The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-03
ROW OVER MEALS.
Chicago Marching Club QuarreIs with
COOner=nany Get Drunk.


A loud. clamorous dissatisfaction arose
among some of the members of the Chi
cago Sound-money Democratic Marching
Club an hour after they arrived in the city
yesterday morning because they were noti-
fed that they would have to bear their
own expenses individually during their
stay.
Before the club left Chicago Tuesday
evening, it is claimed ex-Mayor John P.
Hopkins and Col. John Cooper who are in
charge of it, promised the members that
they would be transported free and would
be furnished with their meals while in In
dianapolis. They were also promised that
refreshments. cigars and various commodi-
ties to insure a good time would be fur
nshed free while en- route. Transportation
and beer were the only things that turned
up on the gratis list. and then trouble be-
gan.
After arriving, at o'clock yesterday
morning, Marshal Colonel Cooper imme-
diately formed the club in line and for an
hour paraded the streets. The members
were then rushed into an empty store room
on Meridian street, near the Circle, and all
newspaper men were excluded. Colonel
Cooper and ex-Mayor Hopkins then tole
the club that they would have to bear their
personal expenses.
How about breakfast" called out a
hungry member
Go and eat your breakfast replied the
Colonel.
''Where shall we go for it?"
Get 1t wherever you can, and then a
great disSension arose, and Colonel Cooper
was privately waited upon by a number of
members. The conference was short and
to the point, and ended in meal tickets be-
ing purchased at restaurant and dis
tributed.
The club numbers 365 members. of whom
a large number are evidently men of
means, but the others are of a class the
exact reverse. Their conduct and appear
ance indicate very strongly that they are
of the lower element. One member of the
I'VE have endeavored to maintain re-
spectability in the membership of this club,
but unfortunately about fifty ward heelers
of the bum element have drifted into it and
been taken in to do the dirty work that is
usually TO be done at a convention of this
kind
The six chartered cars in which the
club arrived stand on the tracks at the
New Jersey-street crossing. The only re-
nine half barrels of beer. This was kept
tightly corked until the city was reached,
and then the spigots were turned loose,
by the lower element of the club in filling
their large dry .'voids' and by evening
many of the berths contained sleepers who
had flooded the inner man copiously: 1t is
claimed that there are a number OF MEM
bers who are wearing the sound-money
badges of blue who have no further true
blue qualities, and who will vote for the
most money obtainable when the time
comes. They are simply wearing the blue
badges to enable them to nave good
time.
w C. DeBaugh, director of the military
band that. headed the Chicago Sound
money Democratic Marching Club, says
that reports that his. band is a nonunion
organization are absolutely untrue.
1.-THE members of this band" said he,
''belong to the American Musicians Union,
K. of l., and are entitled to vote In that
body. Any such report as that is malicious,
and is circulated with the intention of
throwing discredit on the convention.
DeBaughs Band numbers twenty-five
pieces and makes an impressive appear
ance in uniforms of white duck pantaloons
with black patent leather leggings reaching
to the knee, navy-blue braided jackets and
white caps.