An
archiSts of Chicago. Having witnessed the
degradation of the party they loved, those
loyal to principle and to con-
science determined to reassert the true
principles of the party in order thai all
Who believe those principles essential to
he prosperity of the Republic should not
De compelled TO choose between Republican
oaternalism on the one hand and Populistic
on the other. Every day since
he crime of SO at Chicago has confirmed
he patriotic wisdom of these true and tried
There is no longer any ques-
ion hat the nominee of the Chicago con-
t. He admits 1t. Day by day, in further
lnce Of the conspiracy and in deeper deg
'adation OF the party, the so-caled Demo-
are ~surrendering places on the ticket
o avowed Populists. While / write, as I
I'm informed, Democrats are being COM
,elled to resign from the ticket to give
llace to Populists In order to carry out
he unholy coalition. Is It any wonder that
thousands upon thousands Of lifelong
and yiiiication in order to pre-
ierYe the principles of the party they love2
The National Democracy Of Indiana
Iaving designated the name National DEM
ticket fer the title of their ticket
g representing a principle. and not being
those who change their principles at ev-
ny gust of Populistic wind. they stand
~ the name designated and appeal from
he decision of the board TO the Democrats
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