The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-14
THE DRIFT OF POLITICS

The newly elected members of the Re
| publican state committee will meet at head
quarters, in the Stevenson building, this
afternoon to organize by the election of
officers. James P. Goodrich, of winchester.
will be reelected as state chairman, Fred
A. Sims. of Frankfort, committeeman from
the Ninth district, will be elected secretary,
and II. W. Bennett, of this city, will be re-
elected treasurer 1t has not been definitely
| determined who will be vice chairman, but
| IL is understood that that honor will fall
| TO George a Cunningham, Of Evansville,
/ the First district committeeman. 1t has
| been the custom TO make the oldest member
in point of service the vice chairman of the
| committee, and since the retirement OF
1 George w. Self. of Corydon, Mr.. Cunning
/ ham now ranks as the veteran or the COM
mittee
| No other business will come before the
| committee at this time, and the committee
| will adjourn TO meet at the call Of the
! chairman.
! Mr. Goodrich was in the city yesterday
4 looking after some business ut headquar-
| ters. Last evening. in speaking of the
| Eleventh and Thirteenth, Mr.. Goodrich eX-
pressed his satisfaction with the results.
"All the candidates in the districts where
| there were contests were such good men
| that the conventions could make no mis-
/ takes" he said. THE interest taken In
! one or two of the districts gave evidence
/ that the Republicans are aroused TO an
active participation in party affairs and
! these little contests within the family will
put US in good training TO meet the COM
mon enemy. The new committee is splen-
| did one in every respect
Immediately after the committee adjourns
! this afternoon Chairman Goodrich viii
/ leave for an extended business trip through
| the West. He will be in Salt Lake City be-
| fore his return.
/ Fred A. Sims, who will be the secretary
of the committee, arrived in the city last
evening. When asked If he would resign
! as committeeman from the Ninth district
/ upon his election as secretary he said that
he would not.
Not for the present. at least" he said
| There will be nothing about the office Of
| secretary to interfere with my serving as
1 district chairman. Later in the campaign it
may be deemed advisable for me TO resign
as member of the committee, but in that
other members of the committee and the
! Republicans Of my district"
| +
William Z. Springer, Of Elizabethtown,
one of the four new members of the COM
mittee, at the English last evening.
1--WE had a fine convention in the Fourth
| district" he said, although, of course it is
but natural that l can find nothing but
good about it, because it elected me district
chairman. However, il was a splendid con-
Vention-the best we've had in the Fourth
| for years. We had a large crowd and ev-
erything was enthusiastic and harmonious.
1.-The most striking event of the conven-
| ton was its unqualified and enthusiastic in
| dorsement of President Roosevelt for the
| nomination next June at Chicago contin-
ued Mr.. Springer. THAT action is signif-
cant because the Fourth district for the
| most part, lies close to Cincinnati and the
| Cincinnati CONGRATULATIONS has been
| attacking the President persistently and
| so strongly. The resolutions adopted were
| put in the strongest terms and every man
| who made a speech in the convention re-
| ferred to the President in the most compli-
| mentary way. 1t showed clearly that there
is no anti-Roosevelt sentiment among the
| Republicans of the Fourth district"
Republicans here yesterday found little
to talk about except the district conven-
tons at Peru and South Bend. Close con-
tests had been generally anticipated in both
the Eleventh and Thirteenth districts, but
no one had looked for fights of such I'M
| usual intensity and the few men who ar
rived in the city fresh from the Stirring
scenes at South Bend and Peru were eager
ly questioned for details. The Peru con-
| vention, where the election of Elan II.
| Neal, of Jonesboro, over Adam L. Beck. OF
| Huntington, brought about largely
| through a clever parliamentary coup
| planned by the veteran political general,
| Mai. George w. Steele. of Marion. was es-
| pecially the topic of conversation about
| the hotels and clubs. Stories of this con-
| vention will enliven many a gathering OF
| politicians for months TO come.
| AS an echo of the Eleventh district con-
vention, by the way it is learned that the
| services and experience of Adam Beck