The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-01
END TO FREE SILVER
COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
CAREFULLY AVOIDS III.
Chairman Spans Speech and Plat
form snub II, and Its Exponents
Arc Sat Upon Hard.
TAGGART'S RING VICTORIOUS
ROCKFORD AND THE SILVER "PUsH''
PUT TO FLIGHT.
Mcguire, johnson, sindlinaer, Bus
kirk and the Rest of the Slate
Pushed Through.
TAGGART'S RING VICTORIOUS
ROCKFORD AND THE SILVER "PUsH"
PUT TO FLIGHT.

The Democratic county convention yes
terday nominated the following ticket
Criminal Judge-E. c. BUsKIRK.
Prosecuting Attorney-WILLARD ROBERTSON.
Judge Sup. CT. r. ,1-THOMAS l.. SULLIVAN.
Judge Sup. CT, n. 2-wM w. SPENCER
Judge Sup. Ct. r. John C. MNUTT
Commissioner First Dist.-JoHN w. HILKENE-
Commissioner Second Dist.--wM. F. MOORE.
Treasurer-PETER SINDLINGER.
Clerk-GffARLES MAGUIRE.
Auditor-EUDoRUS NJ. JOHNSON. ~
Sheriff JOSEPH BAUER.
1t may have been John ]. Rochfords ill
ness or 1t may have been Tom Tagarts
we'll organized force of city employees that
caused the defeat of the silver push In
the Democratic county convention yester-
day At any rate silver took an awful fall
and the Rockford forces were utterly
routed. Not a word of silver was placed
in the resolutions adopted, not a word in
Chairman Spans address, and not sill
very tone was detected in the voice of any
candidate nominee or other person who
spoke The push was trodden upon,
dragged in the mud, fayed alive and their
hides hung on the walls of Tomlinson Hall.
They were powerless to help themselves,
and the Taggart forces hold all the nom
nations.
What the result would be was made plain
early in the day. John ]. Rochford's ILL
was the first blow that disheartened
the push" The next was the confident,
smiling countenance of Tom Taggart, and
the vigorous exertions of his able staff of
city hall employees. There were street in
spectors, garbage inspectors, sprinkling in
spectors, clerks, city officers and ward
heelers of all kinds and calibers hustling
for TaggartI and the men he wanted nomi-
mated.
A sample Of the kind of nominations made
was that of e. G. Buskirk the same "Cadf'
who disgraced the Police Court bench. His
nomination was hailed with delight by
those who remembered his leniency. Men
like John w. Holtzman, who have claim
to standing in the community and among
lawyers were heartlessly turned down"
1t is not known just how much money it
cost the Taggart people to get things to
come their way but a large bulk of it
evidently was expended for booze" There
was large enough contingent in the hall
suffering from weak knees and dizzy heads,
If they had pooled their interests, to nomi-
nate any man in the convention for any
office on the ticket. The disease grew as the
time went on. In the morning and early
afternoon the bibulous delegates were in the
fighting stage. Every motion put, every
suggestion made, was the signal for row.
Towards night the close atmosphere and
long season of sitting still brought on the
sleepy stage. The delegates only mumbled
their troubles and only here and there
could one be found with energy enough left
to fight.
Three hours of the long drawn out pro-
ceedings We're consumed by the squabble
over the report of the committee on Gre
dentials. This committee, the Taggart peo-
pie claimed was grossly unfair and set
tied the twenty-seven contests referred to
it from the primaries in favor of the Roch-
ford faction They might just we'll have
passed it by, for after results showed the
Taggart strength to be superior in spite
of the committees efforts; but they didn't
know it at the time. William E. English
was the first to get into trouble over the
matter When he seconded a motion to table
the report of the committee on credentials,
Chairman Span refused to entertain the
motion. Thereupon the Hon. Mr.. English
shook his fist in the air and said some
bitter things about gag rule. Mr.. Seyfreid
got into a similar alteration. John w.
Kern was there with his cruise Of oil and
did some energetic pouring. The waters re-
fused to be Gained at first but finally the
Kern patchwork committee effected a
compromise which savOred very much of
Taggart and very little of Rockford. But
1t suited the convention until it had time
to think about it, and then 1t was too late.
The Rockford element threatened dire
vengeance over the way. they We're "trun
down. The ones that did the most kicking
were the ones who did the least work in
convention, They preferred to stay on the
outside. AS they told it. and are telling it
yet the day of reckoning will come in
November "a