The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-28


the city yesterday afternoon from Wash
ington and announced that he was here TO
take uD his canvass and continue il to the
hour of the convention. he opened his
headquarters in a suite of rooms on the
second floor of the English Hotel and viii
keep them open until the fight is over. G.
w Duncan. of Greenfield, will be in charge,
as Judge Penfield will spend practically all
his time in travelling over the State. put
ting the finishing touches on his organiza-
ton and lining up his friends. The judge
has opened a bureau that is sending his
literature to the Republican voters in every
district and is prepared to make his cam
paign an aggressive one i'm every respect.
Judge Penfield expresses every confidence
that he will be the winner of the interest
ing contest for the honor of heading the
Republican ticket in Indiana
Il do not expect to go into the conven-
ton with more votes pledged to me for the
first ballot than any other candidate" said
the judge last evening But the nominal
ton will not be made on the first ballot nor
on the second. The successful candidate
will be the man who is the second choice
of most delegates. and believe / shall be
that man. 1 would not venture to express
| justify it. l do not care to give any figures.
! which / might do, to show where my
| strength will lie, but have reasons to be-
| lieve that / shall be the second choice OF
more delegates than either of my OPP
ponents. and on that 1 base my confidence
| that L shall receive the nomination.
Il was perhaps slightly handicapped on
| entering the race because my personal &C
quaintance over the State was not so large
| as that of other candidates, but expect 10
| be pretty well acquainted with the Repub-
| licanS of Indiana nv the M he convention
| is held and the delegates will not be asked
| to vote for a man whom they do not know
and with whose private and public record
| they are not acquainted
| Mr.. Duncan. of Greenfield, who will look
| after Judge Penfields interests at his head
quarters here, will be one of the delegates
| from Hancock county in the state conven-
| ton. He is brother-in-law of the judge
and has been campaigning actively for him
| for some time. He was asked how the Han
| cock county delegation will stand the
| gubernatorial question, but he would give
| no figures other than to say that lat the
right time Judge Penfield will receive
has been claimed by friends of j. Frank
| Hanly that he would receive nine out Of
! the ten votes from Hancock.
|
Peru will be the Mecca of the candidates
for state offices to-day, provided the floods
do not so seriously impair the railroad
service that it will be extremely difficult or
| impossible to reach the capital of Miami
| county. The Eleventh district Republican
congressional convention in that city to-
morrow will attract an unusually large
| crowd of party workers and the candidates
| feel free to go into the district for the first
time, now that the congressional contest is
| practically at an end. Frank Smith, of
| Brookville, one of the candidates for re-
porter of the Supreme Court, was in the
| city last night en- route to Peru.
| The result of the primarieS in Miami
Wabash and Huntington counties predi-
Gates the defeat of Major Steele in this
congressional struggle, which has been one
of the most spectacular primary campaigns
the State has ever had. The friends OF
Representative Frederick Lands, of Lo-
gansport, are jubilantly claiming that his
denomination is assured by an overwhelm-
ing majority-7S votes out of 12l-with 81
necessary for the nomination. They claim
20 votes in Cass, 16 in Miami, 20 in Wabash
19 in Huntington and in Blackboard, Civ
ing Major Steele 30 in Grant, 6 in Black
ford and in Miami The friends of Major
Steele do not concede that these figures
are correct, but they are making no coun-
ter-claimS 1t is generally accepted that
the Lands forces have won the fight, al
though there are those who say that Major
Steele may have something up his sleeve
and that the veteran politician from Grant
has pulled out of tighter holes than the
one in which he now finds himself.
| Numerous reports have reached this city
of maneuvers to nominate a dark horse
at Peru tomorrow. DR.. Charles Nj. Goode
OF Huntington, has been frequently pointed
| TO as the man who could defeat Mr. Lands
if the Steele forces would throw their en-
tire strength to him, and Ii can be readily
shown on paper how the major might nom
mate a man from Huntington or Wabash
counties and possibly a man from Miami
Conceded that the major has total of q
| votes-35 from Grant, from Blackfort
and from Miami-he can nominate a mar
who can command the solid delegation
from either Huntington Wabash, as tn,
former has 19 votes and the latter 20, anC
81 are required to win. The question is
what would the delegates from Huntington
or Wabash do If a man from their owl
county should come to them and say, Civ,
me your votes and 1 can have the nomina
l ton
, The friends of Representative Lands
claim that such a coup will be absolutel,
impossible They say that the fight 70
the delegates was waged on such close line
in Miami, Wabash Huntington will
stand by Lands under any and all circum
stances.
On the face Of the returns from the pr
maries the one chance of triumph for tn
Steele forces depends on their being able L
: force Wabash county to divide it's vot
4 equally between the two candidates in tn
interest OF Warren q. Sayres guberna
torial aspirations, and then making inroad
| on the IdnulS forces In CaSS county an
getting few scattering votes now caime
n for Lands in Miami and Huntington.
man who is more deeply interested il
4 ! the gubernatorial struggle than in anything
else of political nature at present point
to the situation in the Eleventh district L
e substantiate his claim that little faitl
i should be pinned to the predictions of tn
i politicians.
S Il haven't met a politician in the las
thirty days who didn't predict that Majo
| Steele would win the fight in the Eleventh
. | district, he said, land L am strengthene
much more about what is going to be don
= ! than the rest of us They make thei
n | gueseS, and that's about all there is TO il
Politics is all that General Sherman sal
of war, and it's a blamed sight more un
: certain And it's been my observation
: too, that the politicians propose and tn
n voters dispose, if you will stand for rev
:, sion of the old proverb.''
Z. H. Mccormack, of Columbus. who ia
been frequently mentioned as a possibl
candidate for the Democratic congressions
= nomination in the Fourth district, and VIII
# has not yet said that he will not get int
: the race, takes a firm stand on the Hears
# proposition He will have none of Hears
IS and SAYS his faith in Indiana Democrat
i is such as TO make him confident that III
- Hearst invaders will make no Roadway
this State.
- This Hearst invasion. as il is caned
n outrage" said Mr.. Mccormack La