The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-15
TUESDAYS ELECTIoN.

Although Taggart lost his Holt he still
seems to retain his grip on Indianapolis.
-Logansport Journal.
This must be an off year with the Repub-
licans of Indianapolis-awfully off, as 1t
were.-Anderson Bulletin.
The Indianapolis election resulted in a
victory for Taggart by over 1900 plurality-a
when the circumstances of the campaign
are Observation-Disclosures Item.
The majority of the people of the Indiana
capital have a very peculiar sense of good
government and, having voted for Taggart
and his boodlers, the hope is that they will
get what they seem to Want.-WaShingtOn
Gazette.
The result was not unexpected, but the
worst feature of it all is that his chief
support came from the business districts,
which would be supposed to be affected
against him by the revelations of corrup-
tons that have lately been made--Elkhart
Review.
Taggart was and is gold Democrat. He
was elected mayor of Indianapolis Tuesday
on free-silver platform, but the issues of
the campaign were purely and wholly local
and his success was made possible solely by
renegade Republicans. 1t is in no sense
victory for free silver.-Plymouth News.
Taggart was Loyalty supported by the
street-car company the gas trust, the brew
cries and the saloons. While Indianapolis
is Republican by about 1,500 it cannot be
carried by that party with all these power
full interests against it. Taggart is, more
over, generally popular.-Marion Chronicle.
There are few persons who have kept in
formed respecting the trend of political SEN
timent in indianapolis who did not antici-
pate the reelection Of Thomas Taggart to
the mayoralty, but they are fewer still who
are not astonished at the mammoth proper
tions of his plurality.-Wabash Plain
Dealer.
indianapolis citizens have nothing to be
proud of in .re-electing Taggart and his
rotten corps of politicians. The Journal and
many of the best people of Indianapolis are
to be commended in their efforts to secure
good government and for their exposure of
the crookedness of sewer contractors and
city ofticials.-Bl uffton Chronicle.
Taggart had behind him all the gold Dem
ocratic influence that bolted the ticket in
the national election of last year. and in
addition a large Republican following which
OF course was in favor of sound money.
Added to these factors were the silver DEM
ocrats who vote any ticket that is labeled
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Journal
The result OF the Indianapolis election
carries with it the conviction that the
sound-money Democrats are no weak fac
ton of the Democratic party. They gave
their cordial support to Taggart, his fnan-
Cial views being in sympathy with their
own, and the personal following of Mr..
vote, was amply Observation-Disclosures
Herald.
The victory was complete one and was
due to the divorcing of national issues from
the campaign, and making of it a personal
one instead, The popularity of the DEM
ocratic nominee was assured before he en-
tered the race a second time. he had De-
mocracy at his back-and it seems from
the returns good many Republicans.
Evansville Journal.
Mr.. Harding had an enthusiastic follow
ing, made a good fight and deserves well of
his party. But there was combination Of
elements and circumstances which carried
the contest more into business and financial
channels than into party politics, and the
combination was against Mr.. Harding. If
it had been a party contest, as the next
contest will be, Mr.. Harding would have
had the majority now credited to Taggart
-Muncie Times.
Taggart goes back into office loaded to the
guards with obligations to corporations.
Republicans will feel that with his asso-
Citations he is welcome to his victory. The
lawless element win take so much courage
from his success-whether a corporation
| lawbreaker, a liquor dealer or gamekeeper
| that IN another two years the moral sense
OF the people will be stirred as II was IN
| SuIllNanS second term. The Republican
| candidates will then win.-Fort Wayne Ca
| zette.
The people of the capital city had their
| choice between a promised business admin
Istration and a good fellow, and they took
the good fellow. Mr.. Taggart las been an
accommodating mayor. and succeeded in
| pacifying public indignation to such an ex-
/ tent that the people regard him as some
thing out OF the ordinary. His administra-