The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-16
BY Harper.

cratic candidate for congress from the
! Sixth district, has refused point blank
! to say he is supporting Thomas Mar
shall, Democratic candidate for COVER
nor. Rather a strang situation. Mr.
| Kuhn does not say he is not supporting
| Marshall, however. His attitude is en-
tirely non-commital. In answer to the
direct question, Are you supporting
Marshall:" Mr.. Kuhn returned an eva
! sive answer. Sc said: Il refuse to
make a statement other than say that
l am speaking neither for nor agains,
! another candidate, but am fighting the
battle on federal issues. as I seek a
federal position. State questions DO
not enter into mp fight"
Rather an odd situation isn't it. when
Democratic nominee for congress re-
fuses to say he supports the Demo-
cratic nominee for grovernor? The fed
eral issue subterfuget hardly fills the
bill. If you are not for a man. you are
against him or, if you are not against
him you are for him, is an old political
axiom that seems particularly appIi-
cable in the case of the Rev. Mr.. Kuhn
The attitude of the preacher-politician
is to be construed either way accord
ing to the judgment of the Individual
Again it may be said rather an odd
situation
But Mr.. Kuhn had little more to
say, when asked for an interview. He
Informed the inquirer it wah not neces-
sary for him to blow his horn on
every issue" II am supporting Kuhn
and telling the people what are his is
Sues" the candidate said. And then
he made this assertion: you don't
want an interview for any good pur-
pose You have no honest motive. You
mant something to chew the rag about.
l don't think it necessary to tell you
everything know. You want to make
cipital out Of it. You won't publish
what I would want you to and would
leave out what wouldn't want you to.
am not afraid to the any position nor
10 take any stand but l don't want to
give on interview and have you use
only the parts of it that suit your
selves"
Now wasn't that somewhat unkind
of the Rev. Mr.. Kuhn? He doubted
the motive of the interviewer and told
him he had no honest purpose That
certainly was jumping to a hasty con-
clusion. And then Mr. Kuhn was told
he would not need to give an extensive
interview but simply answer the ques-
ton: Are you supporting MARSHALL"
Mr. Kuhn need have said but one word
and the interview would have been at
an end.
The position of the Rev Mr.. Kuhn
Is very similar to that of the tramp
trying to carry off the pie. He has
reached the top of the fence. On one
side is a bramble patch and behind
him is the bulldog. To jump means
severe scratches and the probable loss
of the pie by the jolt. To fall back
means the teeth of the growing
canine.
Let the congressional honor repre-
sent the pie, the bramble patch the
class of voters that refuses to line I'D
with Marshall, the candidate OF the
brewers, and the bull dog, the Demo
cratic party. The dog is chasing the
on to his most rapid strides.
It has caused him to leap as high as
he congressional fence. But there he
must remain.
Why: He can not repudiate Mar
shall or the Democratic dog would pull
'ff Wilbur Wright stunt. fly at his
,oat tails and put him back on the level
Whence he jumped. He can not say he
S supporting Marshall. as that would
ose for him votes that he hopes to
,ain on election day from the RepubIi-
an party. There are some voters in
he Republican ranks Of the Sixth dis
riot, who probably will vote for Kuhn.
BUT they are not going to vote for Mar
hall, whom they regard as the brew
ry candidate, and if Kuhn supports
i'm he will lose their votes. The ana /