The Indianapolis journal., 1902-09-07
J.P. DUNN THE VICTIM.
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good to the presiding officer. While Mr..
Taggart was endeavoring to get the plat
form adopted Mr.. Keach was making a
vain effort to be heard. 1t was apparent
that Mr.. Taggart was not going to allow
him to be heard IL he could help 1t. Finally
Reach was recognized and sought to intro
duce his amendment. The chairman told
him to refer it to the committee on reso-
lutions without reading, claiming this was
the rule. This did not suit Mr.. Reach and
his friends, and the chairman was finally
compelled to tell George Kuhns. of the
Thirteenth ward, that he was out of order.
Mr.. Kuhns said he would appeal from the
decision of the chair. Mr.. Reach failed to
get his amendment through. After the
convention he declined TO say what the
amendment contained. 1t is known, how
ever, that the main point was to the effect
that the Democracy should be known as
white mans party" and that the influx
of Southern negroes to Indianapolis should
be discouraged. Some of the friends of the
resolution strongly denounced Mayor Tag
CART in speaking of the matter afterward.
and one OF them remarked: THE sooner
the Democratic party is rid of the influence
of Tom Taggart the sooner 1t will be able
to assert itself as white mans party"
FOUR CANDIDATES.
There were four candidates before the
convention. The friends of Edgar A. Per-
kins were there to look after his interests,
and one Of them remarked before the con-
vention opened that any attempt to nomi-
nate Jake" Dunn by acclamation would
be headed off, Perkinss nomination was
being urged on the ground that he was a
labor union man. Mr.. Perkins was the first
candidate put in nomination. The others
were w. v. Rocker, Jacob p. Dunn and
Romus F. Stuart. P. w. Bartholomew
suggested that all the candidates be asked
to make speeches setting forth their views
before the voting began. Mr.. Bartholomew
put this rather unique suggestion in the
form Of a motion, but II was lost Mr.
Dunn was nominated on the first ballot.
Sixty votes were necessary to choice, and
he received more than the necessary num-
ber The ballot stood thus:
Perkins ........................... l9k
Dunn Observation-Disclosures. bSh
Stuart OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1874
Mr.. Stuart thanked his friends for sup
port and asked that the nomination of
Dunn be made unanimous. He was joined
by Rocker and delegate representing Ed
gar a. Perkins. While a committee was
escorting Mr.. Dunn to the hall Mr.. Rocker
addressed the convention. He said "a more
superb political platform was never adopted
by an asSemblage of American freemen.' -
He made the usual Democratic speech, de-
nouncing the Republican administration in
general and the trusts in particular When
Mr. Dunn arrived Mr.. Rocker yielded the
floor to him. Mr.. Dunn was profuse in his
thanks for the honor conferred on him, and
said he appreciated ii more because Ii
comes in year when we are right on every
issue" Mr.. Dunn declared that he knows
of no Democrat that regards the free coin
age of silver a present issue. He made
some reference TO the Philippine question
in his talk, and declared that slavery re-
ceives official protection under the flag OF
the United States in defiance OF the Consti-
tuition
Mr. Dunn has been an editorial writer or
the indianapolis Sentinel since 1893. He is
| forty-seven years old. He is a graduate OF
! Earlham College and of the law department
| of the University of Michigan. He is ar
! author of several pretentious works and
| has written a manual on the Indiana ballot
! law. For about one year he was city con.
| troller under Mayor Taggart.