The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-13
HOW THE PUSH" WORKS
BITS OF TALK OVERHEARD IN SILL
yERITE HEADQUARTERS.
1.-The Push" Wants an Organ to
Espouse Its Cause-County Poll
ties Too Small for 1t.

1t is worth considerable more than the
price of admission TO go into the Lieuten-
ant Governors room at most any atirae of
the day. There, by grace of Tir1 Griffin
and the authority vested in him, and,
it is whispered. by direction of Governor
Matthews, the free-slveritess of Marion
county are camped out. c. w. Bridges
heads the push" and circlng around him
are Romus Stewart. Cadi'' Buskirk and
a whole lot of fellows hitherto unknown
in politics, who are bent upon turning
down the leaders of the local Democracy
and turning things topsy turvy generally.
The ''Cadi' is in high feather. and with
his broad witticisms. punctured with dashes
and other things that would not look well
in print. keeps the crowd in good humor
all the time. He had much to say yester-
day about ''Tommie Titmouse Taggart," as
he calls him.
1.-The greatest muff / ever saw in poll
ties said the "Cadi'' gleefully. was that
made by Taggart when he jumped on the
gold-bug side. Taggart amt got any views.
you know, and don't know anything about
this question. anyhow, and he might as
well have been with the push for silver
as to have declared for gold and been left
out. He, he. that was great muff. Tom
mie went out to see which way the wind
was blowing and thought II was blowing
for gold while IL ne had only waited
week he would have seen the silver cyclone
! coming and might just as well have been
in the swim as not.
What do you know about county candi-
dates?" was asked.
County politics. yelled the whole mob
county politics. We don't fool with county
matters"
giving our attention to State politics now"
State Dolitics?' cried one of the states
men from the Fifteenth. national politics.
you mean; we amt doing nothing but ma
tional politics"
''You will see that we have free silver in
the platform at Chicago. / presume" re-
marked the reporter.
! I'VE shall have free silver or a party of
our own" replied Bridges. You can make
up your mind to that"
Nevertheless. the push began discuss
ing county candidates. The 'Cadi'' re-
marked that Jim Harper was the man
for Circuit Judge He had come out for
silver and was all right.
mot on yer iifenD quoth Bridges HE
has been the meanest gold-bug in the whole
outfit and If he has topped over it is just
because he wants office.
well" replied the "Cadi'' meekly, Il am
for anybody to beat that man Brown. He
is a gold-bug and mugwump and every
thing else but Democrat and he don't get
my support. Any man ought to be proud
to have that Office. It six years. and S4.0OO
a year. Why, I'd rather hold IL down than
be on the Supreme bench of Indianny."
Thus 1t goes all day and in the meantime
the crowd sits around with their feet on
the mahogany tables, spits on the carpet
occasionally and consumes such State sta
tionery as they happen TO find lying around
loose part of the discussion yesterday
was devoted to the thought that they need
an organ. The Sentinel doesn't seem 10
suit them.
Il know / could get the money" said
Bridges, Ito start the kind of a newspaper
~.Af.. trsra r,rr~r r,<a1
that would have some snap and go about
IL.
That's what we need most" broke in
Ollcot an ex-printer who wears Populist
whiskers and used to be a greenbacker.
And then the discussion went on as TO how
easy il would be to smash the Sentinel
which was to howl for gold in order that
its editor may hold down a job in Paris,
as the silver crowd explains.