The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-16

can paper is to be established at Wabash as
the organ Of what is known as Cary Cow
gills congressional crowd
Will @. Irwin. of Columbus. who was at
the Columbia Club last evening. says that
Will E. Springer, OF Elizabethtown, will
probably be elected as the member Of the
Republican committee from the Fourth dis
trict. THE sentiment in Bartholomew
county seems to be for Springer said Mr..
Irwin, land from what 1 hear from other
parts Of the district 1 judge that he will
win out. However / do not think there
will be much of a fight when il comes to
the finish. There aren't enough Republicans
in the Fourth district to make much of
fight within their own ranks, although they
can make things interesting for the Demo-
Gratis on occasion"
The Republican national committee will
hold a meeting in Washington on Dec. IL
the same date, by the way, that the State
committee will meet in this cty-and ac-
cording to the gossip from the capital,
Perry Heath will tender his resignation as
secretary. In that event it is believed
Harry s. New, Of Indianapolis, will be
organization of the committee Immediately
following the national convention next sum-
mer, and that Mr.. New will then be elected
to succeed himself.
Speaker Cannon, of the National House
Of Representatives, is a firm believer in
party organizations. No better evidence
of this is needed than the kind of organiza-
ton the Republicans have in Vermilion
county. Illinois, Mr.. Cannon's home, where,
largely through his influence, the party
machinery has been made almost perfect,
and the Republicans put up an absolutely
impregnable front to the enemy. The same
man has been at the head of the county
committee as long as Mr.. Cannon has been
In Congress-twenty eight years-a good in
dication of the unity and harmony that
prevails. In recent letter to a friend in
Richmond Mr.. Cannon said, in speaking of
party organizations:
This is a government of the people. Nee
essarily 1t is a government through parties,
which is but another word for organization.
In my judgment it is better to be with one
or the other of the party organizations.
p p,, ar are not not perfect and never will be:
standpoint with a party organization, keep
ing a little bit ahead in the contest of his
fellows, but always in supporting distance
of the majority, accomplshes more than
who necessarily falls when the enemy
charges, for want of support
A dispatch from Washington, Ind, says
Of Populists and Populism in Daviess coun-
ty:
THE almost complete decay Of Populism
In Indiana Is nowhere SO noticeable as 1t
Is In this section, as Daviess was for many
years the banner county of the party II
was mere that the most fertile soil was
found for the propaganda. 1t developed
along more lines here and lived longer
than at any other point in the State but
now there is only cOlorless remnant left
The party is leaderless and no apparent in
| terest is shown in the call for the get
together meeting at Indianapolis in Feb
rurary. Judging from the conditions here
which should be fair, inasmuch as this has
been the Indiana fountainhead of the party
not mueh will come out of the conference
| for 1T looks as If the party is dead. so fal
as this State is concerned.
The figures showing the decadence of the
party here are interesting at this time be-
cause of the reorganization movement ir
| this section of the Democratic party which
has felt the effect of the Populist influence
more than the Republicans. The Populists
when they cast lisa votes and came neal
| carrying the county. In 1892 they cast so
and in 1884 the year of the great Repub
campaign found them with 407, all but the
Middle-of-the-roaders voting for Bryan. IL
| 1900 their total dwindled to 154 and las
| mated that not more than fifty men in the
| first county In Populism would stand fol
the platforms they formerly advocated
Most of the Populists who once had a rosy
| party have joined the Democrats and are
not protesting against the mention of such
men as Senator German and Judge Altor
| B. Parker for the Presidency. The same
| conditions that prevail here are prevailing
| throughout this district and the State a.
| large. The change of feeling ought t.
greatly enhance the chances or the Demo
Gratis.
81 W. Clark. of this city, who was prom
| inent among the Populists, and who Tough
| the fusion plan, expressed the hope to-da!
| old lines. He predicted that the Populist
will have State ticket next year, but h,
admitted that 1t depends largely on wha
the Pops do in some of the Western
states, where they have shown their great
est strength. If they manifest any enthusi
asm, then the Indiana Populists will conn
the Populists will reaffirm the Omaha plat
form. and that by standing for free coin
age that thousands of frse-siiyer Demo
party. However, matters are all visionar,
| so far as the Populists are concerned AM
| the Democratic leaders are not worrying
| xxx
| Frank Sefrit, OF Washington, who is a
| the Claypool says that the story of tn
| decay of Populism in his county is true
| Republican prosperity has been fatal t
Populism," he said. land while it has no
made Republicans of all of the Populists
| it has converted not few. Most of ou
| Populists were men who would always b
at outs with the existing order of things
| consequently 1t was to be expected tina
when they abandoned the idea of establish
ing new party that could accomplish
anything they should line up with the Dem
| ocrats.
by the way" continued Mr.. Sefrit
| Governor Durbin's recent interview on tn
| senatorship and the State committee ha
| attracted a great deal of attention dow
our way. There have been some criticism
| of the statement, but on the whole I thin
the Governor has made friends and admir-
ers by it. Some of our people seem t
| think the statement would have been NOR
effective If the cracker or 'stinger' ha
been left off,"
George P. Haywood, of Lafayette, is 4
the city on business connected with tn
Consolidated Traction Company.