The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-18
The Jocose Chairman Martin.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
In a dispatch from Indianapolis, pub
lished in the Chicago Chronicle last Sun
day, Parks Martin, chairman of the Demo-
cratic state committee, is made to say that
there will be no retreating from the posi-
ton that has been taken. The only fear /
have is that the party in this State may
be too radical; there is no danger of it be-
coming too conservative OH the financial
question:. There is no new thing under the
sun In all this declaration. The Democracy
has not been accused lately of being too
conservative in anything. However, if the
worthy leader is correct, there is one thing
that the unwashed will be very conserva-
tive in before they are year older. That
Is in the number of offices they will fill in
this State after the election next fall. They
cannot see that the Free coinage of silver
at the ratio of is to T. is dying at the
same ratio. In this (the Thirteenth) dis
riot, they generously concluded to place
the management of the next campaign in
it to such successful termination dor the
Repubicans) in the campaign of 1896. Farm
er kreyer was as certain in that canvass
that he would elect the candidate for Con-
gress as he was living and that he would
do 1t by a rousing majority, and of course
he did (not) Since then he has been in
dorsed by the County Commissioners and
been promoted from a humble typesetter on
a free ACKNOWLEDGEMENT scotland
now-you-dont new spaper, to be the chief
asriculturist on the farm set apart for the
retreat of ancient and helpless county
wards. This will of course give him time
TO spend among the voters and see that
they are colonized in great shape.
But Leader Martin gets off another OF
Artemus Wards old jokes. He says every
thing will be made easy for the return Of
the National Democrats to the fold"
Pick me up and turn me over.
If the National Democrats get to
hear this there will be a desperate scram-
bling to get there first, and unless they are
restrained in some way there will be dan
ger of doing themselves a personal injury.
Does Martin think that the 80 600 people
that received such malicious and unde-
lick the feet of their prosecutors? If he
has an idea of that kind he will do well
to dismiss 1t and look fer recruI,s in some
other field. But how Mr. Martin intends
to stick to the free-silver delusion and then
expects TO draw any of the National Demo-
Gratis TO his fold he does not say 1t is
likely that he expects TO perform this act
by some kind of new legerdemain that is
not well known among the Hooser poll
ticians. Whatever may be his thoughts on
this question. he may as well take this for
an underStudy till he gets his campaign
fences in order. The National Democrats
are opposed 10 a high tariff, they are OPP
posed to number of the acts of the Repub-
leans, both in state and national legislative
bodies. but they regard the free coinage of
silver at the ratio of l6 to / q calamity by
the side OF which all these things sink into
a mere drop in the bucket. And while they
will occasionally vote with the Democrats
on local matters not one vote will be cast
by them in 1898 that will carry a free-silver
candidate to the halls of Congress or the
White House.
A COOL DEMOCRAT.
Plymouth. Jan. Is.