The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-10
INDIANA LEAGUE CLUBS
THEY WILL BE LARGELY IN EVIL
DENCE AT DETROIT NEXT WEEK.
Features of the National Gathering of
Republican CIubs-HOt Contest
for the Presidency.

The national Republican League meets in
the city Of Detroit next Tuesday at 10
o'clock. 1t is ten years since the first
league convention was held in Chickerng
Hall. New York, and the growth of the
organization has been phenomenal. There
will be 1900 delegates to the Detroit meet
ing, an equal number of alternates and sew
eral times that many visitors. Indiana is
entitled to sixty-two delegates and sixty
two alternates. From all indications we
will have three times that number on the
ground. Gen. Lew Wallace, w. T. Durbn
and many other of the leaders of Indiana
Republicans will attend as delegates In
diana has enjoyed the reputation of a State
whose party organization and league clubs
have affiliated to such a degree as to en-
tirely obliterate jealousies and discord
Some of the other States have not been so
fortunate. In fact, one of the amusing
features of the national convention is the
intense rivalry between factions and be-
tween the regular party machinery and the
league machine. Down South they have the
disease bad. No national convention of the
Republican party ever had such contests
as the Lily Whites and the blacks"
of Texas had at Cleveland two years ago.
And the Carolina statesmen and leaguers
fought it out too. The fight this year will
come farther north and will not appear on
the floor of the convention Two very in
fiuential Northern States which send large
delegations have had rich experience
within the past twelve months. One year
ago the league workers in those States were
laughed at and frowned upon. The league
was called play politics" and it's energetic
members were ignored. But the league
c1tIti cd rtU bar
mony. Out in Oregon the league men Guilt
waited little more than party harmony and
captured the position of congressman away
from one of the old wheel horses; who had
spent his time in laughing at the league
But in the two big States spoken of the
league merely fought the battles of the
party along with all others. Their work
was so unselfiSh and SO effective that the
administration has rewarded it again and
again. And so the shrewd "old-line poll
ticianS of these two Northern States sprung
a coup" on the flushed and elated leaguers
The regular party machine stepped in and
suddenly captured the league organization
and the national league will witness the
very unusual spectacle of the two most
powerful Republican state machines in the
Union sending solid and shouting delega-
ton to the Detroit convention, the delegates
composed of men who ridculed the idea of
the convention at Milwaukee last year, but
who will now act gracefully in their role as
play politicians at Detroit. l refer to
the Plat and Tanner machines, and say
that there will be no delegations at Detroit
which will excel them in enthusiasm and
league promise. The fellows who have been
superseded by these magnificent machines
have done heroes work. They have so built
up the league as to enforce recognition OF
the most sweeping character from its form
er aVOWed enemies.
The Illinois and Chicago situation will
furnish amusement and may cause political
Dloodshed at the Detroit meet. One Marcus
Pollasky, a Chicago attorney and speaker,
is an open candidate for the presidency
but has neither the old league workers nor
the Tanner machine IN ms pehalI Nelther
will disown him publicly because OF their
other plans. Meanwhile PollaSky, VINO mas
money as we'll as energy, has engaged the
five best parlOrs of the Cadillac Hotel and
in true Chicagoesque style is going after
the league presidency. The TANNER men
were alarmed at first, for they could not
control Pollasky; nobody can. Then they
sprung a side movement, and Hon: ora
Chaplin, one of the best hustllng politicians
in Chicago. announces that he will take the
secretaryship if it is thrust upon hlm.
Chaplin is one of the best fellows in the
world, and his advent q candidate Will
play havoc with the POilasky boom. But
more cars than the machine can against
him. Talking about money, there is one
tainment than any of them if he gets his
mothers permission. Ed H. r. Green, the
late chairman of the Republican party in
Texas, is announced as candidate, with
the solid South for him. Mrs. Hetty Green
has ambitions for Ed, and in no way could
it be better advanced than by putting him
in the presidency OF the National Repub-
lican League. The Texas rangers will be at
Detroit in force and the Chicago crowd can
look for fight. Then there is Col. L. J.
Crawford, of Newport, KY, who is a
genuine league man and depends on his long
league record. Crawford knows more about
the presidency than either of the others,
but he may be handicapped in other ways.
The Indiana delegation is entirely unpledged
and will take pleasure in electing the best
man. That don't mean that we will stand
by and let others elect him. Indiana elected
Woodmansee at Detroit, and l think our
clear-headed politicians from the Hoosier
State want to say who shall be the next
league president.
Most of the Indiana boys will leave for
Detroit Monday, the 12th, going by way of
the Wabash direct or by way of the Glover
Leaf to Toledo where they can get a de-
lightfu boat ride from 1890 Monday morn
ing to in the afternoon on the Detroit and
Cleveland boat. AS the trip is part bust
ness and mostly outing, many will take the
boat ride in preference to the hot trains.
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