The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-30
Mayor BookwaIter Gets Inspiration
from the Cheers OF Some Small
Boys in the Crowd.
HOFFMAN AT MOUNT JACKSON
PAST OFFICIAL RECORD TOO GREAT
A TASK To TACKLE.
Chairman NewIin Peevish Because the
Ministers Did Not Indorse His Cam
didate-PoliticaI News.

did you ever hear OF a Griswold or a
Metzler on the stone pile during the ad-
n nistration of Thomas Taggart? They
were here-these dives were i'm the city
but no one ever heard of their keepers be-
ing in the workhouse."
This was but one of the many pointed
statements of Daniel Z. Storms, secretary
of state. in his speech at the Republican
meeting i'm the First ward last night. 1t
was the speech that launched him into the
campaign and it did not fail to convince
by its force and the manner of delivery.
Secretary Storms and Mayor Bookwalter
were the principal speakers of the meeting
which was held under the Bookwalter tent
at the corner of Roosevelt and Seventeenth
streets and was attended by perhaps 400
voters. Harry E. Negley, councilman of
the ward, presided. The meeting was one
of the best that has yet been held. The
night was just cold enough to make the
words OF the speaker sharp and clear cut
and to keep the blood OF the listeners
a-tingle. AT the close OF the meeting Mr..
Storms said that it was the finest audience
ne mad ever seen at an outdoor political
meeting.
STORMS WELL RECEIVED.
Mr.. Storms's introduction was received
with applause. He first dwelt on the moral
condition of the city, showing how Il was
better than the administration of Mr.. Tag
CART by comparing conditions that ex-
listed then and now. He maintained that
the citys interests had been properly and
honestly protected and said he believed
before the thirteenth of next month every
fair minded and right thinking citizen OF
raf fh0a 1T
Bookwalters administration he declared
had not been one of debt-making and
with two more years OF his administration
there was every reason to believe that the
city would be entirely out OF debt. There
was no one but must admit that his record
is good one and a great one, and that he
has brought about reform to the extent Of
any mans ability under similar conditions.
But, he continued, "our friends of the
other party charge that there has been
laxity In the enforcement Of laws under
the present administra ton, that we have
a wide open town, that the city officials
are corrupt. But let us investigate for
ourselves. Has the city. under the rule of
Mayor Bookwalter, been wide open? Dur
ing the administration of Mr. Taggart
we Will have TO admit the town was much
more wide OPEN because there was
gambling and roulette wheels and crap
games and policy runners. But the record
of Mayor Bookwalter shows that these
violations of the law do not exist; IL
shows that Mayor Bookwalter has done his
impossible TO suppress these vices alto
gether, but the records show that great
good has been done. And then, our enc
mics charge the administration with the
buying and selling Of Office. They allege
the system is corrupt, but they have not
been able TO put their finger on single
man that is corrupt They did put their
finger on Edwin ID. Logsdon and got them
selves in more trouble than they Will be
able to get out of for some time to come.
Their charges don't stand the light OF in
vestigation. Just because they say man
is bad doesn't make him bad. Just be-
cause they say the city administration is
corrupt, doesn't make IL corrupt. Just be-
cause they publish charges that defame
you and your family and the city, II
doesn't stand that they are true.
SORRY ABOUT 1T.
'..I was sorry to know that Mr.. Holtzman
dignified the charges In his keynote speech.
He said that ii was fact that the policy
of the city administration was TO allow
the city to run wide open Did you ever
hear OF the men who ran wide open places
under the administration OF Mr.. TaggartT
Mr. Holtzman's speech records violations
of law, extravagant in the levyfng OF
taxes and the spending of them. CRAFTS.
pulls and inefficient methods in business
matters. When the record OF the admin-
istration points to the contrary we have
a right to inquire into the record
Mr.. Storms then reviewed Mayor Book
walters record and compared IL with the
record of Mr. Hoffman = while while, the 81 latter n
tnued, taking the two records or the
two men. and judging the men from their
t sb for yeu News snd
Sentinel say Mr.. HoltZman's record Is not
an issue. Why isn't il? How are you
going to know how TO vote unless you know
the past records OF the candidates? You
may be sure if the records were reversed
il would be in the issue, anc II would be
magnified one thousand times, as they have
magnffied everything else.
Mayor Bookwalter did not put thirty
five years of his manly. honest, upright
life behind his back To become a rascal and
dust all about the camp. put give every
thing second thought Be sure OF fair
play.
as a business administration. Mr.. Holtz-
mans record does not indicate that ne is
going To bring about millennium when
elected mayor l understand he quotes q
introduced as Honest John. IL viii not
be long before he will be introduced az
Honest Abe
MINISTER'S MISGUIDED.
'But how about the ministers of the cityf
They mean all right and are trying to do
the best, but they are going TO take unto
themselves a gold brick-that is. can they
look for reform under Keach and his ret
inue? What is there about them that
makes you think you are going to start an
era of reform. Mr.. Ministers. by electing
them? DO you suppose that when Reach IL
in power the ministers will be called. They
won't. so they had better stand by the man
who has stood for them.
"If you only knew the opinion of your
city over the State, due to the slander IN
the newspapers that go TO all parts OF A..
YOU should consider II your duty 10 rebuke
This condition OF affairs.
This is a clean city. IL Is good city and
Il Is a great city. l am for Mayor Book
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