The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28
ABANDONING THE HULK
EPHRAIM MARSH THE LATEST TO
LEAVE THE PoPOCRATIC WRECK.
Ex-Secretary of Democratic State
Committee VIII Vote Against Bryan
and for Henry U. johnson.

4 III Is getting TO De Il rather unusual DAY
now when some prominent Democrat. who
/ has been acting with the Popocracy up to
| date does not come out and declare him
i self against the Chicago platform. Yes
! terday it was Ephraim Marsh, of Green
| field, ex-secretary of the Democratic State
| committee, for many years a member of
| that committee, and long regarded as one
| of the safest Democratic leaders in the
| State. He addressed letter to Ernest Fl.
| F'aut, member of the National Democratic
| committee for the Sixth district, as fol-
| lows:
My Dear Mr.. Fault wish to congratu-
taken for sound money and against the
| Chicago platform, and for the election of
| those grand old men, Palmer and Buckner.
II owe much to the Democratic party
of this county, having been twice honored
with the Democratic nomination for the
office of clerk of the Hancock Circuit Court
in the years of 1874 and 1873, since which
time | have not been a candidate for any
office In 1874 the Grange movement was
very strong in this county. and if it had
not been for the large Republican vote
which l received 1 would have been de-
feated, many who are now crying boilers,
etc., voting against me and the Demo-
cratic party. In 1878 was what is known in
this county as the Tangle Leg campaign,
in which large number of Democrats
bolted the regular nominated ticket, and
hallooing loudest boilers, traitors, gold
bugs, etc. And again my Republican
friends came to my rescue and saved me
from defeat. I have also been twice chair
man of the county Democratic central COM
mittee, and once member of the Demo-
cratic State central committee and the
secretary thereof during the campaign of
1888. | have always been strict partisan,
standing by the Democratic nominees and
its platform of principle, giving my time
and money to it's cause, believing consci-
entiously in the principles and traditions of
the party.
TRUE DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE.
a that the
money question would be the leading one
of this campaign, and I then began the
study of the question without any bias one
way or the other, but with the honest pur-
pose of informing myself as to what would
be for the best interest of the country. L
also studied the history of the Democratic
party from it's foundation to the present
time on the money question, it's platform,
the writing and speeches of its illustrtous
statesmen, and L came to the conclusion
long before any conventions were held that
the gold standard was the true policy of
this country, and that it was democratic.
That the true Democratic doctrine on the
money question expressed in the plat
form of 1892, which reads as fellows: We
hold to the use of both gold and silver as
the standard money of the country, and to
the coinage of both gold and silver without
discrimination against either, metal or
charge of mintage, but the dollar unit of
coinage of both metals must be of equal
intrinsic and eXchangeable value, or be adj
justed through international agreement or
by such safeguards of legislation as shall
insure the maintenance of the parity of the
two metals and the equal power of every
dollar at all times in the markets and in
the payment of debts; and demand that
all paper currency shall be kept at par
with and redeemable in such COIN
THE uNDEMoCRATIC THEORY.
"But early in the campaign the mutter-
ings of discomfort were heard; strange and
new doctrines were announced, and by the
tiy7oa no hpI N this "
to select delegates to the State convention
a resolution was adopted that no one should
be nominated as n candidate for office or
selected as a delegate to any convention,
who was not in favor of the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver at the ratio of Is
to ] with gold. No party, except the Peo-
pies party. had ever declared for such a
principle said then that / would never
indorse such a doctrine that it was I'M
Democratic and against the best interests
teachings of the indianapolis Sentinel and
the Hancock Democrat would prevail, and
that their warnings would be needed but
alas, strange men had got control of
the party and madness and frenzy ruled
the hour. At the Democratic State conven-
ton at indianapolis free speech was denied
and at Chicago revolutionary measures
were resorted to; Altgeld and Tillman were
in evidence in everything that was done by
the convention. The Supreme Court was
attacked; President Cleveland was de-
nounced; the rights of States invaded, and
voted for Weaver, the Populist candidate
for President in 1892, and at the Populist
ination by this same Weaver, who vouched
for him as being as good a Populist as he
was himself.
FUSION AND CARLISLE INSULT.
'In this State, since the Chicago conven-
ton, the Democratic State central commit
tee has taken from the regular nominated
electoral ticket five Democrats and placed
electoral ticket one-third Populist Not only
that but in this congressional district Mr..
Puntenney, the regular nominee of the
Democratic party for Congress, was fore
IDLY taken off the ticket and Charles A.
Robinson, a Populist, placed thereon in his
stead, but this is not ALL In the last few
days have seen the legitimate teach
ings of Mr.. Bryan bearing fruit by the in
suits offered to Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Cock
ran. The Democratic party has been al
ways a bold and aggressive party. making
no fusion with any party except in the
iously, defeated Then why this fusion with
a party whose principles are undemocratic,
except for the purpose of getting office? 1t
is an open secret that there was a bargain
and sale between the Democratic and Pop
ulist parties; that if the Democrats would
fuse on the electoral ticket the PoDulists
would withdraw it's State ticket. 1t was
also reported In this county that it was
the agreement that if Puntenney was with
drawn and Robinson placed on the Demo-
cratic ticket the Populsts would withdraw
it's county ticket in every county in the
district where the Democrats were in the
majority. Have they done it? The Popu-
lists, like the willy Indian, led the Demo-
Gratis into their camp and then scalped
them. The whole thing in the county
State and Nation, from start to finish, has
been one constant barter and trade. and
the Democratic party, the party of Jeffer-
son, Jackson Tilden and Cleveland has
been sold out to the Popuists, and to prove
what / say l quote from the address of
Marion Butler, chairman of the Populist
national committee, who says; Brethren
destroy the Peoples party. We have no
such apprehension. Its principles are right,
and, being right they are immortal In
four years they have taken possession of
the Democratic party. and on Nov they
will take possession of the Nation. In 1892
we had but one million votes. On Nov g.
1885, we shall have majority of the whole
country. We have not become Democrats
but the Democrats have, in the broad sense