The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-09

nouncement that the faithful of Lapel,
Madison county, have organized the John
w. Kern Democratic Club, the sole pur-
pose OF which is TO foster, nourish and de-
yelop the aforesaid presidential boomlet
senator Davis can do nothing else than
form a similar organization in Greene
county, under the circumstances, and thus
the movement will grow, from bailiwlck 10
bailiwick with practically no limit 10 itspos-
sibilities. Lapel, where the boom has been
so prominently taken up, is not large
city. but no one will deny the progressive
ness OF its citizens. 1t is perhaps coinci-
dence that Lapel is not far removed from
the Hamilton county town of Durbin, and
the idea will readily appeal to everyone
that the Lapelites, or Lapelians, as they
may prefer to be termed. contemplate
changing the name of their town TO
kern"-when their hero shall have be-
come Democratic nominee for President.
Capt. j. d. Leighty of st. Joe.s former
United States pension commissioner, with
headquarters in this city. was at the
Columbia Club yesterday.
mot much"
Such was the terse answer Of c. c. Shir-
ley, of Kokomo, to the question whether
his friends would succeed in making him
candidate for the Republican congress
sional nomination in the Ninth district
against Representative c. B. Lands. Mr..
worlds fair commission to-day and last
night he permitted himself to be inveigled
into talking politics just long enough TO
hear the question and make the BRIEF but
explicit reply quoted.
Mr.. Shirley is one of the men whose
friends take liberties with them In the way
OF proposing them as candidate Tor TINS or
that office without regard to their inclina-
lions. His name has been used repeatedly
in connection with the congressional race
in the Ninth and he has also been spoken
n a g a 10 IL
tenant Governor, but he insists that he has
no political aspirations at present and will
devote his energies to his law practice,
with his work as a member or the world
fair commission as his only side issue.
The annual dinner of the Thompson Club,
the well-known Republican organization of
Terre Haute, tonight at that city will
attract many prominent party men who
have been invited to be present. Attor-
ney General Charles w. Miller. OF this
city. will be one of the principal speakers.
The new headquarters of the Republican
state committee were opened yesterday in
the Stevenson building, although formal
tiles were not in order and the rooms them
selves are not as vet I'm the best of order
Secretary Will H. Whitaker is superin-
tending the removal and expects TO nave
the new offices in business shape in a day
or two. State Chairman Goodrich, or Win
chester, will be here to-day and several
other members of the committee are ex-
pected in to take look at the new head
quarters, but no meeting has been called.
xxx
r. E. Kirkman, of Richmond, former rep
resentative from Wayne county In the State
Legislature, was at the Columbia Club last
evening. He says there is little political
activity in Richmond at this time, and that
interested
the opening of the new interurban line to
Indianapolis.
'It may sound strange. or even incredible,
but ran across man in Kentucky few
years ago who had lived four-score years
in the same cabin on the same spot. and
yet had been a resident of five different
| countless" said w. w. Huffman, custodian
of the Statehouse. yesterday, in recalling
interesting experiences of his life in the
bluegrass State.
About ten years ago. when was in the
| internal revenue service, l was called up
into the mountains to look after some re-
ported moonshiners I travelled on horse
| back, and when night came on stopped at
| an old cabin the north fork of Caney
creek for lodging. An old man received me
| with true mountaineer hospitality. and after
supper he told me something of his history.
| The story doubly interesting because
| Of the quaint dialect he used but / would
| not attempt to reproduce that. His name
| was Carson, he said, and he had been born
| in that same log cabin eighty years before.
| He had never been out of the mountains.
had never seen a railroad a steamboat.
| had never been to school, and could neither
| read nor write. The thing that impressed
me about his tale, however. was his state
| ment that he had lived in the same cabin
| all his life, but had been a resident of five
different counties. l thought he was joking
| until he explained. Kentucky was originally
| divided into but three counties, and as a boy
| he had first been resident of one of these
counties. Then from time to time, as the
State grew, the three original counties had
| been divided and subdivded until In the
eighty years the section where he lived had
been a part of five different counties"