The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-18
THE DRIFT OF POLITICS

Senator Fairbanks Will be here next Sunday
or Monday for the state convention and
that he was informed before leaving Wash
ington that Senator Beverage would he
here next Saturday. and that in that event
all the Republican members from Indiana
would, or course, be here for the coDVen-
ton.
Two Republican district conventions are
scheduled for this week. On Wednesday.
at Muncie. the Republicans of the Eighth
district Will name their delegates and alter
mates 10 the national convention and NOM
mate presidential elector. on Thursday.
al New Albany. the Third district Republic
ans Will nominate candidate for Congress
and choose delegates and alternates TO the
national convention and presidential cleo
tor. Both conventions will be largely at
tended by candidates for state Offices.
There was a little gathering Saturday
night at the Columbia Club which may or
may not have a bearing on the Fifth dis
trict Republican congressional contest. In
the party were Senator James S. Barcus. OF
Terre Haute; w. l.. Halstead. manager OF
the Terre Haute Tribune; A. c. Cavins.
former chairman OF the Nigo county Re-
publican central committee. and t. ]. Hud-
gins and j. K. Sedwick of Martinsville. The
latter has been regarded as a prospective
contestant for the congressional nomina-
ton, and Senator Barcus. as is well known.
has made two formidable contests for the
nomination. Mr.. Cavins has also been
mentioned as possible candidate this
year. What may have been the cause or
the result OF the conference is a matter
for conjecture.
The Fifth district Republican congress
sional nomination at present lies between
Representative Elias 5. Holiday OF Bra
I'll, and Otis z. Gulley, OF Danyille as the
only avowed candidates. A NJ Higgins OF
Terre Haute and Howard Maxwell OF
Parke have been
probable candidates. and early in the cam
paign II was generally expected that Sen
ator Barcus would make another fight for
the honor The senator intimated sew
erai weeks ago, however, that he had about
decided to keep out of the race this year.
There was both rejoicing and sorrow in
the house Of Hearst yesterday-rejoicing
over the notable victories in several Demo-
cratic county conventions held Saturday.
and sorrow because of the overwhelming
Parker victory In Boone county. which is
the home Of Charles +. s. Neal and Edgar
Il. Malnes, two OF the most active leaders
OF the Hearst movement in Indiana On
the whole the Joy more pronounced
than the grief for the Hearst managers
claimed that the result of the conventions
in the Ninth district guarantees them two
delegates TO the national convention from
that district. and that the showing they
made in the Eleventh and Twelfth prac-
ticaily assures them they will control those
districts.
The Parker leaders, while admitting that
Hearst captured two or three counties Sat-
urday. ridicule the suggestion that thu
cheek and check-book candidate has made
himself a dangerous factor as yet in any
district in the State. Furthermore, they
give figures to back up their claims which
is something their opponents not doing.
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people from Saturdays conventions Hearst
is given the delegates to the state con-
vention from Brown county, II from De
, Kalb. IL out Of IA from Wabash. and Is
out OF is from Clinton. Upton county is
given TO Parker by II delegates out of IL:
Vermillion and Orange are solid for Par
ker, with each; Fountain is 10 10 for
Parker; Boone, IL TO for Parker; Carroll.
IL 10 for Parker, and Newton, to . for
Parker. while one township in Barthoo-
NEW, the only one where convention was
held, elected Parker delegates. On the
whole, out of 40 delegates selected in
twelve counties the Parker people claim
90 and give As TO Hearst. adding that they
give Hearst all the doubtful ones in this
compilation.
T. Taggart, who was at the Grand last
evening, said that the returns he had re-
ceived showed that everything in the
best of shape over the State. so far as
Parker'S interests were concerned.
The Hearst people have carried some
counties-we expected them to do that" he
SAID, out their strength has been so scat
tered that there is no chance of their con-
trolling single congressional district"
s. NJ. Ralston, of Lebanon. who Is head
ing the Parker fight in the Ninth district
as candidate for delegate to the national
convention, was in the city yesterday in
conference with Mr.. Taggart and others.
Ii is understood that he told the leaders he
met that ne had the Ninth 'cinched"
The Parker people manifest something like
unholy JOY over the way they succeeded
In showing under Neal and Names, the
Boone county lieutenants of Hearst. In
Meals township Isl votes were cast for
Parker TO thirty-one for Hearst. and in
Maines's township. where he was himself
candidate for delegate, he polled but forty
one votes to III cast for the Parker candi-
| date.
A dispatch to the Journal from Jeffer-
sonville says of the Third district Repub-
| lican congressional conventions:
|. AT mass meeting held in the different
townships in the county Saturday after
| to the Republican congressional, joint rep
| resentative and joint senatorial conventions.
The congressional convention will be held at
| New Albany next Thursday and District
| Chairman John &. Zulauf says that there
Is every prospect for a large and harmo-
NOUS meeting In IaSt said Mr.. Zuiauf.
| we have nothing but harmony among the
| Third district Republicans, and we are
going TO show the Democrats what har-
| monious. hard-working organization can do
| toward cutting down the almost overwhelm-
| ing Democratic majority I'm the district
1.-The nomination of John r. Dillon, Of
Jasper. Dubois county. for Congress will
| be una nimous. as his will be the only name
| presented TO the convention. Mr.. Dillon
| is a retired lawyer and business man, and
now spends much of his time on his farm
| near Jasper. He IL i'm the prime of life,
| able, aggressive and will make an ideal
candidate He will make hard fight for
| election. and Judge Zenor's former ma
| jorities will be whitfield down to very
| small margin, II not entirely overcome
| ...Ihe two candidates for delegates TO tho
| national convention Sam Wulfram. OF
| Huntingburg. and Harry McGrain, OF Cory
! don They will haze no opposition"
| YOU don't mean 70 tell me-do you-that YOU are