The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-26
THE DRIFT OF POLITICS

counties was held yesterday afternoon al
ton was set Tor June is at Lebanon. IL
was also decided that the district would
waive the excess vote, rule. inasmuch as
every county In the district Is there ~
reason Of an excess vote. and that the rep
resentation In the convention should be one
delegate Tor each zoo votes or fraction
or loo or over, cast for Daniel h. storms,
Republican candidate for secretary of state.
at the last election On this apportionment
Boone county will have II delegates, Ham
ilton % Montgomery y and Madison 81.
and Madison viii DO unable 10 control the
nomination OF the candidate for represent
alive. Had the excess vote rule been adj
hered TO Madison would have had major
ity OF the delegates I'm the convention and
could have named the nominee
The avowed candidates for the nomination
who represented the district In the last
Legislature. and G NJ Zion. of Boone.
ton and 10 get the nomination Mr.. Warner
will have 10 hold the solid vote OF his own
county and get eight votes outside on
! the other hand il Mr.. Zion can command
| the support of all but six OF the delegates
| from Boone. Hamilton and Montgomery the
nomination Will be his.
There has been some talk OF a combina-
ton OF the other three counties against
Madison. and there was evidence of such
/ a combination In the meeting yesterday.
| On the question of waving the excess vote
rule the vote was 3 ID l. the chairman OF
Madison county standing alone in the mega
! tive.
7 Those present at the meeting were George
| S. Parker of Madison; f. NJ. Hare. OF
Hamilton; r. c. Walkup OF Montgomery.
and Ellis Darnell representing Chairman
/ s. 5. Heath. OF Boone.
Mr. Zion, of Lebanon. was in the city
yesterday, but was not present at the
/ meeting.
John r. Bonnell. OF Charlottesville. rev.
| anna COLLECTOR for he Tsrra Haufa district
was here yesterday.
L. V. Buskirk, postmaster of Blooming
ton, was a caller at Senator Fairbanks
| office yesterday TO make Inquiries regard
| ing the establishment of additional rural
routes in his county.
| At a meeting of the Republican county
executive committee yesterday afternoon
the question of the date OF the legislative
convention discussed pro and con. and
the suggestion was made that the conven-
ton should not be held until September.
| 1t was argued that this would assure the
selection of an exceptionally strong ticket.
| No definite action was taken by the COM
mittee. as it was evident that the opinions
| OF the members of the committee were
widely at variance. Some of the members
|
right away others argued for postpone
ment until after the national convention,
while others favored date the latter part
Of August early in September. County
Chairman II. b. Smith said at the conclu-
sion of the meeting that in all probability
the convention will not be held until after
| the national convention. The question OF
the size of the legislative convention and
| the apportfonment of the delegates was
also discussed at some length.
Chairman Smith laid before the committee
| the notice from the state committee that
| in the convention 10 nominate candidate
| for joint representative from Marion and
| Hancock counties, Marion county will have
| but six delegates. under the excess vote
| rule. Hancock will have ten delegates. The
committee decided that ii was out of the
| question to hold a primary merely to Sc
| lect six delegates from this county and
| that the delegates should be appointed by
| the committee county chairman. IL this
| could be done without conflict with other
| rules of the state committee.
The date of the joint convention will be
| determined at a conference between Chair
man Smith and the chairman of Hancock
| county.
S. r. Bell. OF Union City. who has rep
resented Randolph county in the House
during the last two sessions of the Legis-
lature. and Samuel Canada. of Winchester.
| also an ex-representative, were callers at
| the Statehouse yesterday.
|
Elan III. Neal, of Jonesboro, member OF
the Republican state committee from the
Eleventh district. called at state headquar-
tiers last evening.
A meeting of the Indiana delegates tn
the Republican national convention will be
held Saturday at state headquarters. The
delegation will organize and fix the assess
ment for the expenses OF the trip TO Chi
cago. II is SAID that Senator Beverage
will probably be made the chairman of the
delegation.
C. III. Beard and w. A Brown, we'll
known attorneys of New Castle, were at
the Columbia Club yesterday.
The report that Hearst is to purchase or
establish a newspaper in Indianapolis re-
ceved additional impetus yesterday
through an intimation that Frank De warf
who was the president of the Hearst Union
Printers Club. organized during the recent
campaign, had been authorized by A M.
Lawrence, Hearst's Chicago manager, to
engage men for the mechanical department
| of the paper. ]. Oscar Henderson, Hearst 3
| local representative, discredited the report.
| although he said he could not say positive
ly that there was nothing in it.
II know that Mr.. Lawrence has not been
in this city since the state convention %
| he said land that he has been in the East
| practically all the time since the conven-
1 ton / believe that IL any steps had been
| taken toward the establishment or pur-
| chase of a paper here / would know some
thing OF it,.