Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — TAGGART IS ELECTED. [ARTICLE]

TAGGART IS ELECTED.

Present Mayor of Indianapolis to Be Nominee for Governor. Thomas Taggart was re-elected Mayor of Indianapolis by 3,500 plurality. The 'Democrats also elected Charles E. Cox judge of the police court; Charles H. Stuckmeyer, city clerk, six coumcslmen at large and a majority of the fifteen ward councilmen. It is the first time since the adoption of the new efty charter that a Mayor has succeeded himself, and it is also the first time the city has elected officers since all the suburbs were annexed. The success of the Democratic ticket is said to mean that Taggart will be the Democratic nominee for Governor two years from next fall. His friends have been informed all along that his candidacy depended upon the result of his election. Two years ago Taggart was elected Mayor by 3,722 plurality, and it is probable that the official returns from all the precincts will show that he has received that large a plurality this time. Last November McKinley received, within the limits of the old city (the suburbs had not been annexed at that time) a plurality of 6,603.