Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-08
AN EXODUS TO ESOPUS
Indiana Gold Democrats to
Enlighten Judge Parker.
SIGNIFICANT ACTION
TAGGART MANAGEMENT.
Declare They Will Contribute to Cam
paign Fund Only for Use
Outside of State.
SIGNIFICANT ACTION

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, September 6.-Be-
ginning today there is a quiet exodus of
gold democrats to Esopus. They will not
go in numbers. and will not use any brass
band methods in their pilgrimages. but
what they will tell Judge Parker will be
"a plenty" They will proceed on the theory
that SO far Judge Parker has heard only
one side of the situation in Indiana. They
will tell him that the state is practically
without a democratic organization, and
that John w. Kern, the democratic candi-
date for governor, is waving the old free
silver flag in the face of the sound money
democrats and getting them excited. They
will also represent that the state is further
endangered by possibility that the silver
democrats will knife Parker and Davis,
and the gold democrats will knife" John
w. Kern on an extensive scale.
The Indianapolis gold democrats, who
comprise majority of the leaders of that
wing of the democracy in Indiana, are in
mood to declare war on the democrat tic
state committee. They are about to get in
action, and while they propose to be a virile
and aggressive force in behalf of Parker
and Davis, they say that their services will
be rendered independently of the demo-
cratic state organization and of National
NAAiA AAioAA Aoo6oAt
Situation in State Acute.
The situation is SO acute that the dis
pleasure of the gold democrats is likely to
be manifested in an open and public way
at any time. The gold democrats of this
county will soon engage in the work of
raising campaign fund. They promise lib
eral donations. The total amount, as one
of them said yesterday, is likely to be be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. This money they
say will not be turned over 10 the demo-
cratic state committee nor to National
Chairman Taggart, but will be sent to
Judge Parker or to whomsoever the presi-
DENTAL candidate may designate to receive
1t. 1t will be accompanied with the rec
ommendation that no part of it shall be
used in Indiana. because Indiana is not
considered by them a possible state for
the democrats this year. The subscribers
that. it be used in other states that are
more likely to give their electoral vote to
Parker and Davis, such as Wisconsin and
Colorado, for instance.
Feel Sighted by Taggart.
The Indianapolis gold democrats are su-
persensitive because they have not been in
vited to take part in the democratic state
campaign They feel that their presence is
not wanted at democratic state headquar-
ters, and that while the Organiza ton in
control of affairs would like to meet them
in some cornfield dark alley where no.
BODY could see the performance and get
their money, it has no. other use for them.
EX-State Chairman Sterling r. Holt ex
pressed the idea of the gold democrats ac-
curately today when he said: The gold
democrats are not going to be coaXed be-
hind barn and relieved of their money
and then driven to tie polls and voted
The democrats who believe in the yellow
metal say that the state committee is sill
yer committee and that the gold democrats
are being ignored because Messrs. Taggart,
nd n crtr, no
fear If they were brought into the limelight
the radical silverites would take to the tail
grass and sulk.
Attitude of Gold Democrats.
The attitude of the Indiana gold demo-
Gratis is of the most significant moment.
They are practically the only men in the
party who are able financially to raise
respectable campaign fund. and since they
are in frame of mind to give the state
over to the republicans by default and
urge that whatever funds they can raise
and whatever other funds the national
committee has at its disposal shall be used
in other states where there is a possible
show of success it looks as if the prospect
for money to run the Indiana democratic
campaign is very slim.
The situation must be very distressing to
National Chairman Taggart, who has given
his word to the eastern democrats that the
electoral vote of Indiana will be cast for
Parker and Davis. Meanwhile the story
GENES from authentic sources in New York
that Belmont. Sheehan and others are try
ing to force Taggart to come back to In
diana on the ground that the campaign
here needs looking after, and that he is
steadily declining to establish subhead-
quarters here. believing that the eastern
ers are only employing these means to side
track him.
In a Delicate Position.
State Chairman O'Brien's position at pres
ent is one of great delicacy, and those on
the inside who know how anxious he is to
ming campaign nave genuine sympathy for
him. On the one side the silver democrats
are in a furore because Judge Parker has
written to the gold democrats asking their
advice. They denOunce Parker for seeking
only the counsel of the men who BETRAYED
the party in 1896 and 190O' as they put ii.
On the other hand, the gold democrats
are declaring that they will go outside of
the state committee and National Chair
man Taggart in their efforts to elect Parker
and Davis. There is another big class of
democrats who supposed that as soon IS
Taggart was made national chairman
money would be shipped out to Indiana in
big bundles by freight, and they are MAX
ing life interesting for Mr.. 'Brien.
Two years ago Mr.. O'Brien travelled over
Indiana day and night at his own expense.
and he Is finding his job about as burden
some and thankless this year. When asked
today II the state committee is ignoring the
gold democrats Mr.. O'Brien said: 1--WE
don't recognize that there Is any difference
between democrats this year. The latch
string is always out to all democrats