The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-26
A BIG SOUND MONEY CLUB
RAILROAD MEN FORM A NONPARTI-
SAN ORGANIZATION.
Membership Rolls Contain 40 Mem.
bers, Largely DemOcrats-Thfs Is
Merely the Beginning.

Two hundred railroad men-men en-
ployed by the railroads of Indianapolis in
various capacities from superintendent
down to helpers in the shops-met at the
Marion Club last night and organized a
sound-mol.ey club. Representatives of all
the roads and divisions OF the city were
present and organization was completed
with 400 members to start of with.
OF those who have already joined the
club some are Democrats and some are
Republicans. The railroad men are look
ing upon the matter of their work in the
campaign and at the polls as a matter of
business and are not allowing politics of
the partisan sort to enter in the principles
of the club in any way.
When it came TO select the name for the
club the name OF either of the political
parties was carefully omitted so as not TO
give the impression that the club was 10
work in the interest Of any party. AS ex-
pressed by Harry Hubbard. an active
member in the club. the members are not
10 be pledged or expected TO vote for any
particular candidate. Nationally the men,
bers may vote for any candidate so the
candidate be not Bryan. The club is the
spontaneous uprising Of a class of men
who are affected as soon as any by the
hard times of the Cleveland administration
and the slump in business occasioned by
the lack of confidence pending the decision
of the people on the free-siiver question.
They are men who have organized the
club as a business venture, to use their
influence in the supper of a cause that
they believe will be OF a business value to
them. Officers elected last night were as
follows:
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diana Car-service Association.
Vice Presidents Zone for each railroad)-
M. w. Mansfield. l. & v; ]. +. Cava-
Eastern; Ii. G. Krenodle, L. h. &. W; j.
A Averill, Nandalia; u. c.. Stofer. L.. d.
& w; +. c. Morley. Monon; John Fergu-
syiyania Company; Tobias Whitson. c., II.
Secretary-Louis Bowman, Indiana Car
Treasurer-W. b. Poland. Big Four.
The new organization was not completed
until Friday night. when two or three lead
ing spirits met and discussed il. They
agreed that such e club would nave a wide
field of usefulness and the word was sent
around that there would be a meeting
last night for the purpose of taking pre-
liminary steps looking to the organization.
II was somewhat of a surprise that so
many attended and it was a matter of lit
tie effort TO start the club off with the
large membership which il boasts. Appli-
cation blanks for prospective members and
membership rolls had been passed around
among the railroad men by those who
passed the word OF the proposed organiza-
ton and the 40 names which are now on
the rolls of the club were all put there by
the members themselves. and the purpose
of the club has their hearty sympathy and
cooperation.
1t was suggested last night that as the
employees Of the Panhandle shops are pro-
posing the organization of a similar club
Thursday night, they be invited to come
into the Railwa Mems Sound-money Club.
as the club organized last night is called.
A committee composed of the president
and vice presidents was appointed to ex-
tend the invitation TO the Panhandle en-
ployes. Some of the latter were present
last night and became members and said
that several hundred employees of the
shops would doubtless be glad TO affiliate
with this club. The members of the new
club count on its growing so rapidly that
IL will become the largest political club in
the city. 1t has not yet secured a per-
manent meeting place, but the committee
will secure a hall and announce ii in the
papers before next Monday night, the time
of the next meeting.