The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09
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fore it appeared. And what did this DEM
ocrat say? / will read it;
The piece of land near Morris street
on the river. has never been recommended
for park. and the board admits this, but
and use IL as a garden or propagating
grounds. This land is among the very low
est on the river and cannot be successfully
ieyeled. It is claimed that this river land
Is owned by a prominent city Official and
It's selection is due to a desire to please
him. If this is true, then the board will
Go well TO so slow, as the public will be
sure to resent any action on the part OF
the beard that smacks of favoritism.'
lished in the Sentinel. on the morning of the
9th of March. Does that look like Mr.
airy?
ENGLISH INTERVIEW GARBLED.
Mr.. English, who would not sign that
contract even if Holt had presented it, who
would not be cajoled at any time into buy
ing that worthless land, came home from
New York yesterday He was interviewed
by the public press. 1 wish to say that
the Indianapolis Sentinel did not have the
courage did not have the common decency,
did not have the ordinary honesty, to print
In its columns what Mr.. English said, with
out giving it CARRIED effect. because, as
Mr.. English has told other people, as soon
as he returned, as he has intimated to men
VINO came direct to me, the story that
told is true. in all its important parts 1t is
true and the Sentinel did not dare print his
interview as he gave ii.
Now, when we forced this question upon
the mayor and he dismissed it for weeks
with one OF his smileS-but he can't even
grin now when it is mentioned Gaughterl-
when we forced it upon him, l went to
the Park Board and asked his clerk if the
record of the Sth of February was the only
record on the park books as to Mr. Tag
CARTS land. He unblushingly told me it was
Less than q week ago the Iudiananolis
journal found ha Of
cunt Court certificate from that same
truthful young man, who sat under the
listened to and associated with MIR. Holt SO
long that he can do nothing else but tell
the truth Qaughter)-that same truthful
young man filed in the Circuit Court a GER
April the Park, Board had passed a resolu-
ton asking Judge Allen to appoint appras-
erS to appraise this land of Mr., Taggart's
asked him to-day ii he remembered that
he said he did. but he said in the same
everything that is in the books and when
you were here l had really forgot it.
But 1t is true that there is a subsequent
record And what does it show? 1 looked at
the books to-day, and, Notwithstanding the
young mans certificate. there was no such
meeting held on the 10th day of April. He
certified to the Circuit Court either through
mistake or Intentionally that there had
been an extra meeting of the Park Board on
were there. No such meeting was ever held,
but on the 9th there was a meeting held
and then the record shows that resolution
was passed calling for the appointment of
appraisers to buy Mr.. Taggarts land Col,
Perry-and you all know Gran Perry-Col
Perry told me to-day that the record as GER
titled there was, to his best recollection, abb
solutely false, because no mention had been
made at that meeting of Mr.. Taggart's
land, and the record was made up after the
board adjourned, and some one induced
some one else to put into it the falsehood
that the board had ordered appraisers APP
pointed to appraise Mr.. Taggart's land
ENGLISH KNEW NOTHING.
'T asked Mr.. English about it, why he
says, I don't know anything of that kind.
The Taggart land was 1 understood.
dropped long before that, and 1 don't be-
lieve that there was anything said at that
meeting about Mr.. Taggart's land. but the
clerk was asked to make a certificate cover
ing certain lands that the board did want to
purchase
After the board adjourned presume that
the clerk, through his zeal, through his
anxiety, through his determination to take
care of the man who had taken care of him.
put in that park record the certificate that
the park commissioners wanted to buy 1t,
and two of them to-day say that no such
agreement was made at that time. Gap
plauseo
Now, that is the record of double dealing
and dupicty; that is the record that the
indianapolis News laughs about; that is the
A0cOru lhdl lHey ueHomlnate a mysterious
midnight story that is unworthy of belief,
although they believed 1t themselves on the
18th day of April.
Now, my friends, would like to talk to
you longer. but in conclusion l wish to urge
you of the South Side to do your duty down
in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth and Ninth
wardS-do your duty and we will come down
to Fall creek ready to say to you on Pleas
ant run that we have wiped out the Tam
many crowd that have been fattening upon
you and upon me; that we have wiped out
the disgrace of the White-riVer sewer: that
we have wiped out that disgrace of the
Board of Public Works; that there will be
no sewer scandal, but with William Newton
Harding as mayor there will be honesty in
city government, there will be a careful
scrutiny of your interests and mine, and
when we turn over the reins Of government
we will do it with absolutely clean hands,"
(Applause.)