The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-12
CAMPAIGN IN INDIANA
REPUBLICANS ARE NOT PLEASED
 WITH THE OUTLOOK.
Ccrtelyou CompIains that the Business Men of the RepubIican Party
 W Are Taking No In-
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f Are Taking No In-
 terest. Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 1o.-tspeciai correspondence)-Tw things that DC cured last week have contributes
 largely to the misgivings of the Repup- lican organization in Indiana. lns l first of these was the pitifully weah showing made at the National ConVeh- ton of the League of Republican Ciuos' held here last week. When the press
 bureau of the League was estaolisneo
 in Indianapolis the first of septemoes
 the statement was made and reiterated
 that fully 10000 members of Repuoh- can clubs would attend the convention from outside of Indiana When the convention was finally called to order less than 500 delegates from outside of the State were present. The repre- sentation from Indiana clubs was also a humilfating disappointment. Lafay- ette, which has been counted on for delegation of at least 200. was strik- ing illustration of this. reception committee. with brass band and all the frills marched down to the station to meet the Lafayette visitors On the return rnarchNit was seen that the re- ceptfon committee far outnumbered the delegates, as only twelve of the prom tSSo $VV ChAuC. 1LNCIy othNi SAtJ Indiana furnished a similar disappoint- ment. and the League leaders left here after the convention in no happy frame of mind.
 The second disturbing occurrence was the episode between Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw and Mrs. Will | liam Ellis. wife of a convention dele
 gate from Arkansas. Secretary Shaw's lamentable failure to either answer or E..r A- IL Axata e. tions has placed the Republicans of 1n-
 diana in a peculiar position. Mrs, Ellis, from a seat in the front row at | night session of the convention, inter l rupted Mir. Shaw's speech just while | he was telling of the r.'nner in which | the Roosevelt administration had put
 out of business all the "piratical com
 binations and trusts that sprung up
 under the Cleveland regime"
 l And now" he had just said, now, after four and a half years of Republi- | canism under Mckinley and three years | and half under Theodore Roosevelt 1 more particularly this last period | where are these gigantic octopi, these | stranglers of commerce. this foul fun | gus growth that had its origin during the last Democratic administration Gone, every one of them-dissolved, forced to disgorge their plundered se-
 curities. commanded by that young man
 in the White House to cease forever
 their Illegal efforts to stific competition And that command has been obeyed. .'
 Just here Mrs. Ellis came in.
 | From her seat in the front row she
 asked, in a voice clearly heard all over
 the hall:
 And do you mean. Mir Secretary that there are no trusts now?"
 The silence that renders audible the dropping of pin would have been tut mutt to that which instantly fell upon
 the audience. Delegate Ellis. from his
 seat beside his wife, squirmed. turned
 red and uttered a suppressed, but ex- plosive "h--l." while everyone in the
 hall waited for Mir Shaw's answer. The Secretary. pausing in his walk up and
 down the stage. also did few rapid
 stunts in blushing, stammered. glanced | at the too-inquisitive Mrs. Ellis and
 then over the rest of the audience, and finally replied, in a voice hardly audi | Yes. ma'am."
 The answer was so pitiably weak
 and so at variance with what the audi l ence had expected, that a burst of
 laughter shook the hall When it had
 subsided, Mrs Ellis asked again:
 Then why does the Republican plat
 form denounce trusts?"
 Again was Secretary Shaw at a loss
 From the floor of the hall from the
 galleries-ali over the house, came
 cries of How is that, MT. Secretary
 What have you to say to that?" and
 the like. The discounted speaker
 launched into a disconnected and long drawn out effort to explain his mean
 ing, saying that the old forms of trusts,
 where several properties had been plac-
 ed in one mans hands as trustee, were
 no longer in existence, but that the
 form of trust by which a corporation
 secures, by purchase. any number of
 properties. does exist and that it is
 fully as bad as the original form of | trust. | The vice presidents of the meeting
 wriggled in their seats as Mir. Shaw
 said he did not want to be placed on
 record as saying there are no trusts, | but the Secretary ambled on in his ef- | fort to get out of the mire, while the
 audience smiled, giggled and guffawed in appreciation of the oratorical gym
 nastics Mrs. Ellis's questions had fore
 ed him to perform. For nearly two
 hours did the Secretary wander about in the quagmire he had been thrown into, the amusement of his hearers and the embarrassment of the convention | officers growing more pronounced all | the time.
 After taking up this amount of time 1 in explaining himself, after saying in so many words that the administration
 has done nothing to curb the trusts | save in its one futile effort in the Northern Securities case. after saying ! in so many words that the growth of trusts Is dependent upon the tariff, and | that 1t Is in the power of the States to curb their own trusts, if they so ldesire-that 1t Is not a governmental function-he finally sat down. Then he discovered that he had crowded out George w. Knight. the California or ator, who was to have divided the eveh- ing with him. Mir. Knights speech was sent out by the Associated Press, but only i've minutes of 1t was deliv- cred.
 The whole episode had embarrassed the Republican organization more than anything that has occurred during the