The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-20
THE DRIFT OF POLITICS

have been busy However. I'll take up
the congressional matter before long"
Major Steele had a little fire scare yester-
day morning and spent few anxious min
utes I'm scanning the story OF the ire In the
Colonial fiat at Marion 10 see IN there was
list Of killed or injured and II Mrs
in Chicago Monday night, when the nre
occurred. but did not learn Of IL until yes
terday morning route home when he
picked up a copy OF the Journal and saw
the story. Major and Mrs. Steele live In
the Colonial and a glance at the headlines
gave him something of shock. followed
by decided relief when he found that no
one had been injured in the fire. Upon
his arrival in Marion he learned that Mrs.
Steele had been one Of the several women
in the burning building who escaped by
means OF ladders raised TO their windows
Mr.. Cowgirl was not inclined 10 talk poll
tics last evening. aside from making few
comments on the Peru convention. I'm which
he went down in defeat with the Lands
and Beck forces. Mr.. Beck should have
been elected and would have been had
our people not been caught mapping with
that motion to consider the report OF the
credentials committee by sections instead
of as a whole" he said That motion
should never have gone through without
J a challenge, but IL did and that settled
the fight for the Craftsmanship. / stil be-
lieve that Mr.. Beck was entitled 10 re-
election by all precedent and by reason OF
faithful and satisfactory party service.
There should have been no opposition to
him in the first place.
Mr. Cowgirl is not inclined 10 discuss the
! congressional question and IL is not known
/ whether he will be a candidate I'm event
/ Major Steele enters the race 1t has been
I reported that he will be candidate IL the
major sets out for the nomination, and
again il has been said that he will not enter
the contest this year and viii let the fight.
/ If there should be one, be a straight out
/ and-out contest between Representative
/ Lands and Major Steele
Lawrence Lyons OF Brook who Is in the
city as a member OF the federal grand jury.
will lead the Republican forces in Newton
county in the coming campaign, as he has
/ just been elected chairman OF the county
/ central committee. He is young man,
! but has been an active party worker for
! several years and the Republicans Of his
| county are cOngratulating themselves that
| they have put the right man IN the right
Little attention is being paid TO politics
/, up our way at present said Mr.. Lyons
| last evening at the English. but We'll
| guarantee 10 do our share when the real
work Of the campaign opens. Some In
| terest has been aroused In the question or
| candidates for joint senator, 10 succeed
/ Senator Eben II. WOlcott, but / believe IL
| has been generally agreed that Senator
| Wolcott is the man TO succeed himself
|
Members of the Indiana Democratic Club
|
special train TO take the members OF the
club and other Indiana Democrats TO st.
| Louis for the Democratic national conven-
| ton July 6. A committee has been APP
| pointed TO take the matter up with the rail-
| roads.
Senator Eben II. wolcott. of wolcott.
was at the Columbia Club last evening.
"I have been pretty busy lately with bust
| H,,f I irwin not To q
friends in my district lose sight OF the fact
| that / am a candidate for denomination,
| he said with a smile, when asked about
politics. II do not know that i shall have
any opposition, and, of course, am hoping
| that shall not"
j. A. NJ. Adair, OF Portland. member OF
| the Democratic state committee from the
Eighth district and representative from
| Jay county in the last Legislature. an
| nounced last evening that he will not seek
| a denomination as representative. We
| have just organized new national bank at
| Portland and L have been elected pIesi-
dent" he said. THAT means that l will
not have time to make race for office, or
time 40 come down here to Indianapolis
for sixty days if L should be reelected"
! he said.
Mr.. Adair was persuaded 10 accept the
| nomination two years ago on the ground
| that he was the only Democrat who could
carry the county. he did carry the county
by close vote, but the Republicans OF Jay
| are confident that neither Mr.. Adair nor
any other Democrat can turn the trick
again this year.
Hugh Dougherty, OF Button. is one OF
the few Democratic leaders in Indiana who
are for Richard olney for the Democratic
presidential nomination. II have said all
along that Olney is the best man We could
nominate" he said last evening at the
Claypool. 81 confess, though, that Olney
has left his friends I'm the lurch by his
speech in which he urges the nomination
of Cleveland. There is no use talking OF
Cleveland. He has been three times nom
mated and twice elected President and the
Democrats of the country will not give
him a fourth nomination.
John b Stol Of South Bend is making
rapid progress toward becoming as much
of a disturbing factor in Indiana DemOc-
racy as he says W. ]. Bryan has been. MIR.
Stoll has the utmost contempt for William
r. Hearst, a decided aversion to Bryan, a
lukewarm feeling toward Thomas Taggart
and lack of sympathy with the manner
In which Indiana Democracy is being ma
nipulated, and he lets few days pass with
out giving editorial expression TO his views
on all these points. Monday he gave Tag
CART his first thrust in the following:
THE State central committee having
twice declared itself in regard To the chair
manship of the national committee, IL may
perhaps be taken for granted that the pre-
| cinct committees VIII not need 10 WreStle
with that subject for the next i've
| months.
In the same issue of his paper Mr.. Stoll
gave Hearst a trimming and ''roasts''
Bryan and the Democratic state organ in
another paragraph. In referring To Bryan
and the Sentinel Mr.. Stoll quotes the Co.
shen Democrat 10 the effect that Bryan s
recent speech in this city was Of no politi-
cal consequence, and then makes this COM
ment:
mot so sure about that Duly analysed
and fairly interpreted the speech amounts
TO a declaration Of war but along new
| lines. In the Sentinel's report the pcppery
parts Of the Bryan speech were carefully
eliminated and the omissions marked by
asterisks. This ostrich act may serve the
Sentinel's immediate purposes, but in the
final roundup such self-deceptiOn Will be
found 10 have been poor policy. Better
look the situation squarely in the face and
be prepared 10 take the bull by the horns.
Palaver and fiapdoOdle won't help ia this
| instance. Mir. WoOdsOn, the Kentucky
member Of the Democratic national COM
mittee. disdains TO indulge in that sort II
buncombe. He makes no attempt at con-
cealing the fact that Bryan means 90 fight
and Mr. WOOdsOn Is a good deal closer 10
the Nebraska orator than is the committee
| man from Indiana
is seldom possible 10 give more than a few