The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-11
THE INDIANAPOLIS CAMPAIGN.

Holt was the Jonah, but who is Taggart?
the ship or the whale?-Fort Wayne Ca
zette.
Indianapolis has q good opportunity to re-
tire Tom Taggart Sterling r. Holt and
their associates next Tuesday Let us hope
that the people appreciate the situation
-Terre Haute Express.
If the Republican party of Indianapolis
had rotten a record as has been shown
against the Democratic party. it would be
buried under an avalanche of votes next
TueSday.-N Ledger
The Republicans of Indianapolis should
see to it that Mr.. Taggart is buried so deep
under an avalanche of ballots next Tuesday
that he will never emerge therefrom. They
can do it If they only get down to business
-Worthington Times.
Tom Taggart may possibly pull through
in his race for reelection as mayor of In
dianapolis, but there is no doubt but that
his famous smile is being materially disf1g-
ured by the fight the Republicans are max
ing against him.-Frankfort News.
1t is evident that the Republicans of In
annapolis are gaining rapidly on the Tag
gart-Holt crowd. Honest developments
have opened the eyes of the people and
caused them to condemn the business meth
DDS OF that business administration. '-Sey-
mOuf Republican.
Doodle seems to have figured rather con-
spicuously in the city government at In
dianapolis recently, and the expose of the
methods used doesn't leave Mr.. Taggart's
garments unscorched. Every day it looks
more and more as though the Taggart re-
gime would be turned down next Tuesday.
-Middletown News
The proof is so positive that Holt
in turn has paid back the bride and re-
signed. Such a scandal as this should direct
all honest voters to support the Republican
ticket and it doubtless will have a very i'm
portant bearing in securing the election of
Mr.. Harding and his associates on the Re
publican municipal ticket.-Kokomo Trib-
une
Just about the time the independent In
dianapolis News abandoned its poise on the
political fence and declared for the Demo-
cratic municipal ticket, came the disclosure
of official rottenness in the Taggart admin
iStration that has caused decent citizens
to hold their noses. The News, however, is
not discounted by the revelations which are
turning the best element or the population
away from the Democratic ticket, but con-
tinues Justify to shout for T. Taggart.-Wa-
bash Plain Dealer.
1t will be exceedingly strange if the sewer
scandal that has arisen in connection with
the Indianapolis municipal campaign does
not have a notable effect in the election
next Tuesday. If the people are indifferent
to such an affair, with all of it's possible
significance, they are indeed careless of
their own rights. The Taggart administra-
ton has been advertised far and wide as a
business one. The Taggart regime has done
q great deal of Boosting, pointing to it's
clean and businesslike'' management of
public affairs. Sterling r. Holt, chairman
of the state Democratic committee, stands
very close to the heart Of the administra-
ton, the same being Tom Taggart. Until
this sewer trouble Taggart and Holt have
been inseparabe companions. Mr. Holt
was appointed park commissioners in or
der that he might be member of the ad-
ministration. Now he stands dismissed and
disgraced it having been alleged in affi-
davits that he accepted $1,000 with the I'M
derstanding that he was to use his influence
in an effort to get bad sewer job accepted.
Mr.. Holt has returned the money, after
Next Tuesday it will be determined at the
polls if the people of the capital city desire
their affairs to remain longer in the hands
of an administration against which damag-
ing evidence has been produced. sufficient
to throw a cloud Of suspicion over it's char
acter.-IafaYette Courier