The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-31
THE DRIFT OF POLITICS


League, and meeting was held yesterday
forenoon at the Denison to discuss the COM
ing banquet of the League. to be held on
Feb. Is at Evansville. About seventy-hve
members were present at the meeting, over
which r. Harry Miller. of Fairmount. pre-
sided. The programme for the banquet was
gone into, with the result that the following
speakers were chosen for the toast list:
Senator Samuel Crumbaker. Evansville;
Horace Dunbar Jeffersonville; Frank B.
Shuts, Aurora; Daniel Chaplin, Rockville;
Fred Barrows Connersville: Charles \.
BOokwalter, Indianapolis; Kenneth Ken
nard, Anderson; Representative Charles Is.
Landis Delphi; Mayor A. +. Knots Ham
Judge o. NJ. HeatOn. Fort Wayne; 5. c.
Hubbell Goshen, and Hal Tarvillon, OF IN
diana University, TO represent the colleges
including Lieutenant Governor Newton W.
Gilbert. of Fort Wayne
The date of the banquet was postponed
from Feb L. 10 Feb. Is, in order not TO con-
fiict with the banquet To be given on the
evening of Feb. u. Lincoln's birthday, by
the Columbia Club, in this city. A great
many Republicans of the State desired TO
attend both banquets.
The love-feast brought out many amusing
little incidents, but none more amusing than
this:
Warren c. Sayre, of Wabash. who repre-
scented Wabash county in the lower branch
of the Legislature last winter. was standing
by the desk in the Denison last evening.
talking to a friend, when Senator Frederick
c. Matson, of this city. came up. Senator
Matson has been member OF the Legs
lature for two sessions, and MIR. SaNre s
friend, who knew both men well, supposed
of course, that Sayre and Matson were ac-
quainted, but as a matter of form he re-
marked to Sayre:
81 suppose you know this man Matson?"
1.-THE son of Senator Matson?" asked
Sayre in return, as he extended his hand to
the senator. I'm glad TO meet you Mr..
MatsOn."
1t would have required an expert to deter
mine which was the more embarrassed, the
pearing senator from Marion, when the
shout of laughter went up from the by
ISLANDERS.
Mr.. Sayre, by the way, is an ardent adj
mirer of President Roosevelt. Il am for the
nomination of President Roosevelt to sue
coed himself, first, because 1 think he
ought to have it, and. second. because l
believe he will get it, I regard President
Roosevelt as man wise beyond his gener-
alton. brave, capable and of superb cour-
age. Although their environments were al
together different, l think Roosevelt may
well be likcned to Abraham Lincoln.
Hugh TIL. Miller, of Columbus, is at
present candidate for denomination as a
member of the Legislature from Bartholo-
NEW county, but he intimates that develop
ments of the near future may draw him in
to the race for the nomination for lieu
tenant governor. Il am not a candidate
for lieutenant governor now," he said last
evening laying stress on the now" but
l cannot tell what the next few weeks may
bring forth"
Alva o. Resor, of Lafayette, former
member of the Legislature, has discovered
a "sure cure and it is not altogether i'm
probable that he may go into the patent
medicine business. He announced his dis
cOVery when he was asked IL he were a
candidate for any office.
No ne replied, II recently spent about
six months editing independent news
paper and L was completely cured of the
office itch is a sure cure, and 1 can
recomend it to anyone troubled with that
complaint-and there are few men around
here now who have all the symptoms OF
the most virulent form of the disease.
xxx
To A. G. Graham, of South Bend. belongs
the distinction of being the first Republican
county chairman elected in Indiana under
| the call for reorganization recently sent out
by the Republican State committee. Mr.
! Graham was elected chairman Of the St
| Joseph county central committee last
Saturday. He was here for the love-feast
| st. Joseph county Republicans have start
| ed off in the lead in the coming cam
| paign," he said. land they'll make a vigor-
Gus effort to maintain the lead up TO the
| hour the polls are closed next November.
Judge Hiram Brownlee, of Marion
walked up and down in the corridor of the
Denison, outside the meeting-room yester-
|
some decided opinions on what the next
! State platform should and should not con-
tain.
1.-The platform" said ne, fought to come
out squarely against the creation of an
other office, and in favor of sbolishing 9
whole lot Of present offices. 1t should IA
vor reduction of taxes for both State and
| county purposes-taXeS are altogether too
! high now-and il should also favor such
economy as would make it possible to re-
| duce the taxes. One of the increasing evils
in this State is the lobby that grows VI
| in and about the legislative halls. The
| platform ought 10 take such advanced
ground on that subject as would end the
avocation of the lobbyist and the CRATER
We ought to make his business. by utter.
ance of the platform and by public discus
sion, so odious as to end his career"
| +
"'Way back in the antedeluvian days.
said Senator Barcus, of Terre Haute. yes
terday, 'some man started the rumor tha
the Republicans of old Vigo are the mos
inharmonious people in the State. OF course
they have little friendly tits with th'
sword and the shield before election, but
| can tell you that when it comes TO votint
they are all there together. When you
hear that we are fighting over there it,
| all a mistake"
Lon Craig, a resident OF Indianapolis
| claims that he has voted more times 70
President than any other Republican il
the State of Indiana. He started voting
the Republican ticket early and often, an'
has been keeping it up ever since.
Mr.. Craig entered the Northern arm.
when he was fifteen years old. When h
was seventeen the election was held tina
reelected Abraham Lincoln President In
diana soldiers in the field were denied tn
| right to vote, and Craig, although lackini
four years of his majority, took il upol
himself to enter an emphatic prOtes
| against this denial Of the rights of citizen
ship to the States representatives I'm tn
army He went into an Ohio regiment an
voted. then into three other regiments an
voted, in all casting four votes for Lin
| coin His vote was not protested in an,
one of the regiments. With this good star
Craig has voted the straight Republica
ticket ever since.
He formerly lived in North Judson, an
was one of the Republican workers o
Starke county. Yesterday he attended tn
love-feast and put in his claim as tn
original repeating Lincoln man in tn
State.
MOT caoroa w Steala Of Marion