The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-15


w. II. O'Brien. Of Lawrenceburg.
Crawford Fairbanks and ]. c.. McNutt. Of
Terre Haute. the latter the Fifth district
member of the Democratic state committee.
returned yesterday afternoon from st.
Louis. where they went TO make arrange
ments for quarters for the Indiana delega-
July 6. They secured rooms for eighty
people and a parlor for state headquarters
at the Southern Hotel.
I'VE were very fortunate in securing the
quarters" said Mr.. Taggart last evening.
w had not anticipated that the rush TO
rooms for convention week had be-
gun as yet. but we had our eyes opened
when we got TO St. Louis. and we found
that if 1 had not happened 10 make a
chance remark TO Manager Lewis, OF the
Southern. several weeks ago. we would
have been unable TO get in at either OF the
leading hotels. Mr.. Lewis was down at
French Lick some time ago. and when he
went away l told him that the Indiana
crowd would want TO stop at his hotel dur-
ing the convention. and that he had better
save some rooms for US. He took me at my
word and made a reservation. SATURDAY ne
told US that he had had to fight to save US
any rooms. but he arranged TO take care OF
the Indiana delegates and alternates, and TO
give us a room for state headquarters.
The Southern will be headquarters for
the delegations from several Eastern States,
including New York. The m crowd
VIII stop there, too"
Mr.. Taggart and the others who were
with him on this trip are wondering what
st Louis Will do with the crowds during
the Democratic convention. Il don't see
how they can begin to handle the crowd"
at the Southern Saturday there were eight
or ten people waiting in the lobby for rooms
TO be vacated so that they could get quar-
tiers for over Sunday. The worlds fair
itself will draw crowds that will give the
ST. Louis hotels all they can handle, and
when the national convention is there 1
don't know what they Will do"
The party visited the exposition grounds
while in ST. Louis, and all were much i'm
pressed with the progress of the prepara-
lions for the big fair.
There is an immense amount of work
yet to be DONE" said Senator O'Brien, who.
by the way, is also a member Of the In
diana worlds fair commission. In fact,
there is SO much TO be done that 1t seems
almost incredible that everything will be IN
readiness for the opening May !. However,
President Francis and the other exposition
officials say that they will be ready by that
time, and L suppose they know more about
1T than any one else. The Indiana BUILDING
is well toward completion. / would judge
that it's about 80 per cent. completed. IL
will be a comfortable, attractive home for
Indiana visitors, and l believe our people
will be well pleased with it."
Senator O'Brien left last evening Tor MS
home in Lawrenceburg. He says that there
Will be no meeting of the Democratic state
committee for three or four weeks, unless
something should turn up Unexpectedly 10
demand the attention of the organization.
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Local Democratic leaders were deeply
interested in learning the result of the
conversational nriuaariaS in rvEn or three
counties of the Third district, which were
held Friday and Saturday The contest
between Representative Zenor and Judge
Cox is attracting much attention and the
Democrats outside the district are watch
ing closely to see which fares the better
Washington county, which was not uneX-
pected. and Cox will get practically all OF
the Orange county delegation. The gen
eral opinion expressed is that the issue
will really be fought out In Floyd county,
which is being claimed by both candidates
and their friends. BY reason OF Coxs con-
troll of the Floyd county organization 1t is
thought that he has a slight advantage
there. His friends confidently assert that
he will get every delegate from the county.
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Homer Davenport, the car
toonist, who recently lectured in this city,
had a cartoon in Sundays Cincinnati En-
quirer, in which he makes amends for the
villianous c~aricatures of Sena Hanna
which he perpetrated a few years ago and
which had much to do with the forming
of a popular prejudice against the senator
that lasted only until the people came
really TO know the distinguished Ohioan.
In this cartoon, which is not a cartoon in
the usual acceptance of the term, the SEN
ator is depicted lying on his sickbed. This
time, however, Davenport has brought out
- $780, ~ 49, ahn-nofn~ - ~
senator's features and his hand has been
guided by affection and respect. Seated
by the bedside is the conventional "Uncle
Sam holding the hand of the sick man
and scanning earnestly and fearfully the
fever-vasted face. lowering behind I'm
Gle Sam is the shade OF Mckinley. The
that accompanies 1t and in a statement
in the same issue of the En-
quirer Davenport makes reparation for his
former caricatures OF Senator Hanna, say
ing that he has learned to love and re-
spect the senator as one of the nOblest and
greatest lei the country has produced.
Judge Owen n. Heaton, OF Fort Wayne,
is a prospective candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for judge of the Supreme
Court from the Fourth judicial district
two years hence. He himself does not
admit tina such are his plans, but his
friends say that he will be a candidate,
| and they are dTedQy QOink d lIllc Qulet
work in his behalf. Judge Heaton was
one Of the speakers at the Lincoln League
banquet Saturday night at Evansville.
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The Republicans of the Twelfth district
will meet in convention tomorrow at Ken
dallville to select delegates to the Repub-
lican national convention.
]. Hampton Moore, Of Philadelphia, pres
ident of the National League of Republican
Clubs, will be in the city to-day to confer
with some of the party leaders regarding
the national convention of the league, which
will be held in this city next October. Mr.
Moore regards the convention OF unusua,
Importance this year, as IL will come toward
the close of the campaign and will be the
last big event of the kind before the cleo.
ton.
The First district Republican congress,
sional convention will be held March Is
District Chairman George A. Cunningham
of Evansville, has issued the call, and