The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-02


n our summary election from con-
troll of the house I'm the midway cleo
ion. II the party were rot TO be
iismenbered. I must Gust Goodrich.
must defeat his plans for nominating
'romwelf must nominate Burbank in
cad If should succeed in elect
7g him, | reasoned that l could
trough him carry out my policy Of
federation and practical patriotism
yield TO the powerful few a mini
lum OF what they could compel. TO
I'VE to the PROSTATE but potentially
0werful many AZ least enough to
eep them euiet-a stomachfGl The
forld may he advanced. but patriot
SIN still remains the art Of restrain
ne the arrogance of full stomschs and
he anger OF empty ones
In Cromwell. Goodrich believed he
al a candidate With Sufficient hold
ipon the rank and file Of the party to
.nable him to carry the election by
he usual means-a big campaign
fund properly distributed in the
doubtful states l said 10 Senator
Scarborough of Indiana soon after
CromNells candidacy was announced:
What do you think of Goodrich's
man."
Scarborough. though new to the
senate then. had shown himself far
and away the abiest OF the opposition
senators. He had as much intellect as
any of them: and he had what theor-
lists. such as he. usually lack. skill at
grand tactics"-the management of
men in the mass. His one weakness
and that. from my standpoint. a
great one-was a literal belief in DEM
ocratic institutions and in the inspir-
Pile of exact equality before the law
"Cromwell's political sponsors" was
his reply. ARE two as shrewd bankers
as there are in New York. l have
heard it said that fitting sign for
a bank would be: Here We do nothing
for nothing for nobody"
An admirable summing up OF Crom-
wells candidacy. And | knew that
it would SO appear to the country that
no matter how great a corruption
fund Goodrich might throw into the
we should. in that time OF
public evaporation, be routed il Crom-
well was our ard-bearer-so ut
terly routed that we could not pos
sibly get ourselves together again for
s, perhaps IL years. There might
even be re-a!ignment of parties with
some sort of socialism in control of
retained by the few who have the cap
ital and the intellect to make eff
cient the nations resources and en-
ergy. my project must be put through
at once
l had accumulated a fund of $780,
900 for my presidential notation"-
half of it contributed by Roebuck in
exchange for q promise that his SON
n-law should have an Enthusiastically
II Burbank were elected; the other
half set aside by me from the RE-
serve / had formed out of the year
by-year contributions OF my combine.
By the judicious investment Of that
capital purposed to get Burbank the
on the first ballot-at least
100 of the 900-odd delegates.
In a national convention the dele
gates are. roughly speaking. about
evenly divided among the three sec
ions of the country-a third from /,
EAST of the Alleghanies: third from
he west: third from the south It |
vas hopeless for US to gun for dele |
gates in the east: that was the espe- |
.ial bailiwick OF Senator Goodrich /
rhe most we could do there would be |
o keep him occupied by quietly en-
any anti-Cromwell senti- |
it existed a.plenty Our i
'eal efforts were to be in the west |
Ind south