Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-09-04
CAPITAL JOIIfNG,
Our Ind lanapoii- Orc srondent
An Interesting budget

Our indianapolis Core srandent +
An Interesting budget.
indianapolis. Sept Jesse Parn<
Ter Of Wabash. one of the best knou
of the RepuDhcan politicians OF E
Eleventh district, il at the Denis
House. Gilbert and SHUTS viii :
the ORA wing card in Iss4, he sd
Wont that make a great rallyins a
Gilbert and Shurts-t1illsert Tor 20
ernor and SHUTS for lieutenant -ov-
nor! Nothing but his death can III
vent the nomination OF Newton Gilbt
for governor. OF course he is noa
candidate vet IN the public sense. 4
To his friends he il Il candidate. =
Parmenter was asked If Congressnn
Steele Will have opposition. Yes. I'd
plenty of it; but / don't want TO TX
about that he said. Uncle Jess'
has just returned from Ohio, Wire
be has been on business mission DR.
some time. He was in Columbus 6r-
ing the recent notable Democric
state convention. ana on that sub.ct
he says: 1T is not true that tire
were not half a dozen Bryan meIin
the convention. Half of the deleg:es
We're Bryan men, but the Mclean .e-
ment got control of the convention al
the Bryanites had nothing 10 say. l
was in the corridors of the Grat
Southern hotel the night before he
convention and heard CONGRESSMAN
John J. Lentz speak from a balcoy.
AT first he was Missed, but he as
commanding presence, and he wasil-
lowed to speak. / shall never foret
his closing sentence. He said: Cen
tlemen, 1 adjure you in the nameof
the living God, in the conventional
morrow stand by the principles of he
old Democratic party as enunciaed
by jefferson and Jackson. Lincoln ind
Bryan When he said that the iDtel
was filled with groans"
George d. Parks of Lafayette, Who
was appointed by the governor prSu-
ant to an act of the last legisla ure
to survey the state lands in the Tan
kakee valley, is here. He said: Il
expect TO complete the work in about
month. | have been working for
seven weeks with a corps of five and
six assistants. We have been camp
ing out and acquiring healthy coat
ing of tan. 1t Is a splendid time Of
year to make the surveys but the work
is very difficult, owing to the under
growth of cane, willows, briars and
the like, and sometimes for n distance
of nearly half a mile we have TO
blazon our way with axes. The state
has between 5000 and 5000 acres in
Starke. La Porte and st. Joseph coun-
ties that will be sold later
Frank VI. Dice of awfordsville,
chief of the rural delivery service for
the middle division, was here today,
and he brought the encouragin in
formation that the department has al
lowed him to change his quarters from
the little, cramped room in the post
office building in this city to four large
rooms ON the fourth floor of the han5f
sylvanfa street The department also
has allowed him a draughtSman TO
make maps, so that the special agents
will not have this DUTY TO perform
hereafter. The change to the new To-
cation viii take place Sept. -.
Colonel William b. Roberts, private
secretary TO Senator Beveridge, left
today for the Pacific slope. He will
visit number OF points Of interest
and viii he ut San Francisco to greet
Senator Beveridce when the latter
lands next month.