The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-04

Harrison, was In Indianapolis yesterday 10
review the troops at the fair grounds. The
soldiers seem to have aroused in him a san
suinary spirit, and he starts out now 10 an
nihiiate every unfortunate in his nome
seem to be one victim of his beiligerency
and in my helpless state | am held up 10
ridicule because l inherited more initials In
front OF my fathers name than the pro-
prietles, according to the colonel. seem TO
justify. This is a grievous fault and griev-
ousiy do suffer for it. And. indeed. this is
not all | am charged with having writ
ten something for the newspapers In years
agone. In an unguarded moment, as BIZ
Nye once said, one can commit an act
which il will take years of sorrow and SELF
denial to overcome. / seem to have done
this dark, damnab BILE deed once when crit
icised the political tactics of Colonel Brown.
He now lays on the bludgeon with an un-
sparing hand, and all L can do il to writhe,
squirm and groan
~ wish you would say for me. If you say
anything that / do not care what Colonel
Brown thinks or says of me so long as IL
does not interfere with my salary. Attorney
General Miller has way of doing things
in Elkhart county which is most pleasing
TO the Republicans. and when the Brown
issue is reached, If ii should ever attain the
importance of an issue. ii will no doubt De
met and settled in manner satisfactory 10
the Republican party"
All Of which contributes materially to the
gayety of politics and gives promise that
there will be something doing even dur
ing dog days.
However, this is not quite all, for according
to a report yesterday there is to be a new
development in the Thirteenth that may
further complicate the situation there and
even have an important bearing on State
politics. 1t is stated, upon what may be
considered reliable authority, that Attorney
General Miller is laying his plans to be a
candidate for the United States Senate to
succeed Senator Fairbanks six years hence
In furtherance of this plan Ii is understood
that Mr.. Miller has allied himself with
the Beveridge forces in effort to gain
and retain control of the party organization,
State and district. Mr.. Miller first expects
to be renominated and reelected attorney
general, and at the close of his second term
he will have little over year in which
10 make his mai campaign Tor the seha sts,
Ii has been suggested frequently that MI.
| Miller might make the race for Governor
| in 1908, and several OF his friends nave
| doomed him In a mild way as guber-
| Material possibility, but according to the
report gaining circulation the attor-
ney generals eyes are not on the chief exec
utive's chair, but upon the senatorial toga
now worn by Mr.. Fairbanks That he is
really looking forward to this may explain
| in measure the apparent lining up of the
| Miller and Brown forces in Elkhart county.
Mr.: Browns friends claim that the attorney
| general is taking hand in the district
| craftsmanship fight and that he is one of the
| strongest influences behind the candidacy
| of Frank w. Boss, of Marshall county, who
| is regarded as a Beverage man.
s. z. Nicholson, formerly of Kokomo.
who came into prominence as the author of
| the temperance law on the Indiana statutes
that bears his name. was here yesterday on
! his way to his former home. He is now
| superintendent of the Maryland Anti-salOon
| League and general secretary of the Ma
| tional Anti-saloon League, with headquar-
tiers in Washington. He predicts that the
| II be to give way TO stronger temperance
| law.
Former State Senator Joseph II. Shea,
of Seymour. who is counted upon as one
| of the contenders for the Democratic con-
gressional nomination in the Fourth district
| next year, was here yesterday but he said
| he has not been giving the question of be-
| coming candidate any consideration.
''Dogdays are at hand" said Mr.. Shea,
land during that period man should not
| be expected to think of political affairs.
| If he can give his business matters little
thought he will be doing WE'LL
| Senator Fairbanks yesterday received an
| invitation to be present and deliver TN ad-
| dress at the annual reunion of the Eighty
| third Indiana Volunteers, Aug. Is and a.
| ut Batesville, Ind. but he will be unable to
| accept, owing to previous engagements for
| that time.
Former Lieutenant Governor William S.
| Haggard, of Lafayette, was here yester-
day and took lunch with Secretary of
| State Storms at the Columbia Club.
| A party of well-known politicians re-
| turned yesterday from two weeks business
and pleasure trip through northern Idaho.
| In the party were Senator Walter l.. Ball
| and Alonzo Petty, of Muncie; Charles A.
Meeker and Capt. j. F. Marks. Of Lafay-
| cite, and Deputy Oil Inspector T. II. John
son, Of Indianapolis. The trip was made
/ primarily to inspect some mining property
owned by a company in which these men
| are interested and they report that they
| bids fair to put them in the class of pluto
| Gratis within few years. Incidentally they
| viewed some magnificent scenery, did lit
| tie hunting, had some excellent trout fish
| ing and spent practically all their time in
| the invigorating mountain air, with decd-
eddy healthful results.
1.-The mining property in which we are
| interested" said Mr.. Meeker last evening
/ at the Columbia Club, Lies in valley, 5000
| feet above the sea level. Ii is a placer
mne although the company owns some
| quartz mines that will be operated in the
| near future. From the reports of the ex-
| perts we are led to believe that the placer
| mine will average 81 TO the cubic yard and
| L hesitate to say how many million cubic
yards we have in sight
| Mr.. Meeker exhibits q small phial con-
| tanning the gold which was washed from
/ three yards of the dirt. 1t is worth $11.S0
| Dirt can be worked at profit IL ii averages
| cents to the yard.
| Jerry Mathews, secretary to Senator
Fairbanks, who is spending his vacation
| in the East, writes his associates in the
! ter part of this week. He has been in
| Washington for several days.
| Perry j. Freeman, former postmaster of
| Richmond who has recently left politics
| for the more lucrative field of promoting and
building electric interurban lines. was at the
Columbia Club yesterday. Mr.. Freeman is
| at present interested in the traction line
under construction from Evansville to
| Princeton, and expects to move his family
| TO Evansville within few weeks. He has
| purchased a country home four miles from
| the city along his new line, and has what
| he considers ideal place, with an abun-
| dance of garden truck, fruit, chickens, et
| cetera ad infinitum. The new interurban
| line will be in operation by September, he
says. 1t Is twenty-eight miles long, and
| may eventually become link in an electric
| line from Indianapolis to Evansville.
| II have forgotten all about politics." he
| said, in response TO a question on that line.
| IL see by the papers that Charles r. Un-
| hop 10 to for 1,