The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-08
THE DRIFT OF POLITICS.

A new candidate for the Republican NOM
ination for reporter of the Supreme Court
has entered the field in the person of Ben
f. Corwin, of Greencastle, one of the we'll
known party workers of Putnam county
and the Fifth district. Mr.. Corwin has
made no formal announcement of his cam
didacy, but his friends are saying positively
that he will be in the race, and it is un-
derstood that he has come to that decision.
Mr.. Corwin will enter the contest untried
as a candidate, for he has never before
sought official preferment of any kind, al
though he has taken an active part in poll
tics for years. He has stumped the State
several times, and has long been one of
the guiding spirits in Republican affairs of
his county and district, but heretofore he
has devoted his time and energy, politically,
to his friends and the party. Now he pur-
poses to do a little work for Corwin, and
his friends will turn in and work for him.
Ellis +. Sluss, of this city, a former Put
nam county resident, in speaking of Mr..
Corwin's probable candidacy, said last
night:
while Mr.. Corwin is not yet ready to
announce formally that he will be a cam
didate. it is my understanding that he has
fully determined to enter the race, and that
he has already done some little quiet work
midable candidate from the outset, for he
has a wide acquaintance over the State, is
well situated geographically, and, although
he has never made the race for any office
before, he is an experienced ~campaigner.
and one of the shrewdest politicians in his
part of the State.
1.-THE Fifth district will nave no other
candidate before the Republican State con-
ventiOn next year, and this fact should be
a decided advantage to Mr.. COrwin. More
than that. the district has asked little rec
ognition for several years, and Putnam
county has never had but one Republican
State official that 1 recall-Tom Hanna, who
was Lieutenant Governor away back in
the eighties.
Mr. Corwin is well qualified for the
office he seeks. He is a graduate of De
Paw, and has been recognized for years
as one of the leading attorneys of Putnam
county. For the last two years he has
been at the head of the Republican county
organization
The announcement thai Mr.. Corwin will
make the race for reporter of the Supreme
| Court will doubtless occasion some little
surprise among State politicians, as his
name has not been mentioned previously
as one of the possible or probable candi-
dates. Only two men have been spoken of
in connection with this contest-George W..
Self, of Corydon. and Leroy K. Nash, of
Upton. However, the campaign Is still
| young, and the list of entries will not be
4 COllSlOCiCQ CiOScQ lOI ScNtIdl IplltIS llclc
are usually four or five candidates for this
office, and some of the most interesting
fights the Republicans ave had in Indiana
of the men now in the running are active,
aggressive and experienced in political lore,
and all have many warm friends, conse-
quently the race during the next eight or
ten months should be close and exciting.
Mr. Nash was a candidate before the last
convention.
The entrance of Mr.. Self into the race
L means that he will not be a candidate TO
succeed himself as chairman of the Repub-
lican organization in the Third district. So
craftsmanship, although with the interest
there is in the reorganization of the Re-
publican State committee next January, it
Is not probable that the place will go beg
| ging. John I. Stout, of Paoli. is being
urged by his friends to become a candi-
/ date for district chairman. and 1t is prob
able that he will do so. although he said
last evening that he had reached no de-
cision i'm the matter.
~I have been so busy with the work of
the commission that has been selecting a
site for the new Industrial School for Girls
that / have not had time to see any OF my
friends in the district, outside my own
county" he said. land naturally | DO not
want to decide the question until have
seen some of them i have been here at
Indianapolis most of the time for the last
four or five weeks sess;, but ! expect naw to have
shall take the matter up"
". L. Ricketts,, of Delphi. Representative
c. b. Landis's associate in newspaper work,
was at the Claypool last evening.
XXX
1t seems that after all the Governor may
not be called upon to name a successor to
Judge Milton III. Parks, of the circuit COM
posed of Morgan and Owen counties. who
has been in suchill health that his retire
ment from the bench was deemed advis-
able. The clerk of Morgan county certi-
fed to the Governor that Judge Parks was
i inca pacitated for his duties, but the clerk
of Owen county has not made a similar
certificate, and 1t was said at the State
house yesterday that in all probability a
j certificate from Owen county will not be