The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-17
Looking Forward to the Next
Presidential Campaign.
Louisville Editor Seeks Gubernatori0l
HOnOrS as Stepping Stone TO Higher
Things = VIII tndeGyOr TO Heal
Breaches In Kentucky Democracy
FOR That Purpose.

LOUISVILLE, ny. OCo- ~
Henry Watterson, editor of the
Courier Journal, has overcome
his antipathy to Office holding.
and has quietly announced to
friends and few politicians that
he will not be averse TO accept
ing the nomination Tor governor
of Kentucky in 1903. Watterson
has made no public announce
ment of his candidacy, but it is
COW generally known that he is
willing to accept this Office and
lead the Kentucky democracy
out of the wilderness into which
it has wandered since the rise
and fall of the Goebel dynasty.
The Evening Post of Louis
vile made the first announce
ment of the fact that Watterson
was a receptive candidate yester-
day in the following statement,
in black type, on the first page:
"The most interesting politi
cal event of the past few weeks
is the announcement by Henry
Watterson of his candidacy for
the democratic nomination for
governor. During the past week
Mr.. WattersOn has told number
of gentlemen in this city that he
is already a candidate for the
nomination before the next dem
ocratic convention and has solic-
tied their support. So far his
canvass has been much in the
nature of still hunt, and it was
doubtless intended to keep it a
secret for some time longer The
friends of other aspirants for the
governorship were not slow.
however. in hearing of the work
being done in this city to pave
the way for Mr. Watterson's can
dldacy, and. upon making in,
quiries, have learned that Mr..
Watterson is an avowed candi-
date.
Not only is Mr. Watterson a
candidate for governor at the
present time, but he is said to
cherish the most profound ambi-
tions for future preferment. He
now desires to be the candidate
of the democratic party for pres
ident in 1904, and believes that
if he can carry Kentucky IN 1903
he will put himself in line for the
nomination for president one
year later. With this in view,
he is doing all in his power to
undermine the power of Mr..
Bryan in the party and at the
same time to ingratiate himself
with the men in this state. whom
he has opposed in the past. He
is working hard to induce the
silver democrats of the state to
forget the past, and is also hold
ing out the olive branch to the
business men of Louisville"
When Watterson saw this he
smiled blandly and remarked:
''Our afternoon contemporary
seems to have what the boys call |
a SCOOP" Then he smiled again, |
but not for long. His telephone
bell began to jingle. and his
Office boy to pass cards into his
sanctum. Reporters for rival
sheets and representatives of
out-of- town papers were on his
trail
s'Tell them Mr.. Watterson is
not talking" is all he would say
to any one, and when he left his
Office he instructed his secretary
and others to make this reply to
ali inquiries. He left for his
home at Jeffersontown at
o'clock, and here he is free from
intrusion as there is neither tele-
phone, telegraph, nor train con-
nections at that place after that
hour.
Although he has been in pub
lie life nearly forty years and
has been considered ''the man
behind the throne" in more than
one national administration,
Henry Watterson has never but
once held public Office, and when
be retired that time he declared