The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-29
Many Efforts Have Been Made to Get
Him TO Give His Enforcement to
the Hoffman Ticket.
THIS HE HAS REFUSED TO DO
ATTEMPT TO ssHEAL THE BREACH
NOT WORKING ADMIRABLY.
Democratic Leaders Now Sorry They
Gave Out Taggart's Letters-Lynn
ID. MiIlikan Accepts.

In pursuance of the policy of concilia-
ton, Chairman Reach and the machine
Democrats are putting the screws to James
Il. Mccullough, the chief victim of the
machine in the mayoralty contest, in the
effort to secure from him some sort Of an
expression to the effect that the city ticket
will have his support. So far these efforts
have proved unavailing. and men who
stand close TO Mr.. Mccullough say that he
never will declare his Endorsement of Holtz-
man.
Reach realizes that if he could get Mr..
Mccullough to say that the Democratic
city ticket will have his support and that
he cherishcs no ill-will toward anyone be-
cause of his defeat. he would have accom-
plished more toward healing the breach"
than by any otker one thing. Indeed, If
he could succeed i'm this the chairman
knows he would virtually have healed the
breach, for with Mr.. Mccullough In line
the Democrats who worked early and late
for MIR. Mccullough and went down to
defeat with him could not consistently
stand aloof.
In cooperating with Reach in this work,
the twin organs of the Democratic city
ticket, the News and the Sentinel-they
have been dubbed 1.-The Heavenly Twins
have sent representatives to Mr.. McCul-
Tough several times since Saturdays con-
vention to ask him for statement on the
platform ard ticket Each time he has
answered that he has no statement 20
make Pressed to say something tnat
would Indicate his loyalty to the ticket,
Mr.. Mccullough has made the same an
swer. He declines to be wheedled, caJoled
or bullied into saying that he will support
the Holtzman-machine ticket.
All of which is dsconcertiEg to Reach,
Holtzman and the Twins.
In his speech accepting the nomination
Hoffman said, almost with his first breath:
while there has been lively contest
for this nomination, i am glad to say that
it has been between friends and free from
acrimony and bitterness. Had your choice
been otherwise the nominee would nave
had my loyal and most earnest support, and
| am sure L will receive the same loyal ana
earnest support of my competitors.
CANNOT FORCE HIM
This earnest plea to Mccullough, Madden
and Moore to forgive and forget as
touching as it has proved Intellectual.
close friend of Mr.. Mccullough said yester-
day:
machine people will be able to persuade or
TO force Mr.. Mccullough to make state
ment declaring that he will give Hoffman
his support. There are several reasons for
my belief In the first place, Mr.. McCul-
Tough was drawn into the mayoralty race
by Misrepresentation and lies. He was told
that if he became candidate he would re-
ceive absolutely fair treatment from keacn
and the organization. 1t was even repre-
sented to him that Reach would be glad to
see him nominated, because he was a man
who would draw the independent voters 10
him. Instead of fair treatment, however,
Mr.. Mccullough could not have been more
abused and unfairly treated If he had been
the Republican nominee and the contest had
hot
election. Neither he nor his friends can
forget this treatment.
but the strongest reason, in my opinion,
why Mr.. Mccullough Will not inlorse Holtz-
man is that he is an honest man who places
honesty above partisanship. he became
a candidate for mayor because he felt that
if nominated and elected he could and would
give Indianapolis a better administration
than the city now receives. he knows HoItz-
man, knows his record as prosecuting at
torney knows the men he has allied himself
with, and knows that a Hoffman admins
tration would be far from an improvement
on a BoOkwalter administration Between
two evils he could not indorse the greater.
and be an honest citizen, and he is that
above all things else. L do not mean to say
that he will support Bookwalter, for know
nothing as to his intentions in that line.
i am inclined to think he will do what hun
dreds of other decent-minded Democrats
will do-remain aloOf and let the machine
work out its own salvation.
Under any circumstances IL strikes me
as a pretty nervy proposition for keach ana
his machine to ask Mr.. Mccullough to in
dorse and support Holtzman after the way
they treated him as a candidate