The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-29
MOUNT NOT ACANDIDATE
GOVERNOR WILL KEEP OUT OF THE
SENATORIAL CONTEST.
Not Good Taste to Seek Higher Hon.
Ors at Present-The Farmer
and Politics.

Governor Mount is not a candidate for
United States senator. His sole political
this year, he says, is to see the
Republican party win the election this fall.
He feels very confident that this will be
the result There has been good deal of
interest as to the Governors attitude on
the senatorial question. Many of Governor
Mounts friends have urged him to become
a candidate, as they feel that he would
serve the State acceptably and with dis
tinction, but he says he feels that he owes
duty to those who elected him to the high
est executive office in Indiana.
II am not a candidate" said the Gov
ernor with decision, when informed yester-
day by a Journal reporter that there is con-
siderable interest as to his position Il
question whether 1t would be in good taste
for me to seek higher honors at the hands
OF those who intrusted me with their conf
dence when 1 was selected to lead the cam
paign two years ago. 1 am more interested
in seeing the party successful this year than
in anything else. 1t ought to succeed. l
believe that it will. The national admins
tration has fulfilled every promise that 1t
made. The state administration has given
an economical government, every point has
been watched carefully and every effort to
serve the State faithfully has been made
and promises made to the people have been
Kept. 1t is my belief that the Republican
party will poll more votes from the rural
districts than heretofore. The farmers will
vote the Republican ticket 1t is the cities
that must be watched. Farmers are get
ting better prices for their cattle. sheep
grain-everything they produce, with the
exception of clover seed, perhaps. Demo-
Gratis taught the farmers that wool would
bring better prices under free trade They
nave mad ample experience on that point
In 1893 and 1894 sheep husbandry was almost
paraIyzed. Farmers had to see their sheep
slaughtered. Sheep sold for 81 to 81 a head.
An auctioneer who makes sales in the coun-
try last week told me of selling one flock
of ewes at $13 a head. Through the entire
winter he sold not one head for less than
80. Farmers have had all the experience
they want with Democratic policies
Governor Mount returned yesterday from
his farm in Montgomery county, much re-
freshed after few days rest He said
that he was surprised at the indications of
good wheat crop. Last October, after
the long drought he doubted whether the
wheat crop would amount to much this
year. lie says that the wheat is growing
finely. There are no indications of Hessia2
fly, and he believes there will be an album
CANT crop. He says that danger to peaches
from freezing is not generally to be appre-
nended after March /, and it is his belief
Indiana will be blessed with a GOOD harvest
and an abundance of fruit,
Much damage was done in Montgomery
county by the recent high waters He
learned that the County Commissioners es-
omate $4,000 will have to be expended on
the bridges and roads. There are no large
streams near my farm" said he. ''but much
of my land is what was formerly swamps.
they have been drained by deep bitches.
In high water the fields are covered but
1t drains away quickly. Some of my water
gates and fences were washed away, but
the crops We're not harmed