The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-03
w. H. BIodgett in Writing to
indianapolis Paper, Sizes
Up Affairs as He Sees Them
In the "OId Burnt"
ACTIVITY OF ALL PART
les MARKS RACES.
With Candidates Galore the
District Is Attracting At
tention of Others-PoliticaI
Gossip of Interest.

Gossip of Interest.
William II. Blodgett, formerly a
Richmond newspaper man, but now
political writer for an indianapolis pa
per- was stranded at the little station
of Dunreith the other day. Having
the happy faculty of seeing the polit-
ical side of everything, Blodgett took
his stumpy pencil and few scraps Of
note paper and proceeded with a long
treatise on the Sixth district political
situation as it apparently stands at
the present time and as he sees it.
The following is Blodgett's contribu-
tiOn to his paper:
An hour al Dunreth Junction. Just
think of that. There is no place where
an hour seems as long except at Lime
dale or Auburn Junction. The per-
ambulating pandora box that carries
passengers from the junction to New
Castle was doing disappearing spec
ialty when the Indianapolis car arrived
A travelling man loaded with grips and
sample cases said:
Dash the dash .... -. 49,. car.
never got to this place u.
You said that splendidly," exclaim-
ed ii bright young matron with a min
iature production of herself in her
arms. You expressed my sentiments
exactly. Oh, never mind" she cou-
tinued sweetly, "bamby did not under
stand what you said
And SO the minutes licked away.
While the Crowd Waited.
1t was a mixed crowd that waited for
the return of Mr.. Reynoldss humpty-
hump car. A demure little lass with
the eyes of a Madonna and the soul Of
a. Carmen was trying to tangle her
dark eyes with the gray ones of a
young man in a REFER who was hum
ming when You Know You're Not
Forgotten by the Girl You Can't For
get" An old sea dog who had ridden
the bounding billows with Commodore
Bill Elliott, of the New Castle COur-
ier, gave vent to his sorrow in the
words:
Old Bill Oliver
And Patsy Bolivar,
Captain of the Sweet May-ree.
And he didn't seem to know that
there was murder in the hearts of ev-
eryone present. The gay man behind
the ticket case was a busy one. When
he was not tying his shoes he was
whistling the Merry Widow waltz
and provoking homicidal tendencies in
a weak old man near the door. A
babe was calling Dada, da-da,'' at the
back of man on whose face unhappi-
ness had printed its hieroglyphics.
who's the guy with the mop on his
face?" asked Eyes of Gray of Eyes Of
Brown
That's pepper answered Eyes of
Brown, and then they went outside
and stood to the windward of the re-
freshment stand, where sandwich is
spelled with Ct
"Popper's" Political Views.
Pepper evidently did not hear the
remark of the youth in the reefed hat.
for he went right along expressing his
views of political affairs in the Sixth
district.
1T certainly looks to me as if Bill
Barnard. of New Castle has the nomi-
nation for congress in a sack and all
tied up. OF course, he will have to
light for it, but he is a pretty good
scrapper," and pepper" rambled on.
The contest for the republican NOM
ination for congress in the Sixth dis
trict though it is attracting a great
deal of attention. is not causing so
much uneasiness among republicans as
the fights in the Eighth and Eleventh
districts. Whoever is nominated will
be elected.
The convention will meet at Shelby
vile. April .. 1t will be composed of
116 delegates. divided between the
counties as follows: Decatur, Is: Fay
ette, 10; Franklin. :; Hancock, Il;
Henry. II; Rush. Is; Shelby. 16; Union.
.; Wayne, II. Necessary to a choice
50.
The candidates are Davidson, of De
Catur: Hough. of Hancock: Moore of
Fayette; Barnard of Henry: Stivers, of
| Union, and Campbell Of Wayne. At
the present time it is Barnard against
the field. and it is not believed that
any one will pull down the nomination
on the first ballot. All of the candi-
dates are out hustling.
Sixth in LimeIisht-
The Sixth district is pretty we'll in
the political limelight James f. Wat
! ~
| lives there. Rev. T. H. Kuhn, demo
cratic candidate for governor is from
the Sixth. So are James H. Tomlin.
republican candidate for superintend-
ent of public instruction and Frank
Hall. democratic candidate for Lieu