The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-20
THE SILVERITES BITTER
SEND OUT A CIRCULAR DENoUNCING
TAGGART'S ADMINISTRATION.
The Pennsylvania Roads Tracks I'm
the Conference.-The south
Side DISTINGUISHED.

As the time for the Democratic city con-
vention approaches the fight against the
Taggart administration grows warmer on
the part of the tried and true" silverites
They have no faith whatever in his pro-
LESSONS of loyalty to the Chicago platform
and such leaders as S. N Gold, c. w
Bridges and T. e. Johnson were even in a
mood yesterday to scott at his interview
wherein he vowed by all that was good and
great that he is really and truly for silver.
we judge him by his actions" said Mr..
Bridges, and you can usually tell more
from actions than from words" And the
others echoed the sentiment in various
ways They were even cruel enough to in
innate that Taggart never said any such
thing; that the interview was prepared by
j. F. Dunn out of his own fertile brain, and
that Taggart simply consented 20 it's pub
LEGATION.
The fight in circular form goes merrily
on and yesterday appeared one of the
saltiest handbills that has yet appeared 1t
was unsigned, and at the headquarters OF
the Silver League" in the Lemcke build
ing, they knew nothing about it, 1t is plen-
tifully sprinkled with glazing headlines and
big black type, and reads as follows:
The attention Of Democrats is called tc
the outrageously unfair opportionment OF
111legdteS 10 the coming city convention
Inc Sold-bug Second ward with barely 5U
true Democrats in it, is given forty-twC
delegates to .ne convention while the / 5O
tree-sllVer Democrats of the Fourteenth
ward are given but thirty-seven. There are
IN round numbers Is 900 Democratic voters
IN II the city, with the recent anneXations
6,OJO of these on the North Side and TO- COT
ON the South Side, there are 649 delegates
IN the convention, with 1926 necessary tC
nominate, the North Side with 5000 voters
md inns mill hon,
calling on the 10000 South Side Democrats
70 assist them. This is an unfair and un-
Just discrimination of one section of the
city as against the other The purpose of il
is plain.
Precinct maps. Who uses them? Who
pays for them? The city authorities have
failed and refused to have maps published
before the convention, showing the new
precinct boundaries for the use of all the
people irrespective of party or faction, but
the city engineers force in the basement
have been at work for weeks making blue
outline maps for the use of the bosses and
their 'heelers,' though these draughtsmer
are paid by the taxpayers of the city &c
DO the work of the whole city, and not the
work of a close office-holding corporation
WIN the taxpayers wake up and rebuke
these unfair determinations against the
many in favor of the few. What do you
say?
THE PENNSYLVANIA TRACKS.
1T is now but three months until election
day. When that day is past the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company will proceed tc
lay its tracks across Delaware street, pro-
Vided the people of the South Side continue
the present corporation loving administra-
ton in power. Let the neglected South
siders think this over.
''The claim that Mr.. Taggart aided the
cause of Bryan ana free silver by contrib
uting to the campaign fund is absolutely
without foundation. 1t is a well-known fact
that he declined to give one cent to the
state committee. Toward the close of the
campaign fund was raised in the inter
ests of the county ticket, and Mr.. Taggart'
friends are now boaSting that he came &c
the aid of the local ticket, and at the same
time discredited the regular organization
by refusing to turn the money over to it
THE suit brought by Albert Lieber, OF
the British Brewing Company, against AL
bert Lieber and others of the Park Board
to test the constitutionality of said board
was brought at the instgation of Taggart
who had not the courage to face the tax
ridden people of the city in support OF the
infamous assessment about to be Levied by
the board, upon the eve of city campaign
If Taggart should be reelected these tax
payers may rest assured that every effort
will be made to continue that board, ano
next year tax the people half million dol
lars to establish a boulevard for Holt Tag
CART and others who like to own and drive
fast horses.
us it not fact when S. r. Holt re.
signed the craftsmanship of the state COM
ulllee anu the CdIluludlSS VII lllC GldtC i'm
ct urged Mr.. Taggart to accept the va
cancy and he declined to do so because he
was under the influence of Holt and John
r. Wilson, who Threatened to crush him
financially if he accepted.
Soon after this did not Mr.. Taggart
private secretary, Bert Spencer say: There
is no reason why Mr. Taggart should have
accepted the position. He started out az
a gold man. and l am in a position to know
that he has not changed his opinion
while Mr.. Holt was chairman he had the
chairmen of county committees send him
lists of names of doubtful Republicans os-
tensbly for the purpose of sending them
literature. In some instances these lists
were sent by Holt to the chairman of the
Republican committee in the county from
which they came. A Democrat of this city
CURED in at least one county. SAID Holt Is
now member of the Board of Park Com
missioners, appointed as Democrat by
Mayor Taggart.
There are now in the employ of the city
at least twenty-five men who voted against
Mr. Bryan some of them openly boaSting
of it, and referring in sneering terms to
the 300 600 Democrats in Indiana who sup
ported him as the push and 'curb-stone
loafers.
1T is said by his friends that,his business
relations with certain gold Democrats
are such that he cannot ask these poltlca
Judases to resign. If this be true will II
not be we'll to elect some true Democrat
mayor of Indianapolis and allow Mr.. Tag
CART time to attend to his business rela-
tons with Holt, W ilson, Reach and others
when the returns showed Bryans defeat
Bert Spencer, then the mayors private sec
retary said: 1T is the verdict of an out
ragged and indignant people, as every golC