The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-19
Disrgptioss .0f fess4rsanization Might
Mean Future Loss of the state to
the Party, He Says.
HEEDED BAD ADVICE IN 1891
HE RECALLS DISASTER THAT FOL-
LOWED DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.
Reelection of Senator Beveridge
May Depend Upon Marion Coun-
ty's Fourteen Votes.

Republican State Chairman James p
Goodrich, who has been spending the week
in the city, getting in touch with the mu-
nicipal campaign, last evening gave out an
interview in which he urges the Republicans
of Indianapolis to present an unbroken front
to the common enemy and devote every
means at their command to the support of
the local Republican organization and city
ticket.
"In the coming city election" said Chair
man Goodrich, 1.-The Republicans of Indian
apolis should not. permit themselves to be
deceived into believing that the result of the
election will not have an important bearing
on the continuance of the party in power,
both in the State and Nation. Marion county
and the city of Indianapolis are to-day Re-
publican beyond all question but If the Re-
publicans of indianapolis by their failure to
give loyal support to the ticket lose the
city this fall and permit the organization to
be disrupted, it will certainly prove a diff.
cult task to redeem the city and hold the
county in the next State and national
election.
COUNTY VOTE IMPORTANT.
1.-THE 10000 votes in Marion county will
be of supreme Importance in the election
next year. AS Marion county has gone,
so has Indiana almost always gone in past
elections, and the failure to carry Indiana
next year would certainly endanger the
national ticket. Again, on the fourteen
votes from Marion county in the next Legis-
lature may turn the reelection of Senator
Beverdge
THE Republicans of Indianapolis have
been in times past persuaded that the SUM-
port of the party organization was not i'm
portant in the city election, but they should
not forget at least one instance In which
their pursuance of this policy was disas-
trous. The result of electing the Demo-
cratic ticket in Indianapolis in 1891 was the
loss of the county to General Harrison in the
following presidential election. Precisely
the same influences are at work in this cam
paign and it is of great importance that the
Republicans of the city should present an
unDroken front to the common enemy and
devote every means at their command to the
support or their organization and the city
DEEPLY INTERESTED.
1T may be urged that. being a non-resi-
dent, l have no interest In the result of the
election in so far as it affects only the man
agement of municipal affairs. But, in COM
mon with every other citizen of Indiana. I
have the interest one feels in the capitaI
city of his State. AS / have read the his
tory of Indianapolis I have found that the
Republican party has been the debt-paying
party and the Democratic party the debit
making party; that the Republican party
has stood for the best development Of the
city and for the honest and economical man
agement OF her affairs.
u believe that the Republicans through
out the State expect every Republican in
INDIANAPOLIS TO do his whole duty i'm the
coming city election. 10 the end that Mr..
Bookwalter and the entire ticket win be
elected by Increased maj0rities'