The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21


fair will undoubtedly be the largest and
best event of its kind ever held in Indiana.
There are unusual conditions that make
for the unusual interest in the love feast
this year In the first place candidates
for the several nominations to be made by
the State convention next spring appeared
earlier than usual and these primary cam
paigns are we'll under way and attracting
much attention; again, this is the opening
OF a national campaign that bids fair to be
the liveliest since 1896 and l6-to-l, and still
again, within the last six months there
has been a decided furry over the reorgan-
iZation of the State committee, with few
brisk district scraps. practically all OF
which have been happily adjusted by this
time, and the holding of a love feast seems
especially appropriate. Senator Fairbanks
has but a few months since been unan-
imously Endorsed by the party, Senator
Beveridge has no fight on his hands for re-
election next winter. State Chairman Good
rich and almost all the old members of the
State committee will be reelected without
opposition and all but one or two of the
Republican members OF the delegation in
the lower house of Congress have clear
eas sd for I oHn so there is
ton that will mark the party's entrance
into the approaching campaign as united,
harmonious and enthusiastic.
The love feast will be a golden opportu-
nifty for the numerous candidates for State
offices. Most of them are preparing to open
headquarters at one of the hotels and be
in shape to campaign as industriously as
If the State convention Were at hand in
stead of six months off. j. Frank Hanly,
of Lafayette. one of the gubernatorial as
pirants, has engaged suite Of rooms at
the English for Tuesday. Wednesday and
Thursday of next week, while other candi-
dates are merely waiting to learn which
hotel Is selected for the love feast before
they engage their headquarters.
State Chairman Goodrich came over from
Winchester last evening to spend to-day at
headquarters in the Stevenson building He
has charge of the arrangements for the
love feast, but says that he will probably
not be ready to make any definite an
nouncements concerning the affair until to-
morrow. The love feast will be altogether
informal, far as the programme is con-
cerned, but there will be number of
speeches. Governor Durbin and Senators
Fairbanks and Beveridge will, of course,
be heard. and after them the Republican
members OF Congress, other party leaders
and the candidates will be called on. How
ever, the speechmaking will by no means
constitute the most important part of the
affair. The reunion of Republican forces is
the thing, with the fraternizing in hotel
corridor and lobby and the generating OF
While here to-day Chairman Goodrich
may issue the calls for the various district
conventions The State committee at its
recent meetings selected Jan. IL the day
for the conventions, but the several dis
trict committees must select the conven-
ton cities before the formal calls can be
issued.
81 have heard but from four or five dis
tricts," said Mr.. Goodrich last evening,
but l may hear from the others to-day,
and If 1 do the calls will be issued. think,
haf nf fha CT ri ~ N,r mi
tees have not yet got together to agree on
the places for their conventions"
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There has been some little speculation as
to whether State Senator James s. Barcus.
of Terre Haute. will be a candidate for the
Fifth district congressional nomination
again next year, and conflicting reports
have been circulated. First 1t was an
nounced that Mr.. Barcus would not be a
candidate, and again ii was stated on what
purported to be the best of authority that
he would enter the race A dispatch to the
Journal from Terre Haute gives the fol-
lowing definite statement Of the senator's
position:
Senator Barcus says he will probably
make an announcement soon after the first
of the year as to whether he will be a can
didate for the congressional nomination
He says he IS waiting for further develop
ments before making final decision. He
also adds that il is barely possible that he
will not make a formal announcement un-
I'll the day before the district convention,
easy not only Representative Holiday, of
Brazil, but one or two others who probably
would not be candidates for the nomination
unless Senator BarcuS entered the race.
The suggestion that they might be called
upon to pay $40 per day for hotel accom-
modations while in attendance at the ma
caused cold chills to run up and down the
spinal columns of many Indiana Republic
ans who expect to attend the convention.
but who do not wish to turn over all their
earthly belongings to rapacious Chicagoans
for the privilege of doing so. However, II
seems that the situation is not as bad as
1t appeared from the Washington dispatch
in the Sunday Journal. Harry S. New
the Indiana member OF the Republican
national committee, has returned from Chi
receiving the inttmation that the hotels
OF that city would increase their rate four
that the Chicago hotels will do the right
thing
when the national committee. at the
meeting in Washington. decided that the
convention should go to Chicago / at once
engaged a room for Indiana headquarters
and thirty bedrooms for the Indiana dele
CATION at the AUDITORIUM, said Mr.. New
last evening. Thursday night I received
a telegram from the Auditorium stating
that the reservation had been made, but
that the rates would be S. per day for
each person, with double bed and two
cots in each room. / left for Chicago the
next day and met Graeme Stewart the ILL.,
noiS member or the national committee
and one or two other gentlemen. including
the chairman Of the Chicago committee on
arrangements for the convention They
were anxious to see that the hotel peo-
pie had made good their agreement not to
raise their rates for the convention. The
manager of the company that controls the
Auditorium, Auditorium Annex and the
Great Northern assured us that the hotels
would do the right thing and not attempt
any imposition Their regular rates will
prevail, although. of course, there will be
some doubling up. That Is always ex-
pected at national convention
1t is reported that Governor Durbin had
an experience with one Chicago hotel that
led him to fear that IL he went TO the con-
vention he would be as much in the hands
Of the fhilistines as he and his party were
in st. Louis on the occasion of the dedica-
ton of the exposition. The Governor wired
that two rooms ce reserved for him and in
reply received a telegram intended TO be
similar to the one sent Mr.. New, but IL
had been mixed in transmission and instead
Of reading that the rates would be s. daily
| for each person with one double bed and
two cots in room. ii read twenty cots.
The Governors emotions and thoughts on
receiving the message are best left to the
imagination.
The FIT. Wayne News one Of the leading
Republican papers OF the Twelfth district