The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-09
Democratic and Republican Politf-
clans Alike Lampooned by This
Mans Fiery Tongue.
HE CALLS KEACH A RENEGADE
SAYS HE HANDLED "REPUBLICAN
CORRUPTION FUND" IN 1896.
This Kind Of Talk Calls Forth Amens
from Members of Prohibition
City Committee.

corruption fund in 1896. He is the man who
went among the Democratic precinctmen
in the South Side and delivered them up TO
the Republican machine. He IL the man
who openly boosted that he voted for Will
liam Mckinley
Charles A. Bookwalter Is the boss OF
a boodling gang. He is the man that licks
the cream from the saucer of graft He is
stopped in a big city"
Judge Thomas Whallon is peanut pol
itician. 1 cannot waste time taking his
measure. Measured by the Bertillon sys-
tenn his puny insignifcance is apparent to
ALL"
John w. Hoffman Is nonentity. Moth
ing particularly bad is known against him,
but his record as county prosecutor is one
of innocuous desuetude."
Charles N. Elliott is so absolutely in
competent that he would not be retained in
the employ OF a business firm longer than
for the boss to say git.
Edwin d. Logsdon and Fred Joss are
the ones that fixed UP grand stand play
to give the public a dose of buncombe."
Extracts from Charles E. Newlin's hith-
erto unpublished Humorous History Of Po-
litical Parties in Indianapolis"
NEWLIN AS JOCKEY.
Under the jockeying of Newlin the staid
old Prohibition party nag is bucking like
a Texas broncho. fiery-eyed. uncurried and
plunging. baking and backing and kicking
up mud into everybody's eyes.
AT a meeting Of the city committee OF the
Prohibition party last night at the hall at
New York and Alabama streets, c. E. New
lin, spurred on by unctuous amens, made
a speech attacking about everybody in local
political life he could think of. The viru-
lence was so excessive that Ii became sim
ply amusing. According TO Mr.. Newlin and
other speakers, the future of Indianapolis
is in the hands of the Prohibitionists. The
outlook is dark and gloomy unless George
Hitz is elected mayor. Mr.. Hitz takes that
view of the matter himself. In fact he said
SO last night.
Preceding his denunciation of Republican
and Democratic party men, Mr.. Newlin told
a detective story with himself as the hero.
He had taken notion in his head, he said,
and so after he had prepared himself by
sleeping from the hour of D. m. until 3.
he sailed forth. He met up with John
Reagan, whom Newlin called the most
notorious poker player in Indianapolis, and
introduced himself as a gambler from Chi
cago, anxious to see how things were run
in this town. Reagan steered him first into
Dan Smiths North Illinois-street place.
that Reagan and Newlin visited Bill Ows-
ley's financial mart.
HIS DETECTIVE STUNT.
There" said Newlin, with a dramatic
wave of his hand. 81 saw the proprietor
lounging on a divan. watching five men al
play He told me these men had been at
Ii steadily for two days, eating their meals
as they were brought to them. The limit
was S. and about two hands a minute were
played. These five were fighting like wolves
for the money. 1t didn't look to me as II
they were even having a good time"
Several other places were visited by the
Chicago sport" and when IL o'clock came
Newlin took a notion to visit the saloons
He says he entered sixty-one between Mis-
souri, and New Jersey streets between the
hour of 11:20 and 1890, winding up in one
across the street from the police station
Armed with these impressions he made a
trip TO the mayor and told Mr.. Bookwalter
what he had seen. He declares that the
mayor told him the law was being enforced
as well as 1t could be; that gamblers had
been told TO get their runners of the streets
and take themselves to places off the big
thoroughfares; that houses OF Ill fame were
given rigid instructions and that other
forms of vice were held down as far as II
lay within the power of officials to do
Then Newlin broke loose, first on the Re
publican party In the city and its prominent
men. He declared that the members OF
the present administration a gang OF
boodlers who are getting all the money they
can out of vice and crime. He attacked
agely, and declared that his conception OF
public and personal morals was very low
Charles n. Elliott, he declared. is absolute
ly incompetent. If he be no worse, and he
sneered at the statements made by Elliott
in explaining the fact that fines paid by
gamblers had not been all accounted for
on his cash book. Judge Whallon he be-
Titled with fulsome vocabulary. and hint
ed that he is subservient to political con-
nections. Logsdon, he shouted, does not
stand any better In the community to-day
than he did before Detective Stahl was
arrested. Any fool could see. he said. that
the whole thing was grand stand play
meant to befuddle the public. He dismissed
the boards Of Public Safety and Works with
the single expression, sissy
RAKED THE DEMOCRATS.
ct would much prefer seeing Bookwalter
and his gang of boodlers turned out Oct. Il
than to see any harsher methods taken. But
the time may come when the city will have
to be cleaned out. and somebody sent to
the penitentiary," he said.
The Democrats Jared no better. He raked
Reach fore and aft in oratory that needed
patching in places. but which shona with
a lurid vocabulary. Reach, he said, Is a
renegade. who deserted the Democrats once
and handled the Republican Doodle. Holtz-
man he sneered at. Moore, he said. was in
the race simply as a stool pigeon of Holtz-
man TO deliver the goods when the time
came. Mccullough was all right, he
thought. but nobody could hope for his
election.
He reviled Reach for writing a letter to
Bookwalter last December in the interests
of fairness. upholding his administration
and declared that whether keachs man
Hoffman won or whether Bookwalter was
victorious It was all the same. They were
in with each other, he said.
About thirty enthusiasts attended the
meeting and heard speeches by Newlin
Hitz and others.