People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1897 — The "Indiana Plan.” [ARTICLE]

The "Indiana Plan.”

, Following the last election a call appeared in the reform papers of Indiana for a conference to be held in the city of Indianapolis, Dec. 28,1896. A large representation from every district and nearly every county in the state, responded. The purpose of the call was to devise ways and means for a mobilization of all the elements opposing the gold standard; and to adopt some plan of organization suited to the needs and conditions of the hour. For two days they held forth in continuous session. A committee was appointed to draft a plan and report it to the conference. After a hard fight by Hubbell of Pulaski, a hearing was granted for a presentation of Archery. After hearing it, the committee brought its session to a close at once by adopting, without a dissenting voice, a resolution commending this plan for favorable action by the conference. The conference'adopted the report by unanimous vote, then suspended the rules to receive a presentation in detail of the ir round work and system of the organization. Then, without furtner delay the conference as a body proceeded to receive the work of the initiation ceremony, which in itself conveys the secret of the Order’s great strength and features for centralizing and harmonizing elements under its instructive and impressive influence. Published reports announced that “a plan” had been adopted, leaving for the future to reveal the fact that Archery was that plan. Since then the word has penetrated to remote sections of the land that Indiana had the plan which responded most nearly to the ne.ds of the politically divided elements. So persistent have come the calls from the outside for access to the work, that its benefits may be promptly applied, \ hat separate replies are impossible, and this explains a neces j sity for the appearance at this time of The Archer. As dispatches appearing in the daily press already testify that the Order is being securelyjplanted ail over this state, we may scon be able to report a like growth in neighboring states. To keep step with this movement, all are invited to at least, take a “standing room” ticket, where they can see what is going on, and thus be in readiness for an i organizer at firstiopportunity. This invitation includes who are, in a measure, discouraged, but not whipped.