The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-24
Asserted That Out of 472 DEL
egates Already Selected.
He Has the Promise of at
Least 800 Votes.
GOOD SHOWING MADE
IN LABOR CENTERS.
Many Mining Counties Are
Favorable to the Sixth Dis
triCt Man for Governor
The EnsIey Incident.

| indianapolis, Ind, February III
Up to this time the following coun-
! ties have named delegates TO the repub-
iican state convention: Randolph. 20;
Posey. L.; Howard u; Floyd, Il;
Franklin, :; Pulaski !; Starke, g;
/ Owen. $; Lawrence, 1G; Henry. IL;
/ Fountain, Is; Orange, IL: Wayne, II;
Hamilton. Is: Marshall. l.: Spencer.
Is; Johnson, IL; Fayette. 10; Switzer-
land, 8; Fulton. II; Elkhart, -; Rip
ley, L.; Rush, 10; Upton, l.; Clarke,
-: Delaware. 81; Clay, 16; Boone. 1G;
Dearborn, o; Putnam IL; Hendricks.
IA; Noble 16; Vermillion II; Shelby,
IL; total 412. This is practically one
third of the delegates to the conven-
ton.
1t is stated at Congressman Watson 5
headquarters that positive assurance
has been received from the various
counties in which the delegates have
been named that over 300 of the AZ
are for him on first choice. They
said that 300 is conservative estimate
and that the showing he has made is
even more gratifying than they had an
ticipated. The claims of the Watson
men are disputed by the lieutenants of
the other candidates. but the reports
printed following the election of dele
gates by counties gave Watson over
300
Watson's followers say that the
most significant features of the race
is the showing he is making in labor
centers. He made a clean sweep of
Vermillion county, where a large por-
ton of the voters are union miners
Over three-fourths of the delegates
from Delaware county are for him
Delaware is a hot-bed of unionism
In every other labor center Watson has
: obtained more delegates than VIM. l.
Taylor, of indianapolis, who is posing
as the labor union candidate. In the
agricultural communities Watson has
led the field by a large margin. Ir
Hend.- ks county yesterday several
farming communities instructed theil
delegates for him.
What is pointed TO by Watson's
lieutenants as another significant fea
ture in his favor is that every county
in districts that have no candidates fOl
governor has given him votes. In al
but two or three counties outside the
other candidates districts majority OF
the delegates elected are Watson men
His followers say that this showing in
dicates very plainly that he has fol
lowing in every community and that
he will win the nomination.
The Watson men say that the mask
has been torn from the Democratic pol
iticians who are posing as the leaders
of the socalIed labor movement agains
him, and that there is no prospect o.
the republican union men being mis-
led The fact that the same democrat
ic politicians who are trying to incitt
labor against Watson fought Congress
man CLANCY. the republican nominee
for congress in the Second district two
, years ago, when his labor record wa:
, SnOwn to be clear, is beginning t,
dawn on the rank and file of the labor
: unions.
An adroit effort is being made nov
= to brighten republican candidates fol
local offices in many counties with sto
ries that the labOring classes arr
: against Watson, and it is said that thu
same politicians who are furnishing
the inspiration for the so-Called labo
movement are planning to run a bis
= bluff on the convention by bringing Il
indianapolis at that time labor mel
p who will say that he must not be Homi
mated
Watson's Iieutenant~ are confideu
now that he Will land the nomination
early in the convention.
The public notice served by Olive
5 Ensley. manager Of VIM. L. Taylor
, candidacy for the republican nomina
) tion for governor. that Senator Bever
Z idge's federal appointees here are Try
ing to break up Taylor's home deiega
tiou in behalf OF their candidate
Charles W. Miller. uf Goshen. H.
. brought to the surface The bitter feel
p Ing that has existed here for some tim
among republicans who feel hat it i
! unfair % modest Taylor in his own Dis
- trict
/ When his, cuEdiaa,l was aUH0alcs.
p several months ago some al tho ra.:.
e. workers rebelled at the idea Of beiul
3, tied up in another convention for hin
g They said that lie had been a can3t al
+ from this county three times for at.or
. rey general and once for governor. an
that il vas unfair to the republican