The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-27
DEMOCRATIC STAMPEDE
WORKERS FLoCKING TO THE SOUND
MONEY ORGANIZATION.
Half the Taggart Administration
FIOps Overflow Chairman Pickens
Sizes Up the Indiana Situation.

A regular stampede of Democratic ward
workers and hustlers has begun from the
Popocratic organization TO the sound
money Democracy during the past two or
three days The Popocratic managers real
ize this fact thoroughly, and declare that
J. L. Reach is taking their men from them
because the sound-money organization has
money. They were so worked up about 1t
yesterday that they were making loud
threats of having Reach arrested on the
charge of bribery, but they could find no
ground whatever upon which to make such
Il charge, and thought better of their in
tention- Yet they claim they are convinced
that the National Democrats are tampering
with their organization, and are very much
alarmed over the situation.
The plain truth is that the workers in the
wards and the men who hustle for votes
are not fools. They have begun to realize
the fact that with such leaders as J. L.
Reach, Sterling Holt, John r. Wilson.
Samuel Murray, and, in fact practically all
the men who have had anything to do with
ieadlng the Democratic organization and
county affairs, active in the sound-money
organization, they will control Democratic
AFFAIRS In Marion county for a long time
after this election is over, and there is a
rush to get on the wagon before the pro-
cession finally starts. They understand
perfectly well that tk,. case is hopeless in
Marion county, and believe they might as
Wen identity themselves with the men who
Will control the organization in the future
1T is impossible to hold them was the
remark made yesterday by one of the old
workers who has cast his for
tune with the Popocratic organiza-
n
other week, anyhow. THE boys under
stand as well as you or l do that after this
campaign we shall never hear anything
more of Cooper Myers, Bridges, Stuart.
Rockford or any of the rest of these fools
who are enjoying a temporary sort of as
tendency in the organization. They see
James Reach and Holt and the rest of the
fellows they have been accustomed to TAX
ing orders from on the other side of the
line, and the devil and all his imps could
not hold them on this side, particularly
when they know that these fellows have
the stuff to do business with. We have
been working hard, and are still working
hard, to patch up the organization for cleo
ton day work, and If we can get enough
reliable men to serve as judges clerks,
sheriffs, challengers and stockholders we
shall be well satisfied to let it go at that
without making any effort to hustle for
votes, as we have done heretofore. Up
there at the committee rooms Bridges and
Myers and that gang eye us with daggers
drawn and hate the ground We walk on.
They have been boilers and traitors all
their lives. but we are giving them an OBJ
ject lesson in party regularity that ought
to do them a heap of good. We shall stay
with the thing now until after election
day, and then you will see us getting to-
gether with Reach and Holt and those fell
lows without any trouble at all. You may
have the best of us this time, but by next
year you will have US all to fight just as
you have had heretofore, and you will find
us solid to a man in electing Taggart as
Mayor again.