The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-28

They Think Taggart Is Also Trying
to Beat Turnie.


to beat Turpie.
Leaders of the Independent Silver Demo-
cratic Club say that the efforts of that or
ganization-now said to number over seven
hundred voters-are directed not alone
against the gold bugs on the county ticket,
but also against the legislative candidates.
On the county ticket proper they have
picked out E. NJ. Johnson, candidate for au-
ditor; Charles Mcguire, for clerk Peter
Sindlinger, for treasurer, and Dudley NJ.
Culver, for coroner as Out-and-out gold
bugs They are a little shaky about Leon
die by 16 to 1, has some of his friends, John
W. Hoffman for one, going about and in
sisting that he is not such d morbid free
silverite after all. And, while making an
active fight against the candidates named,
there is a growing tendency to also fight
the legislative ticket, although some of the
candidates on it are avowed 16-to-1 men and
stand pledged, by the convention that nomi-
mated them, to vote for Senator Turpie.
Senator Turpie would be acceptable to the
push" 1t is not against his reelection
that the efforts of the push" are directed.
They do not believe that the legislative
ticket, dominated by Taggartism, will fight
Tor Turpie TO the bitter end. They believe
that on some excuse Turpie will be thrown
down and one of the 'Iaggart Mutuals'
elected IN his stead in the event the party is
successful. In this connection they are re-
marking that there has never been any de-
MAI OF the report that S. E. Morss, editor
of the Sentinel, is a candidate for the
United States Senate. Some of Mr.. Morss's
friends assert that he is a candidate. No
matter If Marion county's delegation in the
General Assembly is pledged to Turpie says
the push influences from other parts of
the State might be brought TO bear that
would have sufficient force to defeat Tur-
pie, If the editor of the Sentinel were to
bestir himself. The Sentinel is cordially
hated by the push since the attack of last
spring that was made on King. Rockford
and the sneering remarks at the rupture of
ms following, which, no one denies, was
pretty large. That element does not take
kindly to the plan of turning Turpie down,
and is indignant when it is sneered in their
ears:
''Turpie is getting too old. He is no longer
useful to the party. Put younger man in
This is particularly CALLING to them when
in the same breath comes the suggestion
was the most bitter and unrelenting foe the
''.push' had in its fight with the "Taggart
Mutuas' last spring.
The breach is broadening. The push" is
active Some time ago there was reference
to its underground plan of disseminating
information about the candidates. This
has steadily broadened and the push has
perfected an organization with a bureau of
information attached, that is giving Tag
gartism good deal of worry at the mo-
ment of its supreme struggle for life. The
push asserts that if Taggartism is
Knocked out week after next the mayors
aspirations for the Governors chair will re-
ceive a most severe setback. At the same
time, they assert, if Taggartism succeeds it
means that 16 to will never cut any figure
be turned down and the former consul gen.
eral TO Paris elected in his stead, providing
the State at large can be made to think
Turpie is too old and his career of useful
ness at an end. The Marion county delega-
ton, it is asserted, in the event a good fol-
Turpie were to develop would have a good
pretext for laying down, and could assert
that there was mo use bucking against the
whole State"