The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-25
POPS WILL MEET AGAIN
WANT TO SEE IT THE DEMOCRATS
WILL DO A LITTLE BETTER.
Five Electors Is About the Size of the
Demand Now-Party Disguised
with Whole Business.

The Populist committee of thirteen will
be called together next Monday or Tues
day. IL the Popocratic State committee can
| see its way clear to offering the Popuists
five of the fifteen electors. This was agreed
upon at a meeting at the English Hotel
yesterday, attended by Messrs. Rosen-
heimer. Hubbell and Fisher, of the sub
committee authorized to call the commit
tee Of thirteen, NJ c. Rankin, of Terre
Haute, treasurer of the PoDulist national
committee, and a number of the local Pop
ulists. Fisher came I'D from Franklin as
the proxy of Pope, a member of the sub
committee The subcommittee had been
called together at the suggestion of Ran
kin. who desired to express the wishes of
the PopuTst national committee. He de-
clared that it was the wish Of Senator
Butler chairman of the national commit
tee that there should be fusion in In
diana in other States and urged that
if the silver Democrats could be induced
to make another proposition within reason,
the PoDulists should meet them half way.
The Indiana Populists who attended the
meeting backed up the demands of Rankin
and declared that at their conference with
Chairman Martin and j. G.. Shankin Sat
urday night, they had been given to
derstand that if a disposition toward flu
sion were SHOWN the SILVER IGluOCIdlS
would offer more liberal proposition and
one that would make it unnecessary for
the Populists to trouble themselves about
raising a campaign fund. Their speakers
would be sent out under the auspices of
the Bryan campaign managers and their
expenses and compensation paid From
Republicans this; would be bribery but
from Popocrats it is simply campaign
business.
After the Populists had talked this mat
ter over. Mr.. Hubbe1I, who has gained
some fame from his declaration that he
declined to be bribed into voting the way
he voted last week went down to call upon
Chairman Martin to get, if possible some
thing more definite than had been told to
Shepard, Smith, Kennedy. Ogborn, Patter-
son and Atkinson last Saturday night All
he got was a promise that Martin would
talk the matter over with the subcommt-
tee in charge of the Populist deal and
others of his advisers and let them know
within a day or two by communicating
with Mr.. Rosenheimer. None of the Pop
ulists registered at the hotels and they
fcLdly imagined that their presence here
would escape attention Mr.. Rosenheimer
last evening reluctantly admitted that they
had been here and said he would probably
know by Saturday whether not the com
mittee of thirteen would be called together
Chairman Martin. OF the POpocrat1c COM
mittee seemed much surprised when a
Journal reporter asked him the result of
his talk with HubbeIl. 1--WE have made no
new proposition to the Populists,' said he
I'VE have had meeting of commit
tee and I have not talked with McCabe
and the other members of subcommit-
tee on the subject since their last meet
ing here
1T doesn't seem to make much differ
ence,' said one Of the PopulstS last even
ing, what further steps, if any, our com
mittee takes. They have fooled around
about this thing and held the matter open
for propositions, while talking about cor
rupt propositions until the rank and file
of the party is pretty we'll Disguised with
the whole fusion business. Do they mag
inc that the 10000 Populist voters of In
diana are going TO be made the subject OF
bargain and sale by a few leaders? BY
weakened the influence of the party, if
they have not destroyed it altogether