The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-04
Three Prominent Candidates, Each of Whom
Will Be Supported In Vigorous and
Earnest Manner.
Basis of the Recently Developed OPP
position to Judge Foraker.
Speech of Senator sherman Before the Rich
land County COnvention-The Tariff
and Scott Law Issues.
GUESSING AT THE TICKET.
The Effort to Undermine Judge Foraker
What May Happen to Mr.. Turney.
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Inc 10 Undermine Judge tOraRer-
What May Happen to MIR. Turney.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, June 3.-With the approach of
the time for the Republican State conven-
ton, to be held here on Tuesday and Wednes
day of next week, speculation with regard to
the ticket has become active and disordered.
This is due to efforts to undermine Mr..
Forakers candidacy for the nomination for
Governor. Nothing is urged against him
personally, and the field being fresh to him,
he has no political enemies, but whisperings
that Governor Foster hoped to profit by his
nomination have reused factional animosi-
ties. All signs so far, however, are that at
the most the tide of preference, tending here
tofore towards Mr.. Foraker has only slack
ened.
The merits and claims of three candidates
will be presented to the convention, Mr..
Foraker, State Treasurer Turney and Comp
troller Lawrence. Each seems likely to start
out with earnest and vigorous support. Few
county conventions have yet been
held, nor has there yet been any formal
expression of preferences to justify an intel
| ligent judgment of how the convention will
lean when balloting shall begin. There is
little question of unanimity of feeling at the
end Old politicians say that no State con-
vention has met in better temper than will
this one for clear-brained work. Contests
among the friends of rival candidates are to
be expected; feeling may occasionally strike
high pitch; but before action the conse-
quences will be weighed and afterwards
'rivalry and faction will be forgotten. Other
names than these three may be presented for
the first place on the ticket, but movements
that way, up to this time, have been merely
diverting.
! Comptroller Lawrence affords the curious
| spectacle OF being the only candidate who
has announced himself and the only one who
has not been on the field 1t need
not be inferred that he has let his
candidacy supply its own momentum.
He knows probably better than anyone
else just what he can depend upon and for
| how long; nor has he learned this entirely by
letter-writing between here and Washington
But however thorough or scant may have
| been the investigation of his agents, his per-
| sonal attendance at such juncture upon his
Washington duties is certain not to detract
| from the respect that his name will COM
| mand in convention or from the fidelity of
| his support His home is at Bellefontaine,
| in Logan county. Geographically he has a
better position than either OF his rivals from
which to cast his lead into the political pool
The only question Is about the size of the
| lead. In his quiet search he may have found
a great big piece, but news that has reached
| here has very much less to say about him
than the others.
Mr.. Foraker occupies an attitude of mac
ton. He has quietly gone about his bust
| ness from the first, stopping on the way only
| long enough to say that he would accept
the nomination. Within few days
he has been led into newspaper ex-
| the condition of his nerves, and has other
wise been represented as making q figure i'm
| feats of journalistic enterprise but evidently
not to the prejudice of his business duties
HIS candidacy was suggested and has been
urged on the ground of simple merit. Hard
work has made all his undertakings success
full. The spirit that prompted him while yet
a lad to make his work in camp and on the
| field so deserving that at nineteen he had
risen from the ranks to captaincy, that
afterwards sent him to school, where with
credit to himself he crowded courses of eight
years into four, has governed him since then.
His health has twice paid the penalty of
overwork, but substituting the varied life of
a practlcing lawyer for the drudgery OF re-
licving a crowded court docket. full physical
restoration followed. To neglect or
leave his practice now would be to break away
from congenial and profitable surroundings
He is yet young enough to wait for the GER
tain fortune within sight, and then have
time left for politics. His friends just now
are more ambitious for him than he for him
self in the line OF public life. SO while his
feelings naturally warm toward the pros
pect of party honors his judgment leads him
the other way. He has steered between the
two and will take what may come, but run
after nothing nomination would crafty
his pride; defeat would please his judgment
AN OPPOSITION BASED ON DIsTRUsr.
Opposition that within ten days has crop
ped out against him seems to be based on
distrust that his candidacy may not be for
himself alone; that it may embrace an ulte-
rior view, looking to Governor Fosters elec.
ton as successor to Mr.. Pendleton in the
United States Senate. Mr. Foraker is strong
in Cincinnati. Could he carry that city the
chances are that the rest of the Cincinnati
ticket would get the benefit of sympathy
Candidates for the Legislature will be on that
ticket. and in their election would Governor
Foster be interested. 1t would not
do to proclaim this fear OF Governor Fosters
success as the basis of opposition to Mr. For
aker because, however people might feel to-
ward Governor Foster there would be gen
eral resentment to an imputation that MI
Foraker would lend himself to a questiona-
BILE alliance Argument of that kind not
only carried such imputation, but il dis.
closed the entry of selfish or factional inter
| est in party affairs. OutSpuken opposi ton
/ because OF Governor Foster would mean that
some other wing or faction was striving for
the upper hand The situation at large af-
| forded no lack OF reasons for opposition. 1t
was urged that Mr. Foraker was not the ad-
ministration candidate whatever that may