The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-02
BILL" FLYNN'S MEETING
HIS ANNOUNCEMENT OF FREE BEER
AT THE TAGGART AUDIENCE.
Stuckmeyer's Frantic Effort to Prove
He Is Not IIIiteratc-His Choice
hits of Grammar.

Mr.. Taggart spoke last night at Phoenix
Hall. in the Fifteenth ward the Gibraltar
of the local Democracy. The 'tbyes" met at
Bill" Flynn's saloon and marched to the
meeting place behind a band for the pay
ment of which a number of city employees
were assessed in addition to their already
| heavy campaign assessments. Only about
thirty men and boys followed the band but
a few tunes dispensed in front of the hall
brought others to the place and there were
several hundred there when the speech
making began. The size of the crowd was
very small for such Democratic strong
hold.
! James Collier acted as chairman, but for a
time there was nothing to be done. Tag
CART, Cox and Stuckmeyer were on the
programme for speeches, but they were slow
to arrive. Henry Seyfried was called upon
to serve as filling and he talked about the
( glories of Democracy until the mayor and
| the rest arrived. He broke off suddenly and
Mayor Taggart was trotted out. He made
| feeble attempt to reply to a few of the
| charges of mismanagement which have been
made against him, but he seemed to recog-
nize his own weakness and soon gave way to
Before quitting he defended his colleague,
| Stuckmeyer, against whom, he said, the
charge of illteracy had been made, and the
justice of which is recognized by any one
who has attended Council meetings. 1.-Two
years ago they said that Stuckmeyer would
never do for city clerk because he could not
write he said But l say to you that the
records were never kept better He con-
cluded by inviting every man present to
al "
anime the city records which, by the way,
are kept by deputy. Stuckmeyer's EFFORTS
to read typewriter English and words OF
two syllables at the Council meetings have
caused even the Democratic councilmen and
President Costello to laugh many a time.
When Judge Cox was introduced there was
a wild stampede of the crowd from the hall.
There had been three or four hundred men
and boys there while Taggart was speaking.
There were chairs for only about nrty and
the remainder were obliged to stand They
were willing to stand for Taggart, but not
for Cox, and they were not TOO Wen p 3e
seemed to be the limit, and they fled. lie
pleaded with them in vain to stay, but they
went and he talked on to the few who re-
manned. He drank freely from glass or
water which was placed on the table before
him. 1t was noticeable at first that his
drinks were taken at times when the crowd
was ready to applaud his remarks but be-
fore he mad talked ten minutes the crowd
seemed to understand the situation and re-
fused to respond to his invitation TO applaud
him. Judge Cox seemed to be afraid that
the Republican victory would be taken as
| an Endorsement of the Mckinley administra-
ton and the prosperity which 1t had
brought and he begged OF the democrats
of the Fifteenth ward to do all they could
to defeat this prosperity idea. Judge Cox
| introduced Charles Stuckmeyer as my
friend. the clerk
HOW STUCKMEYER ALLUDED"
Stuckmeyer declared that the Journal was
wrong when it declared that he would have
to learn grammar, and then took up the OBJ
| lection to his use OF the word "hell.' Min
listers in the pulpit says hell" he said, "and
| / worship my God in the churches with the
rest of you, and don't hesitate to use the
words that I hear from the pulpit, and
| when / alluded that word alluded that un-
| der the Denny administration, and / alluded
| because he went before the people and told
| them what kind of administration he would
! give them If elected. He was elected, and
| you know what his administration was.
| Now you have had two years OF the adj
| ministration of gemman. say 1t, gem
| men because the records will show 1t, and
! I have 'em in my office for your inspection
| and ever citizen. The Republican fell
shart. There hasn't been his equal as
| mayor in this city during the last Two
/ years"
Stuckmeyer went on to show that this
had been business administration, because
| the ''plastering of the City Hospital was
| falling off for the want of fixing the caves"
| And he said. furthermore" that the adj
| minstraion had given the people electric
| lights for their dark streets, and he asked
| the people gathered there if they had ever
| went through the city and saw the
streets in better condition. Then he wished
| he had "a thousand tongues and hundred
| millions of mouths in "arder" that he
| might praise the administration of Mayor
| Taggart."
There sets your mayor now" he said,
| pointing to Mr.. Taggart. Have you ever
| saw him git the swell head? No, and that's
| the reason people can meet him and say,
| Hello, Tom Taggart.' And there sets Judge
| Cox as dgnified as he sets on his bench.
| want to illustrate him to you. | went to
| him when we was both elected in behalf of
| a man who was arrested and began to ex-
| plain the case to him. But he says: Char
| lev you are not to do tnat. Don't you tell
| me the case now, but on the evidence l
| shall be ruled and governed My thots
| were then that that's the man for the right
| place"
stuckmeyer declared that he was part of
| q strangely composed ticket. Taggart, he
| said was an Irishman, and StuckIneyer of
| German parentage though barn" and
| raised In this city. And Cox was on Eng
| fish parentage, though barn" and raised
| here. Stuckmeyer concluded his speech
| by showing that the Democratic party had
| been the means of defeating the ard
| nance introduced by Councilman Payne to
| abandon" the saloons in the First Sec
! ond. "Tjurd" and "Fourt'' wards" He said
| that if this had been passed it might have