The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-11
Mr.. TayIors Address.


and see where we are. 1t is impossible to
discuss details. All that can be done is TO
generaliZe and classify. All of the charges.
all of the innuendos and all of the wild
defamation have conferred around four
propositions:
THAT the nominating convention was I'M
fair.
THAT the financial condition of the city
has grown worse.
That the moral condition of the city is
deplorable.
THAT the record of the administration
on the maintenance Of streets is bad.
What about the convention? Conven-
tons in indianapolis are held pursuant TO
law. The convention that nominated the
present candidates was no exception to the
rule. The call was pursuant TO law. The
convention was held pursuant to law. The
nominations were made pursuant to law,
and the election will be held pursuant to
law. There is always difference of opin-
lions should be held. 1t is SO with national,
State congressional and county conventions
| and i'm all parties. But can any one say
| that when a convention is held strictly
| pursuant to law, there is anything unfair
| in the holding of such convention? Law
| represents compromise views of widely
| differing views; and can any one Justly say
| that when the law fixes the mode, time
| manner and place Of holding convention
| and a convention is held pursuant to that
| law, that the convention is a snap conven-
| ton?
Some of may have been in favor of
| later convention. Still others of an earlier
| convention. Very many conventions in
| Indiana, where the election occurs in Mo-
| vember month later than ours, are held
| i'm January, February and March, and shall
any one be heard to say that these conven-
| tions are snap conventions because, for
| sooth, they are held months before this
convention was held?
II myself favored a later convention, but
| does that prove that | was right. and that
those who believed in earlier conventions
| gate to himself all of the wisdom or polit-
| zeal virtue of his party.
but that is not all: II is admitted even
| by those who assail the present Republican
| candidate for mayor that If the conven-
| ton had been held later he would have been
nominated just the same. If that be true,
| This very law under which the convention
was held drawn by some of the men
| who are now assailing our candidate for
| mayor.
Politics, like legislation, is a matter of
compromise. Each yields little to the
other until all agree upon date. manner
| cheerfully yield to the wish of the ma
| jority. Mr. Bookwalter was regularly nom
| mated by our party Let us carry our con-
test within party lines, and not within the
| camp or the enemy.
HOLTZMAN'S NOMINATION.
But. fellow-citizens, it is said that the
Republican convention was called too soon.
| Why has nothing been said about the
| method by which Mr.. Hoffman was nom
| mated in the Democratic convention? If a
| thousand Democrats who have followed the
| fortunes of Democracy In victory and de-
| feat are to be believed, the convention that
| nominated Mr.. Hoffman was absolutely
dominated and controlled by one man, that
man chairman of the Democratic COM
| mttee. 1t was a one-man convention, and
| the voices Of a thousand men who were
| Democrats before Mr.. Reach came to In
! dianapolis were stifled and suppressed. ,"
Just as the Republican party has shown
| the master hand in controlling national af-
fairs, so the Republican party has exhibited
| ability in controlling the affairs of the State
Of Indiana.
lis the record changed i'm the slightest
| with respect to the AFFAIRS OF the city of In
| dIanapolS. At the threshold of the Ques-
/ politics In municipal government. Theoret-
! ically this Is true, but practlcally IL is not
| true. livery large city in the United States
| is controlled by one or the other of the two
| great political parties. from Boston to San
| francisco either the Republican or Demo-
cratic party is the master of affairs. Occa-
! sionany independent movement springs
from the people, and all party lines are
| erased, but these are exceptions to the rule.
| In the long sweep of years the rule has been
| established and Is almost universal that
| either the Republican or Democratic party,
| in all Of the great cities OF the Republic. IS
| in supreme control. Ii Is so. and will remain
| SO in this city. Either Mr.. oOokwalter or
| Mr.. Hoffman will be elected mayor Of this
| city. Mr. BOokwalter is a RepuDiican, Mr..
hoffman a Democrat. If Mr.. Hoffman
| We're not the nominee of the Democratic
| party ne would not have LOO votes out OF
the $1,000 votes in this city. lie himself has
| publicly proclaimed that he does not want
| Democratic Council elected with himself.
| 1t is to be a Democratic organization ii Mr..
| HOFFMAN is elected for he is and always
has been Democrat just as 1t will be a
| Republican organization If Mr.. Bookwalter
| Is elected.
A CONDITION, NOT A THEORY.
| ut is a condition and not theory that
confronts us. Every appointee Of Mr.. Holtz-
| man will be Democrat except those which
! the charter compels to be otherwise. Every
man that works in the engineers corps,
every man employed upon the streets. will
be a Democrat Do not let us forget this.
Il am not saying that this will not be
| right if Mr.. Hoffman elected. L am SIM
ply reciting what will happen. This city
| will be as completely under the domination
| of the Democratic party if Mr.. Hoffman
| is elected as the State of Indiana is under
| the domination of the Republican party
while it is in power.
Elect Mr.. BooKwalter and this city will
continue a Republican city. All, says
someone, we ought TO break away from
| party lines.
II ask why? What is the history of the
| Republican and Democratic parties in TINS
| city, Mar. hoitzman is no better than ms
party, nor is Mr.. Bookwalter. Each of
| these men represents in a fair way the
men behind them Mr.. Hitz l know to be
| a good representative citizen and doubtless
would make a good mayor If elected.
| have quarrel with him. but in the po-
| litical stress that now prevails in this city
Ii is evident that either Mr.. Bookwalter or
| Mr. Hoffman will be elected mayor.
| What is the story of the Republican and
| Democratic parties in municipal affairs
Since 1860 the Republican party has elected
| six mayors: Gavin. Macauley. Grubbs
| McMaster, Denny and Bookwalter. The
| Democratic party has elected three mayors.
Mitchell, Sullivan and Taegart.
| II challenge any fair-minded man to put
| the record of the six Republican mayors i'm
| parallel columns with the record of the
| three Democratic mayors. Split the records
into parts. Put the moral records in
parallel columns: put the financial records
| in parallel columns and place the records
of the industrial progress of the people in
parallel columns. To all corners / give
| the challenge. Match the record of the
| Republican party IL you can.
ION the day that Mayor Bookwalter
debt amounted to $2.47o.6oo. That was the
net debt at that time. Since that We have
taken in Irvington and assumed $4,000 of
| bonded debt there. a splendid market
house needed by all the people has been con-
structed and $4,000 of bonds issued to pay
| 100000 have been sold and the money Is
now In the treasury. and with all these con-
| ditions the net debt to-day, counting the
10000 OF money in the treasury coming